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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1912
Page
5
In Niver ville New York after a 14 mile walk from Stockport in a driving snow storm General Rosalie Jones and her marching suffragettes carrying a message to Governor elect Sulzer decide to push on tonight for three more miles from Pine Tree Inn to Niverville.
The party decided to return to the inn for the night and resume at dawn, hoping to cover the remaining 12 miles to Albany by early afternoon. A heavy snow and foot deep slush made the day tough, with lunch hosted by Mrs. Datus C. Smith in Kinderhook. General Jones then announced the army would finish its march into Albany on Saturday.
Dr Edwards presents Olive Tablets as a calomel free laxative for chronic constipation and torpid liver. They promise gentle bowel and liver normalization with no griping, easy for children, and sold 1Q and 25C per box by The Olive Tablet Co Columbus Ohio.
Miss Frances Helen Hoar daughter of Mrs Rockwood Hoar of Worcester and Washington has been receiving congratulations from Boston and New England society after her formal presentation in Worcester and recent introduction in Washington society early this week.
Monday afternoon at Mrs Hoar s Washington residence 1605 Connecticut Avenue a notable tea featured Miss Helen Taft Robert Taft and John M Ewing Jr among Boston society guests The decor blended Christmas greens red roses and poinsettias while a string orchestra played Debutante wore white satin with black chiffon and carried white roses and lilies Guests assisting included numerous Boston social figures and Mrs Stimson Nagel Hughes Crane and others Miss Hoar daughter of Mrs Rockwood and the late Congressman Hoar is linked to Miss Esther Cleveland and the Worcester debut in October. close friends include Miss Marion Sprague of Faulkner Farm Brookline.
Lynn December 27 Chief Thomas A Harris of the fire department surrendered the office to Edward E Chase the newly appointed chief Two weeks after notice from Mayor William P Connery Chase will not wear uniform for now Attorney Walter Pine acts for Harris and a writ of mandamus is sought A protest meeting is set for Monday evening at Classical High School Hall to press for Harris restoration to duty
Advertisement promotes Red Cross cough drops priced at 5 cents per box claiming to keep the lungs clear.
For location convenience and culinary excellence the establishment promises efficient unobtrusive service. It pledges comfortable and luxurious surroundings not bizarre but elegant with an atmosphere of hospitality aimed at patron comfort.
The Imperial promotes its hotel as a convenient city residence with surprisingly reasonable rates and distinctive features. A booklet detailing rates is available upon request.
Dr James Monroe Daly longtime Boston dentist died at his Dorchester home after a severe cold. He was 88 and had practiced for four decades at 29 Hollis Street. Survived by widow Elizabeth T Bispham Daly and two sons James H Daly and M Ordway Daly, the latter ill with grippe. A founder of Boston Dental College and member of Shawmut Lodge and other clubs. Born Salisbury Vermont and educated Bristol Vermont.
George Smith aged 23 was found after a fall at the Boylston Street tunnel station entrance yesterday afternoon. He suffered a severe brain concussion and multiple contusions to the head and body, with surgeons at Relief Hospital treating his injuries.
In Salem a wife seeks $500 life insurance claiming Wiggin McCulley died after leaving Lynn in 1903 and is legally dead. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company contends he is alive. Sister-in-law Lizzie McCulley supports that he was seen in Canada in 1909 under the name Lou Hillman with a child.
Mayor Fitzgerald angrily challenged the Chamber of Commerce to end the Rising Sun Street Gas Lighting Company monopoly and urged a municipal lighting plant using an $800,000 appropriation. He dismissed the Chamber’s lighting proposal as impractical and questioned its members’ local ties while suggesting focus on other projects like a Boston-Texas steamship line.
New York Dec 27 James R Keene long ill is in worse condition than since returning from abroad several months ago No definite cause given for the horseman's illness as of today more details were not released by officials or family.
A high northeasterly gale with fog hail and snow drove sailing vessels and steamers to harbor for safety. Experts warned last night would be among the worst winter seas of the season.
A nor'easter drenched Cape Cod and Boston with heavy rain and a 40 mph northwest wind. Unusually high tides flooded cellars from Atlantic to Quincy shores, submerged Long and wharves, and forced fires to abandon furnaces. Mariners sought safety as vessels rode out the gale.
Mrs Hannah J Ford aged 68 longtime boarding house keeper known as mother to many lodgers who rose to prominence in Brockton and beyond died yesterday. She was active in local church circles and widely known in the city.
Patrick J. Walsh a 29 year old married man living at 50 B street South Boston was struck by a train at the Broadway extension bridge yesterday afternoon and is receiving treatment at Massachusetts General Hospital for his injuries.
Three members of the State Board of Arbitration heard union witnesses in Little Falls New York as mediators. Strikers said wages were barely enough to live on with workers describing long hours and meager pay. Witnesses cited earnings from $1 to $7 a week prior and after a 54 hour law limiting hours.
Boston's Art Commission and Francis J. Garrison argued at a City Council hearing on removing statues to the Charles Street mall. Chairman Thomas Allen said the Alexander Hamilton statue is not art and suggested the Leif Ericsson statue might be better off removed.
The Art Commission seeks 10000 to relocate statues to the Public Garden, arguing current placement ruins Commonwealth avenue vistas and that the Hamilton statue back is unfinished. Garrison opposes, claiming current setting is better and statues are unstable. Council, awaiting public view, also approves transfers of Hyde Park deeds and funds for a new police station, Ward 3 gym, Chestnut street embankment, and compensation to a Deer Island former prisoner.
In Lockport New Jersey John Williams chief of the Tuscarora Reservation was fatally injured and his 16 year old son killed when, in a drunken frenzy, he fired a shotgun at a box of dynamite stored in his house. The blast wrecked the dwelling. Mrs Williams and a four year old daughter were slightly injured.
John Thornton was found guilty in Police Court yesterday of attempting to sell morphine to an agent of the Watch and Ward Society in a Tremont Street liquor store and sentenced to six months in the House of Correction.
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