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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1913
Page
3
All store departments join in a January clearance sale offering deep price cuts across merchandise. The ad promises remarkable value, with prices so low a dollar’s buying power nearly doubles. Legal Stamps Inc price tickets are applied to each purchase.
Isaac Satters entered the Robinson home with a drawn revolver aiming to kill the entire household after a broken engagement with Miss Hill. He fired at John Robinson, wrestled for the weapon, and was captured after a half hour struggle as neighbors alerted police.
The news item notes Miss Mary W Hill refusing a marriage proposal on the eve of a planned union. Mr Hill faced a surprising turn as the engagement did not proceed, leaving family and friends to consider future arrangements and possible social repercussions.
Dr Edward H Nichols medical assistant of the Harvard football team questioned a reported breakthrough by Dr Alexis Carrel at the Rockefeller Institute claiming cuts could heal in one day and broken bones in four. Nichols cited his experience with injuries to challenge the claim.
A preliminary Journal of Experimental Medicine piece outlines Carrel experiments since 1907 at the Institute on artificial healing of injured tissues. It claims secretions from glands like the thyroid accelerate tissue growth and predicts cuts could heal in under 24 hours and leg fractures in four to five days, though work so far is in animals or isolated tissues.
Mulhausen Germany Jan 3 Arthur Faller piloting a five passenger bi plane exceeded the world duration flight record by five seconds with a time of one hour six minutes and five seconds The previous record holder Henri Molla set one hour six minutes at Douay France on Jan 28 1912
The question of the husband who wed Emma McLaughlin, a cabaret favorite and former Lynn and Boston resident, puzzles her Greater Boston friends. Despatches from New York Patterson New Jersey and Bridgeport fuel the speculation about his identity.
Emma McLaughlin known as Trixie Clarendon wed in Bridgeport on New Year's Eve with Mayor Wilson officiating and the bridegroom claiming to be Archie Babcock Jr of Paterson New Jersey. Officials report conflicting family histories and a lack of verification while the bride preserves her financial claim from the union.
Manager Clark of the company mentions a soubrette role for next season. Last night the performer quipped that the soubrette life suits her, adding her husband may wait while she pursues duties in show business.
Dennis Flynn, 24, of 2 Williams Street Roxbury, is reported missing by Roxbury Crossing police. His wife and 13 month old baby are left destitute. A freight handler who lost work in East Boston before Christmas reportedly kissed his wife goodbye before New Year and said he would search for work and not return if unsuccessful. Mrs Flynn fears he may have died by his own hand.
Jacob Rosen, 18, of 14 Seneca Street, wins the Boston Newsboys Club scholarship a 40 week Burdett College program in any department. Rosen, one of seven children, graduated Brimmer Grammar School in 1908 and the High School of Commerce four years later after eight years selling papers at the South Station Essex Street entrance. He is one of seven children and will study at Burdett College under the Newsboys Club award.
In Probate Court Judge Grant allows letters written by Mrs. Whitney to be admitted as evidence in her separate support petition against Alfred Whitney. The judge notes she remains Whitney's wife and mother of his child. Settlement offers $12.50 per week for support. custody of their son to be decided later in the divorce case.
Two trainmen died and about 20 passengers were injured when a New Orleans Mobile and Chicago passenger train plunged through a trestle at Leaf Mississippi late today. Thirteen African American passengers in one car were badly hurt. A relief train was sent from Mobile.
President Taft commuted the five year sentence of Lee F. Smith after his guilty plea to embezzling from East Worcester National Bank. Smith, who repaid $1000 and surrendered, received one year and one day with good behavior allowances. Court records show he stole $2125, with the act dated June 2 in Binghamton New York.
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