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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1913
Page
3
Henry J. Woodberry of Roxbury denies asking Miss Margaret C. Clarke to marry him. The Back Bay woman accuses him of visiting her home with a key, meeting relatives, taking her to theatres, and maintaining a years long acquaintance.
Miss Clarke sues Woodberry for 25000 in Suffolk Superior Court claiming repeated marriage proposals and refusals. Woodberry denies the claims, notes a seven year acquaintance, asserts no engagement, and details past visits and a dinner where Clarke allegedly refused matrimony. Case expected for early next month.
Preparations are complete for Rutland Massachusetts first street fair and coaching parade aimed as an annual event. The Board of Trade and citizens promote a genuine street fair with a morning coaching parade featuring old-time coaches. Main Street becomes a midway with booths games and fortune tellers.
Amos Cotting of the Hotel Tudor died Aug 22 and his Suffolk Probate filing details private bequests totaling 60 000 with a 30 000 gift to the Industrial School for Crippled and Deformed Children. Public gifts include 5 000 to the Boston Home for Incurables 5 000 to the Boston Dispensary 5 000 to the Dispensary for Blind Babies 5 000 to the Instructive District Nursing Association and 10 000 to Children’s Hospital.
Wireless signals from a revenue cutter crackle across the Bering Sea as a 2000 mile search and rescue begins for Fred A. Chamberlain a government naturalist at St. Paul Island and a recent bridegroom. He fell ill with heart disease while gathering the seal census for the commerce department. The plan is to rush him to Seattle for life saving treatment.
An early morning fire destroyed a Finchley country house north of London. A caretaker remained on site as the suffragette sympathizers left literature amid the ruins. The blaze follows reports that the truce between militants and the government has not reached rural districts.
Bangor Mo Aug 26 Fair weather greeted the 30th annual exhibition of the eastern Maine state fair opening with visitors from across the state. The poultry department shows record entries and the cattle division is full. An airship flight is promised for Wednesday.
At the 15th annual American Hospital Association conference held at Copley Plaza yesterday the program examined boosting hospital efficiency, home patient care, and the grading of nurses.
A majority special committee report on grading nurses was discussed by delegates led by Miss Emma A Anderson superintendent of the New England Baptist Hospital. The plan includes a $500 appropriation and new members, with Miss Mary M. Riddle presenting on home nursing and hospital efficiency.
President Wilson accepts W. Cameron Forbes resignation as Governor-General of the Philippines. The letter commends Forbes for his work as secretary of commerce and police and as governor-general. Wilson hopes his successor arrives before Oct. 16 with the resignation effective Sept. 1. Representative Francis Burton Harrison of New York named as the new governor-general.
Fergus B Turner longtime Brookline resident and Civil War veteran died at his home 69 Gorham Avenue after a long illness. Born August 7 1841 in Derby England he settled in Germantown Pennsylvania before moving to Brookline in 1854. He served in the First Massachusetts Infantry Company A throughout the Civil War including Bull Run Seven Days Fight Yorktown and blockade running at Acquire Creek. He later worked in manufacturing and with Brookline Gas Company until 1909.
Six men chosen to sit on the Caminetti federal white slave act indictment trial in San Francisco. Three jurors were rejected at Maury Diggs trial, where Diggs was convicted. Four jurors are wealthy, including Burlingame society leader Francis J. Carolan. Case likely to be submitted by Thursday or Friday of next week.
Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles arrived in Northampton aboard the Minnetonka after traveling from the Balkans. He was joined by his daughter General Miles who remained reticent on current events saying she was in the Balkans during recent hostilities and that her father would speak later after rest.
Acting Police Chief Dyer warns precinct lieutenants to arrest or clear sidewalks of men who stare at women in slit skirts. He allows a brief peep but forbids brazen gaping as women appear in soft outfits.
Miss Belle Hassler of Waco Texas wore a diaphanous white charmeuse lace wedding gown that lit up with a startling glow as she married J M Pitcher a Spring Street merchant in Los Angeles. Pitcher had no prior knowledge of the gown until the moment the light shone through the skirt at the clergyman's house.
Miss Helen Garden Harvedge wearing a diaphanous gown walked Main Street with Henry Burton in trousers slit to the knee. A shouting mob formed behind them as they moved toward the business district. Police escorted the pair to a car and ordered them to leave town fully clothed.
Early yesterday Lexington woke to an unprecedented frost that blanketed the town as residents opened their windows. Ground frost damaged tender garden crops and trucked produce, alarming residents at dawn.
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