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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
13
Congressman William F. Murray said sweeping changes are anticipated, not piecemeal, and will follow a general Cabinet plan during a visit to the federal building. He indicated the reshuffle will be coordinated rather than ad hoc, signaling a broad realignment of federal personnel.
Congressman Murray reports the Cabinet will set a comprehensive, nationwide plan for appointing immigration commissioners in the upcoming month. The President will approve or disapprove the appointments, signaling a new, nontraditional approach. Murray supports liberalizing naturalization laws and plans amendments in the current session with Boston officials Farrell and Mansfield to discuss details.
Yesterday the old Eliot Grammar School in the North End celebrated its 200th anniversary with many alumni in attendance including Mayor Fitzgerald.
Dr DeWitt G Willcox of Boston University School of Medicine told a free Evans Memorial lecture that brain injury can lead to criminal behavior. He noted a growing rule in surgery to treat epilepsy in children after head injury to prevent criminal tendencies.
The speaker argued that brain injuries can alter behavior, but disease from alcohol, opium, morphine, and cocaine more reliably drives criminality. He warned illness that affects willpower can lead to insanity and crime, stressing health as civilization’s asset and noting a man losing English but retaining German after head injury.
Washington March 11 It was announced unofficially that Richard E Edgerton of New Jersey had been agreed upon for appointment as purchasing agent of the Post Office Department The office carries a salary of 1000 a year and had been vacant since January 6.
The Harvard varsity combined musical clubs performed in Lynn last evening under the Harvard Club of Lynn. The concert was followed by a dance.
The Russell identity case enters a final phase as Eugene C. Upton testifies to finish cross examination by William H. Scharton. Executors Ferdinand B. Almy and William C. Russell will follow, with potential conclusion by April 1 and brief rebuttals anticipated.
John Wanamaker the Philadelphia and New York merchant voluntarily paid the government 100000 to settle irregularities in import samples over the last 15 years. Treasury agents traced losses by examining five years of records and concluded the examiner at Philadelphia passed samples at undervalued prices. Officials stressed no intent to defraud and noted Wanamaker cooperated fully to reach the settlement covering the entire period.
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