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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1910
Page
4
Boston's Frank F. Crowley identified the two masted schooner George E. Prescott sunk in a Friday storm. He said the loss includes his father Captain E. D. Crowley of Jonesport Maine and three crew members.
Local legend holds the Prescott coaster sank with Captain Crowley presumed lost to the water. Crowley, age beyond fifty, had just returned from a 15 year retirement to pursue the sea, a fate mirroring past near misses and a brother’s death at sea last remembered in maritime lore.
The Carpenters District Council of Greater Boston plans to submit a 1910 wage scale to about 6000 members. It sets hourly rates for various trades including carpenters joiners shop carpenters cabinet makers moulders stock fixers and sawyers with a 44 hour week and a 48 hour ceiling for shop and mill workers plus a 5 pm daily cutoff and no Saturday afternoon work.
The Post Office Department has issued new postal cards in various colors and weights while keeping the same size. The cards are lighter and thinner with a harder finish and a larger stamp, yet they do not break or tear more easily than the old cards.
London reports an acute political crisis with Premier Asquith and the cabinet in daily sessions. A morning two hour cabinet meeting followed by a King’s audience and continued talks signal possible general elections within three months.
George M Barnes warns of Labour protest over veto before budget as Nationalists and Labourites plan possible amendments to address Asquith. Redmond fails to push demands amid unsatisfactory talks. Asquith seeks theatre relief while Liberal Conservative papers push unionist aid. O Connor argues tactics and revolutionary aims.
In early morning at Wellesley College a healthy eight pound baby cried from a dormitory basement wrapped in an underskirt. The mother, a college working woman, was later found and both were taken to a hospital.
The Citizens and Democrats of Revere nominate Captain Bill Daly for the Board of Selectmen with plans for outdoor physical training and a pay as you go policy plus tax rate reductions. Nominations list includes Roscoe Walsworth, Francis J. Barry, William Daly, and others for town offices and boards.
Cincinnati reports under 18 inches of snow as the heaviest fall in years. Southern and western Ohio towns see around 24 inches, snarling streets and travel conditions statewide.
Walter B. Grant a prominent El Paso attorney and trustee of the Frank B. Cotton estate plans eviction actions against over 100 Mexican squatters on the estate near the city center. Courts have progressed and sheriffs will accompany officers to remove them, amid heightened tensions and a boundary dispute drawing a Taft response.
Political circles watch as the Board of Civil Service Commissioners considers Mayor Fitzgerald’s nomination of Street Commissioner James A. Gallivan. The seven day table rule and past election wins frame the debate amid Back Bay land deal exposures and potential shifts in local and national candidacy.
Judge Albert D. Bosson held a historic bedside session at Rufus S. Frost Hospital to hear Frank Gallant who had been injured with a broken leg. Gallant charged Stanley Arsenault with assault and battery after an incident on Crescent Avenue.
General Kuropatkin, who after the Russo Japanese war turned to literature, is now drafting a new work titled Russia's Military Problems.
The Cecilia Society conducted by Wallace Goodrich staged Wolf Ferrari s Nuova Vita after Dante in Jordan Hall last evening. Soloists Mrs Frances Dunton Wood and Earl Cartwright led a fine cast with a boys chorus and Boston Symphony members joined by Alfred de Voto and Snow. The performance drew a fair audience and received high praise for its masterful writing and luminous color.
Angry Boston women accused unknown men and women of sending lurid comic valentines through the mails. Chief Lawrence Letherman of the post office inspectors staff took notes while the complainants forswore formal charges. One large woman demanded action and argued any fool could see the violation.
Vice President Sherman announced a select committee to investigate the rising cost of living. Senator Lodge chairs the group with Gallinger McCumber Smoot Crawford Simmons Clark of Arkansas among its members.
The erroneous report suggesting Sir Charles Wyndham would end his American tour in The Mollusc this week is denied. The 16 week tour by Charles Erdman continues, with a stop in Canada and a scheduled opening at the Colonial Theatre next Monday in Montreal.
In Sanford Maine February 17 17 year old Herman Corner son of James Corner disappeared during a blizzard while he hunted with a friend. The search fears he may perish from exposure or drown in the Danger Hole swamp near Lamb Hill. His companion returned to Sanford after the storm.
An old advertisement touts Diapepsin as a cure for indigestion and dyspepsia. It claims a single dose digests all eaten food, prevents fermentation and gas, and removes discomfort within five minutes, urging readers to buy a 50 cent case from their druggist.
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