24 Jan 1912
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1912
Page
1
A lively review extols a bright chic clever and clean love story. It praises the fresh plot and up-to-date appeal set chiefly in America, urging readers to discover the charming and fascinating serial.
In a Riviera English setting, Mademoiselle Lili receives a windfall from Paris after her father’s debts are settled, changing her view of life. At Brentpool’s flower show, Aunt Elizabeth obsesses over the new American beauty rumored to marry into high rank, while Lili notices the crowd’s fascination with the mysterious duchess-in-waiting.
Mrs Eunice Phelps asks Governor Foss and Council to spare Silas Phelps from the electric chair citing illness six children and alleged misstatements about the case. She plans to travel to Boston to plead at the Governor's Council session.
President Ward arrives and may close Devlin trade while Jack Johnson agrees to wrestle Frank Gotch. Cubs players Reulbach and McIntire are waived by all clubs. Salem New Hampshire track prepares for a major race from Readville with Cambridge Latin and Boston Latin hockey today. Cadets meet Saturday with many stars in a BA A invitation 3 mile. Yale basketball captain defeats Princeton.
About 150 employees in the Boston bath department are affected as the current fiscal year appropriation is exhausted. All staff except gymnasium and swimming instructors and boiler room engineers are placed on half time.
The bath department faced a projected $5000 overrun after a $226 000 request was cut to $186 000 plus $9 000. Last year's gymnasium opening and a harsh summer strained funds, risking fines of $1000 and imprisonment for trustees overrunning the allowance. A transfer is expected.
A cryptic 19th century style entry records time stamps at 2 16 A M and notes a day length of 9 hours 41 minutes with a 37 minute increase, marking the 24th day of the year and the 34th of winter, plus a light auto lamp time of 5 17.
Fair and colder in Boston and vicinity on Wednesday followed by fair conditions Thursday. Northwest to west winds expected at light to moderate strength across New England with similar temperatures.
A $100 blaze damaged the third floor of an apartment house at 126 Gold Street late yesterday afternoon. The fire started while children played with matches and the building, owned by Patrick Seavey, was occupied by Thomas Kelley.
The report describes high excitement as nurses organized patient movement to another building. Staff coordinated transfers and safeguards as patients were guided through the facility.
Fire broke out in the tower of Section 1 at the Danvers insane hospital early today. It spread rapidly through the roof before water could reach it, causing panic among violent wards and prompting alarms to the Danvers department.
Negotiations for a settlement of the great textile strike in Lawrence, carried on in Boston and locally, are claimed to be the crucial point in the industrial disturbance that has paralyzed mill works and kept the city in a state of terror for 11 days. Continued on Page 5-First Column.
Before apparatus arrived attendants moved patients from the A-3 tower area as smoke and flames spread. By 3 45 PM fire crews had the blaze under control though some patients may still be outside. The institution houses 1200 patients across 17 buildings with calm staff preventing panic.
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