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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1914
Page
5
Arthur Bosworth was hanged at the Vermont State prison for the murder of Mae Labelle in June 1911. The drop occurred at 1 26 PM and he was pronounced dead at 1 43 PM. The prison physician said the neck was dislocated and death was instantaneous.
Witnesses say Bosworth died on the scaffold as the drop released and a clergyman read prayers. The execution followed three earlier Vermont hangings with rope problems and included a pacified scene where Bosworth shook hands with his spiritual adviser, the Rev Parker Manzer. About 40 prison personnel witnessed, along with 12 state citizens serving as legal witnesses.
The Lowell case aired before two Suffolk justices. Judge Sheldon granted a mandamus directing Lowell to obtain plans for a contagious hospital to treat tubercular patients as urged by the Attorney General. Judge Jenney deferred ruling on an equity motion seeking to bar the city from buying the Rivercliff road site for a hospital, setting the matter for next Tuesday.
Resolutions expressing grief over the death of Michael Morrison who served as treasurer of the Boston Central Branch United Irish League of America were adopted at a special executive committee meeting at league headquarters yesterday afternoon praising his work for the Irish cause in the United States.
The United Irish League of Boston attends the funeral of Michael Morrison at West Cedar street church, with a large calyx wreath sent to the family. The delegation meets at 9 15 a m and processes to St Joseph's Church for a 10 a m requiem.
Advertisement lists girls and misses coats and suits in plain, imported, and vel our fabrics with sizes 6 to 18, featuring markdowns from regular $12 to $60 ranges. Includes corduroy, broadcloth, cheviot, velvet and fur trimmed items, with prices from 3.00 to 22.50 and key color options. Note: mixed OCR errors present.
Captain John A. Fish of New York offered the yacht Senta for about 6000 a month before insuring her for 15000 after her harbor fire destruction on Oct 25 1910. A letter read to the U S District Court jury shows Fish sought a buyer via an agent claiming urgency to sell to fund purchase of another yacht. Malcolm McNaught valued the Senta at about 2800.
The Universalist Sabbath School Union begins its year with a Jan 21 meeting at West Somerville on The Social Life of the Class featuring speakers Frank L. Masgeck Walter Kelley Mrs Hendrick Wossema and Grace Cleveland. St Pauls Cathedral offers a seven evening January February study titled A Study of the Churchs Mission with ten courses open to the diocese.
South Boston friends arrange a reception and banquet for Lieutenant-Governor Edward J. Barry on inauguration night January 8 at the Elks Club on Somerset Street.
New York Jan 2 The Franklin bequest of 10000 to Boston to loan at five percent for young married artificers served as precedent in Orleans Mass to accept a 5000 gift from Mary E Pale Burke executors argued the bequest was too indefinite The surrogate court ruled against but appellate division reversed citing Franklin and Boston as authority
A cleaner at Cop ley Plaza found a bright object in dust and handed it to House Detective Perkins. The $1500 diamond corsage ornament lost by Mrs. Robert Jordan New Year's Eve was identified and returned to her immediately.
The Supreme Court docketed the first suit on the income tax law today. It appeals a Federal District Court of northern Illinois ruling that it lacked jurisdiction to hear Elsie DeWolfe versus Continental and Commercial Trust Company to stop payment of the tax on constitutional grounds. The court will limit review to jurisdictional questions and not the law's constitutionality.
Viscount Bryce says spelling simplification may precede solving religious instruction in schools. He advocates Bible education as essential, notes Bible knowledge waning in England and America, and supports American views that women make better teachers. He calls for teachers to base duties on religious principles.
The condition of Congressman Robert G. Bremner of New Jersey, undergoing radium treatment for cancer at a Baltimore sanitarium, was described today as gratifying. Radium tubes moved from the center to the outside of the growth as the treatment continues.
Conservative residents of Rockville Maryland known as Gretna Green for Washington and Virginia resent the notoriety as ministers boast of 265 eloping marriages in 1913. They call for an end to the practice.
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