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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1910
Page
9
Feb 2 report notes a possible shortage of at least 300000 in the affairs of cubridge Savings Bank. Treasurer John A. Hall is accused of larceny. Board members refrain from guessing total loss while confirming a surplus around 177000.
The surplus would be wiped out by a shortage of 300000 dollars, trustees may be called to cover the remaining loss to depositors. The bank reopened today with operations limited by an injunction. An order by Charles F. Choate Jr. will call in all depositors pass books to finish the examination, expected to take another week.
Melvin R. Bradbury age 19 of 17 Harvard Street Waltham, a Harvard freshman, is at Stillman Infirmary suffering from Bright's disease.
Public health notice encourages using a whiskey free laxative cough syrup. It describes mixing wild cherry bark, compound essence cardial, and white pine syrup to make a treatment with dosing instructions for adults and children. It urges readers to save and share the remedy with friends.
Surface indications show railroad brotherhoods across the country seeking wage hikes and shorter hours from eastern railroad managers. The Order of Railway Conductors, Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Locomotive Engineers and Locomotive Firemen ask for a 10 percent plus wage increase and general betterment of working conditions.
Six major railroads employing 52 000 locomotive firemen rejected a 20 to 2 percent wage increase and better working conditions. They offer conferences to arbitrate the wage demand. Managements reportedly may act as a unit on concessions. No new developments reported by Boston area adjustment boards for conductors and trainmen.
Dr. Charles Dudley Underhill of 16 Newbury Street filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in the United States District Court. He lists liabilities of 771129 and assets of 17200 with 16910 secured.
Providence February 2. On taft's advice representative Harry Cutler presented a white slave act to the Rhode Island Legislature. The measure sets penalties for bringing women into the state keeping them or procuring places for them, and makes the victim competent to testify in all cases. The bill was referred to the House judiciary committee after a White House conference.
The Em-Bee Toilet Company via Houghton & Dutton offers a free 50c box of Ninoa Face Powder to each Sorose buyer. Sorose costs 1.90 per package and promises notable bust development. A limited supply is sent to Houghton & Patton, with refunds offered if results aren’t achieved.
Judges Harris and Hitchcock in East Cambridge heard a second session for Napoleon J. Rivet of Lowell seeking a new trial. Rivet was convicted March 19, 1909, of murdering Joseph Gailloux at Lowell. Bent argued jurors rushed deliberations and were prejudiced against Rivet and a female witness.
Mayor Hibbard has slightly recovered from sciatic rheumatism but remains doubtful about attending the inauguration at Faneuil Hall on Monday.
In San Francisco on February 2 the western classification committee set freight rates for flying machines at six dollars per 100 pounds. Air carriers west of the Missouri River will be treated as ordinary freight and transported to the coast accordingly.
Deacon Ed win Maynard of Florida is laid up with injuries after his coffee pot exploded while heating on the boiler of his portable sawmill engine. It knocked his hat off and scalded him. a tin fragment took some hair from the top of his head. He is under Dr. Pascoe of Savoy care.
Newton Centre February 2 Work on the new First Church Unitarian to be built at Chestnut Hill will start next week. The site faces Suffolk road and is surrounded by spruce trees reflecting a tranquil setting for the church project.
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