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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1913
Page
6
Washington February 9 Attorney General Wickersham announced that he reached an agreement with Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroad representatives to dissolve the Harriman merger as decreed by the Supreme Court.
Union Pacific to divest 1,266,500 Southern Pacific shares to its stockholders and SP holders. It will acquire Central Pacific from SP, extending from Ogden Utah to the Pacific coast. Attorney General backs the plan, says it will create ideal competition and curb monopoly. approval by U.S. District Court required.
Three investigations based on statements and charges by Big Bill Keliher will proceed simultaneously in Boston. The Suffolk County grand jury, urged by District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier, will probe Keliher's claim of seeing a copy of grand jury proceedings before indictment.
A West region collision killed Mrs. Barnes wife of a mill owner near Middleboro. Mr Gove sustained a broken jaw and other injuries while Parnes and Read suffered less severe harms. The parties were prominent locally and the crash drew swift medical attention before the victim died en route to Pine Lawn Sanitarium.
Miss Florence Nightingale Peck of Montclair New Jersey receives 384 dollars after an alleged mistaken extraction of her second upper left bicuspid by Dr Frederick W Stevens of Newark. Judge Cecil J McMahon approved the judgment by consent of all parties.
Old Mystic Connecticut February 9 Miss Amy Eldridge of this town travelled by rail to Regina Canada and then 200 miles over ice and snow drawn by 16 dogs to Dilk Saskatchewan where the ceremony was performed to become the bride of Avery Lee Coles her childhood sweetheart
Bartholomew Healey, 27, of 76 Paris street East Boston, arrested by East Boston police last night on assault with a knife charge. James Crowley, of the same address, was stabbed in the right side and held for investigation.
Zostons firemen now knit shawls during idle hours. The practice has spread through the department like wildfire, with several members, some facing death, reaching a level of skill that would shame many of their women friends.
Firehouse artistry spreads from Oakland inspired by a California paper. Engine 26, 82, and Mason Street crews weave wool shawls on frames six feet wide, with refined yarns yielding fabrics near five feet square. Records include Hoseman T. P. Lehan’s 18 hour shawl and Engine 82’s five hour relay effort. Captain A B Howard at Mason Street pledges to join, with many crew members named for completed shawls.
Mrs Martin J Walsh declares she has neither remarried nor contemplated marriage. She asserts she and her late husband led a happy 17 year marriage, denies rumors prompted by sensational claims, and states she sought privacy after publicity and her husband’s death. She distances herself from Kelcher’s statements, alleging deceit or misinformation.
The steam yacht Nautilus owned by C. W. Young of Winchester Mass was burned on the marine railway at Calails Me during repairs. The fire caused about 5000 dollars in damage and is thought to have started from a stove used by workers.
Reliable home treatment ORRINE is marketed to destroy desire for whiskey and alcohol, with thousands said to have achieved sobriety. It can be given secretly and costs $1 per box. If no results, money refunded. Free booklet available from Orrine Company in Washington, D C, via Riker-Jaynes Drug Stores.
A touring car plunged down a 10 foot embankment at Everett avenue and Revere Beach Parkway in Everett shortly after 1 am. Two occupants were buried as the vehicle turned turtle. Gilman McFarlane of Lincoln Apartments Lynn is listed with concussion, eye injury, ear damage, back injuries and possible death.
Forest Sloper Alfred Harrington and Lincoln Robbins suffered serious injuries when a car wreck trapped them. Sloper bore a deep cut above the eye and back injuries, Harrington and Robbins were thrown free with facial cuts and back injuries. They carried McFarlane for a quarter mile to Washington avenue car barns before a taxi arrived. McFarlane, initially thought dead, survived after treatment and was later taken home.
Morrison I. Swift urged at the Franklin Union for spreading new ideas through street car conversations rather than public speeches. He argued that public preaching invites arrest and jail, and proposed quietly planting strong words in neighbors ears to seed revolutionary thoughts.
Miss Eugenia Brooks Frothingham and Mrs. T. P. Curtis lead Ward 8 for the Boston Woman Suffrage Party as ward leaders and precinct chairmen are set to canvass every woman in Boston. They aim to enroll supporters and distribute literature to undecided voters.
Two hundred Lowell teachers will march on Beacon Hill Friday evening February 14 to press for a State retirement law. The Massachusetts Teachers' Federation reports this as the largest delegation promised for the education committee hearing, with sizable groups from Somerville Chelsea Revere Gloucester Framingham and more of the 44 local associations.
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