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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1916
Page
12
Antonia Duarte, a young Portuguese immigrant from the Azores, arrived on the Canopic and is among many detained for further hearing. She has been deported twice before within the past year after being excluded at New York and Providence, despite her persistence.
More than 150 prominent figures from military, business, and society gathered at the Boston Athletic Association last night to honor Major Paul F. Butler. Ex-Senator Teeling served as toastmaster as speakers praised Butler’s long service and illustrated the Bay State troops on the border.
At a Rhode Island Equal Suffrage League mass meeting in Providence on December 14, a motion urged state authorities to avenge the death of Dorothy Hughes, a 13 year old who died after an illegal operation. The group asked Attorney General Herbert A. Rice and Coroner Arthur E. Munro to take action and prosecute those responsible.
Irving Zeitlin an 18 year old drug clerk confessed to federal officers that he opened women’s mail and added insulting messages for months. He admitted taking letters addressed to women, writing postscripts, and returning them for delivery from the Garfield Park route. Zeitlin was arrested after postal inspectors traced the messages.
A dispute at Sau gus Lodge 94 Knights of Pythias over a New Year baby giveaway was resolved after committee members clarified there would be no raffle or sale. The infant, now in a Boston orphan asylum, will be placed with the couple deemed most able to provide a good home.
The Massachusetts Travellers Association was formed yesterday afternoon at a meeting in the Quincy House by leading traveling salesmen from all branches of industry in Boston. Officers elected: President Henry J. Kevy, Secretary Hugh J. McMackin, and Treasurer Thomas B. Ryan.
In the Holmes mine at Ishpeming Michigan an elevator bucket dropped seventy feet killing three people and fatally injuring six others. Officials of the Cleveland Cliffs Tron Company attributed the tragedy to a frozen cross-head at the shaft top.
City Councillor and Mrs. George W. Coleman will celebrate their twenty fifth wedding anniversary at the Hotel Bellevue on December 30 with invitations extended to Mayor Curley and City Council members and their wives.
The New England Watch and Ward Society asks Boston voters to abolish liquor licenses on December 19. They cite moral improvement, reduced betting and drug traffic, and experience from other communities as reasons to support a no license policy.
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