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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1913
Page
10
Mrs Annie Spencer of Lynn reported missing after an attempted death by self act last month and her disappearance from 66 Johnson Street has been located at a cousin's home in Providence.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska led the final assault on the detailed provisions of the administration currency bill in the Senate. He began presenting amendments and argued that the measure should not be treated as final by the Democratic caucus. He cited President Wilson's The New Freedom to claim the President opposes caucus rule and favors open consideration of reforms.
Chicago December 11 Judge Landis refuses to accept jurisdiction in the Elsie DeWolfe income tax challenge. Attorneys say the move may speed a U S Supreme Court ruling. W Bourke Cochran for the plaintiff plans to appeal in about three weeks after returning from Europe.
The Cunarder Alaunia sailed from Boston for her first voyage under Captain Arthur H. Rostron. She stopped at Portland at noon and took on 565 passengers, with all Boston travelers boarding Wednesday night as the ship departed in the dark, lights blazing, a striking sight for waterfront early birds.
Pasquale Renardo and Giuseppe Roco fail to board the White Star liner Cretic after a dispute over cab fare and lengthy goodbyes with eight relatives. They did not sail and will have their passage refunded or be offered a later sailing from New York.
Captain Matthias Johnston of Perth Amboy New Jersey arrived in Havana piloting the George Washington a small boat built from a whale boat of the cruiser Olympia once flagship of Admiral Dewey at Manila The voyage began August 3 from Eastport Maine and is planned to pass through the Panama Canal to San Francisco.
Chief Justice White is confined to his home with a cold and hoarseness, unable to be heard from the bench. Justice Lurton is also absent with a cold. Neither is seriously ill.
A shipment of Australian lamb reached a Boston market as fish supplies remained scarce. The same firm plans to import New Zealand eggs cheese and butter, signaling possible changes in living costs.
Scarcity of fish and higher overall prices frame a market note on Australian lamb offered at lower fore quarter prices than American lamb. Beef from Australia boosts sales. porterhouse and other items show price shifts. Eggs rise, other staples adjust, and a no eggs fruit cake recipe is shared for economical baking.
Cardinal O Connell announced a series of priest transfers within the Boston archdiocese effective Monday. Replaces include John J Graham moving from Bradford to St James Haverhill and John F Kelleher taking the Bradford post. Other moves involve Maurice Lynch T James Hurley William Foley and Cornelius J Herlihy among four curates reassigned.
Lemuel Coffin, retired sailor and longtime inmate at Sailors' Snug Harbor on Staten Island, died aged 101 years 6 months 2 days. He had resided at the harbor for 33 years.
The American Ambassador and Mrs. Walter H. Page hosted a second dinner in London in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Bowes Sayre. Guests included Sir Howard Grey, the British Foreign Secretary, the French ambassador Paul Cambon, the Earl and Countess of Halsbury, Cora Countess of Strafford, Baron Leigh, Sir Charles Napier Lawrence, Mrs. Lawrence, Lady Paget, the president of the Board of Trade Sydney Buxton, and Rt. Rev. Sir William Boyd Carpenter and Mrs. Boyd Carpenter.
Harman Faber, an artist and etcher famed for animal etchings and medical illustrations, died suddenly at his Philadelphia home. He was 81. During the Civil War he served as artist on the surgeon-general's staff under Generals Garnes and Woodward, illustrating the United States medical record of the war.
Professor William Horatio Clarke a renowned organist and music writer died at 73 in Reading after years of paralysis. He served at Tremont Temple Boston Jarvis Street Toronto Plymouth Church Indianapolis and Woburn Congregational Church and held posts in education and music research. Five sons Herbert Herbert L Clarke Ernest Edwin William Lynn survive as noted musicians.
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