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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1914
Page
2
Mayor Macdonald announces strict Beverly dance rules prohibiting exaggerated shoulder or hip movements and offensive positions. Police will monitor halls. smoking is banned in corridors. every dance requires a license and a police officer on duty.
An advertisement claims thin people can gain weight by taking Sargol tablets. It asserts the body’s nourishment is insufficient and that Sargol rebuilds nutritive function, inflows red blood cells, and aids fat production. Claims include 10 to 25 pounds monthly gains and a money back guarantee.
Mayor Curley urges charter amendments opposing recall and mayoral term cuts while favoring civil service oversight. He backs December election timing, reduced nominating signatures, and elimination of jurors on nomination papers. Sullivan links the plan to a December vote and stricter paper requirements.
Miss Hazel Stewart a Farmington High sophomore aged 17 shot herself in a relative’s South Strong home. Daughter of Charles Stewart of West's Mills, she had spent the weekend there. No cause for the self inflicted death is known.
General Hugh Bancroft, chairman of the Board of Port Directors, was offered the chairmanship of the new Boost Boston committee at a meeting at the Old Colony Trust Company yesterday. Mr Bancroft is considering the matter. Senator Mombard Williams of Dedham was named to succeed Alexander McGregor on the committee to handle metropolitan affairs.
The city considered using part of Back Bay yard for a municipal market with input from W H Bowker of 46 Chatham street via the Boost Boston committee. The Mayor announced rebid of 250000 pounds of No 2 iron castings saved 2500 and rebid of 1500 tons of coal saved 10 cents per ton. He secured the naval supply ship contract at Charlestown navy yard amid thanks from Bunker Hill Lodge I A Machinists.
Marguerite Thibodeau, age 10, who was struck by a freight on a Boston & Maine crossing in St. Johnsbury Vermont, died at St. Johnsbury Hospital after losing both legs above the knees.
Mrs Henry Preston White of Brookline Massachusetts delegate of the anti suffragists to the big equal suffrage battle in Washington arrives after a Back Bay send off. She plans a conference with President Wilson and outlines a spring and summer campaign plus a police women bill to appoint street matrons with arrest powers.
New York March 2 Cardinal Farley plans a trip to Rome shortly after Easter for his ad limina visit to Pope Pius X. He will submit the archdiocese report to the Holy See under canon law. This will be his first Rome visit since elevation to cardinalate.
Dr Maude L Dunn lecturer at Lorimer Hall opening of Hygienic Fashion Institute session asserts that tight corsets cause indigestion headaches backache and other pains leading to a despondent disposition and claiming 50 percent of divorces stem from this cause.
In a women only session, Mme Nanette Magruder Pratt and Dr Maude L Dunn debated corsets and health with charts while Miss Grace E McNulty illustrated fashion theories using living models. They urged Americans to choose natural figures or costly corsets and linked dress freedom to suffrage and hygiene in a lively, if perilous, era discussion.
Meriden Connecticut March 2. Mrs Fanny McGovern has appeared at the city court for the fiftieth time facing arraignment. Judge King ordered a mental examination after noting she first came before the court twenty years ago when he was a clerk.
New York March 2. The indictment against Everett P. Fowler known as the Tammany bagman for extortion was dismissed today by Supreme Court Justice Vernon M. Davis. The charge alleged Fowler obtained a substantial sum from a city contractor in return for favors.
A report notes a $250 political contribution from Seneca P Hull of Cortland New York. Hull was contesting State highway contracts, linking the donation to his bid activity.
The indictment accuses Fowler of extortion in New York county. His lawyer, Martin W. Littleton, demurred, arguing the crime occurred in Cortland or Onondaga counties, since Fowler’s office is in Syracuse. Justice Davis dismissed the indictment, and District Attorney Whitman may appeal, fearing graft investigations’ reach would be undermined.
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