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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1912
Page
7
Boston Society for Helping Destitute Mothers and Infants reports a baby farm unearthed in Providence Rhode Island. Agents say babies were for sale at 25 to 50 dollars each and subjected to drugging cruelty poor clothing and feeding and various abuses.
Agents and Providence police raid a Providence slum house housing seven babies with minimal clothing and no proper bedding. The owner, using a false name, faced accusations of attempting to sell infants for 60 dollars while another baby’s mother had placed her child for adoption in exchange for imagined luxuries.
Greater Boston cities and towns resist uniting with Boston on the metropolitan plan bill until assured of retaining self government, officials from those localities told a City Club meeting last evening.
More than 300 mayors, selectmen, council members and editors gather to hear the Metro polita Plan Commission proposal. Critics fear loss of self-government and higher taxes, while supporters cite regional benefits and shared infrastructure projects in Boston Cambridge and surrounding towns.
Big Bill Keliher loses circuit court bid for a new trial and his attorney Harvey H. Pratt plans to appeal to the U S Supreme Court. The 18 year sentence in Charlestown State Prison stems from aiding George W Coleman in misapplying 300000 of National City Bank Cambridge funds.
Ruth M. Brett of Malden and Jesse G. Zim wed after a private elopement in St Augustine Florida. The couple faced interference from Coloruse the fruit pedler who led the bride to a sister's house. arrests for abduction and stubborn child followed until Judge Pratt granted consent and discharged the pair.
Judge Putnam disclosed the Court of Appeals refusal for a new trial and the Suffolk Supreme Judicial Court's demurrer dismissal in the Bates receiver case. Kelcher, detained in East Cambridge jail for 11 months with $50,000 bail denied, faced a grim day as securities and jewelry claimed by the bank were referenced. Attorney Pratt notified Kelcher of the rulings. Kelcher expressed disappointment and asked what comes next.
Miss Brett daughter of Mr and Mrs George Brett of Baldwin Malden married Mr Zim in the South two months after meeting her vocal teacher Madame Philips of Boston Miss Eunice Manuey served as maid of honor Gard Oliveros acted as best man The couple plan to live in St Augustine
Alfred A. Reardon and Effie Hasson plan to marry at last after Reardon vanished 12 days before a scheduled April 15 1910 wedding and returned with a memory lapse. They will wed Wednesday and live in Dorchester. Separately in Malden a five day waiting law spurred postponement fears for Minnie Matt and Louis Wlachinetsky until Judge Bruce permitted a Sunday counted day. In Quincy Judge Pratt helped Pasquale Coloruse marry Joséphine Bova daughter of Cassimone Bova after age concerns were resolved.
An old advertisement touts Bromo Quinine laxative with the slogan used the world over to cure a cold in one day and features the signature of EF W Grove. It markets the product at 25e.
In Teheran on January 12 the Belgian ex-director of Persian customs M Mornd took control of the treasury offices and rejected honoring F F Cairns the American placed in charge by W Morgan Shuster. The cabinet warned of dismissal or punishment for further delays in handing over the treasury.
Charles Edwin Jennings a prominent real estate figure in this city and Everett died at his Linden street home after a brief illness aged 58 He is survived by his widow two sons and a daughter One son is connected with the law office of General Charles W Bartlett
In Indianapolis on January 12 the grand jury reviewed how Ortie F. McManigal carried explosives and a time fuse through Pittsburg and Buffalo meeting men who chose or planned open shop bombings. Photographs of blown sites sent to John J. McNamara were shown during the dynamite conspiracy probe.
Witnesses from Buffalo and Pittsburgh questioned about McManigal's role in a series of blasts. The confessed dynamiter says he visited Buffalo in July 1908 and blew up a bridge after being pressured by an unnamed man in Chicago. McNamara, as secretary treasurer of the Iron Workers union, allegedly funded and supervised the tying of photographs to the dynamite scheme.
Four aviators sworn as deputy sheriffs flew into the Calabasas mountain country to hunt two suspects who wounded a deputy sheriff in San Fernando, after cars could not pursue. Glynn Martin Howard Gill Philip Parmalee and Clifford Tirpin undertook the search today.
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