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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1912
Page
7
A Red Sox rooter nicknamed Rooter was arrested amid a 500 strong crowd in Maron street. Mounted police created space as inspectors Burr and Smith joined the fracas, Rooter striking at officers before being hustled into a wagon to end the mêlée.
Mr Reuter led a large cheering crowd on Tremont Street as the Bester team appeared to hold its own. The scene drew laughter and applause from bystanders including an officer from Lagrange Street station.
Gloucester notes a tax rate increase to 19.49 per 100 dollars valuation, despite city property valuation rising over 1,000,000. Assessors announce the highest rate since incorporation except for one prior, marking a 40 cent hike over 1911.
Miss Isabelle D Armand organized the Too Much Too Little Club at a Touraine dinner and was named president in a distinctive theatre world gathering.
Miss D Armand stands four feet five inches with Art Bowen six feet five and a half inches tall and weighing 180 pounds while Jewell Boyd is six feet tall and weighs 320. The club meets annually and members pay or receive sums based on height and weight changes. Bowen notes trouble in sleeping in short beds and Boyd complains about clothes shopping.
An advertisement touts a free booklet by Dr W S Rice of Adams New York offering a simple safe method to cure all ruptures including inguinal femoral and umbilical. It promises permanent relief and seeks readers to request the plain wrapper book with no obligation to buy.
Miss D'Armand described heat as the least of her troubles, finding no one willing to walk with her became more humiliating, and the worst moment was when attendants brought hassocks so her feet could reach the floor.
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania on July 3 a strike began with about 1000 miners and laborers downing tools in the Wyoming Valley. Five hundred Susquehanna workers at Nanticoke left job after several men refused to join the union. The United Mine Workers edict requires underground workers to join to reap operator benefits. At Butler colliery Pittston 59 miners quit after a slate picker was discharged.
The Rev. Paul Dugal C SS R son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Dugal of Huntington Avenue Roxbury who was ordained at Esopus New York will say his first mass in the Mission Church Roxbury this morning at 8 o clock The ordination was performed by Rt Rev Thomas F Cusack auxiliary bishop of New York
Berlin reports a German Arctic expedition led by Lieutenant Schroeder Strang will begin in June 1913 for a three to four year voyage to explore the Northeast Passage north of Europe and Asia linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
Pittsfield notes the total tax levy for the year is 68219 24 dollars. The Crane family bears 42041 00 of the levy and Senator Crane is assessed 3620 00.
The 27th annual National Amateur Press Association opened at the Hotel Brunswick with nearly 50 new members elected in the morning session. Delegates toured the city in the afternoon as the convention continues through Friday, with entertainment coordinated by a long committee.
Several hundred reports of accidents to workers have arrived in three days since the Industrial Accident Board began under Governor Foss. Employers must file within 48 hours of an accident, and the board expects about 50 000 reports in the first year. No compensation claims yet due to the six month window and requirement of incapacity beyond two weeks.
Spiros Maheros, 0 year old, is held on manslaughter charges in the death of Saltos Garifados, 25, following an altercation last night. Authorities say Garifados died at Lynn Hospital from a fractured skull caused by a blow to the jaw. Maheros admits striking twice but denies knocking him down.
George W. Whitford of 446 Lowell Street, an employee at the Amoskeag Manufacturing power station, was caught in a belt and dragged around the shaft several times before the machinery was halted. He sustained extensive cuts and bruises and is not expected to live.
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