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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1916
Page
3
J. H. Hustis formerly president of the Boston & Maine and now its temporary receiver filed a $100,000 bond in the U S district clerk of court’s office. He announced employees may keep current jobs and pay. Hobbs becomes controller and Hudson remains general counsel.
The Connecticut River Railroad Company asks for a receiver to protect stockholders and creditors as the 99 year lease to Boston & Maine faces urgent action. Judge Morton issues a restraining order and sets 11 am for a hearing. Barre & Chelsea rails hold $25,000 notes as opposition grows.
The Secretary of State’s office sent the first copy of primaries ballots to the printer. About 800000 ballots are planned, the same amount for the State election. Suffolk County primary ballots are paused awaiting court decision on district apportionment.
The drowned man in Crystal Lake Newton was identified as Alexander Murray of Waverley. His brother Hugh Murray of Woburn confirmed the identification. Newton police state Murray died by his own action. friends cite despondency as the cause.
Delegates at the Philadelphia spring Jewish Congress Committee conference will decide if unrepresented Hebrew organizations may join the proposed American Jewish Congress. A referendum will settle whether to depart from the Philadelphia programme. The Independent Order Sons of Israel plans a Fanueil Hall mass meeting on aiding Jews abroad.
The three masted Boston owned schooner Lucia Porter is lost with 360000 feet of spruce cargo. Captain George Burnie and crew were rescued by a steamer and brought to the city. Lucia Porter sailed from St John New Brunswick on August 11 bound for Las Palmas Canary Islands.
The Rev Micah Jones Talbot a veteran Methodist Episcopal minister in New England died yesterday at his son Emory H Talbot s Dorchester home He was born February 2 1821 in East Machias Maine and would have turned 96 He led in Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts served as presiding elder eight years and headed East Greenwich Academy He buried in Providence and is survived by a daughter Mrs A Walter Spalding of Berkeley California and a son Emory H Talbot of Dorchester
Dr. Wilbur P. Marble, a New York eye specialist, collapsed and died while golfing near his Maine summer home. Officials cited heart trouble as the cause. He was 65 and leaves a wife and son.
The Woman's Section of the next Sunday Post will publish prizes totaling $40. Have you entered a prize attempt.
Miss Lyra Brown Nickerson of Providence a wealthy New England social figure died at her Narragansett summer home after a two week bout with typhoid fever. An active athlete amateur aviator and philanthropist she was widely known for her charitable work.
Miss Nickerson planned to wed Henry G. Clark of Providence, assistant director of athletics at Brown University, with $6 000 000 from her parents. Doctors say her illness worsened due to extensive festivities after the engagement announcement.
An eight by four foot dry well, unearthed by Lexington highway workers on Massachusetts Avenue in front of the Town Hall, dates back over fifty years. It may have supplied water to Dr Dio Lewis school for women or the old Lexington Inn, with the school formerly on the site of the town house. The well lay under the sidewalk now removed for avenue widening.
The ships of the Atlantic fleet, in Newport nearly all summer, departed late today for Hampton Roads ahead of their move to the Southern drill grounds.
Women cleaners from the Tremont Paddock and Beacon buildings and their children spent their annual day off yesterday at the Lake Shore Home in Sharon Heights for a group outing.
Amanda M. Stewart, 23, wife of Thomas Stewart of Wakefield Mass, disappeared Aug 11 after a lightning strike near her home. She rented a room in Portsmouth at Annie Penney 10 Vaughn St and was found when Penney alerted Stewart. Police searched Newburyport Gardiner Mo and parts of Nova Scotia before the husband recovered her.
Senator Nathan A. Tufts of Waltham filed two bills in the State Senate yesterday. One creates absentee voting for troops abroad, the other seeks a $500,000 appropriation to aid Massachusetts soldiers sailors and their families ahead of a special session.
The City of Woburn was guarded by two special officers while the rest of the police force, except a night patrolman, left to take a civil service examination for sergeant at the State House.
Twenty men of the crew of the American steamer Admiral Clark perished at sea after the ship foundered in a tropical hurricane on August 16 while sailing from Port Arthur Texas to Buenos Aires. Six survivors reached the quarantine station aboard the Swedish bark Tana.
The Vermont Suffrage Association chose Dr. Grace Sherwood of St. Albans as president The meeting also elected Mrs. Julia A Pierce of Rochester as honorary president in Rochester Vermont.
An advertisement touts Bon-Opto tablets as a remedy to strengthen eyesight, promising 60 percent improvement in many cases within a week. Readers are urged to dissolve a tablet in water and bathe the eyes twice daily, with testimonials from users and a physician endorsement.
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