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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1910
Page
5
Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor, told a House judiciary subcommittee that less than 2 percent of the hundred million dollars recovered in personal damages reached the intended recipients and urged passage of a new compensation law.
Mr Gompers warns that rising accidents and deaths from modern machinery outpace old laws. The Sabbath bill, modeled on British and German statutes, is debated with further hearings set for March 1e. Representatives from railroads and steamship firms question its constitutionality and practicality.
Kingston and Duxbury native Captain Henry Bartlett Maglathlin died after a several week illness at Kingston aged 41 He was a Harvard graduate who helped found the Silver Lake cooperative store in 1810 and led it for many years The obituary notes his status as a long time respected citizen and his early life in Duxbury
Representatives of automobile owners pressed for a federal licensing law to unify state rules. The Cocks bill would tax each car at five dollars, aiming to raise about one million dollars annually, while the American Automobile Association opposed horsepower based regulation.
In Laure Maryland on February 17 a bakery served doughnuts cooked with machine oil by mistake. About fifty people became violently ill from the tainted pastries and were treated locally.
A federal grand jury in Covington Kentucky indicted 13 men from Dry Ridge Kentucky for conspiracy in restraint of trade. John S Steers a member of the Kentucky State Legislature is among those named.
Mrs. Mary Louise Holland, claiming ties to a former governor and once affluent, was evicted from her Dorchester home at 22 Hancock street on Wednesday with her 17-year-old daughter. Neighbors shelter them as rain drenches the house contents. Friends arrange storage, and Mrs Edglebute of Magnolia street offers a temporary home which is accepted. Holland recently moved from Portland after spending much of her funds on her daughter's musical education.
Twenty one divorce petitions were heard by Judge Hardy with seventeen granted and four continued. All cases were uncontested on grounds of cruelty desertion or drunkenness. Wives testified of husbands with other partners or absent from home.
Judge Martin L. Bundy aged 93 and a survivor of the convention that launched the Republican party died in Newcastle Indiana. The longtime jurist had helped shape party history and was among its earliest supporters.
Marvellous Griffith wowed Harvard professors at Lever Hall as 40 mathematicians led by Professor Julian Coolidge and Professor Hugo Munsterburg watched his mental arithmetic. He solved a set of intricate problems and explained his method amid applause. He noted his record calculating compound interest on 1 cent at 6 percent since Christ, a claim tied to a vast coin field scenario.
Mayor Fitzgerald announced a new policy giving Boston firms priority when the city buys supplies. If a local firm is the second lowest bidder and a nonlocal firm is lowest, the local may win at the lowest price. The rule applies even if the Boston bid is slightly higher, aiming to prevent a Waltham firm from securing a big water department casting contract over a local supplier. The award had been made before the mayor could intervene.
Fire swept the Summer house of Eugene Aver in Kingston early today causing about 1500 dollars in damage presumed from an overheated furnace. Ayer was a partner in M. S. Ayer & Co. wholesale grocers of Boston where he resided.
An old advertisement touts Hyomei as a cure for catarrh cough cold sore throat and bronchitis. It claims the inhaler breathes the remedy directly to the membranes and offers a one dollar complete outfit with a life lasting inhaler and a money back guarantee.
Mrs. Mary Gormley of Lynn travels west to rejoin her husband, assured by Massachusetts authorities that the man she married is exonerated from all charges. The ruling places the case on file, allowing him to resume his honorable business career begun after arriving in Seattle.
Mrs. Gormley stood by her husband as he faced a past auto transaction inquiry. Boston inspectors found no grounds for charges after affidavits from Boston police and Seattle business leaders supported their clearance. The district attorney put the matter on file and the couple began life anew on the Pacific coast.
Patrolmen David Walsh and Cornelius Sheehan of Station 4 Cambridge were found technically guilty by Mayor William T Brooks after a morning hearing on charges of insolence and disrespect to a superior officer Chief Frederick B Pullen testified and the men, who served eight years, were placed on file with extenuating circumstances noted.
The Warren line freighter Sachem, Captain Alexander W. Murdock, reached Hoosac docks Charlestown at 8 30 am after a seven day voyage from Liverpool February 8 through furious gales. She carried 29 cattle 50 Dorset sheep six Shropshire pigs and a Scotch terrier worth 25000. The ship logged 560 tons of cargo including coal chalk china clay oilcake hides and cocoanut oil among others. One sheep died en route.
Washington February 17 The House may demand Peary show his proofs before awarding him the gold medal and thanks of Congress. Naval committee members diverge on granting honors to the pole discoverer.
One unnamed House leader opposes accepting Peary's pole proofs just because the National Geographical Society approved them. He accuses the society of prejudice and says Congress should see confirmation from other scientific bodies. Some members oppose donors to Peary and threaten to debate the issue on the floor.
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