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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
3
Miss Asenath Louise Magee of Brookline is awarded custody with adoption by William Arthur Mitchell, second husband of her mother, following a divorce from Charles Gilbert Magee as Judge Flint of the Norfolk Probate Court approves.
Three of the happiest people in Brookline today are Mr. and Mrs. William Arthur Mitchell and 11 year old Miss Asenath Louise Magee of 66 Marshall street. Little Asenath Magee is the daughter of Mrs. Mitchell and now the adopted daughter of Mr. Mitchell.
Judge Flint of the Probate Court in Norfolk County awarded custody to Mrs. Mitchell and allowed Charles Gilbert Magee to legally adopt Asenath after a five year court battle. The case traces back to Magee and Mitchell’s divorce in 1911 and subsequent remarriages.
Patrick Meehan arrived from Ireland as a boy and amassed a fortune of $679,499.55. The Suffolk County Probate Court filed the estate inventory showing $530,200 in real estate and $149,299.55 in personal property. Meehan lived in West Roxbury.
Horace Bates of Wilmington has been appointed by the school committee as principal of Maynard High School to fill the vacancy caused by Porter W. Averill’s resignation to accept a post in Auburn New York public schools.
Charles Sumner Bird announced he would take the stump for Hughes in Massachusetts. Doubts persist on Bird’s ability to rally the Bull Moose faction for the Republican candidate as Chester R. Lawrence contemplates running as the Progressive governor hopeful.
Lawrence heads the Progressive party faction opposed to any alliance with Republicans. He is Dudley Street Baptist Sunday School superintendent and prohibition advocate, and last year was their candidate for Lieutenant Governor. Bird supports Hughes, noting Roosevelt’s earlier line, and Langtry predicts a 75,000 vote victory for Hughes in Massachusetts.
Fairfield workers at J. A. Taylor foundry and Coulter and MacKenzie Company walk out for a minimum wage of 3.75 dollars a day. Bridgeport Screw Company men and boys stop work seeking shorter hours.
Edward Vearia, 17 months old, son of Mr and Mrs Emilio Vearia of 300 Chelsea Street East Boston, died yesterday at his parents home after being scalded last Tuesday when he pulled the breakfast table cover and upset a pot of hot coffee.
Ten crates containing 110 birds arrived at the Franklin Park Zoo bird house yesterday. It is the largest shipment in months, with most birds from Central and South America. Birds include finches mandarin ducks grosbeaks troopiers monkey-faced owls red sided pigeons and fancy geese on display soon.
Three Boston boys Kerney A. Delaney Walter F. Gallagher and Joseph D. Cass aimed to set a Boston to Quebec automobile record starting 4 30 am Tuesday and finishing 11 pm the same day They then planned a salmon fishing trip at Lake St John Saguenay River source They carried Governor McCalls best wishes to Quebecs governor and acted as messengers conditional on reaching Quebec that night.
President Wilson is understood to have picked John H. Clarke United States district judge at Cleveland for the Supreme Court seat vacated by Charles Evans Hughes. The decision narrowed to Clarke and Judge Victor Dowling of New York with Dowling still favored by some officials. Other New York candidates included Judge J T Jenks and Justice Morgan J O'Brien.
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