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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1916
Page
6
About 200 members of the Industrial Workers of the World in Quincy quit work in a silent protest against Minnesota leaders imprisonment. They sought a parade permit which the city authorities refused, but no trouble followed.
Herbert H. D. Peirce, who served as minister to Norway for five years starting in 1906 and held numerous diplomatic posts, died today at Maine General Hospital in Portland after a period of treatment.
After retiring from the diplomatic service four years ago, Mr. Peirce acted as counsel for the United States in American and British claims arbitration. He was assigned last year to the American embassy at Petrograd as special agent with rank of minister plenipotentiary. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1849, he was son of Professor Benjamin P Peirce and Harvard graduate. He had been secretary of the American legation in Petrograd and in 1901 led arrangements for the Portsmouth peace conference with Russia and Japan. He married Miss Helen N Jose of this city and made his home in Washington.
Boston society women flocked to Copley Plaza for the Guild of St Elizabeth charity bazaar. The event offered useful and fancy goods, toys and books for sale and included luncheon and afternoon tea in the state suite. Mrs Warren M Hill and Miss Louise Hill led a table of bags, while Miss Louise Fitzgerald Miss Alice Cronan and Mrs J P Kelly ran a candy booth.
Charles Pitkin a Tufts College and Thayer Academy mathematics and physics professor died at his home 726 Washington street Braintree aged 63 He was born in Chelsea graduated Harvard in 1873 and became a U S government chemist at Newport before studying at Syracuse and joining Thayer Academy in 1877.
Walter Stanley Knowles a Worcester singer died at City Hospital after shooting himself in the head and breast with a .32 revolver in a hotel room before Thanksgiving. He had lived ten days with a bullet in his brain and remained conscious until his death without naming a motive.
Rockport authorities arrest Albert F. Poole after a yearlong probe. Poole confesses to setting fire to his own home on July 8, 1916 to collect insurance. He will be arraigned in Gloucester district court on a charge of maliciously setting fire to a building.
15 year old Myrtle Whitney of Orange won the Massachusetts Agricultural College Extension Service breadmaking contest and the 11 cent medium loaf prize. The award includes a free trip to Washington D C in March for first prize winners from other states and diploma presentation by the Secretary of Agriculture.
A homemaker details her Am herst bread method with milk sugar salt and lard. She describes rising times from four hours to overnight, kneading until smooth shaping into leaves and baking about 45 minutes. She notes cost and yields three medium loaves and higher nutrition versus bakery bread.
An advertisement warns that headaches signal blood poisoning from constipation and urges a simple remedy of one or two glasses of water with a little Tetrasal before breakfast each morning.
Vaudeville star Jack Norworth is momentarily behind Nat Goodwin in marriages as his third wife Mary Norworth sues for divorce in the New York Supreme Court. They wed in March 1918 in California and have two children. The suit cites other unnamed women connected to the actor.
Armed robbers entered Benjamin Goldberg's junk shop at 5154 Washington Street Jamaica Plain yesterday afternoon and were frightened away by two of Goldberg's helpers. Police seek the same trio believed to be behind a Roxbury provision dealer hold up and a Fenway armed robbery attempt last night.
In Rumford Maine the strike of machine operatives at the Continental Paper Bag Company mill ended with a vote of hb) to 40 to return to work. Workers accepted a 10 percent wage increase instead of the 15 percent demanded. The mill plans to reopen tomorrow morning.
Three members of the executive council will visit the State prison this week to discuss permitting Jesse Pomeroy the inmate to spend several hours daily in the prison yard as a relief from confinement.
The United States destroyer Allen named for Captain William Henry Allen celebrated for heroism in the War of 1812 was launched today at Bath Iron Works. Commander Samuel W. Bryant will lead 108 crew members.
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