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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1910
Page
3
Professor Jackson in the engineering department urged a salary raise for young instructors to 800 dollars at Harvard levels, arguing current pay of 500 dollars hampers marriage plans and may affect faculty quality. A Post reporter spoke to several instructors who supported a raise but wished to remain unnamed.
Plutano the four foot survivor of the Wild Men of Borneo mourns the death of his longtime manager and friend H A Wagner 82 who died recently. Wagner had cared for both Plutano and Waino who were exhibited worldwide after being secured in the Dutch East Indies. Plutano continues to search for his mentor as the family holds services at 297 Crescent Street.
John W. Koelch of Roslindale was sentenced by Judge Wait to 18 to 20 years for assaulting a young woman from West Roxbury returning home from a house party. The attack was described as brutal, leaving the victim under medical care with visible injuries. The judge remarked there would be no mercy for such a cruel crime.
Boston's Board of Assessors now has seven members. John Hi Donovan and Alonso F Andrews, previously on the board, become private citizens after the mayor signed city ordinances reducing the body from nine to seven. The mayor accepted Stoneman's resignation and indicated Andrews would be retained as one of the two assessors to be dispensed with least easily.
Washington reports a provision in the post office appropriation bill may bar mail delivery after June 30 1911 to residences lacking outside mail boxes. Carriers waste about 80 seconds per doorbell rise, and the measure aims to boost efficiency, reduce staff, and save potentially $400000 while requiring roughly $20000000 for new boxes at about $1 each.
William Dresher, a butcher's boy just under 25, was sentenced by Judge Foster to Lmbra Reformatory after admitting three marriages. The three women prosecutors cried as he was led away. Dresher claimed he could not help his actions.
At a February hearing before the House agriculture committee, grain market representatives urged against ending futures trading. Walter Fitch of the Chicago Board of Trade argued producers bear the risk, not other parties, and warned Congress might force Canada wheat imports to avert hunger.
Oscar Darling of Babylon Long Island, a civil engineer and inventor, becomes father of his eighth child at 65. He has 22 living children from two marriages, with 15 from the first wife and seven from the second before this birth, prompting large family reunions.
Washington Feb 18 The House bill requiring common carriers to file full accident reports with the Interstate Commerce Commission and authorize investigations was reported to the Senate after favorable action by the Senate committee on interstate commerce.
Representative R. O. Moon of Pennsylvania, Republican and chairman of the revision of laws committee, today introduced the administration bill on regulating court injunctions in Washington.
Mr Moon and Mr Taft debated a brief anti injunction measure that would require prior notice and a hearing before any federal court grants an injunction. It allows a seven day limit for a temporary restraining order issued without notice if irreparable injury appears likely.
The proposal distinguishes interlocutory and final injunctions and bans issue without notice or the chance to be heard. It also replaces vague preliminary injunctive practice with a formal restraining order as its proper title.
After holding the world's appendix record for four days, George Goss, former Yale athlete, yielded the honor to Howard Gould of Winthrop. Gould underwent appendectomy in Boston for an appendix six and seven eighths inches long. Goss had a six inch appendix removed last Monday.
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