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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1913
Page
3
Bargain buyers flock to Union Hat Co for the 54th semi annual sale with large discounts on hats shoes bags and coats. Extra sales staff assist crowds as prices drop on dhaki straw hats khaki shirts jackets trunks and travel gear across many departments.
The mayor dismisses superstitions about the 13th as unlucky. He notes no more distress on the 13th than any other day and recalls luck on 13th days. The verse describes ladders, table seating, salt, coffins, and symbolic rituals, implying superstition versus probability.
On Friday June 13 1913 Mayor Fitzgerald claims luck on the 13th and Governor Foss remains busy with legislative matters. A few hundred thousand citizens continue superstitions like walking under ladders spilling salt and crossing funeral processions despite the hoodoo fears.
Mayor Fitzgerald urges optimism and lacks ill luck on the day while residents debate fate. J W Neely cites historical Friday events from Washington to London as examples of mixed luck. A Middletown pastor offers free weddings to bold couples to mark the date amid steady business activity statewide.
Five suspended San Francisco officers offered to plead guilty to conspiracy with banco men if the sentence of fellow officer Frank Esola for grand larceny is lightened. District Attorney Fickert said the offer, which would yield six months instead of a year and drop all felony charges, has not been accepted.
The annual dinner of the Harvard Engineering Society and the Associated Harvard Engineers is set for Wednesday evening, June 18, at the Harvard Union. Principal speakers include Professor J. I. King of Columbia on Mountaineering in the Far West and Dr. B. H. Chuan, former physician to the Chinese minister at Tibet, on A Glimpse of Tibet.
The Belmont Park Associates comprising Noddle Island residents will hold a flag raising and a band concert in Belmont square East Boston tonight.
The event on Fort Strong grounds features Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution participants including an oration by Representative John J. Douglass. Children from three Protestant and two Catholic schools sing patriotic songs as a DAR tablet to soldiers is noted in the square. Mayor Fitzgerald donated the band. committee members include Greer McLaughlin McCarthy Shieb Collier Shields Very Fellon.
Manila June 12 American forces stormed the Bagsag entrenchments held by the Moros under the Sultan of Jolo. Six Americans were killed and 12 wounded, including two privates of Company M Eighth Infantry and scouts from various units. Brigadier General Pershing pledged further operations until all Moros guns are captured and the island is peaceful.
Lewis Daniels, 63, was stricken with paralysis while walking on 142 Warren Street yesterday morning. He was taken to City Hospital and is expected to recover. He lives at 31 Tyevon Street in Roxbury.
Conflicting rumors followed by denials as the New York New Haven Hartford stock temporarily fell below par, with the Boston and Maine stock also dipping. Officials denied a report of a negative Interstate Commerce Commission ruling, and the market soon recovered, New Haven rising to 1011 4 and Boston & Maine to 541 4, securing a net daily gain for the latter.
Rumors spread that the Justice Department would sue to dissolve the New Haven and Boston & Maine with Louis D. Brandeis as special prosecutor, a claim Washington denied as unlikely since another prosecutor was already appointed. A second rumor involved the stockholders committee led by George von L. Meyer pressing proxies and planning an anti Mellen movement.
A boy and girl, returning from Converse Grammar School in Malden, stepped from behind a coal team into the path of a West Medford electric car. The motorman braked hard. the girl suffered a torn dress and minor bruises, the boy was unhurt. The grade near the accident is noted as dangerous, recalling a fatality nearby two weeks earlier.
The Board of Health plans to appoint a supervisory nurse to act as liaison between the Milk and Baby Hygiene Association and medical and philanthropic agencies focused on baby saving. A union meeting at 3 Joy Street sparked the plan, with the Mayor to meet the committee soon.
The Milk and Baby Hygiene Association plans to double its visiting nurses from 20 to 40 to improve infant survival in Boston. Director G R Bedinger notes more nurses per 1000 infants, while Dr William Palmer Lucas highlights the value of maternal education and breastfeeding alongside pure milk. The group already increased nursing mothers to 65 percent and emphasizes hiring milk that meets bacterial standards at low cost.
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