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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1913
Page
5
Attorney General Iswill ruled yesterday the governor may pardon a convict before sentencing. The question arose in the George Hunt case of Worcester who was convicted for making improper offers to a deputy weights and measures seller about coal weighing. A similar ruling was made fifty years ago by a court.
A persistent purpose to produce perfect biscuits drives the National Biscuit Company to build modern bakeries, invent new machinery, and ensure ceaseless care in selecting the finest ingredients. Their products reach consumers in In-er-seal packages, small tins, and glass-front cans. Buy biscuit baked by the company.
George rejects charges tied to the State Board of Charities recommendation to remove him from George Junior Republic at Freeville New York founded by him over a decade ago. He condemns the accusations as slander and defends his lifelong work and public reputation. He cites conflict between supporters of self governance and proponents of paternalistic institutional methods.
Boston's poultry show, already the largest in the United States last winter, is expected to exceed previous entries for the annual event at Mechanics' Building next month. Nationally known poultry fanciers will compete and the Agricultural College exhibit will be expanded. The Massachusetts Fish and Game Commission will display live fish and game, and the concurrent cat show is set to be the largest ever held in the country.
Roman Schubert, aged 2% years, a Milwaukee man, was found guilty of murder in the fourth degree and sentenced to one year in prison for running down and killing four year old Mabel Lohman with an automobile.
Massachusetts Bar Association members will present a portrait of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes to the Social Law Library at Huntington Hall during the association's annual meeting first session. Wilton Lockwood painted the portrait. James M. Swift chairs the presentation, Moorfield Storey accepts, with remarks by Edward W. Hutchins George W. Wickersham and Arthur P. Rugg. The 3:30 PM ceremony is open to the public without tickets.
Talbott of Monongah West Virginia identified as William 4d Talbott 380 on a Christmas shopping trip with a friend and two young women. Hours later he was found dead in a South End hotel under peculiar circumstances. Companions arrested detained awaiting investigation. Medical examiner Timothy Leary ruled death from nearly 300 grains of chloral.
Three thousand Harvard students leave for home today for the longest Christmas recess ever granted by the faculty. This year they receive two weeks of recreation, extended from the former ten days.
After final lectures, about 3000 Harvard men depart Cambridge between 1 and 6 pm to reach homes from Portland to New Orleans for Christmas. About 1500 stay for extra work or savings, with a pre Christmas reception at President Lowell’s and a Phillips Brooks house festival. Varsity hockey travels to Skaneateles, New York for 10 days of practice at Syracuse arena.
Cogereo Cognato and Tamberello Demiano faced two years and three months and two years respectively in the House of Correction for taking part in a street duel on Charter street. The article notes Boston streets are ill suited for such deadly aims and underscores the punishment given to the participants.
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