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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1912
Page
1
Winston Churchill faced a chorus of curses and hisses as he arrived in Belfast to address 6000 Liberals and Nationalists. After outlining Home Rule bill features in Celtic Park, he left by taxi through a Nationalist district to the Northern Midland Railway station where a steam-up special train carried him away.
Frederick Voss sued Elizabeth Voss for divorce in Common Pleas Court No 4 claiming his wife preferred nine cats to him. She did not defend. He testified the cats tainted the home with hair and debris and that on Christmas Eve her mother assaulted him with an axe. The jury granted the divorce.
Grand Trunk Railway invites bids to build roadbed and buildings for the Southern New England extension from Pelmér Massachusetts to Providence Rhode Island. Contracts aim for completion by December 31 1913 and trains to run by year end. Bids to open February 27 in Montreal, route divided into six districts.
Joseph Cull, life in Pittsfield, formerly of Lynn, employed in the transformer test department, grasped a live wire delivering 9000 volts. His hands were severely burned but saved by the electric current not passing through his body, according to doctors at Hillcrest Hospital.
Lawrence leaders propose a formal meeting with mill owners only after selecting ten representatives from each side. The plan aims to facilitate negotiations on key labor disputes and bargaining terms.
Ettor's case comes up for hearing today as talks amid the aiding conference loom as a path toward peace. The headline notes a strengthening hope for a prompt settlement and outlines the legal process surrounding Ettor's proceedings.
Abraham Levine a Malden shoemaker believed he buried another man’s wife yesterday. He closed his store and mourned at the grave but, at the edge of the burial, learned the body was a different woman.
After seven years apart Mrs. Levine was reported dead and buried at Montvale Cemetery. Her husband and children attended the rites and opened the coffin to find a body not hers. Officials learned in Tewksbury that the wife was alive and that another patient with the same name existed.
The National Association of Retail Milliners met in Chicago and declared hats for spring should favor small to medium sizes with bold colors. Novel designs include umbrella hats sou'westers Turkish towel-inspired patterns and ban on large hats for fashionable women. President Marie Harris says styles will be simpler and less expensive yet striking in color.
Louis K. Rourke proposed placing a new high pressure pumping station on the Common. City leaders and prominent residents voiced strong objections and signed protests, promising to block the scheme and prevent its consideration.
Residents argue the proposal harms the Common and contradicts park rules while noting Commissioner Rourke’s Boston ties. Protestors seek mayoral intervention as the plan, 100 by 80 feet near the Charles street mall, awaits official approval.
The Portuguese cruiser Republica arrived from New York and docked at Gas House wharf Boston. It is the first Portuguese war vessel in the harbor in nearly 40 years and will be hosted by Portuguese citizens with a parade and banquet at Hotel Napoli. A public inspection of the ship is likely.
Route appears to describe transport options with names like Herth 99 Wash Bunset. Mention of 12 Milk and 82 Wash suggests a travel or route listing. No clear event or people identified beyond scattered terms.
Andrew Carnegie offers to add 80 000 to Somerville’s 45 000 appropriation for a new library building. In a letter to Mayor Burns and the library trustees he states the conditions. The city must spend 45 000 first and raise a further maintenance pledge beyond the West Somerville branch funds.
A simplified note from Andrew Carnegie dated February 6 1912 to Somerville Massachusetts officials outlines a deal: the city to take over the current library building, spend forty five thousand dollars on a new library structure, while Carnegie would add eighty thousand for a total of one hundred twenty five thousand dollars. The city must advance the forty five thousand, pledge twelve thousand five hundred dollars yearly for maintenance, provide a site, and have plans approved. Signed JAS Bertram P Secretary.
Col Roosevelt tells A P Moore that he will not desert the Progressive cause and will fight side by side with them to the finish. He rejects any claim of desertion and asserts lifelong commitment to the movement.
E. H. Wilson of the Arnold Arboretum in Jamaica Plain has been awarded the Victoria Medal of Honor by the Royal Horticultural Society of Great Britain for distinguished services to horticulture. He has spent 11 years with the Arboretum and made two trips to China and a global search for useful and ornamental plants and trees.
The Royal Horticultural Society offers the Victoria Medal of Honor to Mr. Wilson in recognition of his work at the Arnold Arboretum. Wilson, known as China Wilson, has spent years in China and Tibet collecting specimens and recovering from a landslide injury. He praises Professor Charles F. Sargent and prefers discussing the arboretum over personal accolades.
In Pittsfield on February 8 Mrs. Eunice Pease aged 60 died from asphyxiation by illuminating gas in a house with no gas pipe. Her downstairs neighbors Mrs. Oscar Herman and her eight year old son were overcome but saved by Mr. Herman who returned to dinner to find them unconscious. It is believed gas leaked from a broken street pipe.
Albert Bayes shot his wife three times then wounded a boarder, William Schwahl, and killed himself. The family, including a six year old daughter Julia, faced an alarming incident after a quarrel last week that led them to stay with Bayes' mother.
James Vincent Fitzpatrick of Brookline sues Mr and Mrs Thomas McGowan for 25000 alleging his wife was alienated by her parents and sued for divorce in Norfolk County Court on January 2, 1912. Mrs Fitzpatrick claims drunkenness and failure to provide for herself and children.
Frank Kelley, 25, recently pardoned by Governor Foss, is arrested by Inspectors Cronin and O Neil on charges of stealing groceries worth 12 50 from a teamster’s stable. Kelley, who served 12 to 15 years for robbery, claims residence on HA Taylor Street South End.
Lawrence reports William D. Haywood organizer of the I W W arranging a parade of strikers' children from Lawrence to New York and Philadelphia with a final appeal at Ashlington Capitol. A special train will depart Saturday over the New York New Haven Hartford line for New York. Hundreds of children are expected to march on Broadway under banners reading We can't parade in Lawrence so we have come to New York and Products of the Mills.
Lawrence February 8 A dispute over committee size blocks an early meeting between mill owners and about 15000 workers on strike for a month The I W W strike committee running the action says it will enter talks but demands ten members from each side to attend.
The mill owners, trusted by officials, are ready to meet a five on each side committee of strikers for grievances. Both sides oppose third party mediators and aim only to arrange a meeting. William Yeates and William D. Haywood indicate openness to consultation despite earlier claims the strike was far from ended.
The fragment hints at a sports or column item on page three second column featuring Gots and Or Turner in a close contest. Readable text is brief and lacks clear outcome or full context.
The note records times and dates including 4 35, 10h 17m, the 40th day of the year with day’s increase lh 18m, the fiftieth day of winter and light auto lamps at 5 37. It reads like a daybook entry noting light and time milestones.
Notables honored include Dr. John P. Sutherland dean at Boston University Medical School Seward W. Jones a former Governor's Council member Roderick W. Hine Dedham schools chief and U S President William H Harrison. Historic moments recalled include General Lee as Confederate commander 1865 the French frigate Insurgent captured by Constitution 1709 and New York City surrender to Britain 1674.
The forecast calls for fair weather in Boston and vicinity Friday and Saturday with little temperature change. Winds shift from moderate northwest to west. In New England overall, conditions stay fair on Friday and Saturday with colder Friday and moderate west winds.
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