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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1914
Page
7
New York February 12 Niagara Falls may be quarantined if it fails to follow smallpox recommendations from Dr Hermann M Biggs state health commissioner He said railroads would cooperate by not stopping trains in the city and noted 130 cases there two weeks ago He added that the community seems hostile to vaccination.
Ossining N Y Feb 12 more than 1300 convicts at Sing Sing prison held a Lincoln celebration. A chapel concert by New York professionals and the prison brass band led the program. Extra lunch courses were served and each inmate was permitted to smoke a cigar in his cell.
The fragment hints at a Van Loon family piece titled Gan E Ge Me. It references daily life and family events in a humorous or column format, with possible sketches of kin and domestic happenings.
Lamb prices rise two cents a pound and pork up 11-2 as markets face a two month trend. Outside stalls were closed and empty, with frost on stair windows and a shortage of green stuff inside, leaving buyers paying higher prices.
The list catalogs current prices for seafood and produce items including lobsters at 20 cents per pound, shrimps 50 cents a quart, bees and butter with varied cents, turkey 25 cents, cucumbers 20 cents each, apples 70 cents a peck, oranges, grapefruits, cranberries, and other fruits and vegetables with multiple price points. Aimed at shopper awareness of daily retail costs across numerous items.
Keene New Hampshire February 12 The mayor and aldermen held a special meeting to address the dancing agitation and adopted rules governing all city dances henceforth Improper dancing and conduct are banned there may be no dimming of lights in dance halls and children under 16 may not attend after 9 pm unless with an authorized chaperon
Philip A. Cooley of New Orleans filed habeas corpus writs for Frank C. Webb of New York and J. E. Munsey of Salt Lake City. They were found guilty at Indianapolis of conspiracy to transport explosives illegally and are serving six-year terms at Leavenworth federal prison.
George H. Wilbur of Little Compton Rhode Island was found guilty in district court of larceny of seaweed and trespass on shore property of the Davis heirs in Westport under a 1641 law claiming sea boundary ownership.
Zero weather and a 50 mile gale kept ships in harbor yesterday as steamers schooners and tugs and barges sheltered from the seas. Schedules were delayed until conditions improve outside with bitter cold and rough seas hindering navigation off the coast and transatlantic steamers causing grave apprehensions.
The Hansa freight steamer Neuenfels, en route from Calcutta, has not been heard since Sunday and may have lost its wireless aerial in mid ocean storms. Meanwhile Cunard liner Alaunia reported 230 miles east of Halifax, racing through NW gales and due in tomorrow. Offshore, Lewiston and Esther Ann from Jacksonville for Boston lie iced south of Minots Light after lengthy delays. Boston, A W Perry, and other ships remain at port awaiting better conditions.
The schooner Dustin G. Cressy, loaded with hard pine from Jacksonville for Portland, rode out a 50 mph gale near Pamet River after a near wreck off Cape Cod. The Acushnet is en route from Woods Hole to assist, with the Pamet River life-saving crew aboard.
Thousands to select from cassi meres worsteds and cheviots. See our windows all 1.98 dollars. S. H. Harrison Co. 662 672 Washington St. at Beach.
The plan to erect a memorial statue for General Benjamin F. Butler was defeated in the Senate yesterday afternoon by a voice vote.
Friends of the resolve lost on roll call after a first postponement vote of 22 to 12. Senator Horgan pushed the measure while Senator Williams opposed it, trading sharp claims about House influence and State Street orders. The adverse committee report was accepted and the bill now goes to the Senate for debate with possible conference committee after adoption.
Miss Ellen Hoar daughter of the late Sherman Hoar and sister of Roger Sherman Hoar married Stephen Coburn Pepper yesterday at First Parish Church in Concord. The bride, granddaughter of Judge E Rockwood Hoar, was given in marriage by her stepmother Mary Buttrick Hoar. Attendants included maid of honor Eleanor Stevens and bridesmaids Elizabeth Hoar Helen Buttrick. Best man John H Moore. Ushers included Stedman Hoar Wells Blanchard and four Harvard classmates Edwin Wheeler W Ustick John Wright John Taylor Alfred Redfield and Laurence Siegfriend.
Mayor Miller of Quincey removes Michael Lb. Shea from the street department post by abolishing the office effective February 14. He orders the public works commissioner to halt expenditures in that area and warns Shea of potential further action Sunday at 5.
The Boy Scouts of America closed a landmark convention in Washington with speeches and receptions. Secretary Bryan and Secretary Daniels attended, praising the movement’s potential to guide the next generation as Chief Scout Seton urged more men to lead, warning that a lack of leaders harms youth and society.
Editors representing 32 foreign language newspapers in Boston denounced a literacy test immigration bill as unfair and harmful to cosmopolitan citizenship. Speakers urged replacing restrictions with freer immigration, including N Khouri, George H Pilis, Charles F Dole, Jacob de Haas, George W Tupper, A J Philpott, Abraham Alpert, William Klein, and George P Morris.
President and Mrs George E Vincent of the University of Minnesota announced today in Minneapolis that they will……
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