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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1913
Page
5
A tale of six months in a cave where Scott party readers repeat a Dickens volume as they endure a sunless, desolate world. Voices from the book return to brighten their loneliness, guiding each man to dream of warmth, love, and renewal in humanity’s harsh margins.
Long obituary chronicles Joaquin Miller the Poet of the Sierras detailing his life from Oregon to California, his works including Songs of the Sierras and Life Among the Modocs, his marriage, wartime travels as a war correspondent, and later years as a recluse in Oakland. The piece notes his striking attire, health battles, and final years, with references to his mother’s death, widow Minnie Myrtle, and daughter.
The suffrage movement spirit reaches Wellesley College where students protest the cut to social activities ending at 9:45 PM. They aim to extend evening hours, reflecting ongoing push for broader social liberties amid the era.
About half the student body signs a petition urging the college to move the good night hour to 10 45 pm. A second petition asks Boston & Albany to alter its timetable so the Framingham to Boston express stops at the station, replacing the 11 20 pm arrival. For years hosts tell guests they must depart by 9 45 pm, provoking annual protests with little effect.
Sixteen Chinamen arrested in a raid at 21 Tyler Street pleaded guilty to gaming before Judge Burke in Police Court. They were fined five dollars each and paid their fines from large rolls they carried.
Thomas Carroll, 50, of Mattapan, lies on the dangerous list at City Hospital after a fall last night while attempting to walk up a runway into a barn behind 171 Oakland Street. He sustained a fractured skull in the incident.
A fragmented 1870 poem venerates the Sierra Nevada and Pacific Northwest landscapes. It recalls sunland seas and Shasta Hood Saint Helens and Hood as symbols, and ends with the exhortation Sail on to endure, achieve, and gain a world.
A dramatic nautical verse excerpt features a weary crew aboard a ship near the Azores and Hercules gates. The admiral rallys the mates urging perseverance as mutiny and exhaustion rise while the sea darkly looms and the dawn promises a tense, uncertain horizon.
The Irish Charitable Society will hold its annual banquet on Saturday evening March 15 at the Copley Plaza Hotel, moving from March 17 due to Holy Week. St Patrick's Day falls on Monday, and many members object to a banquet then. The annual meeting will occur on St Patrick's Day with officer elections. Fourty four new members were elected. officers include President Dr. B A Brickley and Vice President John A Kiggen with other posts listed.
The marine signal for fire sounded last night in the waterfront district. Engine 47, a fireboat from Boston Tow Boat Co., responded to the steamship North Haden of the Eastern Steamship Co. at Long Wharf. An overheated smokestack caused a blaze in the hold, quickly knocked down by the fireboat crew with $50 in damage.
Readers commend Eimer' & Amend's 2851 as a relief and say reliable druggists carry it. Advertisement notes the remedy's effectiveness and availability through trusted pharmacies.
A blaze began at 10 30 tonight in the Wright building at Central and Prescott streets Lowell gutting Sunlight Shoe Store J A Philion jeweler and Lull Hartford drugstore. The brick five story structure suffered complete losses in furnishings. Fire under control about an hour later with no casualties or cause determined.
The scene of the battle of Dakota Dan Russell for a name and a fortune has moved to Suffolk county. He sues Home Savings Bank of Boston to recover a deposit he says his father Daniel Russell placed there for his benefit.
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