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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 16, 1914
Page
9
Cambridge voters head to the polls tomorrow for the Democratic mayoralty nomination races, aldermanic contests, and the school committee question. The mayoral race centers on succeeding J Edward Barry, who declined a fourth term as mayor, with five candidates seeking the post.
The article notes City Treasurer Timothy W. Good enjoys strong backing from Mayor Barry and Cambridge Democrats. Good has served five years on the council, three on the Board of Aldermen, three as assessor, and three as treasurer, with an enviable city service record. Others named include James A. Montgomery Senator John P. Brennan and Michael O Connor. Citizen's party fields no candidate while Arthur F. Blanchard runs for Progressive nomination.
In Chicago on February 15, Mrs. Adeline Saunders testified that a cheerful smile at her cigar and confectionery shop drew male customers and prosperity, but her husband accused the greeting of being improper. She was granted a divorce citing nagging and insults.
Mayor James M. Curley issued a statement asserting the promise to award the naval supply ship building contract to Charlestown over other yards. He argued that choosing any other yard would devalue Secretary Daniels’s word and imply political pressure overrides justice.
The mayor rebuts critics over claims his use of advance information influenced the award of a Boston navy yard supply ship contract. He cites a conference with Secretary Daniels promising Charlestown yard if revised Boston bids fall below the Naval Construction Board estimate. He argues breaking of this pledge would undermine trust and future work for Boston yards.
Somerville fire chief Chief Sewall Rich in his annual report recommends banning cigarettes from mercantile establishments and creating designated employee smoking areas. He cites numerous fires caused by careless smokers and urges stronger emphasis on preventing false alarms to keep fire apparatus available for real blazes.
In Kings Mountain North Carolina on Gus Huffstetler's farm a fox was seen up a tree attracting townsmen with dogs. The fox jumped down and led a half mile chase before being captured.
Miss Mary Carson executive secretary of the Political Equality Union tells a Post reporter that children should grow up amid suffrage influence. She also asserts President Wilson does not favor suffrage, recalling her mother’s early suffragette zeal and a Susan B. Anthony picture in the Pittsfield home.
Miss Carson advocates a broad democratic push for suffrage and urges reaching outside women’s clubs to mobilize support. She notes anti suffragists are often financially secure and stresses education via plays, novels, and moving pictures while criticizing President Wilson’s perceived indifference.
Revenue cutter Seminole picked up the distressed schooner Bayard Hopkins three miles west of Diamond Shoals at 3:30 this afternoon. One crewman injured and the vessel in bad shape after the recent storm. Seminole towing Hopkins to Beaufort.
The heaviest snow bills of the last four years confront Boston and the Boston Elevated Railway Company after last Saturday's storm. Officials estimate roughly sixty thousand dollars will be needed to remove the snow from the streets.
Large gangs of shovellers and a caravan of teams have labored since Saturday with overtime and Sunday work increasing expenses. A big force of pickers is needed to break through frozen, packed snow on street crossings, making the storm the costliest in four years.
The city used nearly 1700 men and about 500 teams plus four auto trucks for a snow clean up. About 400 workers and 16 teams were hired from private contractors. The sanitary street cleaning paving sewer and water divisions mobilized to have streets ready for business today as the railway hires many unemployed workers.
Four Waddell Mahon guards and a deputy sheriff were found guilty of manslaughter in the killing of Steve Patrick at Seeberville on August 14. Harry James was acquitted. Convicted: James Cooper Arthur Davis William Groff Edwin Polkinghorne. All but Polkinghorne were from New York.
Grasse France February 15 John Hu Harjes longtime partner in Morgan Harjes Co Paris died here today after weeks of illness. Family summoned from Paris on Friday. Harjes retired from active business in 1908.
A two alarm blaze at 30 Lexington Street, Everett, destroyed a two family wooden dwelling owned by Charles Dean. Fireman Leslie Fleet was injured by a falling chandelier while rescuing occupants. Nearby homes were set aflame by embers but all other residents escaped with help from police and neighbors. Meanwhile Old South Church raised funds for theological students with a surprise influx of bank notes as offerings.
The Carmania traveling from Liverpool to New York anchored outside Queenstown as the captain refused to enter the harbor. A tender could not venture out, delaying 1,000 sacks of mail and 1,000 passengers until the Olympic arrives on Thursday. The Arabic docked smoothly and took aboard its passengers.
At St. Peter's Episcopal in Ashtabula Ohio Bido a small black dog and 10 year regular Sunday school attendee was buried in a flower garden at his master's home. The dog, owned by 12 year old Ward Cross son of Dr. W C Cross, faithfully attended for a decade and always brought his penny.
In Michigantown Indiana Robert Goodnight cashier of the Michigantown Bank reports a Buff Bantam hen three years old that has never laid an egg. The bird sits on the nest cackles like others and has hatched and raised several broods from eggs laid by other hens.
Boston Associated Charities affirmed that attacks on Fred B. Johnson’s Connecticut record will not affect his appointment as Boston board head. Johnson will assume superintendent duties March 1 as planned despite a bitter Connecticut fight over his resignation and succession.
Mrs Kate Brownlee Sherwood wife of Ohio Congressman Isaac R Sherwood died in Washington after a third stroke she had lingered between life and death for days aged 72 Representatives Sherwood and a daughter remained at her bedside until the end
Milwaukee district attorney Yockey uses newspapers to locate the automobilist who killed Michael Keller on January 16. He asks every automobile owner to report their whereabouts on that day. noncompliant owners face subpoenas.
Patrick McQueeney aged 65 of 205 Harrison Avenue was found dead in bed by family early Sunday. Medical Examiner Waters notified. Death probably due to natural causes.
Boston residents Mrs. W F Garlick and others report relief from rheumatic pains backaches and nervous dizziness after using Dean's Kidney Pills. Cambridge painter W T King and South Boston resident Josephine Lee share recovery from back pain kidney weakness and pneumonia aftermath. Woburn man J C Whidden says three boxes cured weeks of terrible back ache and kidney issues.
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