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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1916
Page
20
A large turnout of women attended yesterday’s hearing on Susan E. Stevens’s bill before the committee on public institutions. The measure would create a commission to inspect and investigate public and private institutions in the state including convents, seminaries, and schools run by religious denominations.
East Boston suffered a double blaze as five empty tenements in Pearl Place were burned by an incendiary fire early today. Police say a vandal likely lit the fire in revenge, prompting evacuations and a second alarm as flames engulfed the remodelled wooden structures near Marginal Street.
Carrie Chapman Catt, injured in Providence, insists on finishing her New England suffrage tour. Despite orders to rest, she will deliver the Ford Hall address seated, at tonight's mass meeting presided by Joseph Walker with speakers Joseph F. O’Connell and Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. She will meet Bay State workers briefly at 393 Commonwealth Avenue before the event.
Members of the Boston Post editorial and advertising staffs held a dinner at the Hotel Lenox marking their first annual gathering. The evening featured home talent, topical songs, a mock trial, humorous speeches, and a miniature Post published for the banquet highlighting office news notes.
The Northern Pacific northbound North Coast Limited was stopped a mile and a half east of Covington, twenty five miles east of Seattle. Robbers uncoupled baggage and mail cars and forced the engine crew to haul them into a mountain forest. After the cars disappeared, passengers heard an explosion and it is believed the express safe was dynamited. Deputy sheriffs from Seattle spread in autos to hunt the robbers.
The Suffolk County Ancient Order of Hibernians thanks the Post for favorable treatment before their February 5, 1916 ball at Mechanics' Building. President Fred J. McLaughlin states 6000 men and 200 women were represented and a communication of appreciation will be read to all 60 divisions.
A whist party will be held tonight at St. Ambrose parish house Adams street Fields Corner to raise funds for the parish building. The event is expected to be highly successful with many prizes donated by parishioners.
Stanley W. Smith a retired Beacon Street banker will marry Nora Kathleen Johnstone, governess to his boyhood friend William R. Sears's children. Miss Johnstone hails from Antrim in Ireland, daughter of the late Hon. John Brett Johnstone. The March 4 wedding reveals a romance that captivated Back Bay society as a bachelor sought companionship for his friend's children.
More than 700 members of the Boston street carmen’s union packed Ford Hall for a mass meeting led by John H. Reardon of Detroit. He outlined the new wage scale to be presented to railroad officials before April 15 and described the broad scope of the agreement under advisement by committees. The session was among the union’s most important and was quickly conducted, with latecomers surprised to find the meeting adjourned around 10 o’clock.
Joseph Putter, two years old, pleaded guilty to setting 30 apartment house fires on New York City east side over two years. He was sent to Elmira reformatory after telling Judge Mulqueen he hoped to become a fireman and gain a hero’s reputation in fire rescues before his civil service exam.
Ada May Lane wife of John J Lane dies Feb 24 in the city. Interment Cedar Grove Cemetery Brooklyn. Brooklyn papers please copy. McKelvie Andrew Jr aged 20 dies Feb 23 Brighton. Funeral at home 81 Newton St Brighton Feb 26 2 PM. Simpson Mary A Feb 24 funeral from 129 Hancock St Cambridge Feb 26 2 PM. relatives invited.
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