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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
7
A dozen or more new styles arrive at the Girls' Dress store including Gay plaids and striped percale waist dresses and shirt dresses with attached skirts. Features include square Dutch necks and detachable white collars cuffs and ties for a versatile look.
Advertisement notes sturdy materials simple styles and careful making for neckwear and dresses. Filene specialization offers Filene values 6 to 14 years with girls dresses up to 50 dollars on the fourth floor.
Seventy five centimeter 1200 pairs of crochet slippers offered in a full size range with Christmas shopping days left. Offer highlights include specially good pairs priced at 3.95 and 5 dollars though exact duration of availability is unspecified.
The Boston City Club celebrated its sixth anniversary with a keynote on democracy. Notables including Mayor Fitzgerald Edward A Filene James J Storrow District Attorney Joseph C Pelletier and others spoke. Munroe urged funding for a new club home while remarks on civil and religious liberty were given by Splaine Cummings and Rabbi Levi.
Washington reports political maneuvering for the Boston immigration commissioner post once held by George B. Billings. Ex congressman Joseph F. O Connell of Dorchester leads a field likely to include rivals from the Fitzgerald machine and possibly James M. Curley as a challenger.
New York December 12 The National Institute of Arts and Letters awarded its gold medal of honor to architect William Rutherford Mead at the annual dinner. The medal honors distinguished original work in arts and letters, with previous recipients including St. Gaudens Rhodes and Riley. Mead belongs to the firm McKim Mead & White, designers of the Boston Public Library.
East Boston officer Patrick Murphy was beaten and left unconscious on Border Street last night by a gang of five men. The attack followed an arrest he made earlier, one member reportedly given a lengthy sentence.
The five men fled and eluded capture through the night. Murphy was found in the gut ter, bleeding from a head wound and abrasions, and was rushed to Dr. Joseph J. Cody at 385 Central Square where he regained consciousness after being struck by a heavy club.
Dr. Cody warned that brain concussion may result from the assault. The officer, walking on Border Street, was attacked by a gang that sprang from ambush and struck him from behind as he attempted to defend himself. A prior arrest linked to the gang is said to fuel the motive.
Somerville Board of Aldermen approved Gulf Refining Company plans to erect tanks at the foot of Roland Street East Somerville for storing 200000 gallons of gasolene by a 12 to 7 vote. Alderman McCarthy blasted the vote but his remarks were expunged.
Miss Ida Nordling twenty is in Cambridge after being believed to have killed herself. A letter to her mother Mrs John E K Sheehan says she is well and will return sometime this week. She disappeared from 102 Hanover street Worcester December 12.
A fire of unknown origin discovered early this morning in the basement of buildings numbered 9 to 11 Otis Street caused an estimated $5000 in damage. The blaze was confined mainly to the basement and did not spread to upper floors.
A bill introduced today by Representative Oldfield of Arkansas would require boot and shoe manufacturers to stamp on their products the name of any material used as a substitute for leather.
Mrs A G Lawford of 89 Odell Avenue Beverly Massachusetts writes to the Post denying a claim of a secret wedding between her son and Dr Lillian F Moore. She says the ceremony was private due to a family death and asks for correction.
CumberlandMd Dec 12 Four trainmen and an unknown trespasser died and six other trainmen were injured two seriously when a Baltimore and Ohio freight train wrecked after a wild descent down the Alleghany mountains.
Chicago December 12 Municipal Judge Hopkins fines intoxicated accountant Robert L Atkins and orders him to look at himself in a mirror. Atkins asks to go to a Turkish bath after being brought before the court.
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