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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1915
Page
7
Franklin Park received two swans by express from Newton via an anonymous donor. Curator Anthony McNealy praised their beauty and welcomed them immediately, naming the pair King and Queen. Employees seek the donor’s identity.
Paris dispatch reports a clash at the Roumanian Parliament opening as King Ferdinand read his speech. The interventionist leader M Mille and followers cried down with the government, while government supporters cheered. The exchange led to a general fight as the King departed.
The Harvard University and French universities will resume exchanges next year with Maurice Caullery, a distinguished zoologist from the University of Paris, set to teach courses for Harvard students in Cambridge.
Harvard plans to send a professor to France during the 1915 16 college year as exchanges with French institutions resume after wartime disruption. Other items note awards of scholarships in Landscape Architecture and Divinity School, plus multiple faculty appointments resignations and a medical school reshuffle.
Investigations were launched by state and local police into a blaze that destroyed valuable patterns including a Boston Common fence at the Smith & Lovett iron plant on Albany street. The fire began in an unused pattern room on the top floor of the four story brick building. 50 workers escaped without injury via stairs and fire escapes as smoke was found on the third floor.
Iron worker Jacob Goldman and others rushed to warn officials as the second floor burst into flames. Estimator Carl Maleepeace notified fire headquarters, while Mary Bray bookkeeper W. F. Smith and F. A. Young helped rescue valuables from the office safe.
Official state tabulation corrected a misattribution that credited Monson to the suffragists. The corrected statewide totals show Woman suffrage Yes at 162,482 and No at 205,939, changing Monson from Yes to No in the statewide result.
Boston teachers face further annuity reductions as lack of new members lowers payouts. Retirement incomes fall from 1-20 to 1-22 of salary, leaving a $1000 salary retiree with about $45 yearly. Treasurer Morse denies bankruptcy, citing a $130,000 fund for 700 members. 26 annuitants remain, many elderly.
Paris authorities warn about accidents from careless handling of battlefield trophies like shells and grenades found in homes. The prefect of police urges residents to report such items so they can be examined and safely unloaded in municipal laboratories.
Advertises Hood's Sarsaparilla as an old time blood tonic that purifies the blood and improves digestion to treat rheumatism. Claims severe rheumatic pains disappear by targeting blood acid and muscle inflammation.
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