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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 21, 1911
Page
5
Citizens of Lynn including Mayor Connery challenge a State House petition labeling Lynn the third wickedest city in Massachusetts. The uproar follows the suggestion with locals insisting the city is unfairly slandered.
State House testimony cited Lynn civil and criminal court volume as proof of a busy but not criminal city. Officials including Deputy Chief Bartlett and Mayor Connery dismissed the notion that Lynn is wicked, calling the town clean and cosmopolitan with minimal crime.
In the House the judiciary committee reported leave to withdraw on a bill creating a third special justice for Lynn Police Court. The public service committee also reported a bill to place Lynn Police Court in class B of police courts.
A Newburyport bulldog was caught in the act of stealing and eating fresh eggs from A. L. Fowler’s hennery. The dog broke through a window and escaped after Mr. Fowler trapped it momentarily, ending the daily poultry loss.
An American magnate has offered £10,000 for Liszt's organ now owned by H. A. Smith of Leeds after a Weimar purchase. The Daily News notes Rome Budapest and Dresden museums had also shown interest but did not meet the price. A British Museum inquiry failed to materialize.
Mischa Elman the renowned Russian violinist offers a solo recital this afternoon at 2:30 in Symphony Hall. The program includes Goldmark suite for piano and violin Bruch Violin Concerto in D minor Handel Sonata in D Major Schubert solos and Elman arrangements concluding with a final piece.
The stork brought twin baby girls to Mrs. George Dowling at 4 High Street Chelsea. With three other children and the father out of work after five months of illness, the family is destitute. They had previously been burned out in the Chelsea fire while George Dowling ran a teaming business.
In Detroit on January 20 Richard Lara from Vinewood avenue was hospitalized in critical condition after a necktie pin pierced his chest while he sought to hit a high note in a family chorus. Doctors planned a second procedure to remove the pin as his mother broke the pin free from the breastbone. A prior operation failed to help. The piece notes a club protest against draping as medieval barbarism and a attempt to return to middle ages.
Burt W. Post of Mount Vernon, a carpenter, fell 320 feet from a house roof when scaffolding gave way. He arrived at Mount Vernon Hospital with a broken leg and a dislocated left thumb, joking that the incident makes him the original fall guy.
Hartford City man Daniel Bates 23 says his wife Mabel has deserted him and their child three times. In a Muncie newspaper notice he seeks a steady, nonjittery partner who will not gad around, declaring he is available and willing.
The Rev Maitland Alexander pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Pittsburg and his wealthy wife fund serum research for infantile paralysis. In Allegheny General Hospital he maintains sixty monkeys in the pathological department for daily blood exchanges with patients to find a cure.
The Plastic Club of Philadelphia unanimously condemned the draping of Barnard statues at the Harrisburg Capitol. President Sara Patterson sent resolutions and a protest letter to the Buildings Superintendent, arguing that clothing nude figures is desecration and would ruin the sculptor’s intended statues.
Charles H. Daly 20 brings his wife to Juvenile Court calling her corrigible. Judge De Lacy calls the charge against married women and commits the girl, 15, to the Sisters of the Good Shepherd for a year. The couple eloped to Rockville two years earlier.
Frank L. Bunnell a New York Chicago St. Louis Railway conductor received the entire $100000 estate of Jennie L. Schofield a rich widow after a polite bow at ticket handoff. The Howards challenged the will in Ohio and Indiana courts arguing unsound mind but the lower court ruling favoring Bunnell was affirmed on appeal.
Esther Dahkle of Buffalo aged 16 pleaded guilty to bigamy and was sent to the Western House of Refuge in Albion. She said her first marriage was a joke and the second a dare, both within the last six months.
George E. Davis aged 45 of 235 Pleasant street Malden was found dead in his bed yesterday. The medical examiner ruled accidental asphyxiation from a gas stove leak as he did not fully turn off the gas before sleep.
Dr. Hermon C. Bumpus resigned after ten years as director of the American Museum of Natural History amid a clash over scientific versus popular methods. He will become business manager at the University of Wisconsin as Henry Fairfield Osborn defends scientific administration.
The British freighter Dacre Castle returning from the Orient with a $1,000,000 cargo rode a 40 foot wall of water in a hurricane. Captain B W Smith and First Officer George Foy were injured on the flying bridge as the ship rode a deep trough and appeared to sink. The captain reported sighting a deep laden Spanish steamer heading for Philadelphia.
Belmont county Ohio investigators face two murder cases as a body with head and legs severed is recovered from the Ohio river near Bridgeport. A second man dies after being run over by a street car, his pockets turned inside out, suggesting robbery.
Hartford January 20 Miss Helen Scholde left the cast of The Master’s Masterpiece after refusing a kiss from her stage partner. Miss Aileen Flaven replaced her, forcing program corrections due to Scholde’s threat to cause trouble if her name remained on the cast list.
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