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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 09, 1914
Page
5
Harvard students face stalled laundry as local firms shift to cash on delivery for the final week of term. Credit customers wait for remittances from home while others sell textbooks and winter gear to raise funds. laundries refuse to deliver until accounts are settled.
In London on June 8 the slogan let them die gains popularity as a government move to indemnify prison authorities over suffragettes starving in custody. Clergymen favor the proposal while some MPs and peers dismiss it as preposterous. mixed views on forcible feeding are also reported.
An Estes Park brochure promises a perfect getaway with mountain climbs golf tennis boating fishing camping and scenic drives. The note invites readers to request a detailed folder and map from Alex Stocks New England Pass Agent at C B Q R I Boston with contact details.
Captain W O Perry of Portland and his three crewmen from the Annie R Lewis were rescued by the Gloucester fishing schooner Monitor after their schooner foundered off the Nova Scotia coast. The crew survived a day at sea in a yawl following a gale that ripped seams and flooded the hold. The Annie R Lewis, built Bucksport Maine 1873 at 171 tons gross, carried a cargo of laths from Bridgewater Nova Scotia to New Haven and is insured.
Harvard considers creating a bureau through which professors can supply the State with technical information at little cost. The Harvard Crimson urged establishment of such a bureau to mobilize leaders in economics government science and related fields to serve the State when called upon. The idea echoes MIT alumni council proposals for a similar bureau of Technology professors.
Miss Mary L. Hall aged 66 from 468 Columbia road Dorchester married Edward F. Chapin 70 of Chicago at the bride's home. The couple had known each other years with Chapin visiting Dorchester from Brookline decades ago. Miss Hall is the daughter of the long serving Rev Nathaniel Hall parish pastor.
In Chicago, Miss Hall and Chapin renewed an old friendship and were married yesterday by Rev. Roger Forbes. Mrs. C. H. Washburn, the bride’s sister, served as bridesmaid while Horace Dwight Chapin of 60 Beacon Street attended the groom. Lucia Knapp was flower girl as Chapin’s daughters and the bride’s sisters attended.
Bernard B. Marshall, a pneumatic tube operator at the Dorchester postal station, was arrested Saturday night on larceny from the mails charges and pleaded not guilty at arraignment before US Commissioner Hayes. He was held in $500 bail for June 10 hearing. unable to post bail, he was committed to East Cambridge jail.
United States postoffice inspectors pursue broader leads after the arrest of J. W. Hartze for alleged chicken fraud. Hartze admitted using a false name, advertised chickens for sale, and failed to ship after payment. He was arraigned and held for a June 11 hearing.
An advertisement promises a genuine Laxa tive Bromo Quinine to cure a cold in one day. It directs readers to call for the full name and look for the signature of E. W. Grove and offers the remedy for 25e.
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