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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1912
Page
9
School Board prohibits night dances for upper class pupils. Cadet regiments must hold any dancing events on Saturday afternoons if they occur. Officers voice dissatisfaction, but the board remains firm in its decision.
Mrs Helen Ney aged 29 of East Braintree and Mrs Grace Vincent 34 of 43 Union Park were arrested yesterday afternoon on shoplifting charges. Authorities say gloves bags shirts perfume and other items valued at 26 28 were stolen from downtown department stores by the pair.
Boston's 1911 death rate was 17.04 per 1000, lower than 1910's 17.18, per a Board of Health statement. Washington figures had given Boston a higher rate. the board questions potential error or bias and notes infant and under five mortality declines.
Washington Jan 4 With full military honors the body of Rear Admiral Robley D Evans will be buried at Arlington National Cemetery after a simple funeral at All Souls Unitarian Church. Prominent officials attend as the Paul Revere bell tolls and a gun caisson carries the casket to the gravesite.
Purchases until 12 o'clock noon at Wolf's My Clothier corner of Hanover and Portland Streets earn legal stamps. The offer applies to all items and runs for the stated period.
Lawrence F. Abbott of the Outlook Company announces that Colonel Theodore Roosevelt will not seek the presidency. The statement, issued in Cornwall-on-Hudson, reviews Roosevelt’s national political involvement over the past three years.
Transit Commission replies to Mayor Fitzgerald on Park Street subway platforms. Enlarging the platforms is under consideration to prevent danger to crowds, but past plans were blocked to protect elm trees between West Street and St Paul’s Church.
Fire log for a 24 hour period listing multiple incidents with times, addresses in South Boston Roxbury and Revere Street noting box numbers, names of locations such as Home for Aged Women Louise Freisz William Fraser John Shea A J Tower Co and damages recorded as $200 $25 and $1006.
A Syracuse salon run by Mr and Mrs Loftie touts a wrinkle removing treatment claimed to erase deep lines without plasters masks or steaming. Mrs Frances E B Loftie invites inquiries and a 2 cent stamp for details from 110 Loftie Building Syracuse NY.
Adeline R. Comstock of Boston wins a second chance to recover $10,000 from William E. Livingston. The Supreme Judicial Court granted a new trial yesterday on the note dated April 2, 1900.
Governor Foss announced plans to send a special legislative message urging a deeper investigation of vote buying in New Bedford. He will confer with Hon. David I. Walsh before drafting the message, referencing his inaugural address on the matter.
In discussing vote buying in New Bedford Governor Foss backs sworn statements of campaign expenses day before elections and penalties for late or hidden payments. He praises The Post and Mr Walsh for their investigations and says he will send a special legislative message on the matter. Local opinion credits the Post investigation with halting vote buying in the city.
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