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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1915
Page
1
A Cambridge grand jury returns twenty one indictments over illegal voting. Harvard professors instructors and divinity students named among those implicated. A minister appears in the case with more arrests likely to follow causing a great sensation.
District Attorney Corcoran pledges action to protect students amid allegations of illegal registration in Harvard Square. The piece cites Harvard authorities including Hale G. Knight, Paul E. Sabine, and Thomas K. Rineker, along with local politicians and Cambridge figures.
Mrs Sarah Haynes 56 Bell Avenue Roxbury was assaulted by a hallway thug who snatched her handbag struck her with a blackjack and fled She remains unconscious in City Hospital with a skull fracture and is sister to Patrolman Underhill of the East Dedham Street Police Station.
Police admit little progress in identifying the assailant after a man attacked Mrs. Haynes as she returned home. A green leather handbag containing $30 and a gold chain was stolen. She is hospitalized with skull fracture and was listed as in dangerous condition.
Dec 6 report describes Henry Ford offering Thomas Edison one million dollars to join his Europe peace mission. Edison and Mrs Edison were among last to board Ford’s yacht, where Ford urged Edison to come along. Edison declined, citing deafness and boundary of voyage. Also notes David Lamar the Wolf of Wall Street linked to labor strikes and a Justice Department inquiry into Labor’s National Peace Council.
Mr. Marshall stated that certain council factions were financed by money supplied by Franz von Rintelen, now a POW in Great Britain, and handled by David Lamar. The claim paints a direct link between external financier influence and local council action.
The British Army in Mesopotamia has reached Kut el Amara on the Tigris, ten miles below Baghdad, after retreating since defeat before Baghdad. No further fighting occurred as they arrived at Kut el Amara.
Miss Rose Lee Saltonstall daughter of Mr and Mrs Philip Saltonstall of Milton surprised society by delaying a society life to pursue acting. The Vincent Club star appeared in a minor role at Castle Square Theatre under the alias Miss Rose Lee.
William Jennings Bryan, former Secretary of State, was served in New York with a Supreme Court order requiring him to appear for examination on the sale by the United States to Greece of two battleships. The inquiry concerns possible disclosure of fire control and gun aiming secrets. The order ties to a libel suit by Petros P. Tatanis against a Greek newspaper and two Greek nationals.
The Boston Street Carmen's Union held its annual officer election at the old Franklin Schoolhouse Washington and Dover streets. Over 6000 members voted before midnight. The race for president featured Thomas H. Doyle against Matthew J. Higgins, with results expected about 9 o'clock this morning.
Germany requested in Washington the grounds for the State Department demand that Captain Boy Ed and Captain von Papen, the embassy naval and military attaches, be withdrawn. Secretary Lansing noted the inquiries came from Count von Bernstorff, the ambassador, and from Berlin.
Miss Jane Addams, ill at Presbyterian Hospital in Chicago, likely will not be operated on. Dr. James B. Herrick announced a hemorrhage of the kidney after consultations and tests including blood cultures and X Rays. Mrs. Joseph T. Bowen, a close friend, visited the hospital during the morning.
Charles Wadsworth 3d assistant director Wolcott Gibbs Memorial Laboratory Malcolm P McNair Harvard senior Alfred T Larson chemistry instructor Harvard Holland Field Burr divinity student Pomona Col James C Simpson divinity student Winthrop Brown graduate Frank A Larson divinity student Knoxville IN De Forest Anthony student Fall River Luther T Hardwick divinity student Hardwick VT Merrill S Gaunt divinity student Methuen Amherst Robert E Rockwood instructor romance languages Shattuck Fellowship Stokely W Morgan senior Nantucket Douglass Stewart student New York city William K Mikesell divinity student Wilmington DE Norris F Hall Austin teaching fellow Ardmore Penn Donald H Whittemore junior North Scituate
Warrants issued by Middlesex District Attorney William Corcoran for nine Cambridge residents amid a grand jury probe into voting fraud tied to Harvard University. Indictments name an assistant physics professor, an assistant in government, a minister, a Harvard Law School graduate and student, and six divinity students among 16 Harvard affiliates. The investigation, spanning before the State election, produced 21 indictments as nearly 200 individuals face illegal registration allegations.
The item lists Moon and planet positions and phases for December and January, with time references for lamps and risings. It notes Washington’s last address to Congress in 1796 and other anniversaries including Nancy Wakefield’s birth and Marshal Ney’s execution, plus a World War I era moment.
Fair conditions expected in Boston and vicinity with moderate northerly winds. In Washington, New England and eastern New York forecast calls for fair weather Tuesday and likely Wednesday with seasonable temperatures.
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