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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1912
Page
3
Writer Jack London spoke at the Hotel Touraine to a Post reporter about his new book and reiterated his view that divorce is good in the current order of things.
Mr London spoke rapidly during a paid interview and smoked a full cigarette set while discussing divorce as a social and industrial city problem. He teased a new book titled Valley of the Moon about returning to the soil and country life healing city hurts. Meanwhile a violent chase unfolded as Micichi fled after a shooting, pursued through woods and by rail lines, with a police manhunt continuing at dawn. The wounded man is in Groton Hospital with slim chances of recovery. Micichi is a 30-year-old, 5'6" man described as smooth shaven and weighing 170 pounds.
A strong posse hunts Joseph Micichi of Boston after he shot Rosso Consuelo, fatally wounding him with two shots in a crowded West Groton house. Micichi forced entry, firing a .38 caliber pistol at Consuelo, who suffered a chest wound.
Mrs. W. M. Haywood of West Medford sustained serious injuries when a sleigh carrying her husband and Dr. William Gilbert of Bryant street Malden toppled on Pleasant street near Florence street after catching in streetcar tracks. The accident occurred about 3 30 yesterday afternoon.
John J. McDevitt, a guest of the Great White Way, arrived in Wilkes-Barre broke after a spree that left him with 1 dollar 53 cents. He spent 1.50 to a porter and three cents to a newsboy, then ate beans and coffee in a city lunch room before boasting of the takings. He plans to sleep in and then head to Waymart to begin another issue of his scrap book.
Vere Goldthwaite once a Chicago and Boston lawyer and son of a Wisconsin doctor died in Rochester New York. Born June 9 1870 in Evansville Wisconsin he rose from illiteracy to a noted lawyer and public speaker on women’s suffrage He studied at Boston University Law School and lived in Boston at 4 Concord Square with an office in the Old South Building He toured Europe and the West with a wild show and worked on street railways before turning to law He wrote on philosophy theology poetry and general literature and spoke on Are Women People He was connected to Susan B Anthony and Robert Ingersoll
Andrew Francis aged 9 of 1 Minden Street Roxbury was injured when his sled struck Fred Edwards's auto 402 Columbus Avenue Dorchester. He suffered severe head and facial contusions and was taken to City Hospital. Police say the boy was responsible for his injuries. first Roxbury coasting accident of winter.
The cold wave broke as the thermometer climbed from 1 degree below zero to 25 degrees above within 14 hours. Boston endured an unusually long deep freeze with an official average of 132.10 degrees since January 5, a record for the period.
A ten day cold snap in the Boston area caused widespread damage and many fatalities as ice on ponds broke up. Four boys fell into Dorchester Bay when the ice gave way, while coal deliveries resumed amid the thaw. Temperatures swung from 1 below zero to 25 above within hours, with similar warming trends across the region. Snow and lighter winds were forecast as warmer weather arrived.
Five Prince Edward Island born women and Miss Mary Harkness pooled resources to rent a seven room flat at 4 Worcester Street Belmont. They share rent and utilities, employ a weekly cleaner, operate a cook friendly cooperative with a well equipped kitchen, dining room, living room and four bedrooms, citing lower costs and homelike comfort while both pursuing work at Head Rubber Works in East Watertown.
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