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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1916
Page
14
Levi Henry Elwell, longtime Amherst College faculty member and philology authority, died in Amherst at age 62 after 39 years of service. He taught and contributed to studies in language and literature.
Mr Elwell born Northampton March 22 184. He studied at Northampton High School and Amherst class of 1875. He taught at Poughkeepsie Military Institute and studied at Yale with Whitney 1876 77. He joined Amherst as Greek Latin instructor in 1877 and taught Sanskrit since 1881. He was Greek professor 1878 1893 and associate professor until his death. He traveled in Greece Egypt and Italy, member of major learned societies and authored Nine Jatakas.
Miss Elinore Erickson, noted in art circles, suffers smoke inhalation after a fire at 10 Pearson Avenue in West Somerville. Her family and Herbert King’s relatives flee into the cold as smoke fills the third floor. Herbert runs barefoot to a fire alarm box about 100 yards away, triggering the alarm.
Senator Beck files a bill at the State House to require Chelsea police court constables to wear formal blue and gold livery costing 7 per officer with a 75 costume allowance. The proposal emphasizes orderly appearance before the bar and prohibits baggy trousers or check suits for court officers.
Haverhill reports Mayor Albert L. Bartlett will not attend the inaugural exercises for mayor elect Leslies K. Morse citing concerns over potential embarrassment. Bartlett says the decision is not a slight to Morse and aims to avoid causing controversy.
A Finance Commission report to the Mayor condemns the practice of selling tobacco to prisoners at Deer Island house of correction for a city profit, calling it improper.
The commission questions legality of the city selling tobacco for profit to prisoners while asserting inmates must buy tobacco from the penal institutions department to curb drug entry. The Mayor cites Dec transfers, discussions with Penal Commissioner Shaw, and notes about tobacco spending and pricing, including potential free tobacco costs and wholesale pricing for prisoners.
Former Prime Minister Asquith says his daughter Elizabeth is not engaged to be married. London papers had reported Elizabeth Asquith’s engagement to Hugh Gibson, first secretary of the American embassy in London.
Everett mayor elect Mullen declines a $100 raise to his stipend, resisting a board proposal to raise the yearly salary from $1200 to $1300, seeing it as a covert slight against him.
The Mayor-elect Mullen insists his inauguration will be held at the State Armory despite aldermen preferring Everett High School. He rejects tax increases and says the city’s high taxes limit salaries while signaling he will proceed with or without board support. Aldermen flip positions as Friday’s vote nears.
Juan Sanchez Azona the Mexican minister to France and Spain sails for the United States on the Alfonso XIII after being recalled by his government.
Lowell E. Moseley, 22, son of Beecher Moseley of 18 Bulfinch Street, followed a woman across the continent for six years. He drank poison in a Denver hotel Tuesday night, ending his life in a suicide after unrequited wooing.
Edith A Hoar of Denver once played with Moseley in Portland Missouri. Moseley killed himself after slipping a note requesting notification to friends. A suicide note and two sealed letters were found in his hotel room issued to Edith Hoar and Hazel Homans of Portland Maine.
Chief Justice Wilfred Bolster and Edward J. Lord urged City Council to shift 3600 from county expenses to pay for extra clerk hire. They aims to create a public access board indexing disposed cases as records lagged six months and old methods dated from the Ingalls era. The council voted the appropriation.
Sergeant Nicholas H. Wyman of the Eighth Regiment married Miss Jennie V. Salim of East Syracuse after a card with a name and address was passed to him by a maid in Syracuse. Mrs Annie Wyman of Haverhill received word that her son wed on Christmas night and will visit the Haverhill home Wednesday with friends and relatives awaiting a welcome home.
A centennial dinner for The Congregationalist, America's oldest religious paper, was hosted at the Twentieth Century Club last night. Editors, staff, former editors, circulation and advertising personnel, stenographers, printers, and contributors attended, with office boys among the guests, totaling about ten attendees.
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