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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
7
Harvard seniors celebrate class day as Cambridge near Harvard Square dresses in gala attire. Graduating students spread themselves widely to mark the annual event with pageantry and pride.
Harvard seniors enjoy a clear day of festivities with bands, lanterns, fountains, and ivy oration by Alan Gregg. The schedule leads from Sanders Theatre ceremonies to yard and Stadium events, with tickets, processions, and dancing in the evening.
The elementary teachers in Boston schools won a victory when their salary bill was ordered to a third reading. A further fight remains due to an unresolved dispute among parties to the salary controversy.
City committee seeks a ten cent 1912 and twenty cent 1913 tax increase, earmarked for raising salaries of Boston elementary teachers earning 1000 dollars or less. A referendum appears on fall ballot. fight looms between committee and Montague bills. Governor Foss expected to decide.
A concise note discusses a debate over the peers and their rights and hints at a comparative contrast with another case. The language suggests a satirical or opinion-driven column examining political privilege and public perception.
The article notes most spectators at the coronation will be peers and their wives. It describes peerage roles, seating limits, and strict dress rules for robes and coronets. Details include coronet costs, robe designs, ermine, miniver, and train lengths, with peers awaiting their ceremonial duties.
Continued from first page. Spaete, missing from Boston since spring, was revealed as husband of Dell Lovenia Neel, a young playwright of Newbury Street. She lies in a sanitarium near Boston, suffering a nervous breakdown blamed on Spaete’s actions across cities. He claimed to investors that Frohmans would stage a four act drama based on his Russia experiences and pay him a large royalty. Miss Neel’s husband’s promises spurred Rich to invest $200 and Kennedy $300. The couple’s plans dissolved as promises vanished and investors learned no theatre deal existed. Swanson withdrew after realizing finances were misrepresented.
Miss Neel married Spaete in October at the Newbury Street home. Spaete, once a Lincoln of wealth, vanished to Chicago taking funds from two wealthy friends. Suffolk grand jury returned a no bill after restitution of $500 was reported. Spaete’s partners formed The Swanson Toombs Sumner Company in Boston with offices in the Journal building as others invested heavily.
Spaete, linked to Chicago and New York enterprises, fled after a failed proposition and vanished until his wife prompted refunds to Misses Rich and Kennedy. Police traced him to Detroit where he died after swallowing cyanide while being photographed at Central Station. Officers found cyanide in his possession and he named Dell Lavonia Neel as his wife.
Maud Gilchrist 23 gave name Bessie Allen at City Hospital after swallowing corrosive sublimate tablets around 7 30 pm in her room at 138 Wendover Street Roxbury with her sister Mrs Leota Davis present Davis offered no motive beyond possible despondency though she knew of no clear cause for the act
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