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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1913
Page
4
The Quincy City Council approved a special appropriation to add three men to the permanent police force. Mayor Stone will appoint them early next week under civil service rules. two will be promoted from the reserve list to regular status, and one will join the reserve body.
A laborer digging on State street near the new Yale ice rink found an old jar beneath a boulder seventeen feet down. Inside were a silver 1804 dollar in good condition, a Nuremberg snuff box with oxidation, Connecticut copper coins, a continental note for three dollars, state notes, rings, and a silver dollar valued at about 3500 dollars for collection.
Reports spread of a famed 1804 dollar discovered during an excavation at a site dating before 1832. Sullivan, the snuff box finder, reportedly received a marriage proposal after talk of a $10,000 windfall. Coins and copper cents spurred renewed digging before work halted.
The director of the mint says 19 570 silver dollars were coined in 1804. He notes no record of later striking from that die and recalls the old tale that many 1804 dollars were lost at sea after a 1806 order restricted silver money to half dollars, later rescinded.
Seidel Rovner of Lemberg Austria received one of Boston’s greatest tributes last night at Beth Hamedroth Nagodal. Despite bad weather hundreds attended and more could not gain admission. Rovner led Jewish secret music during Sabbath Chanukah services with a 12 member European choir performing pieces such as Sharei Chodesh and Emes Vha yom.
Prices declined across several grocery items with turkeys easing from 40 to 30 cents, eggs down to 45 and 50 cents, and hare available at 60 cents a pair. Fish supplies and prices returned to normal, and most greens showed noticeable reductions.
The notice lists grocery prices including mushrooms 35c per lb or 20c per box, celery 15c per bunch, grapefruits three for a quarter, oranges 20–25c, figs 15c lb, tomatoes 20c, chickens 23c, lettuce two heads for 5c. Also eel 20c lb, salmon 1.35, bluefish 20c, red snapper 25c, flounder 12–12c, English whitebait 30c, smelts two lb for 25c. Meat cuts range from sirloin 25–32c, rump 40–45c, round 25–30c, lamb hind 18c fore 13c, roasts 15–28c. Cod 8c, haddock 10c, frozen mackerel 40c large or 10c lb small, swordfish 20c.
Calumet Michigan December 26 The relief committee reports they cannot spend a cent of the 25000 collected for Christmas Eve disaster victims after being told by every bereaved household that promised aid from the Western Federation of Miners is not needed.
Committee members blame rumors linking the emblem of the Citizens' Alliance to the panic among striking copper miners' children. Prosecutor Lucas says the man who started the cry is not identified by insignia. Relief offers are often refused as families trust the union to help. Two women were turned from a home with two dead children. Mrs Vertin and Mrs Sterk withdrew after being shown the door. A new meeting was held to plan ways to discard the money while investigators pursue affidavits and a potential arrest based on a 14 year old’s description.
John Lane, a Rhode Island State College student, was found asphyxiated in his bed in Pawtucket during Christmas holidays. Death is believed accidental. Lane was visiting his parents at the time.
The $10,000 suit by Alice G. Coady of this city against Herbert L. Wardner of Boston arising from a March 18 1918 auto accident was settled out of court.
William Lamarre aged 45 of Elm Street was found dead from carbolic acid poisoning after shooting Mary Levesque aged 25 who lies in serious condition at Secret Heart Hospital. Both were employed at Amoskeag Manufacturing Company mills in Manchester.
Lamarre left his job at noon in the wet finishing department and, after crossing a bridge to No. 2 mill where Miss Levesque worked, fired four shots. One bullet struck her face, shattering teeth and tearing flesh, then he drank carbolic acid and died within minutes.
John E. Kendrick a prominent Rhode Island public figure and loom harness manufacturer died suddenly at his Meshanticut Park home aged 52. He served as U S marshal for Rhode Island from 1892 to 1908, was in the General Assembly, and eight years as Providence City Council president. He was a Wesleyan West class of 1876 graduate.
Reading readers report a protest meeting called by the Board of Selectmen for January 1 to oppose changes in Bay State Street Railway Company service emissions. Citizens condemn the shift from half hour to hourly evening Earl Lowell and Lawrence lines changing schedules.
Brance, Hartwick postmaster, arrives to aid his sister Adelaide who declares lifelong love with Couch and believes spirits guide her. She explains marriage in love, rejects law, and seeks a sanitarium as authorities move to protect her. Brance vows support while criticizing Couch.
Mayor Fitzgerald returns to City Hall and denies taking sides in the mayoralty fight. He says he has not joined Kenny camp though Fitzgerald allies privately back Kenny. The piece notes possible shifts, Kelcher support talks, and Kenny and Curley campaigning in South Boston as Kneeland fights to qualify for the ballot.
Congressman James M. Curley at a Ward 14 rally offered to donate 500 to charity if Councillor Thomas J. Kenny would debate him at Mechanics Building next week. He claimed few in the hall would vote for Kenny after the discussion and outlined plans to create more Boston jobs while criticizing Kenny over civil service for city positions.
The Norwegian freighter Maud arrived from London after a 21 day voyage, a week overdue. A fortnight ago four days of westerly gales slowed her progress, forcing a high speed of about five knots per hour at times.
Cambridge Charter Commission proposes a 17 member city council replacing 11 Aldermen and 22 Commoners. It also creates five departments led by appointed directors and shifts city elections from March to December.
Henry Whitney Munroe head of Munroe and Co. was sentenced to 1 day in Charles Street jail and fined 250 dollars by Judge Morton for contempt of court. He failed to obey a subpena to produce a check drawn on his Paris house tied to Mmece Driscoll’s importations under grand jury investigation. A writ of error was allowed, case to appeal.
The safe at a liquor establishment run by Cushing Process Company on 164 Canal Street was robbed of nearly 2600 early yesterday. Burglars forced a rear unbarred window and two young North End men, one with a prior record, were arrested on suspicion and held at Hanover Street station.
John O'Brien of Bangor Maine allegedly broke a plate glass window at Kréitman's men’s furnishing store in Union Square Somerville yesterday to get arrested after being robbed of 75 dollars at Moosehead Lake He fled to 15 Webster Avenue where Patrolman D G Simonds arrested him.
Hiram H. Luther, 51, of 168 Forest Street Fall River, died of heart failure last night at about 10 oclock while entering South station. He collapsed as an ambulance carried him to Cit Hospital after a Boston visit with friends.
A home cough syrup mixes one pint warm water with sugar to create a syrup, then adds two percent ounces of Pinex in a pint bottle. The mixture is claimed to ease ordinary coughs within 24 hours and help with whooping cough, spasmodic croup, and bronchitis, with a money back guarantee and nationwide popularity.
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