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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1913
Page
14
The Boston markets show high prices for Christmas foods with geese at 23 to 25 cents per pound and turkeys in the 25 to 40 cent range. Mistletoe is scarce and citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruits are inexpensive, while roasting pigs and fowls remain in strong demand and seafood appears at varied rates.
Berlin reports Herr Kevlen and two passengers set a world distance and duration record for spherical balloons after the Duisburg voyage from Bitterfeld on December 13. The balloon logged 7 hours aloft and an 17388 mile journey ending at Prem near the Siberian frontier in European Russia.
Dean Ezra R. Thayer of Harvard Law School announced at the Massachusetts Bar Association banquet that he declined Gov Foss's Supreme Court seat. He said he preferred to stay at Harvard to avoid midyear disruption and to serve the university more effectively. Governor-elect Walsh spoke of potential future appointments and urged more lawyers in public service. A portrait of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes was presented to the Social Law Library.
Thomas Mott Osborne urged Boston women to wage a war on the state prison system after a week in Auburn prison. He spoke before the Boston Women’s City Club at the Hotel Somerset urging women to seek prison matrons’ roles and help place the right people in prison work.
Mrs James J Storrow introduces her brother Mr Osborne who speaks on prison evils under Governor Sulzer. He condemns the system as inhumane robbing prisoners of self respect and individuality while urging reforms in salaries cleanliness speech liberty and humane treatment. Frank M Randall counters noting such conditions exist nationwide.
Commission member Miss Flora MacDonald secretary of the Women’s City Club presides as Miss Josephine Bruerton treasurer leads the executive committee with Miss L E Kirstein. Mrs Ada Eliot Sheffield of the State Board of Charity, Miss Mabel Gillespie of the Women’s Trade Union League, and Miss Catherine M O’Leary of the Massachusetts Prison Commission also sit on the group. The club will occupy the City Club’s old quarters when vacated, with temporary space to be arranged until then at a later meeting.
A new sea lion is brought into the South Boston Aquarium and will enter the large pool with five existing sea lions after a hunger strike during transit. The Hamburg shipment suffered delays, caused death of a younger animal during the voyage, and left the survivor in a weakened state awaiting medical check and introduction to its tank mates.
An Adams Square delivery truck owned by Thomas Henry of Chelsea caught fire yesterday morning. The blaze started under the driver’s seat near the gasoline tank after a short circuit in the ignition. Henry fled for help at a nearby drug store and used a fire extinguisher that failed. the truck, valued at 1500 dollars, was destroyed but contents were saved.
The Hello Girls of Fort Hill and Main exchanges held a Christmas gathering on the night shift at 119 Milk Street. The event was strictly feminine with a real tree, candy, fruit, ice cream, and cake, funded by a small annual assessment from each night employee.
S H Harrison Co offers chinchilla overcoats in blue black gray with scotch cheviots and fancy cassimeres. Single and double breasted styles with various collars priced up to 30 dollars. Also listed are shetland chinchillas silk satin lined balmacans ulsters and raglans with broad selection at affordable prices. Located at 662 672 Washington Street corner Beach Street, open until 9 PM tonight.
Herbert E. Dennison a 45 year old Back Bay lawyer was arrested on an indictment warrant charging larceny of stocks certificates and bonds valued at 10099.37 belonging to Flora E. Allen of Huntington Avenue during 1908 1909. The bonds were obtained by falsely representing the standing of the United States Construction Supply Company.
The December grand jury indicted Dennison for larceny of 385 Union Pacific shares, three 1000 dollar Chicago and North Michigan bonds, and a 30 share Safety Car Heating and Lighting certificate, all over ten thousand dollars. The case ties to a 1910 Supreme Court injunction against the former company, mortgage foreclosure by International Trust Company in 1912, and a failed auction that left creditors unpaid. Stockholders reportedly bore heavy losses from the collapse.
Portland Mo December 22 A bill to make Major General Joshua L Chamberlain of Portland a brigadier general on the retired list has been introduced in Congress by Senator Charles F Johnson. Chamberlain has served as surveyor of the port of Portland for 13 years and has recently been confined at home by illness.
Forty union carpenters walked off on several James H. Mendell Company sites over the hiring of two non union carpenters. The firm is handling major construction and officials fear the dispute could spread to other trades if not quickly settled.
Dunbar Lockwood arrived in Bay State road after returning from the Polar Bear party cruise in Arctic seas. He noted an ice pack that froze passages, a sinking schooner Elvira, and the party being ice bound near Herschel Island.
Paris reports fresh eruptions on Ambrim in the New Hebrides, spreading destruction. Dip Point on the island's western coast is buried by ash. many natives are missing. Two local steamers rescued 1300 natives. No Europeans or Americans harmed.
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