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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1912
Page
5
Joseph Walker writes to Massachusetts AFL leader Martin F Joyce opposing the Oregon system of initiative and referendum. He favors Legislature driven questions on vital public issues and argues for responsible, consolidated law framing by elected representatives.
Mayor Fitzgerald received the Board of Assessors figures showing Ward 26 Hyde Park total valuation at 16 344 000 up from 15 599 125 last year. Personal property appears down 312 150 yet the city gains as headquarters shifts place some 600 000 of Hyde Park assets to business wards. The assessed rate remains 16.40 aided by tax reductions and county cuts to avoid sacrificing improvements.
The city reports total real estate valuation of 1,186,482,200 and personal valuation of 295,647,517, with year over year increases of 39,766,800 and 13,661,403 respectively. Total polls stand at 202,116, up 6,603, while the tax rate table compares 1912 and 1911 figures, noting a rate per $1000 of 16.40.
New York dispatch reports Sheriff Harburger puzzled by a letter from Abernant Alabama justice of the peace proposing a reward for a New York murder suspect. The note humorously describes a foreigner about five to five six wearing a frown, with a $2000 reward and asks to inform via an enclosed postal card.
English airman R C Fenwick, a veteran pilot, died during Salisbury plain aviation speed tests. His biplane rolled over from about 300 feet and crashed into the ground where he was found.
In Lewiston Missouri on August 13 Mabel Matthews aged 12 and Louise McGillicuddy aged 5 drowned while bathing in the Androscoggin River. Both bodies were recovered from the water this afternoon.
London Aug 13 General William Booth commander in chief of the Salvation Army who was operated on in May for cataract removal and is now totally blind is reported to be growing worse Bramwell Booth chief of staff and son issues a note in War Cry saying the doctors report health improvement has not been maintained and the general asks the faithful to pray for him
Ernest Derault two year old son of Mr and Mrs Thomas Derault of 2412 East Gardner street Salem fell from the third floor veranda, climbed over a railing, and was impaled on a picket fence, dying minutes later at Salem Hospital.
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