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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1916
Page
3
Chicago faces heavy mail congestion with fields five days behind. Outgoing mail delays persist as trains leave with extra mail cars. Sacks pile in open sheds at railroad stations while transit slowly catches up. Adamson's Balsam advertised as a cough remedy by druggists.
Memorial services for prominent suffragist Inez Milholland Boissevain were held in Statuary Hall. Members of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage gathered by permission of Speaker Clark. The hall and galleries were packed and police had to bar entrances to manage the crowd.
In the House office building suffrage leaders with banners and choir boys marched to the Capitol led by Miss Alice Paul national chairman. Miss Paul carried a banner once borne by Inez Milholland in 1910. Lucy Burns followed with a banner bearing a memorial to Milholland, five speakers urged President Wilson to act for universal suffrage citing Milholland Boissevain’s sacrifice.
Thomas H. McLain a former representative to the Maine legislature died today in Rockland. He had worked as a bank cashier for 25 years and previously taught in schools across the state. He was in his sixties.
The prosecution accuses Charles Small of killing his wife to collect a $20,000 life policy after finding her body in a charred Mt. View cottage. Prosecution and defense prep for a high‑stakes trial in the new Carroll County courthouse with Attorney General James P. Tuttle leading the case.
Jesse Pomeroy was among 675 inmates at the State prison who attended a chapel vaudeville show after a morning mass led by Rev. M. J. Murphy. He bought a basket of fruit with his own funds and returned to his Cherry Hill cell for a roast pork dinner. Warden Allen spent over 600 on fruit for prisoners with friends and 150 for those without, donated by an unknown donor.
A committee of railway officials will establish an office in Detroit to ease congestion caused by the car shortage, announced by the American Railway Association. Shipments to Detroit were cited as affected by the flow constraints.
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