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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1912
Page
14
Celia Camarass an 11 year old who arrived on the White Star liner Arabic is detained at the immigration station in Providence and threatened with deportation next week due to trachoma. Her family from Leeds England came to America five years ago and had planned a reunion at their Providence home.
President Taft enters his prize White House cow Pauline Wayne in the Pennsylvania State Cattle Show Association event at the Polo Grounds Devon Pennsylvania on September 19 and 20. Taft serves as honorary president of the association and made Pauline Wayne the first entry.
The Rev. Thomas Maher, founder and vice-president treasurer of St. Marys College at Van Buren, died suddenly of a shock in the parlor of St. Marys parochial residence in Biddeford Missouri. He was born in Ireland 65 years ago and had summers in Biddeford since 1895.
Helen Gould's letter criticizing Rev. Elmer E. Huffner's call to exile "old maids" to a barren island appears to gain ministers' approval in Boston. The issue arose just before Huffner's resignation as pastor of the First Christian Church of Grand Junction Colorado.
Boston clergy members praise bachelor maidens for vital church work and charitable effort, arguing their availability and enthusiasm prevent distress. Some ministers urge individual choice on marriage, while others caution against sweeping generalizations about singleness.
Telephone operators held an all day vote to seek a conference with President Jasper Keller on night shift hours. They elected an executive committee and delegates to the Central Labor Union, adding 58 new members. Delegates named include Ethel L. Hyman and Mary F. McCarthy. The committee seeks a 7 pm to 7 am night shift and an eight hour day for day workers with a 15 minute rest. Ballots were counted after midnight.
Judge Pierce issued a temporary injunction restraining Frank H. Deering from interfering with the person or property of his wife Ida J. Deering. The bill in equity, filed by Mrs. Deering, notes they have lived apart since September and that he trespassed on property at 334 Auburndale avenue.
Fresno Dan testified in East Cambridge before Master Gilbert A. Pevey recalling cemetery scenes, Moody household sites, a campfire, and names tied to his family and Melrose, with notes from Gould and Park. He described trips through Melrose in 1910, funerals, and a 1881 California trip as part of a will contest record.
Supreme Court judge dismissed without prejudice the motion by W. R. Scharton for Dakota Dan Russell against the Russell estate. The motion sought to direct the master G. A. A. Pevey to report evidence to the court without findings and to appoint a stenographer. The court noted no funds for stenographers unless parties provide, allowed master報 report if funds are supplied, and left appeal rights intact for rulings of law.
A quiet movement aims to tighten ties across the Western Hemisphere with a large pan American conference, possibly in Washington. It would include five international lawyers from each republic to reduce regional tension and war risk, with a Spanish edition of the Carnegie Endowment circulating to governments.
At close of business July 2 deposits with Cosmopolitan Trust Company at 76 Devonshire Street Boston reached 1 000 117 93 dollars. The bank has been operating less than four months and its staff speaks seventeen languages to provide personal attention to depositors and foreign customers.
An advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as a wholesome tonice a delicious drink claims to ease tiredness from heat overwork or insomnia and offers a refreshing remedy for summer fatigue.
Mrs. Robert Graham Delano a wealthy North Rochester resident was found drowned in Marion harbor after eluding relatives and being detained in New Bedford last week. Police call it death by own action. she had worn trousers and a sweater, and told officers her name was Tom Jones.
Jeremiah E. Bowen aged 38 was found unconscious in a yard at 30 Milford Street and died at City Hospital. Officials say he fell about 20 feet from a window of the Milford Street house while attempting to open it. Bowen had been staying at the New Marlboro Hotel on Washington Street owned by his brother, ex-Alderman Patrick Bowen.
Edward Malway a deck hand on the guard raft of the steamer Belfast jumped overboard at 16 mph between Rockland and Camden to save his hand from being crushed while releasing a jammed cable. He swam over a half mile before rescue by a lifeboat and was saved after freeing the cable from the forward freight deck.
The Sovereign Sanctuary Egyptian Masonic Rite of Memphis filed a bill in equity in the Superior Court against Darius Wilson and Nettie F. M. Wilson of Foxboro and W. L. Dayton of Mansfield. The petition asks for appointment of a receiver for the organization real estate and trust funds, removal of the Wilsons as trustees, and an injunction against Dayton to prevent transfers to anyone other than the receiver.
Complainants allege that on April 8 1909 the Wilsons conveyed two Foxboro parcels to a corporation for a Masoned home under a trust to be managed by a two member board. They claim the Wilsons mismanaged funds and treated the trust as personal property. On June 28 the Wilsons allegedly transferred the trust property to W L Dayton in conspiracy to cheat the organization.
Mrs. Clare Perkins, Frederick Patterson, and Patrick Walsh, former household staff of Nicholas J. McNamara, are jailed on grand larceny and fugitive from justice charges after San Francisco police traced a stolen touring car to them in New York. Mrs. McNamara and her two children were present. tickets show plans to sail for Germany August 3.
Metropolitan Park police target Revere Beach stalls in a drive against games like rolling ball and tivoli. Special Justice Samuel R. Cutler finds Martin J. Claman guilty of maintaining a gaming nuisance and fines him $50 after Detective Sergeant Maurice Finn testimony. The ruling signals further beach closures to remove such venues.
Vincent Burton a 15 year old West Indian colored boy stowed away on the fruit steamer Banes from Banes Cuba. He hid four days aboard until his groans from banana consumption drew attention and officers found him.
Burton, a plantation worker seeking easy money in America, hid in a sail locker aboard the Banes the day before departure. He survived on bread water and bananas as he dodged discovery until a sailor found his legs protruding from a burlap bag. He was reassigned to the cook's galley and likely to be sent back home.
Police circulated cards showing Edward Miller and Doris J. Bessom after they eloped from East Providence. Miller, 17, is wanted on a $400 embezzlement charge from American Electrical Works in Phillipsdale, with checks sent to the company from Worcester.
Saint Cyr France July 26 Lieutenant Louis A L M Mauger Devarennes with a telegraph operator tested wireless telegraphy between a flying aeroplane and fixed stations. The aeroplane carried a small wireless apparatus and conducted several flights over the military camp.
Hampton Virginia July 26 National Association of Colored Women convention elected Mrs Booker T Washington as president and Mrs Tone EB Gibbs of Minneapolis Minnesota as vice president at large. About three hundred delegates attended the convention discussing uplift work by negro women's clubs nationwide.
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