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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1911
Page
8
The Boston Post announces a June 1911 contest offering two dollars to contributors who send in poems or items. A double strip of Why's, twelve items, will appear in the next Sunday edition. The Why selections will be chosen from submitted entries.
The Daily Post invites readers to submit reasons to the question What is the best Why with a dollar prize per entry. Entrants must include their name date and full address with each Why submission.
In Washington on June 21 insurgent Republicans aligned with Democrats to push for a general tariff revision. The finance committee’s control faced a crisis as the Gore resolution forcing a report on the wood bill by July 10 passed 39 to 18 after a bitter fight in the Senate.
Today's Senate session saw Western Republicans press for broad tariff edits before any reciprocity vote. Insurgent GOP lines fractured as leaders warned the wool revision and free list measures must move, while Democrats and President Taft faced off over wood pulp and paper amendments amid looming adjournment.
Commencement exercises at Tufts marked the year’s end with 216 degrees conferred. Jackson College awarded one degree. Ceremonies at Goddard Chapel included speakers on classics and engineering, with medical and dental talks on preventive medicine and dental health.
The United States Circuit Court for the District of Delaware ruled that the alleged powder trust dominated by DuPont de Nemours is a restraint of interstate commerce in powder and explosives in violation of the Sherman Act. It found an attempt to monopolize and an actual monopoly, and ordered the combination enjoined and dissolved.
A rear cellar blaze at 311.4 and 33 Allen Street last night sent about 40 residents fleeing to the street. Women and children carried infants as neighbors shouted that the house was on fire, creating a chaotic scene for a time.
Beginning in 1907, the action targets 48 defendants with 15 dropped for lack of connection or existence. The court set October 16 to hear arguments on an injunction and a dissolution plan allowing reformation to comply with law. Henry A. DuPont is noted as having resigned from all defendant roles before the suit. Meanwhile a separate fire at a tenement caused by a woodshed blaze led to multiple rescues and investigations, with neighbors reporting children involved and officials awaiting fire marshal inquiry.
The Navy Department ordered the scout cruiser Chester to visit Quincy Massachusetts from July 3 to July 4 for Independence Day celebrations. No further details were provided in the fragment.
Readers are invited to send letters and sketches to Why Editor at the Boston Post drawing for submission basis. No conditions or entry discussion. Priority given in case of duplicate suggestions. winner awarded with no further correspondence.
District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier witnessed a deadly assault last evening when Harry H. Butts 38 of Tremont street fired four shots at Robert William Son 35 of Camden street as he fled across Shawmut avenue through a panicked crowd of spectators.
Washington June 21 The House refused to concur in Senator Bristow's amendment to a House resolution for direct Senate elections by 172 to 112. The vote showed party lines. The amendment would leave Congress to regulate election timing and methods while the House resolution would constitutionalize state legislatures control of times and places of Senate elections. The measure goes back to the Senate for reconsideration with Democrats arguing for voter trust and Republicans warning against surrender of federal authority. Representative Sells opposed the amendment while Burke and Berger supported it.
The shooting occurred near Shawmut avenue and Camden street at 6 30 as children played in the asylum yard. District Attorney Pelletier witnessed from an electric car, oversaw ambulance calls, and ensured the shooter did not escape. Butts remained calm, smoking a cigar while awaiting arrest as a crowd gathered.
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