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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1916
Page
3
Scoring a crowd of Newton passengers at Track 1 South station last evening, a train scheduled for 5 35 backed in and did not stop until its rear car 358 leaped the terminal post and crashed through the fence toward Riverside and way stations.
Waiting passengers retreat as a high wooden fence gives way before a car near the post office. The car misses the clock and injures none while splinters fly. Hundreds gather at the Plymouth division yard amid a blockade before the Riv erside train departs on Track 1 on time. Car 353 remains blocking the fence hole. wreckers seal Track 1 gate.
Dr. Charles H. Hood, president of H. P. Hood & Sons, announced the firm paid 88000 to employees under its efficiency profit sharing plan in the last year, the largest such payout in company history. He urged workers to boost earnings, improve milk use, and supported a cooperative plan with employee ownership and investment. He described an honor score card program costing 40000 annually to reward better milk quality and predicted strong business conditions ahead.
The 11th annual Blackmar Club reunion of G A R W R C 8 of V and D A held at the Hotel Vendome last night. Elected for the ensuing year were Colonel Payson Bradley of Boston president Mrs Nellie Libby of Lynn senior vice president Mrs Mary Allen of Brookline junior vice president Mrs Fannie Palmer of Medford secretary C Norcross of Brookline treasurer.
Defense in the William H. Orpet trial for the Marian Lambert death argues there was no third girl and that Orpet may not testify. The State will link poison and abortive medicine to Orpet, while the defense girds for a notably doubt-filled verdict as Orpet proclaims confidence in acquittal.
Investigators concluded after a day of work in Madison that Orpet had not been intimate with any girl there. A detective stated the hypothesis of a third girl is not a theory, asserting no such girl exists.
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