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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1912
Page
7
Fragmentary OCR notes show price figures $2.75 and $3.50 with references to colors blue and red and terms such as chips and gilt. No clear event or entity context. cannot determine full item description or provenance from readable text.
Boston Opera House directors urge stockholders to boost the $150,000 guarantee fund for next season. They report strong subscription reception and list yesterday contributions from Elisha Flagg 75 dollars Douglas G Field 44 dollars Mrs Oscar Tasigi 250 dollars John C Paige Company 150 dollars Richard W Dana 25 dollars Thayer McNeil Hotchkiss 75 dollars.
Frank Stewart 45 and his wife Ellen 42 were found guilty of shoplifting in a big department store by Judge Burke in the Police Court yesterday. Stewart has served 13 years and four months in prisons nationwide and received six months in the Deer Island House of Correction. Mrs Stewart, with no prior record, was fined $50.
A middle aged man who used the name Thomas Lynch was found with a woman at 7 Bowdoin street West End. He left the Relief Hospital yesterday after the gas incident without details. The woman died shortly after arrival at the hospital and the unidentified body lies at North Grove street morgue.
Dorothy Elizabeth Merrill eight year old by Feb 29 birth counts as third birthday yesterday. Her parents Ned L. and Grace E. Merrill hosted a party at 1709 Cambridge Street with Oxford School classmates and a birthday cake lit with eight candles. Ruth, Dorothy's baby sister, helped as hostess.
George Wharton Pepper, Philadelphia lawyer, was named Special Assistant Attorney-General to join Jacob M. Dickinson in pursuing cases against United States Steel Corporation. President Taft had reportedly offered Pepper the Supreme Court seat after Justice Harlan's death, which Mahlon Pitney had accepted.
New York nurses vote to increase charges for care from 15 to 25 percent and set a daily rate of five dollars due to higher living costs. The move aims to adjust compensation for nursing services as costs rise.
The bodies of Samuel J. Fisher, his wife Ruth and two daughters were found in their San Francisco house with bullet wounds. A revolver lay beside Fisher, and police believe he killed them all before taking his own life. Ruth, 17, and Aileen, 18, were found in their beds. no motive is known.
In Fort Worth Texas on February 29 jurors acquitted John Beal Sneed of murder in the Captain A G Boogee case. The seven to five vote for acquittal followed a 112 hour deliberation. Sneed a wealthy Amarillo banker believed Captain Boyce aided his son in abducting Mrs Sneed and shot Captain Boyce in a Fort Worth hotel.
An advertisement extols Cascarets as a quick remedy for headaches, sour stomach, biliousness, and sluggish bowels. It claims a 10 cent box provides months of health and urges immediate use for both adults and children.
Naval Constructor Robert Stocker of the Brooklyn navy yard has been asked by Secretary Meyer to bid on the construction of the new gunboat Sacramento authorized by Congress. The main issue is whether the plans can be completed within a 900000 dollar appropriation after the sole private bid of 716000 dollars proved 200000 above the limit.
Louis D Brandies advocates major advance in trade unionism focusing on eliminating violence output restriction and the closed shop. He supports the preferential union shop as a practical middle path backed by NY garment industry studies and Life and Labor discussions. Boston February 27.
The New York New Haven Hartford Railroad will immediately begin building two new links. A 10 mile line from South Vernon to Brattleboro Vermont and a 4 mile connection from Windsor to White River Junction will create a direct northward route for the New Haven without Central Vermont ties under Grand Trunk control.
The Aero Club of New England hosts a Ladies’ night at the Hotel Somerset on March 5 with an illustrated lecture on aerial travel. Mrs. David Todd will discuss Halley’s comet observations from a balloon, and Mrs. H Helm Clayton will share ballooning experiences. Lieutenant Governor Luce will speak and introduce aviators Harry N Atwood and Earle Lavington, newly named honorary life members, who will recount flights.
The United States armored cruiser Washington with Secretary of State Knox aboard sailed from Colon at 4 PM for Port Limon Costa Rica. A special train carried Knox from Panama to Colon with stops for canal locks inspections and a party including Aristedes Arjona and H Percival Dodge.
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