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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1913
Page
3
Union HatCo promotes a two day Easter sale featuring deep discounts across hats shirts gloves trunks coats and accessories. Handpicked deals include children's felt hats 79c men's shirts 59c leather gloves 98c and trunks from 3.47 to 6.00 with numerous spring styles and barkets throughout the store.
Franklin K. Lane Secretary of the Interior is honored as an Indian chief by a Blackfeet delegation from Montana in his Washington office. They presented a pipe of peace and a buckskin tobacco bag.
Chief Curly Bear bestows the titles Lone Chief and Little Chief on a tribal delegation member and Acting Commissioner Abbott. Miss Nancy Lane receives moccasins from Chief Little Dog and buckskin gloves from Chief Plenty Coups, whose profile appears on the five dollar bill.
New York March 138 The grand jury investigating police alliance with vice and graft indicted Annie Gray reputed keeper of dis orderly resorts and her husband Robert Oliner a lawyer and former policeman. Indicted for conducting a disorderly resort the case carries a misdemeanor and possible extradition issues loom with New Jersey. The grand jury also reportedly indicted two policemen alleged graft collectors with bills returnable tomorrow.
Judge Braley allowed the Pratt will dispute framed around Charles H. Pratt's will leaving most of his estate to Massachusetts Institute of Technology to found a naval architecture and marine engineering school. Contestants are first cousins Helen Pratt Jameson Louis Parcells Sarah E. Pratt and Mary J. Pratt. The probate ruling was Jan 20 and the appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court likely in April.
Glasgow University students and 300 stewards including 50 dock laborers clashed at a suffragette meeting in St Andrew's Hall. Students fared badly as many were beaten, several ejected, and others sat silenced through the end of the gathering.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst addressed suffragists at St Andrews Hall but a mass of university students disrupted the meeting. Stewards and dock workers formed a crowd control line and a fierce 10 minute scuffle ended with at least 50 students driven into the streets.
A brief fragment shows victims bearing black eyes bruised faces and torn clothing after a clash. The readable text notes surgical attention and widespread injuries among those involved. Additional details are unavailable in the fragment.
A revised dissolution plan for Union Pacific and Southern Pacific will be filed in the Federal Court in St. Louis on Saturday. Julius Kruttschnitt, chairman of Southern Pacific, announced after a special directors meeting. Details were not disclosed, but the plan aims to win court, California Railroad Commission, and U.S. Attorney General approval. Directors of Union Pacific met to review the situation, with plan details reportedly telegraphed to the California commission for immediate action.
The federal grand jury probe into the New York New Haven and Hartford and Grand Trunk railway affairs, excluding the traffic agreement tied to Providence extension, was resumed. Secretary to N H Mellen, Nicholas Dugan, was questioned and the inquiry will reconvene March 26 with U S Attorney General Mc Reynolds consulted on scope.
Charles Kingsbury aged 35 of 26 Davis Street was arrested by Patrolmen Cronin and Farrell of the Lagrange Street station after a near mile pursuit through the South End. He was charged with assaulting Henry Rose owner of a restaurant at 218 Hadkinson Avenue with a dangerous weapon. Rose is in City Hospital in critical condition with two knife wounds to the chest.
Police report a man named Kingsbury allegedly stabbed Rose at a restaurant after a dispute over food quality. Kingsbury fled into the street with a knife as diners pursued him. a crowd and officers joined the chase through the crowded area.
Police say the suspect fled through streets and yards before being corralled. The knife used to stab Rose was found on his person during the station search.
Testimony in Chicago on March 13 tied George J. Gould J. P. Morgan and the Guggenheims to the Alaska coal lands fraud. Albert G. Frost's plan reportedly aimed to seize lands and profit for the Guggenheims with O G Laboree naming Charles Sweeney of Federal Smelting as a sale intermediary. Laberee said Sweeney represented the Guggenheims and could draw funds from Morgan Gould and Charles Watkins of Pittsburg Coal.
Mrs. Hannah Pitt celebrated her 93rd birthday at her son Dr. Charles P. Pitt’s Cambridge home. Born in St John New Brunswick she married Enoch Pitt in 1850 and moved to Cambridge after her husband’s death. She has long been active in the Presbyterian Church in Inman Square and did her own shopping. Her children present were Dr. Charles Pitt, Dr. Thomas S. Pitt Professor J. Pitt Henry Pitt and Miss Maude A Pitt.
Mystic Valley Harvard Club hosts a declamation contest in Cotting Hall Arlington High School. Ten districts including Winchester Medford Malden Melrose Everett Lexington Woburn Somerville and Arlington each send one speaker for up to ten minutes. Prizes are 23 first 15 second with judges Frederick W. Dallinger Charles L. Hanson master of English Me.
Readable fragments show connections involving Wooster College Ohio and Harvard linked to Chanic Arts High School and individual W. W. Putman. The item hints at affiliations or patronage with prominent institutions.
James M. Blanchard of Crompton & Knowles Loom Works was arrested in Worcester by U S Deputy Marshal James Ruhl on charges of embezzling a mailed package containing a diamond ring on Oct 18 1911. He pleaded not guilty and was jailed on $500 bail until a March 22 hearing.
The U S Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower court ruling that a drug firm misbranded a so called drug cure by failing to indicate that its bottles contained alcohol and morphine. The action was brought against the J L Stephens Company of Lebanon Ohio and counsel argued patient secrecy aided the cure.
An old home remedy touts Sage tea mixed with sulphur and alcohol to darken gray hair, clear dandruff, and stop itching. A ready-made Wyeth’s Sage and Sulphur tonic sells for about 50 cents a bottle at drug stores and is praised by local druggists for restoring youthful look.
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