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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1913
Page
2
Judge Braley of the Supreme Judicial Court declined to appoint a receiver for the Southern New England railroad and did not issue an injunction. The Chicago contractor John Marsh sought the action for the Palmer to Blackstone line, while attorney Haight stated that Massachusetts real estate and personal property would remain unincumbered pending a merits hearing.
Court ordered pleadings by July 3 and a July 7 examination window for books and contracts relating to Sherman Whipple’s assertion that Grand Trunk Canada and Central Vermont back the Southern New England project. The bill argues those roads’ officers run Southern New England, making them liable. Marsh’s idle gear and rising losses approach 1.5 million dollars as subcontractors sue. An offer of about 250,000 has been deemed inadequate.
Washington June 24 The administration currency bill will undergo important changes before action in either House or Senate. The measure will be introduced in both houses in the same form as recently made public by Representative Glass.
The plan to restore a provision for retirement of national bank notes and rescinding 2 per cent government bonds with a 3 per cent issue moves forward. Admin leaders face strong opposition and aim to gauge public views by consulting impartial bankers, business leaders, and experts ahead of White House discussions with the Senate banking committee and President Wilson.
Under Mary H Faxons will filed in Suffolk Probate Court the Boston Teachers' Mutual Benefit Association is to receive all money held in her name at South Boston Savings Bank the amount not disclosed. The remainder of her estate goes to relatives and friends.
A committee was formed at a conference in the Chamber of Commerce building to confer with the Interstate Commerce Commission about its decision on freight rates from Boston to the West for imported goods.
The Port Directors led by Chairman Hugh Bancroft and Chamber transport head D O Ives state after rehearing the commission affirms the original conclusions. The order maintains that standard all rail lines from Boston must not undercut New York to Western points, while lines via Canada may apply lower differential rates.
Two hundred performers of Ranch 101 faced a scare as four coaches derailed at East Somerville. Two staff members were injured lightly, George H. Hutchinson with contusions and Thomas Atkinson with a sprained knee, both treated at Massachusetts General Hospital.
A show train from Back Bay to Lynn split into two sections on the Boston & Albany line. The first section with horses and animals arrived in Lynn. the second with wagons tents and culinary gear followed. Three cars toppled during a crossover at the eastern division. Sleepers carrying performers and staff stayed ahead. Traffic halted both directions for over two hours. Passengers on early trains walked to trolleys.
Frank Oliver Carpenter of West Roxbury left instructions in his Suffolk Probate Court will that his body be cremated. The directive states that even if buried, the executor must exhume and cremate the remains, with an absolute and peremptory command.
With talks failing to settle the 1400 boilermaker strikes in various shops and Foss factory workers at Hyde Park, officials of the Metal Trades Department AFL have requested the international executive board to fly in from Washington and assume control.
After an all day conference at the Quincy House union officials declare a general strike is the only option as the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration admits it cannot arrange employer strife talks. Leaders say more than 200000 metal trades workers could be affected across the state. International officers head to Boston as boilermakers convene in East Boston to discuss a statewide strike of 1400 workers and the failure of Mead Morrison Cambridge Sturtevant Becker plants to agree to conferences. The strikers vote to instruct leaders to call a general strike immediately.
A Burlington Route advertisement promotes Personally Conducted low fare trips to California with specially selected conductors. Alex Stocks, New England Passenger Agent, invites readers to inquire at 264 Washington St Boston. Telephone MARTIN 4387.
President Raymond Poincare of the French republic attended a state banquet at Buckingham Palace in London with grand pomp. He was welcomed by the Prince of Wales at Portsmouth and by King George at Victoria Station on a day of royal ceremony.
The French presidential party traveled from Portsmouth to London by royal train amid cheering crowds and guards in medieval dress. Windsor Castle hosted a grand state banquet with gold service, lavish floral displays, and tricolor motifs. King George and Queen Mary presided as Poincare sat at the central table with royal family and ambassadors, about 100 guests across 13 tables. The King praised Franco British relations as key to European peace, a sentiment echoed by Poincare.
In St Louis the chapel of the Little Helpers of the Holy Soul hosts a quiet wedding for Miss Madge Barney and Dr John B Blake of Boston with Rev Father Grimmesman officiating. Best man is Dr Gerald Blake. groomsman Fulcon Blake. Attendants are Misses Helen and Alice Maloy. The couple will reside in Boston. bride is daughter of the late Charles E Barney. Dr Blake is City Hospital surgeon and Harvard anatomy chair. Marie Blake of Boston will attend.
Boston police car used to arrest Frank Carlos, 13, who escaped from City Hospital's contagious ward amid malignant diphtheria. The vehicle was quarantined by the Board of Health as hundreds of local children played at Tenean Beach, Neponset, raising public concern over exposure.
Samuel A. Segee, former chairman of the Revere Board of Assessors, recently convicted by a Suffolk jury on five counts of forging public records, will be brought up for sentence before Judge Brown in Suffolk Superior Court this afternoon.
Mrs Elizabeth Glendower Evans and Miss Florence Luscombe addressed sizable crowds in Winthrop and Dudley squares Roxbury as part of the Boston Equal Suffrage League tour. They spoke at a series of 50 meetings across the campaign.
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