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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1913
Page
7
Henry B. Endicott of Dedham a leading shoe maker testified in dissolution proceedings against United Shoe Machinery Company that Thomas G. Plant tried to use him to pressure a purchase of Plant properties.
The record details a scheme where Mr. Endicott sought to acquire Plant's shoe machinery for the United company via bribed negotiation. Endicott accepted offers, bought stock, and pressed for a $1,000,000 examination, while Plant touted large profits and threatened to inflate the stock. The negotiations repeatedly collapsed and culminated in a price demand of $8.5 million for both machines and the plant.
In a long witness exchange, Winslow testifies he did not know Western shoe men were negotiating for Plant properties when closure occurred and denies a $50,000 check presence. He confirms a sale price of $6,000,000 after a suggested compromise. He acknowledges prior patent infringement claims referenced in earlier suits.
Edith S. Jacobson Knight of the city and Margaret K. Ewald of Boston filed petitions in Suffolk Superior Court seeking annulment of their marriages. Jacobson Knight says her 1910 marriage to Boyce Wilton Knight produced no valid union due to his prior wife. Ewald states she wed Louis W. Ewald in Wilton, New Hampshire in 1910 not knowing his prior divorce was finalized earlier. she asks the ceremony be declared void.
Boston police found Daniel Doyle four years old eight hours after he disappeared from his father's Dorchester Centre home. The child was returned safely to Dr. D. C. Doyle of 9 Stockton Street.
Seated in a Charles Street jail cell Daphne Holmes 20 of Riolto California weeps over the disgrace to her family. She is charged with larceny of 50 dollars from Thomas Corcoran of Ri alto California and awaits her father in San Francisco to aid her appeal.
A San Francisco postal official's daughter disputes Corcoran’s account claiming she traveled east with him. Corcoran admits a past two year sentence for fraud in Cranston Rhode Island. Police link him to check schemes while the woman denies any connection.
The United Housewives league plans to open a headquarters on Bromfield Street to direct a boycott on cold storage eggs in Greater Boston. Mrs Edward P Barry leads the effort and has contacted farmers in Massachusetts and New England about pricing. Arrangements with poultrymen aim to supply eggs at the lowest prices with a sale target of 38 to 49 cents per dozen. No definite store location yet.
A student sought to reclaim a penny from a penny peanut vendor in the Tech Union, triggering a crowd and a brief uproar. Tools were used, and the coin was finally recovered with a knife and toothpick while rumors place the man in East Boston aiming to fund a tunnel toll.
The White Star liner Arabic docked as Mr and Mrs R W Grafton of Chicago returned from Paris where Grafton has been painting peasants for the mural of a new half million dollar hotel in Chicago called the Rumsey. Mormon missionaries and a girl convert head to Salt Lake City while Florence M Young travels solo from Atherstone England to Boston. Professor William M Davis arrives in Boston after serving as exchange professor at Oxford.
Dudley Street Baptist to honor Rev. Charles L. Page Dec 15 for 2 years as assistant pastor and creator of the Page Class gaining international renown. Wesley Brotherhood to host travel talk Dec 17 at First Methodist Episcopal Church Melrose. A. Warren Patch to speak on cities visited on a 1913 Mediterranean cruise. Welsh residents to hear Rev J Cromwell Hughes at Immanuel Baptist Church in Dorchester tomorrow. Rev Harry S. Lowd leads a 15 member committee for a new East Walpole church. Phillips Brooks birthday observed at St Pauls Cathedral Tremont St Boston with address by Rev Reginald Howe. Little Sisters of All Saints parish Brookline youth Club to make scrap books for Children’s Hospital.
In a tense dialogue, Cholly handles a friend's revolver and asks if a misfire could blow out his brains. The friend answers that a misfire wouldn’t kill him but would bore a hole through his head, highlighting a dark, fatal undertone in their exchange.
Samuel Gompers says the Sherman act denies coalitions and free speech. at the National Civic Federation mass meeting in New York he condemns industrial corporation regulation. Attendees include J W Jenks John Hays Hammond Timothy Healy and A B Garretson at the annual banquet.
Samuel Gompers cites cases of labor bodies dissolved by courts and indictments of individuals striking in sympathy. He recalls the 1902 coal strike as a costly victory that changed workers' conditions and warns miners face threats to rights as employers push to curb gains. He decries the Sherman act as restricting coalitions and free speech and notes AFL membership has surged.
The Rev William H Fitzpatrick longtime pastor of St Gregory s Parish Dorchester died suddenly of apoplexy. Cardinal OConnell will celebrate the requiem Mass with a 2 pm funeral procession and viewing before interment at Norfolk Street Catholic Cemetery. Local clergy and parishioners will attend.
A collection of letters sent to the Boston Post Santa Claus fund from readers across Maine and New England. Citizens namelessly pledge small donations and express sympathy for children in need as they request support for a charitable Christmas effort. The items show a broad base of contributors and locales, including Augusta and Togus Maine, Lakewood New Hampshire, and Brockton Massachusetts.
A Boston Post Santa feature highlights letters from struggling families in Roxbury East Boston and Chelsea asking for clothing toys and other essentials. Donors and volunteers including Mrs. Oakes of West Roxbury support the fund with dolls toys woolen goods and money as readers are urged to visit the Santa Claus headquarters and read the pitiful notes from children and parents in need.
Peter Doliver, a young Brazilian from Rio Janeiro, left Boston for a six month walk to San Francisco. He traveled from Valparaiso to Buenos Ayres on foot, then by sailing vessel to Africa and Egypt, reached Venice, then Lisbon, Bridgewater Nova Scotia, and Boston. In Cambridge he learned English, saving 85 cents a day. If he reaches San Francisco on time, Brazil will award him 200 dollars during the Panama Pacific Exposition.
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