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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1915
Page
16
The State Board of Labor and Industries mails forms to every physician to report occupational diseases with high death rates such as lead brass phosphorus arsenic and mercury poisoning. Dr. Thomas F Harrington signs the circular directing the data collection to minimize occupational disease.
A near finished life sized oil portrait of Frank B. Sanborn known as the Sage of Concord and defender of negro rights. The work is by Cloyd L. Boykin, an artist who is a son of slave parents.
The Sanborn Portrait Fund Committee, organized by colored citizens, will present the portrait to the Bostonian Society on July 24. The artist is to be paid 1000 for the painting, which will hang publicly in the society rooms after the presentation. Treasurer Rev O P Gifford of Brookline coordinates appeals praising the subject as a revered longtime defender. The work, two months in progress, involved Sanborn posing at Boykin’s Dartmouth Street studio.
Boston business men will hear S. S. Brill, government special agent, discuss South American trade conditions and methods. Brill has sold goods in all South American countries for over 25 years. The Chamber of Commerce has offered two committee rooms for the this afternoon talk attracting a large attendance.
Merile L. Hartshorn, a sailor, admitted manslaughter charges in the Suffolk Superior Criminal Court for the death of John F. Evans the Evans House West End after a dispute at the hotel. Judge Brown delayed sentencing until the next day as Hartshorn remained in custody.
NEW BEDFORD July 12 Textile Council voting to take the first week of August as a vacation may shut down every textile mill in the city. The decision comes after the Manufacturers Association refused a one week vacation. The vote binds about 80 to 90 percent of the 30 000 operatives, making continued operation unlikely.
John R. Lawson labor leader convicted of murder in strike disorder cases was denied a new trial by Judge Granby Hillyer in the District Court. He received life with hard labor in the State penitentiary.
Lawson read a lengthy statement claiming a coronation controlled prosecution and calling the trial a travesty of justice. Judge Hillyer pronounced sentence as a tense court listened. Lawson, a former labor leader, was convicted May 3 of first degree murder in the 1913 Nimmo deputy sheriff killing during a strike clash. Attorneys requested time to file exceptions and a stay of execution, but bond was denied and Lawson was jailed.
James J. Phelan argues baggage declarations are burdensome and calls for liability limits and optional insurance. He recounts lengthy waits at North and South station checkrooms and criticizes the current law rather than staff.
The Boston Floating Hospital sailed down the harbor on a mercy mission funded by the Boston Newsboys' Union which voted 100 dollars for a named night. Benjamin Robrish, secretary, inspected the ship and stated union boys would visit the hospital as a group on a Sunday night soon.
Mrs Oskar Bergh of New York pursued a burglar from a hotel suite across five flights of stairs after finding him there with Mrs Richard Bagnell. The man, later named Philadelphia John Murray, tossed a brick during the pursuit but was captured by bystanders and turned over to officers for arraignment.
Edison proposes a civilian advisory board of engineers to assess feasibility of wartime innovations and a department of experimentation with a nominal land fee. The plan aims to mobilize American ingenuity for submarine warfare and other naval needs amid the European conflict.
Perlin Cambridge native James Morton Edward Mylius, an American, was arrested in Berlin for alleged socialist propaganda but released on condition of exile after American envoy James W. Gerard intervened. He declined further appeals, citing government policy. Mylius, once connected to English and Paris libel cases, previously faced deportation from the United States before being allowed entry. He is the son of Robertson James of Cambridge, Mass., and a nephew of the late Harvard psychologist William James.
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