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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1915
Page
2
Liam J. Driscoll, an autoist from Back Bay, was found guilty in Quincy District Court yesterday and fined fifty dollars.
The Kronprinzessin Cecilie, a $12,000,000 treasure ship, was not in danger of capture when she abandoned her voyage to Germany and returned to Bar Harbor to avoid the British, according to James M. Beck counsel for National City Bank of New York seeking about $2,500,000 damages for breach of contract.
Mr Beck argued before Judge Hale that ship owners acted without evidence of danger from the entente and that directors, not the captain, ordered a 107 nautical mile halt toward Plymouth. He said wireless orders on July 31 1914 tied the captain’s actions to company directive and breached contracts with passengers.
The State Department of Health reports a rise in whooping cough for November along with increases in chicken pox measles and scarlet fever. Infantile paralysis spinal meningitis diphtheria and typhoid fever show declines.
Mrs Ersalia Ruggiere of Clarendon Avenue Lynn who was convicted of attempting to shoot Mrs Evalina Calucci through a closed door at the latter home was yesterday freed on her promise to leave the country before February 1 and pay a $100 fine.
Advertisement claims Fluid Enserol can relieve deafness ringing in the ears and nasal congestion. Instructions: mix with warm water, apply drops nightly, gargle and sniff morning and night, and test hearing after a few weeks for improvement and reduced catarrh.
President Wilson told the Democratic national committee at a White House luncheon that Republicans have no issue but the tariff and that Democracy will surely win. He called the party's constructive work an irresistible movement and dismissed any contrary talk.
President addresses Democratic committee members in informal mood at the White House. He avoids campaign speech text and notes tariff uncertainty amid war conditions. Committeemen leave buoyant, while McCombs plans convention committee and a St Louis meeting within a month.
The Watertown Board of Health will decide this week whether to set up a resting station for horses en route from Canada to Europe. Plans for sending steamers to Boston to transport the animals to France and England stalled due to local opposition. Residents claim the terminal would harm public health.
Governor Walsh had nominated Russell A. Wood of Cambridge to the State Board of Economy and Efficiency, but the Governor's Council rejected the appointment by a 6 to 2 vote. Under rules suspension the council then confirmed Charles F. W. Archer of Lynn to the same board.
The Governor, after Wood’s rejection, named Archer to deputy commissioner of State aid and pensions. The Council delayed Judge O'Brien’s Industrial Accident Board appointment and scheduled a public hearing on Dr. Lester H. Howard’s animal industry post. Henry H. Howard was reappointed to the State Board of Agriculture under a rules suspension, while several other appointments were confirmed or laid over for next week. The salary-increase proposals for state employees were postponed to the next meeting.
Constellation Lodge A I F and A M of Dedham held its annual meeting and installation of officers after a Memorial Hall dinner for about 180. Elected and installed were Worshipful Master John W Withington and a slate including senior warden John E Eaton, junior warden Charles A Day, treasurer Lester A Newcomb, secretary Henry D Humphrey, chaplains Rev William H Parker and associates, marshal Hans V Kudlich, senior deacon Edward A Roland, junior deacon George D Gibb, senior steward Dr Fred A Beckford, junior steward Dr Ernest H Chute, sentinel G Sumner Wilson, organist Edward K Ellis, tyler Edwin A Ricker. Installing officer was Worshipful Harry L Wardle, assisted by Worshipful John P Cutter as marshal.
Charles F. Dole was reelected president of the Twentieth Century Club at its annual meeting. New officers include Secretary Edward H. Chandler and Treasurer O. M. Fisher. Council members are Henry I. Harriman and Mrs. George Whiting. Members to serve three years are C. W. Davidson Professor Anna J. McKeag and Mrs. B. Van Noorden. Seth K. Humphrey to serve one year. About eighty members attended with Cyrus Dallin and Mrs. Dallin as dinner guests after the meeting. Dallin spoke on the Indian.
An appeal from the Maine Post reports that Relila Shirley Davis and her brother seek their father who vanished from his Lewiston home last Wednesday. The children ask him to write to General Delivery Portland Me for contact, signaling a continued family search.
Purports to purify and enrich blood, strengthen the system, and prevent disease. Claims forty years of testing and urges readers to obtain Hood's Sarsaparilla today.
Profile in the Sunday Post Magazine follows a man who inhabits a steam boiler as part of a striking living arrangement. The feature outlines his daily routine, surrounding environment, and the unusual claim to domestic life amid industrial heat.
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