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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1916
Page
3
The Antarctic relief ship Discovery, given to the British Admiralty, left Plymouth for Port Stanley to pick up Sir Ernest Shackleton and aid the rescue of marooned expedition members on Elephant Island.
Officials from Melrose and Wakefield announce the entire road to Wakefield Square will be put in first class condition before next season, promising improved travel for motorists between the towns.
More than 3800 civilians sailed yesterday aboard the Kearsarge from Charlestown Navy Yard for a citizens training cruise under U S naval supervision. The Massachusetts group will transfer to the Virginia next Tuesday and Maine civilians join at Portland before Montauk Point rendezvous.
An injunction against Union Trust Company issued April 4 1904 is dissolved after a decree by Judge Crosby. The bank commissioner must approve a capital stock increase from 100000 to 200000 before it resumes business. The firm faced financial difficulties in March 1904 and was restrained from reopening until capital and deposits are unimpaired.
Dispute centers on proper courtesies between ex mayor Fitzgerald and former Governor Walsh. The issue is whether Walsh should have phoned Fitzgerald to outline his Senate plan or whether Fitzgerald should have visited Walsh and offered to run against Senator Lodge.
Friends of the former Governor blame Doctor Fitzgerald for not acting within a week to consult Mr. Walsh while supporters of the ex-Mayor say Walsh delayed his decision on the senatorship, criticizing the timing and courtesy of the move.
Fitzgerald announced he would not run if Walsh sought the nomination. Neither candidate moved to reveal their thoughts about the senatorship. Five working days remain for a Democratic candidate to gather signatures to qualify for the ballot.
One hundred employees at A. G. Walton & Co. Chelsea shoe factories joined 1400 workers already out for higher wages and reinstatement of union activists. The strikers from the sole leather department formed the Chelsea local of the United Shoe Workers Union of America. National officers fund and direct the strike through the executive committee.
In Pittsfield on August 11, William A. Ferris faced manslaughter charges in the death of Albert E. Great tereaux after a auto crash. Bail was set at 5500 and a new charge of fleeing after a serious accident without reporting was added. He pleaded not guilty to both counts and the case was continued one week.
Next Monday afternoon the ceremony to break ground for the Billy Sunday tabernacle will be held on the old Huntington avenue ball grounds. Officials Joe Spiece Allen C Emery and W L Blodgett set the date at a conference and invited Mayor Curley and Building Commissioner Patrick O'Hearn to speak.
William G. Todd a Boston lawyer of 85 Congress Street launched a bid for the Republican nomination in the Brookline Brighton Allston Watertown district. Todd lives at 1302 Commonwealth Avenue Allston and is a Georgetown graduate who once served as private secretary to George E. Huff when Huff was a U S representative from Pennsylvania.
Francis J. Finneran of Roslindale, editor of The Forester and Ward 23 Democratic Club president, announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Lieutenant Governor. He filed nomination papers and says he entered the race without consulting party leaders to aid young men overlooked in patronage and candidate selection.
The Industrial Accident Board declares war on outside interpreters who act as translators and advisers to injured workers. It says they have deprived workers of fair compensation under the workmen's compensation act. The board has formed its own corps of interpreters offering free services to workers or heirs and will supervise awards to curb excess payments.
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