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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1912
Page
5
Edward Anderson also known as Harry Smith, a 19 year old arrested on five counts of larceny, remains silent after Judge Michael Creed suggested cooperation. He has given several addresses in New York and the city, none clarifying his identity or origins.
Miss Frances Richards Newcomb daughter of Colonel and Mrs Warren Putnam Newcomb married Lieutenant Thomas Armstrong of the Coast Artillery Corps Fort Williams Missouri at the bride’s Westover home. The ceremony was conducted by Rev Thomas W Nickerson assisted by Rev Edmund Banks Smith chaplain of St Camelia’s Chapel Governor’s Island New York.
Mayor Fitzgerald in New Bedford said the Roosevelt Penrose controversy proves both leaders share the same interests. He charged that Republicans benefited from a high tariff, which he linked to the current high cost of living.
Mayor Hamlin and Chairman Riley led Democratic outreach across New Bedford as candidates campaigned state wide. Webster left the Republican bid in favor of the Bull Moose Roosevelts while Callahan announced a challenge for Congress in the Ninth district amid old Indian fighter credentials. Quinn, Sullivan, and Long announced withdrawals or party changes. Miller joined the Progressive slate for the Ninth Suffolk Senate. East Boston factions rally behind Hanrahan, with local endorsements issued by the Cleveland Club for Pelletier, Cummings, and Giblin.
The White Star liner Arabic arrived from Liverpool with over 700 passengers including Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company members with wives and several noted physicians studying abroad. In saloon seating were 130 travelers. Dr J A Howeil Tufts Medical School returning from Africa with tuberculosis serum and specimens. Dr Francis D Donoghue Back Bay brought cancer cure samples and described a German surgical device by Dr Fischer of Budapest enabling immediate weight bearing after leg fracture.
Japan plans a permanent four acre pavilion at the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco costing one million dollars. The building will be a gift to the United States and its grounds will cover four acres.
Secretary of State Philander C. Knox traveled through Vancouver en route to Japan as the U.S. representative at Emperor Matsuhito’s funeral. He and his party continued to Seattle.
Wakefield psychologist Edward A Sullivan professor of psychological research on mental defectives is highlighted. The piece notes his work and plans to aid those with mental disabilities, accompanied by a photo credit to J. E. Purdy & Co.
Massachusetts pursues active education of inmates in industrial schools and mental defectives. Edward A. Sullivan Ph D principal of Shirley State Industrial School returns from Vineland Training School with a diploma to teach this field. He may become supervisor of the statewide program after a conference with Board of Trustees chairman Charles M Davenport.
Miss Dorothy Whipple daughter of Sherman Whipple of Brookline turns her father's Ply mouth summer home into a vacation rendezvous for ten girls at a time. She plans multiple parties and is praised as a jolly tactful hostess who wrote a Yale football song approved at a Yale Harvard game.
Lizzie Corrigan alias Bridget Rafferty, a 70 year old Charlestown resident known to police as a pickpocket, was sentenced by Judge Brackett in West Roxbury to an indefinite term in Charles Street jail for attempted larceny from the person at Forest Hills on Wednesday.
In Sea Girt New Jersey on August 22 Governor Woodrow Wilson, presidential candidate, retired to his room to study correspondence and outline a key speech for August 29 at Williams Grove Pennsylvania. He greeted shore visitors at a side-door reception and discussed immigration with L E Miller of New York.
Dr Walter D Donoghue reports a Budapest method by Dr Ernest Fischer that uses a belt and a bow shaped spring to pull fracture ends together. The treatment allows walking on a broken leg the day after injury, aided by body weight to knit the bone.
President Taft signed the naval appropriation bill totaling 123 million 220 thousand seven hundred seven dollars. The measure provides for one dreadnought costing not more than 15 million dollars.
M H Gulesian owner of the new St James Theatre Massachusetts and Huntington avenues hosted a dinner on the stage for the theatre mechanical staff. The event featured speeches and a lively mood with guests including Archie Craig George Curran Pearly Sibley Thomas Cranston Will H Gregory Robert Robbins Harry Simmons Joseph Coughlin and other theatre notables.
Harry Stearns and John Dalton escaped from the House of Correction on Deer Island at midnight Tuesday. A search led by Master James H. Cronin and attendants continued with guards doubled on Shirley Gut and the ten acre corn field searched daily. The pair, said to be without food for 48 hours, may surrender before starvation forces action.
Cambridge police joined Bisalia, California officers in locating the parents of James Foley, a 35 year old railroad worker killed in a recent train accident. A co worker said his parents resided in University City. Foley stood six feet three inches tall and weighed 200 pounds.
Francis T. Holder a wealthY carpet manufacturer and member of the Alexander Smith & Son firm died at his Yonkers home from acute indigestion. He was born in Clinton Massachusetts 79 years ago. He donated a public library and hall to Clinton two years ago in memory of the Holder family. He is survived by his wife Elizabeth W Woodbury and a daughter Mrs Eva I Peene widow of John G Peene former mayor of Yonkers.
The will of Colonel John Jacob Astor, who died in the Titanic disaster, was offered again for probate in New York. A posthumous son was born to Mrs Madeleine Force Astor, and Surrogate Fowler set September 4 for reprobating the will, without naming a guardian for the week-old child.
Four Cook-Vivian Company workers formed a bucket brigade to halt a second floor fire at 189 Congress Street yesterday forenoon. The team included Frank Colcord of Norwood Henry Benjamin of Somerville William Butler of Dorchester and Martin Hamilton of Brookline.
Two Cambridge juveniles Frances M Cowin aged 13 and John 12 were found aboard the lumber boat Leo at Linnehan's wharf East Cambridge. They had slipped from Bayonne New Jersey on August 10 taking change from a toy bank and a toy line steamer to Boston. They slept on a Cambridge street roof before boarding the Lea last Saturday night. Police recovered them and they were sent to the State Board of Charity.
Fire destroyed the Judson Clark sardine factory in Boothbay Harbor Maine with an estimated loss of 30000 dollars. Flames spread to a lumber yard and coal sheds but lack of wind let firefighters extinguish the early blazes.
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