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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1911
Page
7
P H F Smith known as the unmoved moral broker on the Stock Exchange faced a playful crowd. A group of about 30 women visitors from the Daughters of the International Tile Makers teased him by kissing him, pinning badges as they carried him to the gallery.
Despite a denial from Erasmus Hall High School principal Dr. Walter B. Gunnison, students loudly object to lunch room fare. They demand pie in the basement sanctum and other meals, criticizing the only option of simple sandwiches.
Sacramento reports Special Inspector Herbert Gunn finds hookworm widespread in California and Nevada mines with 50 to 80 percent of miners affected. He notes Jackson and Sutter creeks, Amador County, and Virginia City as hotspots and urges making hookworm a reportable disease.
In Savannah on February 16 Miss Dora Harrison of Evergreen Louisiana walked from New York toward Tampa Florida to lose weight and win 1009 dollars. After 43 days she reached Savannah and reported losing about 40 pounds from starting 175 pounds to about 135. She plans to return on horseback using part of the prize.
Milwaukee dispatch reports the 1911 Wiltzius Catholic Directory shows 14 618 761 Roman Catholics in the United States not counting Puerto Rico Hawaii or the Philippines with the Catholic Church operating 17 084 priests 13 461 churches 4 972 parochial schools serving 1 270 181 students and 225 boys colleges 696 girls academies and 82 seminaries.
Inspectors exonerate Captain Francis Hammond of the tug Lykens in the Cape Cod disaster but fault his judgment for attempting to round Peaked Hill bars on January 10. Barges Corbin Trevorton and Pine Forest were lost with 17 men drowned. cause of detachment remains undetermined.
The British tramp steamer Silvia is missing after departing Baltimore December 31 with 3000 tons of coal for Preston and Banes Cuba. Sighted near the Virginia Capes January 1, no further contact. Severe gales after sailing may have caused her to founder. crew feared lost.
In Plainville Connecticut on February 16, six year old John Linquist accidentally discharged a revolver belonging to their father, killing his two and a half year old sister Mary Linquist instantly at their home.
At a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall this evening the Boston Pan-Hellenic Union hosts speakers urging Crete's freedom. Expected speakers include Mayor Fitzgerald President W Huntington of Boston University Rabbie Charles Fleischer and several community leaders from Brown and Boston University.
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor sends a circular to all labor organizations requesting help to raise a half million dollars. The fund would aid workers in Los Angeles to defend their rights and liberties as organized labor men.
John B. Mullin of Dorchester was elected by the Boston College senior class at a meeting yesterday to serve as editor in chief of the 1911 year book.
A monkey overturned an oil heater in the winter quarters of a small railroad circus at Orwigsburg causing a fire that destroyed all circus paraphernalia. A cage with monkeys and apes, trained dogs, snakes, and several horses burned. one horse survived. The owner was in Wilkes-Barre arranging additions to the show for a South tour.
Captain W A Swan dies at 206 Shurtleff Street Chelsea. He commanded the Charlestown Artillery Association when Lincoln called for troops in 1861 and fought at Bull Run. He belonged to the Charlestown Artillery Veteran Association.
Francis J. Wood of Somerville was sentenced to one year and a day in East Cambridge jail and fined $1 by Judge Dodge in U S District Court for perjury in the Kelcher case. Kelcher helped abet George W. Coleman in misapplying funds of the National City Bank of Cambridge.
Wood, a Shawmut avenue grocer, was sentenced for perjury tied to a $200 check in a National Bank misappropriation case. Judge Dodge stressed the seriousness of perjury and noted the public harm in corrupting justice, comparing to longer sentences for similar crimes.
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