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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 14, 1909

Page

3

Four Laborers Bleed After Dynamite Cap Explosion

In Stoneham on the Boston & Northern streetcar line project a dynamite cap buried in dirt exploded when struck by a pick, hurling four workers and injuring them. Vendetta Allerantro and Giovanni Dellavalle face critical injuries. Andre Sobrozzio and Mazzarino De Carli are injured but not in immediate danger.

Stoneham Boston & Northern Middlesex Fells Vendetta Allerantro Giovanni Dellavalle Andre Sobrozzio Mazzarino de Carli North Street Boston Allerantro Dellavalle Allerantio

Fair Athlete Heads Girls' High Seniors

Florence Evelyn Armstrong named leader of the Girls High School senior class after a close election. She lives at 12 Wadsworth street Allston and beat Roxbury rivals Miss Gertrude O Neil and Miss Bessie Jost in a plurality of 13 votes. Armstrong captained the basketball team last season and has excelled academically.

Florence Evelyn Armstrong Miss Armstrong Wadsworth Street Allston Gertrude O'Neil Roxbury Bessie Jost Distaff

Lurion Named to U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice

Washington December 13 The President nominated Horace H Lurion of Tennessee to serve as associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Washington Horace H. Lurton Tennessee Supreme Court of the United States

Judge Lurton's Early Life and Civil War Service

Judge Lurton was born in Campbell county Kentucky on February 26 1844 the son of Lycurgus B and Susan Ann Harmon Lurton. He studied at Douglas University and the University of Chicago before enlisting in the Civil War where he served in the Thirty fifth Tennessee and the Third Kentucky Cavalry and was captured twice before pursuing a law degree at Cumberland University and beginning practice in Clarksville Tennessee.

Judge Lurton Campbell County Kentucky Lycurgus B Susan Ann Harmon Lurton Blue Grass Protestant Episcopal Church Chicago Douglas University University of Chicago Thirty-fifth Tennessee B. J. Hill Lorton Fort Donelson Camp Chase Third Kentucky Cavalry Ohio Morgan Law Cumberland University Lebanon, Tenn Clarksville, Tenn

Lurton Appointment Boosts Sixth Circuit Representation

The passage details Judge Horace Harmon Lurton rising from Tennessee lines from Patrick Henry kinship through to chief justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court in 1893 and later sixth circuit judge under Cleveland. It notes his Episcopalian faith, Trinity Church ties in Clarksville, Sewanee trusteeship since 1882, marriage to Mary Frances Owen, his four children with two deaths, and mentions Roosevelt’s preference for Lurton during the Roosevelt Taft vacancy before Moody was chosen.

Gustavus A. Henry Patrick Henry Supreme Court of Tennessee Cleveland Sixth United States Circuit Howell E. Jackson United States Supreme Bench Horace Vandeventer Knoxville Tenn Horace Harmon Lurton Lurton Supreme Court Harlan Day Brown Roosevelt Taft Lorton William Henry Moody The United States

Parker Says Lurton Best Equipped For Supreme Court

New York Dec 13 Alton B Parker says Horace H Lurton is best equipped for service in the Supreme Court of the United States Parker adds he knows Lurton socially and professionally and believes the country is to be congratulated for the choice

New York Alton B. Parker Supreme Court Horace H. Lurton

Dartmouth backs football rules revision for safety

Hanover N H December 13 Professor Laycock reports the Dartmouth athletic council supports action by the rules committee to make football safer. The council backs any suggestion reducing player injury and will support a revision when the intercollegiate rules committee meets in New York on December 28.

Hanover N. H Laycock Dartmouth Athletic Council New York Dartmouth

Boston Area Boxing Clubs Offer Different Classs

South Boston Gym fields 115 pound teams with Fred Burnham of South Boston listed. Bunker Hill Five pushes 120 pound teams. Frank Walden of Congress Street named. Wellingtons of Roxbury field 120 to 125 pound teams away from home. G Giuffre of Roxbury listed. Castle Ascension Team seeks 110 to 112 pound teams in Boston area for Saturday nights at home led by Alfred E Gor ell of Newcomb Street.

South Boston Fred Burnham Hows Avenue Bunker Hill Frank Walden Congress Street City Wellingtons Roxbury G. Giuffre Warren Street Castle Ascension Boston Alfred E. Gorell Newcomb Street

Miss Boardman Directs White House Functions

Miss Mabel T. Boardman, close friend of President Taft and Mrs. Taft, will be the informal social arbiter at the White House this winter. Her family hosts Washington gatherings and summer events at Manchester-by-the-Sea. Taft, Red Cross president, engaged her in relief work. she revived the society after Spanish American War troubles and organized the White Plague Christmas stamps sale.

Washington Mabel T. Boardman White House Taft Miss Boardman Murray Crane Massachusetts William J. Boardman Manchester-by the-Sea National Red Cross Society Red Cross Society The Red Cross Mabel Boardman Senator Crane Mrs. Taft

Boston suffragettes escort Snowden for day of events

A Boston suffragette delegation plans a day of activities around Mrs. Philip Snowden. The program includes a trolley trip at 10 a.m. a luncheon at 1 p.m. and a Tremont Temple mass meeting at 5 p.m. with speakers Julia Ward Howe and Maud Howe Elliot.

Philip Snowden Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Julia Ward Howe Tremont Temple Boston Eglish Copley Square New York Mrs. Snowden Radcliffe

Sunday School Unions Merge In Boston

A merger uniting the Congregational and Baptist Sunday school unions into a cross denom body was completed in Kingsley Hall Boston last night. Officers were elected and monthly meetings set. Rev Dr A M Hyde urged faith fellowship and fire as key aims for workers.

Congregational Sunday School Baptist Superintendents Workers of All Nations Boston Kingsley Hall Ford Building C. N. Bentley Cambridge John F. Rood Malden George H. Cutler Cambridgeport F. E. Vaughan Everett Brown Cone The Baptist Union Congregational Union A. M. Hyde Porter Congregational Church Massachusetts Hyde Hitchcock Mills Forsyth Bender Worden

Beale McLean couple expect a New Year birth

Mr and Mrs Edward Beale McLean expect the stork around the New Year Evelyn Walsh McLean, formerly Miss Evelyn Walsh, is the daughter of Thomas F Walsh and his wife.

Washington Edward Beale Mclean Evelyn Walsh Thomas F. Walsh

Evictions at Ludlow Be Discussed at Faneuil Hall

A mass meeting at Faneuil Hall examined Ludlow evictions and the mill wage system. Detectors hired by Pinerton were denounced amid the discussion of labor practices and law enforcement.

Ludlow Faneuil Hall Pinkerton

Governor Draper Called To Intervene In Crisis

The passage claims Governor Draper failed in his duty by not calling out troops. Supporters argue he should have deployed forces to quell the unrest and restore order.

Draper

Clergy and leaders decry wage levels and state intervention at Ludlow

Rev. George W. Daniels questions wage claims and paternalism in the strike. Mrs. Glendower Evans calls Ludlow an eruption of a national disease. Rep. O'Brien faults governors for evictions, while Wentworth denounces Pinkerton involvement and alien forces in Massachusetts led by Edward H. Chandler of the Twentieth Century Club.

George W. Daniels Carew Street Baptist Church Springfield Glendower Evans Ludlow O’brien Wentworth Massachusetts Law and Order Edward H. Chandler Twentieth Century Club

Middlesex Bar Elects Officers at Annual Meeting

At the Middlesex County Bar Association annual meeting in East Cambridge, Samuel K. Hamilton was elected president. Vice presidents named were George S. Richardson, Robert P. Clapp, and council members for three years included Selwyn Z. Bowman, Samuel J. Elder, Marcellus Coggan, James W. McDonald, and George E. Smith.

Bar Association of the County of Middlesex County Commissioners’ Room East Cambridge Samuel K.hamilton Wakefield George S. Richardson Lowell Robert P. Clapp Lexington Selwyn Z. Bowman Somerville Samuel J. Elder Winchester Marcellus Coggan Malden James W. McDonald Marlboro George E. Smith Everett

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