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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1912
Page
6
Miss Mabel E. Allen, great granddaughter of Jonathan Merry, was declared legally alive by Judge Grant in the Probate Court. She now shares in a fund of about $2000 with other descendants of her great grandfather.
For years she was legally dead by a prior court ruling and by state and federal supreme courts. Recently the same court admitted her living presence, while she resides in Brooklyn acting as a housekeeper at 260 Henry Street for Ted P. Bellamy. A postman learned of the case from newspaper reports and notified the man who received the mail.
Washington form Dec 2 reports Senator Works prepared a Senate bill making it a felony to interfere with a person or corporation obtaining financial aid for interstate business. The measure targets railroad actions that impair rivals credit as interference.
Boston’s Fenway to host horticultural gardens and a building for seasonal displays. Mayor Fitzgerald aims to secure two major projects next year the gardens project and a proposed schoolboy stadium.
He pledges to build a schoolboy stadium in the Fenway or Franklin Park and to provide both the stadium and horticultural gardens before leaving office. His plan includes municipal concerts in the gardens in summer and in the horticultural building in winter.
Washington December 2 The Supreme Court today advanced for hearing on January 6 the case against Johnson the negro pugilist charging a violation of the white slave act.
Claiming Knowlton's Danderine doubles hair beauty and dissolves dandruff in minutes, the ad warns against itching scalp and hair loss from neglect. It promotes a 25 cent bottle as the best investment for soft, lustrous hair with no dandruff and no more falling hair.
A former Russell home maid, Mrs. Mary Jane Boynton of Revere, testified Dakota Dan is Daniel Blake Russell, stating her long acquaintance with Willie and Danny Russell in 1867. Lincoln Mitchell and Joseph D. Lord corroborated or disputed the claim, as testimony continued in East Cambridge before Master Gilbert A. A. Pevey.
Secretary of War Stimson returned from a six day visit to the Panama canal zone to study the military defense of the canal. He will present his views on the matter in his annual report.
Dr. Hartman recalls long use of Pe-ru-na since 1855. He cites cases from 1882 including Mrs. T. S. Eberlein of Pittsburg later Keokuk, Iowa, with lung catarrh and severe symptoms who improved after Pe-ru-na. He asserts its efficacy across mucous membranes, touts it as tonic, and notes its continued sale by Pe-ru-na Company Columbus Ohio with Katarno variant.
Newton Newkirk, longtime Post columnist and Bingville Bugle editor, took to the stage as a regular actor at 2:45 PM yesterday. He stuck gum on the red-light switch at Keith’s Theatre Prompt Entrance, then stepped into the footlights amid nervous eyebrow movements and a dramatic knee action as the audience erupted in laughter and applause.
Fire at J D Williams and Co offices destroyed moving picture and theatrical film stock. Thousands of yards of film burned. Several girls forced to leap from windows with three seriously injured.
Police Commissioner Stephen O Meara announced a general order granting clergy visiting the sick the same rights and privileges as physicians under traffic rules. The amendments reflect equal status for ministers in medical visits.
The Boston Art Commission is expected to approve the Bourne plan for Copley Square at its Friday meeting, approving the general beautification concept while leaving details for later work. It calls for removing grass triangles to form a solid square, diverting Huntington Avenue cars via Dartmouth and Boylston, and adding a large central monument and sunken gardens. L road officials oppose changing car tracks due to high traffic and expected congestion.
Washington Dec 2 The Supreme Court again upholds the immigration act provision allowing deportation of women deemed undesirable within three years of arrival. Ursulla Zakonaite, arrested in St Louis and held for deportation to Russia, is involved in the ruling.
An old advertisement promotes a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Druggists offer a refund if it fails. Each box bears FE. W. Grove’s signature and is priced at 25 cents.
A National Highway Protective Society report shows 389 children killed on New York City streets in November due to automobiles trolley cars and wagons. Autos caused the most deaths. In total 56 persons were killed.
In the state outside New York City, 22 persons were killed and 153 injured while 177 people suffered injuries in the city area. Authorities reported the casualty figures as part of a broader disaster update.
A telegram from Mrs. John Jacob Astor greeted Adele Nasrallah, a Titanic widow and new mother in Cleveland. The child is the third so named Titanic baby, following a birth in Cincinnati last Friday to Mrs. Lucien J. Smith.
Washington reports Archbishop Noel is chosen provisional president of the renewal congress for a two year term and will immediately succeed President Vic torio, who has resigned.
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