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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1913
Page
5
Boston artist Knowles has entered Maine forests with no food clothing or tools to prove a civilized man can endure two months in the wild. Despite extreme conditions, supporters say his woodsman experience will aid the experiment.
Knowles plans an eight week lone expedition into the woods to prove modern man can sustain himself without civilization. He will rely on primitive methods, carry nothing, and rely on a guide for a first message left in birch bark. The account will run in the Sunday Post.
The speaker plans a two month self sustentation experiment from King and Bartlett Camp, eating last breakfast there and living entirely off the grid. He aims to walk out on October fourth at the same spot, seeking no aid unless illness or accident interrupts, then submit to medical examination and tests.
Mount Carmel Illinois August 10 Sheriff Ed Peppen s 17 year old daughter known as the Little Sheriff of Jasper county eloped with Charles Bennett who had been jailed there and helped him escape. They were married at Princeton Indiana and after Bennett was returned to jail the couple refused meals.
Eleanor Anne Siebert a 10 year old girl daughter of Mr and Mrs Fred J Siebert of Reno Nevada and niece of Governor Oddie has been chosen to act as sponsor at the launching of the battleship Nevada now nearing completion at the Fore River works Quincy Massachusetts
In Chicago two women have smaller feet than Mrs. Philander C Knox, challenging the claim she had the smallest foot in the capital. The note recalls Washingtons claim and reports local discovery of foot sizes smaller than hers.
In Okeene Oklahoma a house long called the bachelors den housed five men five years ago. They kept women out and hired a woman cook only when necessary. Over the years the men married leaving only three bachelors remaining.
New York report describes 13 year old Jeannette Guttman in the Hydropathic Institute at 2011 Madison Avenue after 82 epileptic convulsions and a 10 day coma. She is daughter of Nathan Guttman, a Bronx plumber, and was admitted July 30.
A horseback caravan of suffragists from New York will begin Monday and travel through Orange and Sullivan counties. Reports indicate they will receive hearty welcomes in many visited towns as the plan becomes known.
At the Northfield conference an English preacher and 3000 delegates prayed for peace in Mexico and for God’s will to be done. Dr G Campbell Morgan of London urged more work for God not self. Other speakers included Rev W S Jacoby Dr Long Broughton and Paul Crawford who spoke of Africa and conducting David Livingstone's funeral.
New York City Court Justice Green signed an arrest order for Evelyn Nesbit Thaw for contempt after she failed to appear in City Court on Friday to show cause why she should not be punished. The Gorham Company sought the order following a judgment against her, as she was to be examined in supplementary proceedings before going abroad.
Monroe Rodgers aged 12 is recovering at City Hospital after a silver tube was inserted into his breast and placed against the pericardium to drain excess liquid. One rib over the heart was removed to perform the operation.
The British schooner Parana bound from Elizabetport to Bridgetown N S with coal struck Pollock Rip Shoals early this morning and sank. Five crew members escaped in boats and landed at the Old Harbor Life Saving Station. The vessel lay 400 yards inside the gas buoy just outside the channel amid thick haze and calm seas.
Paris August 10 Not less than 650 million dollars will be spent over the next 10 or 12 years to tar coat 600 miles of highway, about one quarter of France's roads, according to Public Works Minister M. Thierry.
The 12th Milk Station of the Milk and Baby Hygiene Association will soon open on South Margin Street near Bowdoin Square. Through cooperation with the Elizabeth Peabody House settlement a nurse and physician will assist mothers and ensure clean milk for babies, with a focus on Italian families where early nursing reduces child deaths.
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