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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1912
Page
5
Talcott Williams LL D editor of the Philadelphia Press was appointed director of Columbia University's journalism school endowed by Joseph Pulitzer as announced today at the university in New York.
John W. Cunliffe will be associate director of the new journalism school at Wisconsin, opening Sept 12. Temporary quarters will be used until the Broadway and 116th Street building is ready in 1943. An nine member administrative board will direct affairs, with Dr Talcott Williams directing history and ethics of journalism and Cunliffe overseeing training in English writing for students.
The White Star steamer Canopie bound from Genoa to New York with about 1600 passengers and the Megantic from Liverpool to Boston with nearly 500 passengers are battling a furious gale in the Atlantic.
Wireless messages Saturday night place the Canopic 1276 miles east and the Megantic 1880 miles east of Boston Light at 8 p m Both captains reported difficulty but both ships were in good condition aboard The Canopic was expected to arrive Thursday morning and the Megantic was due Thursday
On the upper East Side a young mother and her infant were found dead on a rear pavement after a fall from a four story tenement roof. Mrs Rose Strauss aged years died at hospital. police suspect she jumped with her child in her arms after doctors said she must stop nursing. Her husband, overwhelmed, fled.
The charges accuse Colonel Lombard of insubordination and mismanagement stirring senior officers to resignations. Frank Murphy of United Shoe Machinery led investigation. testimony will come from 25 staff and officers as Lombard seeks trial in a board chaired by Embury P. Clark with generals Darling and Pew.
The article reports that Germany backs Colombia in demanding indemnity and proposes leases or sales of Caribbean harbors to secure a naval base on American soil. It cites Knox's South America tour, a recall of Senor Ospina, and hints of a Monroe Doctrine challenge.
The Barnard Memorial on Warrenton street in South End is noted as a unique children’s church dating back to November 11, 1838. Founder Rev. Charles F. Barnard began at Dorothea Dix’s home and later moved to Hollis Street Church to accommodate growing numbers of young attendees.
The founder aimed to give children a school and a church they could call their own. Barnard contributed a large portion of his fortune to the church’s erection, aided by prominent Boston families and endowments willed to the work. Early supporters included Thomas M. Barnard Abbott Lawrence Henry I Bowditch Curtis Guild Dorothea Dix. Rev. Benjamin F. McDaniel has served as pastor for twelve years.
Nathaniel White was elected president at the largest meeting in years of the East Boston Catholic Literary Association. White is active in athletics and umpired in the New England league last season and holds a position with Edison Electric Illuminating Company of Boston. Other officers include Vice President Thomas J. Lane and Secretary William P. Hickey.
In Etampes France on March 10 Susane Bernard a 19 year old aviator died during a pilot license examination after a sharp turn to the right against officials advice. Her aircraft overturned in an eddy then fell 200 feet crushing her beneath the motor.
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