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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1913
Page
2
The Harvard Lampoon released a multi colored baseball number criticizing the sport. It portrays baseball as a destroyer of private life a time waster and a monomaniacal game that Harvard men barely understand. It compares the nation wide obsession to fiddlesticks and notes the issue mirrors past popular humor numbers in sales.
Dorchester marks its 283d settlement anniversary with events across the town from morning to night. The Porchester celebration promises to surpass all previous Dorchester gatherings and to be remembered in the annals.
Night concert plan compares a band concert at Franklin Field with a Dorchester Club pop show and vaudeville act across Talbot Avenue. The event highlights two city entertainment venues offering different performances.
Dorchester residents led by Mayor Fitzgerald attend the Jefferson Club open house celebrating Dorchester Day. A garden party, midway fakirs, vaudeville, and dancing are planned on the grounds and in the club house. The main celebration includes a 9 o’clock parade and prize drill at Franklin Field with Dorchester High School cadets. A two hour vaudeville show for children is set for Saturday from 10 to 12 at Park Street and Dorchester Avenue, with tickets issued tonight at the Jefferson Club rooms.
Rot Roach, 29, a laborer, enraged by his wife’s disappearance, shot and killed his mother-in-law and sister-in-law and a 16 month old baby at his wife’s parents home. He fatally wounded another sister-in-law, then shot a Canton police officer in the leg and bit a man during a later arrest attempt.
President Wilson said Japan's latest note opens the way for very interesting and friendly negotiations. He would discuss the Tokio note orally with Ambassador Chinda and expects slow careful talks to obtain frank views from both nations. The naturalization issue may reach the courts, possibly via Japanese residents.
Judge Hardy of Suffolk Superior Court granted an injunction to execute Oliver Slade’s burial at Mt Hope Cemetery per his will directing interment with fellow Civil War veterans. Slade’s brothers Daniel and Moses Grimes had tried to halt the funeral, but the court ruled in favor of the executor’s plan.
Hanford Onnelly a motor truck driver was arrested for a minor theft and confessed to stealing eight thousand dollars worth of diamonds from Mrs. Philip James of Lake Forest Illinois during the fatal October Westport wreck. He was hailed as a wreck hero for assisting injured passengers and helping Mrs. James to safety. Detectives had pursued the case for months.
Senator Hitchcock of Nebraska today offered an anti-trust amendment to the Underwood tariff bill. It would levy a graduated additional tax on tobacco, cigars, cigarettes, and snuff, with the measure to gain scrutiny from the finance committee amid Attorney General McReynolds's suggestions.
Mrs Charles M Cabot of 297 Marlboro writes to the Mayor proposing a Fenway playground near the Perkins School at Cumberland and St Botolph streets. The Mothers Club would raise funds for a supervisor and a meeting with teachers is set for Monday June 9 to plan summer amusement and education for local children. The Mayor will meet the group at noon today.
The proposed Progressive excise tax would hit only a few large tobacco, cigar, cigarette, and snuff firms, starting above 80 000 000 pounds of tobacco or 4 000 000 pounds of snuff per year and rising with production. Senator Borah seeks tariff amendments to ban imports produced by children under 14 or under 16 working excessive hours, and those made with convict labor.
John E. Coughlin a blind ink eradicator peddler, was robbed of 200 dollars and deserted by his wife amid mounting hardship. He was forced from lodgings in the South End to 9 Upton street, unable to pay rent or buy supplies. Captain Driscoll appealed to newspapers for aid as Mrs Bertram sought help for the vulnerable man whose wife Louisa is being sought.
Automobile Legal Association hires motor cyclists to patrol main roads in Massachusetts Rhode Island and Southern New Hampshire. They will gather evidence against reckless drivers report horse drawn vehicles at night and assist members in accidents or tire trouble. The piece also promotes Billy Evans article in next Sunday's Post Magazine.
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