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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1912
Page
15
President A Lawrence Lowell delivered the bachelorette orations to nearly 500 Harvard seniors in Appleton Chapel Cambridge urging graduates to treat stockholders as active stewards rather than absentee landlords. He likened modern stockholding to past landlordism and urged more personal management of affairs.
The article discusses the evils of absentee ownership and its modern reach into corporations, co operatives, and management. It then reports the Gresham towing the waterlogged schooner Margaret to harbor after a 32 hour ordeal near Boston Light, followed by Commencement week at Boston College with reflections on modern student challenges and the Titanic tragedy lessons from Brown and Yale presidents.
The Margaret departed Millbridge Maine with a lumber cargo bound for Boston. A week of gale and lightning left her keel free only by cargo buoyancy. Captain Griffin and two crewmen rode the deckload while pumps fought flooding. The fishing boat Victor alerted rescuers, and the revenue cutter Gresham, aided by a tow and tug, brought the ship and crew to East Boston wharf.
Dorchester friends report Ivar Widing and his sister Edith reached Gloucester and are safe aboard an 18 foot sailing canoe en route to Casco Bay Maine. They left Savin Hill Yacht Club Friday bound for their summer home. Both are expert sailors and view the trip as a best possible pleasure outing.
John K Costopolos and Esther T Costopolos of 41 Bowdoin Street West End were arrested on indictment warrants for blackmail and conspiracy related to a Black Hand letter sent to John F Curley of 360 Columbia Road Dorchester on May 26 1911. Police allege Esther formerly Esther T Backstrom Dorchester helped draft the threatening letter demanding $1000.
Cardinal O Connell spoke to the two graduates of the Sunday school at the Church of the Sacred Heart Newton Centre. He urged them to live by the life of Christ as they continue their studies. The exercises, led by Rev. D C Reardon and Rev J F Haney, concluded with a benediction.
Florence Weston a 25 year old student nurse at the Post Graduate Hospital was found dead in a Tate Astor room. She reportedly drank cyanide of potassium and left letters including one to her mother and one to the coroner saying she was forced to resign last Friday.
At Immaculate Conception Church Rev. Frederick A. Murphy born in Canton Mass spoke on his American missionary work in China. He described human treatment of women, needs for orphan homes, and care for girls until marriageable age, framing Christian family hope as state bulwark.
In Zanesville Ohio a tornado toppled the steeple of St. Thomas Catholic Church during services. The Rev D R Roach delivering last rites was killed as about 500 worshippers fled. three died and many injured.
A violent storm crushed Thomas Skinion and John F. Dinan as walls fell. Father Roach died seconds after administering last rites as worshippers fled to safety via a rear door. The storm carved a block wide path, damaging over 500 houses and leaving 50 families homeless with many near escapes.
A rain and wind storm in central Ohio caused three deaths, left hundreds homeless, and caused over a million dollars in damage. Columbus reported unroofed houses and snapped poles with miles of torn wires. Plain City suffered severe destruction with injuries reported and debris filling the streets.
The Polish Catholics of Chelsea led a thousand men from the St. Hedwig Society East Cambridge St. Joseph Salem St. Lawrence Ipswich and St. Stanislaus Chelsea in uniform with musical bands to the dedication of the new Polish Catholic Church on Chestnut street replacing the 1908 blaze church. Dedicatory exercises attracted visitors from Greater Boston.
The obituary notes the death of Professor Goodwin of Harvard born Concord May 9 1883, son of Hersey Bradford and Lucretia Ann Goodwin. He studied at Harvard and the universities of Gottingen Berlin and Bonn and in 1993 served as president of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He chaired and belonged to many societies including the Hellenic London Philological Cambridge Eng Archaeological Society Academy of Science Athens Hellenic Society Constantinople and the Imperial German Archaeological Institute Berlin. He edited Demosthenes on the Crown and Against Midias.
Miss Wish Wynne the English comedienne has been chosen for the all star bill at the Palace Theatre in honor of King George's royal visit in late July. She arrives in Boston and sails home in two weeks after vaudeville agency consent. Wynne vows no program changes and praises the royal honor.
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