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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1913
Page
7
Charles Barker aged 65 was found dead in his bed yesterday afternoon by his landlady Mrs Delia Mulkern at 569 River Street Mattapan. Police reported no immediate signs of foul play.
Vera Virginia Sites of Newark Ohio recounts a long winter illness and six week bed rest. She credits Father John’s Medicine with rapid improvement and school attendance. The ad promotes the remedy as a pure wholesome non alcoholic doctor’s prescription for coughs colds and as a body builder.
Pierpont Morgan is rapidly recovering from his illness in Cairo. His son J Pierpont Morgan Jr arrived in Boston from New York and reported that the latest telegrams indicate the financier is doing finely.
John Pierpont Morgan arrives in Boston at 10 PM staying at the Hotel Bellevue Yak, accompanied by secretary Mr Bennett. He states the visit is solely for Harvard University overseers meeting and plans to return to New York that night. He is described as tall brisk and friendly with a dark gray suit and pink shirt.
Melbourne Feb 25 The new land in the South Polar region discovered by Dr Mawson will be named King George Fifth Land. Mawson sent a message to King through Lord Denman requesting permission to name the territory, which lies between Victoria Land and Adelie Land.
At the annual meeting of the Pierian Sodality of Harvard the club elected officers: President R. H. Anderson of Lynn, vice president H. A. Swan of Buffalo, secretary A. S. S. Coolidge of Pittsfield, manager Henry P. Briggs of Brookline, assistant manager Kenneth McIntosh of New York.
A special committee submitted a multi million dollar plan to Harvard Square Business Men Association Mayor Barry and Cambridge officials. It calls for a large hotel in Harvard square, widening Massachusetts avenue to 100 feet, reconfiguring street lines from Central to Harvard squares, widening Boylston and Quincy to Quincy square, escalators at the Harvard square subway, and banning moving picture houses and 10 cent theatres. The plan aims to raise Harvard square as a high class district with arcaded buildings and beneath sidewalks to accommodate college property and permanent structures.
The Hon. William L. Douglas ex Governor of Massachusetts hosted a dinner at the Royal Palm Hotel in Miami in honor of Mr and Mrs William Jennings Bryan. They will depart tomorrow for Washington to attend President Wilsons inauguration. The Massachusetts colony in Miami was well represented with 41 covers. The table was screened by palms and croton plants and featured a large electric set with red white and blue bulbs. A band of red hibiscus and poinsettia edged with maidenhair ferns decorated the center.
Mrs. Applebaum remains jailed in Atlanta awaiting grand jury inquiry into the shooting death of her husband J. A. Applebaum a Chicago traveling salesman. The motive is unclear with theories of both suicide and murder offered as possibilities.
At an inquest the woman described a quarrel and a death threat from Applebaum who demanded her diamond necklace at 2 am. A shot left two bullets in his arm and a chest wound. She fainted in the hallway and denied shooting him, while a guest corroborated parts of her statements. Applebaum’s history includes multiple marriages and a possible prior divorce.
French composer Louis Aubert arrives in Boston to oversee preparations for La Foret Bleue set to debut in America on March 5 at the Boston Opera House. At 30s, Aubert gains fame as a composer and pianist, praised by Paris critics, with ties to Debussy and Humperdinck’s fairy tale tradition.
Dr. Richard Cabot urged Boston residents to unite 7000 people to hire a physician group for yearly costs around five dollars. He spoke on Pressing Problems of Public Health at 6 Marlboro Street before the Committee on Public Health Among Women of the AMA and the Women's Municipal League Department of Public Health.
A speaker at the University of California argues for universal school health oversight with a small hospital service charging five dollars yearly per group, stressing preventive medicine and municipal treatment funding. He warns feeble-mindedness in public schools as a pressing risk, noting hereditary concerns and rising numbers.
A sealed verdict was returned at 11 45 last night in the Dow case. Stephen R Dow faced 92 counts of larceny totaling $300 000 from five mining companies after jurors had not agreed before night. The judge instructed that a sealed verdict could be opened if a decision was reached before morning.
A baby carriage burst into flame a frightened mother rushed outside with her infant to seek help. Fire alarm sounded and a runaway horse, spooked by the fire whistle, nearly collided with Hose 1 of the Malden department within ten minutes in Malden yesterday morning causing notable excitement in Faulkner.
Mayor-elect Charles Schumaker was sworn in before a large crowd at Malden City Hall by Judge Charles M. Bruce. He delivered an inaugural address and then presided over the Board of Aldermen session.
Harrison S. Dugan, 15, was discharged by Judge Wentworth in Somerville Police Court after arraignment on a manslaughter charge. He held the revolver that killed Frederick L. Evans, 17, in a tailor shop at 136 Pearl Street, Somerville. Dugan testified he did not intend to kill Evans and had been under medical care for the shock.
Marshall Texas February 25 Two negroes were lynched in Harrison County last night, discovered today. Near Elysian Fields a man named Anderson was hanged near Karnack Robert Perry charged with
A man named Perry was shot to death during a horse theft incident. George Redden, another man charged with horse stealings, was wounded in the leg by the men who killed Perry.
Members of the Boston Chamber of Commerce at the American House assembly heard a graphic description of the Isthmus of Panama project and San Francisco's canal opening celebrations. Dr Frederick Vining Fisher, manager of the exposition lecture bureau, spoke on the Panama Pacific event.
A short classified note requests Red Cross cough drops priced at 6c per box available at any location with unspecified distribution. The fragment appears as an old sale prompt urging readers to inquire or purchase without detailed terms.
A 25 cent package of Pape's Cold Compound claims to end grippe and break up severe colds when taken every two hours for three doses. It purports to relieve headache, feverishness, nasal congestion, sore throat, and rheumatic aches with no quinine and no bad after effects. Belongs in every home, tastes nice, acts gently.
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