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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1917
Page
12
State police pursue two men linked to alleged plot to blow up the State House. A cordon surrounds the Capitol and guards are stationed at entrances and corridors. Police insist the building is not in danger.
Detectives questioned the man who notified authorities of a potential danger to the State House. Officials say no real threat or plot is found, but guards were increased and entrances monitored after a reliable citizen overheard talk of a plot to blow up the Capitol. Pedrick and state police pledged caution to protect occupants.
The Neal Treatment claims to sober drinkers in three days in homelike surroundings or at home. It emphasizes easy safe and sure recovery with confidential consultation and no charge for initial advice from the Neal Institute at 304 Newbury St Boston.
Samuel Fuller aged 92, holder of the Boston Post cane, died at Bridgton Missouri after a short illness. He was formerly a prominent textile man at Lowell and Lawrence and a 32d degree Mason member of the Massachusetts Consistory.
Boston Licensing Board proposals to ban treating and to prohibit refilling bottles with altered labels were reported adversely by the legislative committee on legal affairs. The committee also rejected licensing all who dispense liquor and will refer the label change measure to the next Legislature. In New York, the Stock Exchange adopted resolutions condemning practices by brokerage houses using reporters to gain advance or confidential information.
The Chicago School Board orders a weekly flag salute for all 375000 public school pupils. The first observance occurs next Monday with the pledge, one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all.
Construction of a government wireless plant at Tutuila completes a direct link between the Samoan Islands and the United States for the first time since acquisition. The Tutuila station connects to Honolulu and from there to San Diego, California, forming a continental wireless chain.
The American Society of Landscape Architects voted at its Boston meeting to launch a publicity campaign against billboard advertising. The group plans to push the issue to the Legislature later. Representatives from New York Boston Buffalo Rochester and Amherst attended.
C Julius Huntley proprietor of the Hotel Landor and his clerk John Birmingham were fined $100 each for disorderly house conduct. They appealed. George Yung a laundryman testified a young woman he dined with at the hotel took his $80, of which $30 was recovered after she dropped it.
Mrs Maydora L Harper of Berlin New Hampshire has filed a libel for divorce against her husband Henry H Harper a Boylston Street publisher alleging infidelity with Marguerite Young of Minneapolis. The couple wed in Temple Texas on December 2 1893 and lived in Winthrop Berlin and Boston. She cites infidelity between September 1 1916 and February 1 1917 in New York and notes their two children. Neighbors had long suspected marital trouble though townspeople questioned the rumor of a woman in the case.
Massachusetts legislature favors a bill reported by the legal affairs committee to amend medicine law by adding the word spiritualist after Christian Science. The measure would recognize spiritualism as an official healing cult and extend state recognition for a practice spiritualists have pursued for years.
Washington Feb 16 Representative Walsh of Massachusetts filed a minority report with the House judiciary committee on the proposed national prohibition amendment. He argued against turning the Constitution into a criminal statute and noted the Webb Kenyon decision allows nationwide prohibition through legislative action with federal and state enforcement.
The Canadian Club of Boston hosts a midday luncheon at Parker House on Monday with guests of honor Lieutenant-General Sir Sam Hughes Brigadier-General Sir Henry Mill Pellatt and Mr Norman Somerville. A gala Canadian Club banquet follows at the Copley Plaza that evening with addresses by Canadian leaders Governor McCall Curley and others. A pre luncheon reception at 12 30 offers a handshake with the honored guests.
Harris Bottlestone aged 68 of 485 Revere Street Revere is believed to have died by his own actions yesterday afternoon at his residence. Despondency from ill health is cited as the motive while he used a tube attached to a chandelier to inhale gas in his room.
In Worcester on February 16 the Coughlin Wilson Electric Co was ordered to pay Miss Blanche Penhallegon 314.25 for a gray costume she wore while demonstrating automobiles. The jury waived Superior Court session heard she was told to dress entirely in gray and later told her services were not needed.
Representatives Abbott Wolcott Perrin and Brogan dissented and will fight in the House. The judiciary committee rejected Governor McCall's recommendation to abolish capital punishment, the first of his proposals to be turned down this year. The committee was unanimous on the recommendation itself but split on the bill.
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