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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1912
Page
14
Mayor Fitzgerald backs extensive city street improvements. On Saturday Francis R. Bangs of the Boston Real Estate Exchange and the Boston Street Commission reviewed plans that would cost about 81 million dollars if enacted.
Rhode Island Republicans declare they will back President Taft regardless of Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy. General Charles A. Wilson, head of the state central committee, says Roosevelt's bid changes nothing for the party locally.
William E. Soule notes a quiet market week with copper strength but little price movement. Bears remain bearish while bulls show only moderate optimism as distributions hint at a possible future decline amid high commodity prices.
The piece assesses a fragile economy with rampant real estate activity and costly rail funding while labor and debt markets tighten. Bulls claim a spring rise supported by minimal past speculation, high exports, and steady but weak industrial prices, yet foresee a decisive trend next week as activity and prices move.
Amalgamated Copper 1 3 per cent Homestake Mag 1 2 per cent Lehigh Valley R R com 10 per cent Lehigh Valley R R pfd 10 Pe cent North Penn R R 2 per cen Parrot Silver Copper 15 cents People's Gas Lt & Coke 138 4 per cent Del & Hudson Reading Co 1st pid United Cigar Mfrs ptd Meetings Kings Co Bleo Lt & Pr Sears Roebuck Co
Police revealed a bootlegging scheme when a coffin loaded with pint and half pint bottles of whiskey was found in a baggage car at the Midland Valley depot in Muskogee. An undertaker figure in a hearse hauled the coffin to Portmith then shifted to a grain car as a pretext.
The steam trawler Ripple carried about 70 000 pounds of haddock cod hake lemon sole and scrod while the O Hara Jr had 62 000 pounds of haddock cod hake and pollock. Both crews faced severe weather with fishing suspended last Wednesday night through Thursday. The Norwegian steamer Orland arrived with sugar for transfer to the Michigan which lagged two days behind schedule. The City of Augusta sighted a wreck 22 miles northeast of Cape Lookout but could not identify the vessel. Several schooners from Norfolk and Newport News arrived after storms. Foreign steamers lingered overdue with the Bostonian locked for today and the Erne wreck possibly sighted near her path.
Arrived list includes supply ship Celtic under Commander Hill at Guantanamo Cuba and multiple steamers and brigs such as Michigan Br Evans Liverpool Orland Nor West via Key West Esparia Lamberd Simon Boston Simms Yarmouth City of Augusta Dizer Savannah Howard Chase Norfolk etc. Tugs Ly kens Bengtsson with barges Preston Pocopson and others. multiple schooners and tugs noted among coastal ports and towages to various destinations.
More than eight thousand women attended the Passionist mission at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross starting with an opening service. The first week targets women, the second men, with 11:30am mass by Rev Father Alexis and last night by Rev Brother Cornelius. Masses are at 6 and 8am and 7:46pm, and the topic was The Importance of Laboring for Salvation.
Gloucester sailors report a dismasted three masted lumber laden vessel about 70 miles southeast by east of Cape Sable on February 18. The Kineo and crew confirm the sighting while locals compare it to a derelict schooner. the Bostonian may pass the wreck en route from Manchester, and the Cestrian was said to have sighted it last week.
A columnist argues the woman movement aims to end sex parasitism, claiming political suffrage is secondary. He traces parasitic roles to historical slavery and war, noting machinery reduced women's productive work to four home tasks and warning of future dependence on either industry or parasitism.
Miss Mary B Mason addressed the Humanist Society in Sheare's Hall on the dangers of female parasitism if ideals fail. She argued wages, independence, and motherhood must align with equal opportunities and broader life choices for women.
In Gloucester on February 26 the 14th annual Maine memorial exercises honored the sinking of the battleship Maine. About 1500 attendees included Company G Eighth Regiment M V M G A R and Sons of Veterans delegations. Speakers ranged from Major Isaac Patch to Frank G Thompson survivor.
In a Seventh Avenue building a man killed Mrs. Reine Weill and then shot himself. Mathilde Maupaume, the French maid, said Mrs. Weill planned to return to Paris and her husband there. The name of the assailant was not identified as police continued inquiry.
A reader letter argues compulsory arbitration is ineffective and calls for government supervision and investigation to resolve disputes between mill workers and shipyard longshoremen. The writer blames employers and appeals to women to pressure owners, citing historical reforms and the humanity of workers. Address: Angelica B. Post, Springfield Street, Boston.
Mary Garden avoided reporters and refused to discuss her roles or views upon Marguerite as she arrived in Boston. Edmond Clement stars in Faust tonight with two more operas this week including Samson et Dalila and Werther making New Dalila debut by Mme. Gervil Reache after her Tristan influence.
Alice Stone Blackwell of Dorchester argues that suffrage is a duty not a right and questions claims duties differ by gender. She notes duties like truth telling, paying taxes, obeying laws, and Christian virtues apply to both sexes, urging merit over dogma in voting rights.
Santiago Padre an 18 year old Spanish youth reached Boston after stowing away on the fruit steamer Esparta from Port Lom on Costa Rica. A practical joke misled him to believe the ship sailed for Spain before he was found hiding among ropes.
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