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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1912
Page
14
Morrison I. Swift spoke before the Humanist Society at Sheafe's Hall on Boylston street about the family as a social machine. He argued modern testing of institutions strains the family while raising a new standard of sacredness for effective work.
Mr. Swift argues the family is at war with society, dominated by the wife and shaped by material desires. He contends husbands become slaves to lavish demands, corrupting children and hindering the general good, urging reforms to align family with social interests.
Miss McPhee died from extensive burns after her clothing caught fire in a bathtub when she turned on both faucets. The open drain prevented enough water from extinguishing the blaze, and witnesses traced a path of burned clothing through the house before her collapse. A relative is reported in Somerville.
One man was killed and two injured when a staging collapsed on the steamship Sagamore of the Warren line at Pier 42 Hoosac tunnel docks Charlestown yesterday morning.
John Stevens of 6 Forster Court dies after a cotton bale causes a staging collapse while unloading a steamer. Injured are John Pendergast 34 of 54 Henley Street and Peter Sullivan 389 of 46 Chelsea Street with leg and ankle injuries. They were taken to Haymarket Relief Hospital where Stevens died of brain concussion.
Captain Amundsen’s party endured harsh travel with three dog deserters and two food depots raided while eleven dogs survived aboard the Fram. The crew kept details private in Hobart as Amundsen received many congratulatory messages and planned a two month Australian lecture tour before continuing toward the Arctic by the Fram.
A reticent explorer recalls his polar trek contrasting it with Shackleton's expedition, stating the latter faced a far more arduous route.
Washington dispatch from Consul Baker in Hobart Tasmania reports Roald Amundsen authorized to announce the expedition reached the South Pole from Dec 14 to 17 and all members returned safely.
Prominent women including Mrs. Taft Mrs. Roosevelt Mrs. Grover Cleveland Mrs. James A Garf ield and Mrs Richard Townsend promise to donate gowns for historic displays in the National Museum. Each gown will mark a notable occasion with Mrs Cleveland sending her wedding dress. A permanent group will be formed to sustain the effort. The museum ranks third nationally in laces embroideries and velvets.
Six year old Agnes McNulty arrived in Boston from Glasgow aboard the Allan liner Scotian after a solo Atlantic crossing. Captain Moor praised her as the best sailor among about fifty passengers. Stewardess Miss McDonald cared for her while Ignatius McNulty and her stepmother waited at the dock at 761 East Seventh Street South Boston.
Brockton March 10 Thomas F Dwyer of 4 Hamilton street was arrested early this morning charged with attempting to burn the Belmont street grocery store run by Dwyer and Patrick Berry. Officer George Linehan says Dwyer and a second man piled coal and paper in the office and set it alight then fled. The wounded man is still at large. Linehan, on one month on the force, extinguished the fire and captured Dwyer.
The publicity commission of the Christian Conservation Congress plans six weeks of religious advertisements on New York sports pages starting April 1924. The effort, tied to the Men and Religion Forward Movement, is non sectarian and aims to bring church calls to a broad audience.
Old Boston is herself again as Mayor Fitzgerald resumes his duties in Palm Beach. He arrived to the warm welcome of Florida sunshine and a buoyant mood, promising renewed official work and pleasure while asserting public support will back Taft for the nomination.
The Mayor discusses national politics at length while avoiding local issues. He praises Taft, doubts Roosevelt, and argues primaries could boost Taft and help Republican gains across states including Massachusetts and Connecticut. Taft speaks on missionary work and attends services with governors in Chicago.
Holyoke and Boston will oppose Portsmouth Boston in a 40-string candlepins match for 200 dollars. Jim Skinner of Holyoke and Paul Poehler of Boston and Portsmouth NH are the likely contestants. Skinner proposes March 19 and 21 as possible dates with Holyoke backing 100 dollars.
President Taft left Chicago for Washington at six pm after addressing a Bohemian audience on the West Side and Polish listeners in South Chicago. He met politicians and attended church, with enthusiastic crowds lining streets and waving flags despite snow heaps along the routes.
London reports a worsening industrial upheaval as coal strike nears settlement but extends in South Wales and Northumberland and Derbyshire. Rail service cuts intensify shortages with rural trains halted and looting цены bread butter and foodstuffs expected to rise.
Comic opera star Trixie Friganza wed Charles Goettler on the Atlantic City pier after a Bensonhurst ceremony. Luke Voorman hosted the bride’s arrival, sister Bessie attended, and the couple began a celebratory motor trip amid public excitement.
Alfred Chemistock and John Andrews were arrested after a group assaulted a watchman, hitched a wagon, and loaded four wagon loads of coal valued at $2.2 from the Chelsea Coal and Tr on Company. The victim, Rarilla Sakomovitz, was left unconscious. the coal was recovered. Chemistock faces assault and battery and larceny charges. Andrews is jailed.
Rabbi Samuel Schulman addressed Ford Hall last night, sparking a loud Q&A as about 50 stood to ask questions. He urged faith tempered by humane, universal principles and warned against narrow creeds and overemphasis on material concerns.
Patrolmen Cunningham and Hanley of the Chelsea police narrowly escaped death yesterday morning when dragged for nearly 300 feet by a runaway horse hitched to a heavy wagon. They leaped for the animal as it neared a crowd on Broadway but could not grip the bridle until after being dragged along rough pavement, suffering cuts and bruises before stopping the horse.
Albert Berry successfully leaped from a flying plane in a parachute at St. Louis marking the second ever such feat in aviation history. He previously became the first thirdman to attempt the jump ten days earlier over Jefferson Barracks. Today his parachute tangled briefly but he freed it and reached the ground safely.
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