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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1912
Page
8
Government loses suit against candy makers over talc used to polish Easter candy eggs. Jury finds talc does not adulterate under the pure food act as present amounts do not form a coating. Case sets a precedent, with similar suits pending in Trenton New Jersey and Providence Rhode Island.
The government contended talc used in any form in foodstuffs breaches the law since talc is indigestible and unfit for food. Judge Frederic Dodge instructed the jury to return a verdict in favor of the candy.
Police halted the W. H. McElwain Shoe Company picket parade in Manchester. Twelve officers arrested eight leaders on two counts of picketing for Sunday and Monday parades. Frederick J. Wolfe of the Industrial Workers of the World and George Howie were among those jailed.
San Diego March 6 Violators of the street speaking ordinance fill city and county jails. The overflow sent to Santa Ana strains that jail and a court order authorizes sending prisoners to Riverside County Jail. Industrial Workers of the World arrests increase nightly.
Walla Walla dispatch reports Albert Trottler of North Yakima, after a week’s visit, entered the penitentiary claiming a sentence to begin. Warden Reed contacted North Yakima for papers allowing him entry. Trottler, convicted of selling stolen beef, had appealed then ran out of money and chose immediate imprisonment. He is to serve six months to fourteen years.
Twenty firemen were buried when a four story brick wall on South Water street collapsed during a blaze in Providence. Eleven were rushed to hospitals, two bound for possible fatalities due to injuries.
Firefighters and citizens rescued all workers from a collapsing outer-wall laddered wall of M. S. Alper & Sons, a junk shop and storehouse. Injured include William Kelly and Clarence Horton with spine fractures, Captain Frank Charlesworth and Charles T. Wood with broken limbs. Building loss $25,000. stock $2,000 uninsured. Cause under investigation.
Attorney Charles E. Bakstran, longtime State House figure and leader in the woman suffrage and temperance movements, died at City Hospital after a two day illness. He weighed 388 pounds and helped direct the Women’s Aid Society of Boston. He resided in Boston for 17 years and will be buried at Mt. Wadsworth Cemetery, South Sudbury, Friday.
In Managua Nicaragua on March 6 an extraordinary anti American surge led to the arrest of 50 prominent ring leaders. They are held in detention awaiting departure of Secretary of State Knox.
The first public sign of dissent to the Central American trip by the Secretary of State emerges as police arrest the full editorial staffs of Diario de Nicaragua and Diario Moderno for letters urging dynamite. Censorship tightens on dispatches while official visits proceed with assemblies and a gala banquet ending in a ball as crowds enjoy festive streets.
Dr. Francis X. Crawford and Board of Health physicians at Gallups Island declared a Scandinavian youth aboard the Cunard steamer Ascania had chickenpox not smallpox. Of 5388 steerage passengers, most were released and moved to East Boston on the health boat Vigilant. immigration officers began processing on landing and will send aliens to Portland then to their final destinations.
In Trenton New Jersey Hans Schumann Heink the son of famed contralto Madame Schumann Heink is sued for 25000 dollars by Miss Johanna Alice Forner of Dresden for breach of promise of marriage. The suit alleges he falsely claimed to be single and that a child was born in February 1910. Statements from Sidney Savage and others detail alleged infidelity and investigations into the affair including a 1910 visit to Mrs Phinney's Cambridge home.
Mrs Matilda Savage of Cambridge aged 70 testifies through tears that Mrs Helen G Phinney a younger widow stole her husband John E Savage. She seeks 10000 dollars from Mrs Phinney as damages in Superior Court before Judge Fox and a Cambridge jury.
The United Improvement Association at the Boston City Club meeting urged selecting a local road expert for the Massachusetts Highway Commission. It failed a motion to ask Port of Boston and Massachusetts Railway Commission officials to require Grand Trunk Railroad to make a financial deposit before entering Boston. The group approved bills to let the School Board control the school physician and to authorize a State Normal School near Boston, while opposing the annexation of Revere and Watertown to Boston.
Miss Evelyn Peck of Lenox travels to Seattle Washington to marry Charles Stimson. She boasts she is the Berkshire’s only girl willing to journey 3000 miles to meet her chosen groom.
W A Siegler of Iowa a Rhodes scholar won the Oxford varsity weight contest with a throw of 43 feet 3 inches at the Oxford annual sports meet in Oxford England today March 6.
A small yellow houn' dog rescued by Miss Carrie Seeds from being kicked is hailed for alerting the Leeds Seeds sisters to a burglar. The dog woke them by tugging the cover and the intruder fled as neighbors responded in St. Louis on March 6.
In Pompeii excavation a Forum access street, once blocked by pillars, is shown as a major thoroughfare. Shops line the road with preserved inscriptions and marble tablets. Archaeologists found petrified fruit and meat, and a terra cotta kitchen range with a copper boiler containing water from the eruption era.
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