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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1915
Page
18
Freddie Welsh the English lightweight champion was outfought by Jimmy Murphy of Philadelphia in a six round catchweight bout. Murphy led every round after the first, cut Welsh’s lip in round two, and staggered him in round four with a right cross before Welsh clinched to survive.
An advertisement urges parents to protect children at Christmas by using Father John’s Medicine. It claims a safe, pure, alcohol free physician prescribed remedy for colds throat and lung troubles and as a tonic. The copy emphasizes its safeness for kids and its non patent medicine status.
Letters from Mrs. Ernest Thiel of Stillwater Minnesota and Mrs. Delvida Fortin of Brunswick Maine praise Father John’s Medicine for repairing illness in children and restoring strength during whooping cough colds and run down states stating the product contains no alcohol or dangerous drugs.
Olive Eastman and Knut Svendson wed in Dorchester at 4 Grafton Street under Bouck White’s ritual of the Church of the Social Revolution. Both sets of parents were absent as the couple pledged lifelong partnership without obedience and prepared for a New Hampshire honeymoon.
Four men were struck and seriously injured when an auto truck operated by Herbert Quinn of Cambridge struck them on Melcher Street near A Street in South Boston. Injured are Jeremiah Delaney with a fractured spine and scalp wounds, William Gillespie with a broken leg, William Ready with a bruised leg, and William Crowley with a dislocated knee. Delaney hospitalized. others treated at home. Gillespie, Ready and Crowley were named as injured bystanders. The Simpson Soleman Co. of 10 Hawley Place owned the truck.
The Brookline Board of Selectmen approved a municipal government plan shifting town business to 263 citizen representatives elected by the town. The change supersedes the former town meeting system, with the adoption presented by Chairman Philip S. Parker and Ernest B. Dane of the board, and Town Clerk Edward W. Baker.
The town sets nine precincts with three voting places for town officer elections. Twenty seven members per precinct will join the moderator and selectmen, town clerk, treasurer, and board chairmen to act on appropriations. In all 263 citizens will decide on Brookline spending. The old system allowed universal voting at one town hall. the new form aims to widen access. A proviso delays acts on expenditures of 25000 or more for five days to allow petitions.
Baron Erich Swiedinek of the Austro-Hungarian embassy conferred with Secretary Lansing seeking to learn what would satisfy the United States. The note and informal understandings were discussed as tensions over the Ancona incident persist.
Officials watch Austria-Hungary and Germany as the United States seeks a settlement on the Lusitania deaths. The note mentions Germany’s acquiescence and could influence talks with Secretary Lansing and Count von Bernstorff. Vienna reports a missing Ancona commander may affect Austria-Hungary’s reply.
Norman Hapgood editor of Harpers Weekly spoke to several hundred students in the Harvard Union last night. He discussed the next national election and informally debated the chances of various possible candidates.
Major Dan Morgan Smith of Chicago condemns Boston as the worst spot on earth morally after closing his six weeks campaign against the saloon in Faneuil Hall He cites Bowdoin square at midnight and streets of the city as examples of drunkenness and argues against liquor interests and tax increases for a dry city He claims liquor groups helped defeat Governor Walsh and urges a no vote to protect families from saloon influence.
Harris Levine closed windows and doors of his 564 Spring Street West End store then opened gas outlets, actions leading to his death, according to the report.
Police found the man dead in his home with a letter to his wife near his body saying business is poor I am sick and tired of it all. The scene suggests a suicide tied to financial strain and distress.
The ten round bout between Johnny Kilbane and Ritchie Mitchell was postponed to the afternoon of January 1 in Cincinnati. Kilbane cites illness and indigestion, delaying the match from the planned Wednesday date.
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