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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1916
Page
8
The Massachusetts House passed a measure protecting laborers from fines by employers for lateness beyond the value of the time lost. The bill was amended to cover mechanics and laborers and faced constitutional and fairness opposition. The fire drill provision failed to reach a vote.
Mrs Harriett L Kennedy spoke on equal suffrage messages from Shaw Galsworthy and Maeterlinck to the Writers Equal Suffrage League at the home of Mrs J W Courtney 436 Marlboro Street. Miss Louie R Stanwood presided.
George A. Smith aged 62 operates Smith Tavern on Green Street. The notice highlights his role as proprietor and the business location in the local trade listings.
Hull a prominent hotel man on the south shore died yesterday after an appendectomy. He is survived by two daughters.
Daniel Shea of Pearl Street and Timothy Murphy of West Street, Malone, were scalded yesterday when a gasket around a joint of a large pipe failed and hot water sprayed from the pipe while they dug a trench.
I J Pearson a leading figure in Southern and Western railroad properties has been named vice president of the New Haven railroad with Boston as his headquarters He will assist President Willett directing construction operation and maintenance A special directors committee urged added help to speed decisions on urgent issues including financial rearrangements PSC report and possible sale of $133 000 000 in properties ordered by a federal court
In a Watertown letter dated March 9 the writer disputes Lady Aberdeen's claim that real Irishmen oppose the Irish Republic. He cites Robert Emmet and Boyle O Reilly to defend liberty, compares patriotic sacrifices, and hints at British prison actions against Irish republic sympathizers.
Major Frank Tompkins and 35 U S Cavalry escaped death as Mexican bandits estimated from 500 to 1000 men attacked near Villa, near the New Mexico border. Captain Jense Stedje led a brilliant pistol charge saving the retreating troopers in a fierce combat lasting the day. The Villistas fled south into canyons and arroyos, and the Americans reported taking no prisoners.
Mrs Jennie M Claflin Worcester files a 10000 suit in East Cambridge Superior Court as administrator of Calvin W Claflin alleging he died after drinking horse liniment mistaken for cough medicine. She claims an Eaton Paper Company employee left unlabeled liniment on a shelf at Framingham stables. The Post Magazine preview follows.
Health Commissioner Mahoney led a crackdown on rotten egg trafficking for food. Two men, East Boston egg dealer Max Richmond and baker Max Silver of Barton Street, were convicted in Police Court, fined 400 dollars each, and both appealed with bonds. Mayor Curley faulted the gangs for flooding small bakers with rotten eggs and ordered inspectors to summon violators under the pure food law.
Isaiah Atkins aged 86 and long time East Coast mariner died at his son Rufus’s home. Born in Tyro on November 28, 1829, he spent 27 years as a sailor in the East Indian trade before retiring to East Boston and later moving to Gardner.
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