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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1913
Page
7
Nearly a dozen progressive Republicans held conferences to craft substitute schedules for the tariff bill. The group, led by Senators La Follette and Cummins, seeks changes to the wool item amid internal divisions in the GOP ranks.
In Washington the Progressive Republicans push to back the La Follette and Cummins substitutes as a means to shift Republican votes and attract Democrats from Wilson's tariff policy. Debates continued on chemical and mineral schedules with discussions of a Bristow like sugar tariff.
Judge Bruce of the Malden District Court placed on file the case of Angelo Porcearo an Italian immigrant who recently arrived in this country and was involved in clam digging on Sunday in the Everett marsh near the Charlestown line. The judge ruled the digging was not work when intended as a fishing trip.
An advertisement by G O Taylor promotes food grade whiskey with sealed bottles available widely.
Harry Stevens of East Boston sues United Button Company for 50000 dollars claiming injuries from a building elevator accident. He alleges the defendant, while renting space to New Can Company, retained control of the elevator causing the descent from near the top to the basement.
The Rev. A. P. Engstrom resigns after 12 years as pastor of the Swedish temple in Minneapolis. He will become pastor of the Swedish Congregational Church in Bridgeport, Connecticut. He has served a decade as president of the northwestern conference of Swedish ministers.
Mrs Woodrow Wilson and daughter Miss Jessie Wilson with her fiancé search houses in Pittsfield and Williamstown. Mr Sayre and his bride plan to move in next year. They visit ex President Carter and Williams College while exploring real estate and cottages in the college town.
The Old Colony Shoe and Leather Advertising Men's Association hosted an outing and supper at Nantasket with talks on advertising topics. Attendees included George W. Coleman Harry W. Fleming K A Fried Harry White A Erskine W T Card Forest N. Vincent W H Hennessey J E Small C A Sabine I Wendell Gammons C E Bosworth W S Kent W G Dennison Louis Hayden David Coes George Hill Charles Heald F Harold Tolman L D Morse C F Garniss Leonard Etherington Mr Eaton George W. Davidson and George Rand.
Three men named Tony Lorenzo Ralph Tossi and John Taconi must answer in court today on charges of conducting a lottery game at a picnic in Caledonian Grove yesterday afternoon. Police swooped on a ring tossing outfit as they began to operate. Lorenzo 22 of 87 North Margin Street Tossi 22 of 36 Lowell Street Taconi 21 of 36 Lowell Street provided addresses.
Thomas M. Geary, 26, of 63 Hobart Street Danvers, was captured by Police Inspectors Hart Conway and Shields after a lively chase through the South station and Beach street. He is charged with stealing Sidney B. Paine's suitcase while Paine bought a ticket to New York.
A Milton car struck a City Point trolley on Dorchester avenue extension near South station at 1:20 yesterday afternoon causing panic among sixty five passengers many women. George Schlicter 17 of 46 Thomas Park South Boston fractured leg four others lightly bruised.
Several passengers fled to the street as a collision occurred when the South Boston trolley slipped from the overheard wire while Milton car followed closely. The Milton conductor was adjusting his seat when the impact jolted cars, tearing the rear platform and wrecking roofs and headlights. Traffic paused about 15 minutes.
Three hours of heavy rain isolated St Johnsbury by blocking rail lines. The Boston and Maine line, Maine Central eastward, and St Johnsbury and Lake Champlain lines suffered washouts. Country roads were damaged and crops ruined by the torrents.
The steamer Diana with Donald MacMillan's Arctic expedition aboard finally arrived at St Johns N F two weeks after running ashore in Belle Isle Strait. Damaged, she will transfer cargo to her sister ship Erik for the voyage to Crocker Land under the American Geographical Society and New York Museum of Natural History.
Washington July 28 The Republican Caminetti filibuster shortened the House short-session record. The body met and adjourned in three minutes, after a four minute session on Saturday.
Silk sweaters dominate the season with one of a kind pieces priced 20 to 50 dollars and versatile styles for travel or leisure. Double faced Shetland, short and long lengths, and knit coats in navy gray red or white populate the collection alongside Heathdown sports coats and skirts exclusive to Filene’s Fifth Floor.
The unidentified middle aged man was found floating near Norwalk weighted by a radiator top tied with a handkerchief. A Providence June 14 newspaper, a steamer ticket from New York to Providence, a silver dollar with initials T. J. G., a woman’s portrait, a white handkerchief with I. E. B., and $2.94 were found on him. Burial ordered due to decomposition.
The Senate confirmed Frederic C. Penfield as ambassador to Austro Hungary James W Gerard as ambassador to Germany Joseph E Willard as minister to Spain Charles S Hartman as minister to Ecuador John W Davis as Solicitor General and Charles 5 Hamlin as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury along with various Treasury and judicial appointments in California.
James Puccia twenty one, a long sought fugitive from Deer Island escape two years ago, was overpowered by three Hanover Street patrolmen in Keith's alley North End yesterday. He had fled through many cities and was sent to Brookline Hospital for psychiatric evaluation.
The schooner Ned P. Walker from Boston went ashore at East Pass in a gale 80 miles east of Pensacola. The captain and crew reached Pensacola today reporting the vessel was nearly wrecked and its cargo of gear was taken from abandoned ships.
In Dallas on July 28 Miss Florence Brown aged 27 was found with her throat cut in a real estate office washroom. Within two hours 25 young white men were arrested in a general police round-up as suspects, held while identification was made.
Democrats on the House banking and currency committee extend talks by two weeks and plan a caucus on August 11 to act on a report of the pending currency bill. The chairman is instructed to call the caucus and withhold details of the meeting.
Fire found on the third floor of the Suquehanna Valley Home in Binghamton New York at 5 am. 160 inmates faced danger as two boys woke to smoke and raised the alarm. The blaze was in a linen closet and put out by older boys before firefighters arrived. damage labeled nominal.
Secretary of War L. M. Garrison Major General Leonard Wood and party inspected Forts Rocascrans and Pierce in San Diego today. The group was entertained by John D. Spreckels aboard the yacht Venetia and Garrison departed for Los Angeles this afternoon.
Vice Admiral Pasquale Leonardi Catolica resigned citing overwork from the Tripolitan war. Admiral Enrico Millo, famed for the raid on the Dardanelles, is named as his successor.
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