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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1912
Page
5
Princeton New Jersey January 11 Dr John Grier Hibben Stuart professor of logic elected president of Princeton University by the board of trustees He succeeds Woodrow Wilson who resigned the presidency in the fall of 1909 to run for Governor of New Jersey
Advertisement notes rapid action of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets to aid digestion and reduce gas. It claims the tablets act like extra stomach juice, are harmless, and digest food unaided. Sold by druggists nationwide. trial package offered via F A Stuart Co Marshall Michigan.
Edwin Dooley and Alice Corcoran were rescued from a second floor blaze by their mothers. Mrs Dooley ran half a mile to City Hospital with Edwin after finding his bassinette on fire. Doctors revived her en route and said Edwin, though burned on hands and face, would likely recover.
Firemen saved an elderly man and woman from a fire on Dudley street early today. They were led from the second story window in their night clothes as the blaze gutted the dwelling, with damage estimated at 1000 dollars.
Between 300000000 and 400000000 in cash and securities were moved intact from the vaults of two financial institutions after the Equitable Life building blaze. The action followed the Tuesday destruction of the Equitable headquarter quarters in New York.
Fire ruins and police escort reveal heist of hundreds of millions in securities from Equitable Trust and Mercantile Trust vaults. Boxes carried by clerks and wagons, crowds gather as investigators face ice cement and blocked doors. Battalion Chief Walsh among the debris as fire crews work to reach the third and fourth floors.
Four suspects, three women and one man, were arrested on shoplifting charges yesterday afternoon. Eva Schultz 27 and Katherine Ryan with listed Dorchester addresses face larceny charges for a $5 waist and a $29.75 fur muff respectively. Ora Young 38 of South Boston is charged with fur glove larceny. accompanied by Alonzo Finn 34, South Boston, accused pickpocket. Inspectors Burr and Smith led the arrests after trailing the group through multiple stores.
Amy G Willis, 60, of 1832 Dorchester Ave Dorchester was severely burned when a kerosene lamp exploded as she carried it to admit a caller. Her aunt Nanomie Deverson, an invalid, could not aid. Fire was extinguished by Willis and the 15 year old daughter Marjorie Hill who covered the flames with a blanket. Mrs Hill was also burned.
Mrs. Jane P. Hill of 86 Winthrop Park Quincy is in serious condition after sustaining burns yesterday while thawing water pipes in her cellar.
Henry O Howes, a Boston leather merchant, surprised by a burglar at his residence 165 Ivy Street last night. The intruder fled through a second floor window as police arrived. nothing was taken.
New York reports Cardinal Farley will preside at the first ceremony since his elevation. He will unite Miss Marion Edith Regan, daughter of Mr and Mrs James B Regan, with William Gunther Gardner British vice consul in New York. The wedding is set for February 14 at the Church of the Holy Innocents on West Thirty seventh street. Cardinal Farley returns January 16 to finalize plans.
Representatives Breath and Kiernan of Chelsea will present a bill to the Legislature today for a tunnel from Chelsea to Boston built by the Boston Transit Commission with cost shared by both cities. The design includes sidewalks and a roadway for teams beside the tracks for electric cars, Chelsea square to Haymarket square connection, linking to the existing subway system, with appeals to the Supreme Court if costs are deemed excessive.
Papers filed in Suffolk County Probate Court reveal Sheriff Frederick H. Seavey left an estate valued at 140000. The sole surviving relative is his sister Mrs. Belle A. Floyd.
Boston chamber of commerce directors announced opposition to the merger of Eastern Steamship, Metropolitan Steamship of Maine, and Maine Steamship. They rejected the financial plan for issuing stock and bonds, noting the updated proposal halves common stock to 3.075 million and uses 3 million of 6 percent preferred stock and 8.5 million of 5 percent mortgage bonds.
Walter J. Perkins of the central post office is elected president of the Boston Letter Carriers Mutual Benefit Association. John T. Cass of Fenway station is vice president, Charles H. Norton of central post office secretary, P. A. Cunningham of Essex street station treasurer. G. F. Marden of South station and Herbert Appleton of South Boston are trustees.
A vintage advertisement touts a homemade blood tonic made from sugar, alcohol, and hardene promising clearer skin and stronger vitality. It also promotes pyroxin for longer lashes and brows, quinzoin and almozoin tonics for scalp and hair health, a facial cream-jelly for skin clarity, and a crystal eye tonic claimed to ease eye strain and sharpen vision.
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