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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1910
Page
7
A large Boston hearing on House Bill 720 sought a new maximum wage for grammar and primary teachers. A crowd of committee members and curious observers filled the room as 1400 city teachers unified behind the $200,000 proposal, signaling strong support amid the meal and ceremony.
The Boston Banks and Banking Committee spent nearly four hours debating raising the maximum pay for grammar school teachers from 936 to 1200. George W. Anderson argued for higher wages citing purchasing power declines, while David A. Ellis endorsed the justice of the cause. James P. Magennis warned of tax implications and Anna Bancroft suggested poll tax enforcement linked to school certification.
Speakers relay figures from Secretary Mac Veagh on sustained price hikes for food and basics over ten years. Miss Eva L Morley laments teacher pay forcing frugal housing and dress, noting rooms on Joy street cost two dollars weekly while Myrtle street offers cheaper attic rooms and meal-ticket options.
In the Derby Assize Court Violet Gordon Charlesworth and her mother were each sentenced to five years penal servitude for obtaining money under false pretences and for fraudulently claiming Violet was an heiress to a great estate. The judge noted Violet's remarkable ingenuity and suggested proper use could have led to an honorable career.
Prisoners in the dock heard their sentences as Violet Gordon Charlesworth and her mother faced collapse. Charlesworth, famed for a supposed $2,500,000 fortune and debts to several firms including $50,000 to one broker, vanished last February amid rumors of a fatal crash near Penmaenmawr. Investigations proved the death rumor false, and she and her mother were later arrested at Oban, Scotland. Daughter of a mechanic with little formal schooling, her meteoric rise in high finance astonished contemporaries.
The Charity Club of distinguished Back Bay women meets this afternoon at 2 30 at the Hotel Vendome. The group focuses on social problems and aims to aid those affected by poverty and unemployment through charitable means.
Mrs Nettie E Shaw wife of James F Shaw of Boston former president of Boston Worcester Street Railway Company has filed a counter suit for absolute divorce New York city today officials say counsel for Mrs Shaw obtained a deposition from a bell boy at a New York hotel where the co respondent resided The bell boy refused to sign the deposition and has been ordered to appear in the Supreme Court on Friday to show cause
Senator Shaw filed for divorce naming H Keno Marble as co respondent after alleging his wife eloped to California in 198 with Marble who was once his chauffeur. He later allegedly recovered his son Eldridge, 10, in Santa Barbara and the divorce suit followed. Mrs Shaw’s counter action is expected to go to trial next month in Boston.
The House approved the Sherley bill to create a uniform national bankruptcy law. An amendment seeking a two year repeal post approval failed 91 to 166. Supporters included Tirrell Massachusetts Diekema Michigan and Sherley Kentucky while Bradley Georgia Clayton Alabama and Bartlett Georgia opposed any permanent law.
Feb. 23. Michael Denehy of Boston, 80 years old, was identified as the man who threw himself in front of a Boston and Maine train between Wamesit and Almont yesterday afternoon, dying on the tracks. He had been committed to the State Hospital at Tewksbury a week earlier and escaped from the institution yesterday.
In Kirksville Missouri on February 23 a warrant charging Dr Charles R Hull of Monroe City with murdering Professor J T Vaughan by strychnine poisoning was issued tonight by Justice J P Carruthers at the request of Prosecuting Attorney Reiger
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