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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1914
Page
18
Henry Needham Flynt Jr of Mongon is elected assistant manager of the football team following college balloting this afternoon and evening. Flynt managed his class base ball team last year.
Alberan Alpert editor of the Jewish Hoston American urged naturalized status, declaring a man not naturalized should not join fraternal groups. The speech at a Hast Boston Y M H A mass meeting stressed citizensh ps for foreigners and their children to become loyal Americans.
The Boston Firemen's Union 43 expelled its business agent Thomas Fee after a trial board's recommendation. Mackey was authorized to collect dues from members. Slater Brewster settled with the union, and hotels citywide adopted eight hour days and union conditions for their firemen.
The High School of Commerce project near the Fenway on Avenue Louis Pasteur will begin within days. McGahey & O Connor are awarded the contract after mayoral approval. the English type gray brick building will be 304 by 140 feet, three stories, housing 1000 pupils with 20 classrooms an auditorium gymnasium administration and lunch facilities.
A special election in Quincy Ward Three yielded 364 votes from 1155 qualified voters. Republican Charles F. Barnicoat won by a 128 vote plurality amid low turnout and limited enthusiasm.
Boston attorney Daniel L. Smith testifies before master Franklin Hammond that John Bross Lloyd sought his help to end trusteeship tied to alleged relations with Mrs Ida J. McGraw of Everett. Lloyd, a Winnetka resident and purported millionaire, also faces a 1500 claim from Miss Mary Sullivan, Smith’s niece, for breach of promise.
In Chicago on March 1, 1912, attorney Smith recounts plans with Lloyd to remove guardians. Mrs. McGraw insisted on accompanying, prompting talk of scandal and his wife joining. Smith notes a $14,000 payment and an $80,000 success fee, with Lloyd signing a memorandum. The case is set to resume this morning.
New York March 10 Frank H Norton aged 76 a retired newspaper man dramatic critic playwright and short story writer committed death by his own action this morning in his home at 2228 Seventh avenue after accepting ill health for over a year He telephoned his physician and his son in law connected with a stock brokerage firm then shot himself in the right temple and died He was born in Hingham Massachusetts and had a long career at the Astor Library the Herald and as editor of the Paris edition He leaves a wife and two daughters.
Mrs Glendower Evans spoke before the Quincy Women's Club on The New Freedom and urged that President Wilson will be won over to suffrage in the near future. She described a visit with working women from a dozen states to the president. The note ends with a tease about cartoons in the upcoming Sunday Post color section.
Governor Walsh and Chief Justice Rugg attended the Worcester County Bar Association banquet. Walsh urged parole board review on pardons and pledged to reappoint clerks with efficient service, otherwise appointing a party loyalist. Rugg urged judges to engage with the public and for lawyers to maintain high ethical standards.
Paris reports that Madagascar’s northwest region was hit by a cyclone and tidal wave on March 3. Sixteen people died and several vessels were sunk at moorings including the schooners Marsouin and Jeanne d Arc. Hundreds of buildings were damaged or destroyed.
Michael Cazes storekeeper sues Dr. George L. Tulloch for 5000 dollars claiming the dentist pulled the wrong tooth. Trial in the fifth jury session of the Superior Court with Chief Justice Aiken presiding. Cazes says his back tooth ached, the pulled tooth did not relieve it, and another dentist later treated the correct tooth.
About 375 bodies under St. Pauls Cathedral Tremont street must be claimed and removed by relatives by Friday March 20 or reinterred by the Cathedral Chapter in a cemetery. Issued Jan 0 the notice shows little progress due to weather. only 2 of about 400 have been claimed. If unclaimed many tombs remain, prompting interments to occur for half the remains. The plan includes buying a cemetery lot at the cathedral expense.
Mayor Curley told a delegation of 15 women that the nine city gymnasiums will remain open. He defended dismissing pianists as an economy move and said the gymnasts must hire their own pianists if desired. He also pledged not to remove matrons or cut their salaries.
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