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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1911
Page
2
The House adopted a rule to cut debate to 40 minutes and bar amendments when two-thirds vote triggers. It targeted the omnibus war claims bill, a House substitute for a Senate bill, which was quickly passed, excluding French spoliation and navy yard overtime claims.
The rule requires two-thirds to invoke and to pass any bill under suspension. Democrats argued the safeguard prevents minority blockage and can compel bills to be improved. The rule aimed to end useless filibusters rather than merely act as a steamroller. The naval bill resumed under ordinary rules and calls for repealing the eight four clause in private shipbuilding and construction of two battleships.
Aronson's two Boston stores, at 365 and 228 Washington, drew large crowds despite a storm as prices on a vast Dudley Shoe Co. purchase attracted buyers. The dealer, a pioneer of cut price shoes, touted 30 000 pairs in stock across calfskin gun metal patent leather and more, forecasting a history making retail shoe event.
The Contractors and Builders Association of Boston held its 45th annual banquet at the Quincy House with about 150 attendees. Toastmaster John A. Rooney led the program, featuring Payson McDonald, John Sweeney Martin, William Caddigan, John T. Scully, A. van Buren, and others in dances, readings, songs, and poems. The group voiced support for better suburban fire protection and urged extending Boston fire limits, naming a committee to lobby the Legislature. Officers listed include Walter F. Burk president, H. P. Cummings vice president, and T. F. Harrigan secretary.
Government troops recaptured Ouana minth from rebels then plundered and burned the town of Cape Haitien. In the assault residents were killed, including an 18 year old son of French citizen Jean Prosperi whose home was burned.
Mr and Mrs Alonzo K Quimby of St Johnsbury Vermont this week marked their sixtieth wedding anniversary in a family observance. The couple have lived in the town for decades and are noted members of the local community.
In Waterford and St Johnsbury, Mr. Alonzo K. Quimby and Miss Nellie Ann Cheney observed the 60th anniversary of their marriage. Quimby also celebrated his 84th birthday. They live with daughter Mrs. Walter Kellogg and have three grandchildren. A coincidence ties dates among the family.
A desert spoonful of Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna is praised as a natural laxative that warms and tones internal organs without weakening them. The dosage suits all ages and only genuine California Fig Co. products bear the name on the package front.
A nor’easter holds Boston shipping in place as steamers fight the storm. The Merchants and Miners Howard arrives five hours late at Battery wharf after a rough crossing from Baltimore, while the Marquette from Antwerp misses its ticked arrival. Tugboats turn back after reaching Boston light and several ships remain berthed. Near zero temps are reported in Minnesota. Nantucket endures heavy snow within the storm's reach.
A fire broke out in the New Jersey in drydock No 2 at the navy yard near Pier 8. Sailors and marines fought the blaze with shipboard fire drills, with outside aid limited to two steamers. The vessel remains in seaworthy condition, with 800 crew, 300 on site, and alterations mainly to the turret underway.
Buster Brown of Yar mouthville Maine weighs 33 pounds and measures 27 inches from ears to tail tip. The maltese gray Angora breed cat is famed for opening doors with his paw and greeting his mistress Mrs Lydia Chaisson with a pussy cat kiss. He loves a basket bed and waits daily for his owner to return.
Ex Mayor Clarence O. Walker of Malden aged 63 died at his home 79 Dexter street following a brief illness. He served as mayor in 1895 and earlier as Ward 3 councillor, later three years on the board of aldermen. A founder of the Malden Y M C A, he is survived by a wife and four children. Born in Portsmouth New Hampshire he moved to Malden in 1888 and joined a Boston coal firm.
The Hitchcock quarry in Quincy produced the region’s largest block weighing nearly 70 tons. It measures 10 by 9 12 by 6 feet 10 inches and required 16 horses and a reinforced dray to move it to the railroad station. Hoisted from 200 feet depth by a 100 horsepower machine under John J. Dillon, it was brought up in about 3 12 minutes before shipment to New York.
Citizens led by George N. Nichols urged Lynn to petition the State Gas and Ethrie Commissioners to fix gas at 55 cents per thousand cubic feet. The current rate is 80 cents with a planned five cent reduction on April 1, aiming for the lowest city gas price in the state.
The Rev E Clayton Wyand of the Evangelical Alliance Church for the Deaf writes the Post defending his public speaking abilities. He notes his role with the National Association of the Deaf and his select status to address both deaf and hearing audiences. Plans are made for him to preach in a public service accessible to churchgoers.
William N. Young, longtime Boston contractor and former president of Mechanics' Charitable Association, died suddenly of heart disease at Broadway and Sycamore streets in Somerville. Born Provincetown 1881, he befriended Lincoln in Bloomington in 1856 and later worked as a loss adjuster and building ordinancer. He leaves a daughter Vera NY Young and half brother Dr J T Crocker.
In Belmont, Democrats and Republicans held a joint caucus at the Town Hall to renominate the current Board of Selectmen after weeks of dispute. F Alexander Chandler, defeated, accuses Chairman George C. Flett of bias toward railroad officials over the Waverley grade crossing issue, a battle two years in the making that has touched Flett's family with a serious injury to his daughter and a fatality to his son in law on the crossing.
The Rev James Sheerin of Warren Ohio has accepted the call to be rector of St Matthew's Episcopal Church in South Boston and will begin duties on April 1 He was born in Scotland and is a Columbia and Kenyon College graduate From 1904 to 1909 he served as rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd Clinton Massachusetts
A health notice stresses kidney importance for overall health and cites Brights disease deaths in New York in 1909. It promotes Dr Kilmer's Swamp Root as a remedy and offers a free sample by mail, with bottles sold at 50 cents and one dollar.
Three passengers were killed and two others fatally injured in a wreck of an Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train near Stillwater Oklahoma. The dead include Dr. Alfred W. Love of Greenfield and two unidentified women.
Mrs Laura Gilman Sweet of Malden was granted a divorce from Everett Fletcher Sweet of Malden by Judge Bell in the Divorce Court East Cambridge. She testified that detectives traced him to a Boston hotel where he was found with an unknown woman on Saturday Oct 1 1910.
Miss Clara A Dearborn of Tilton New Hampshire reports severe dyspepsia relieved by Hood’s Sarsaparilla boosting appetite and digestion. The notice also mentions a solemn requiem mass at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Wednesday February 22 at 9 o'clock for cathedral choir members.
Dozens of death notices from East Boston to Somerville specify names such as Samuel Ducloe Katherine Finneran Catherine Foppiano Katherine L Fox William H Frye Catherine G Hawkes Edward Morse Michael Murray James O Rourke Robert Rodden John Sullivan Adam Tait Florence Thompson Mary A Williams and William N Young. Each entry notes residence, date of death, funeral details church mass times and burial locations with relatives invited.
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