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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1914
Page
1
Mayor Curley lauded President Wilsons watchful waiting policy at the Evacuation Day banquet in South Boston Municipal building. He said every soldier in the parade thanked marching to an armistice commemoration and prayed the day would not require arms against a foreign nation.
Report from Juarez says heavy fighting rages with rebels pressed and federals moving from Torreon toward Escalon, a key rail town 100 miles north. Both sides reinforced. terrain features rifle pits along the Torreon to Escalon line.
Congressman Perl D. Decker of Joplin, Missouri, presented a message from the President. The remarks praised Woodrow Wilson for preferring human life over wealth and warned against an invasion of Mexico, criticizing subsidized newspapers tied to Standard Oil.
Wellesley College plans to reopen April 7 for the final semester despite losing records, lecture papers, books, and recitation rooms when College Hall was destroyed by a recent fire. President Ellen F. Pendleton stated the determination, with faculty support and help pledged by town officials, church members, business people, and residents.
Trustees estimate total loss at about 3900,000 with 800,000 in building and equipment and 106,000 in personal belongings. The dormitory is destroyed, only brick walls remain. About 200 students rescued. 250 girls and faculty helped in rescue efforts as trains and crowds surged at the station.
An 11 year old boy drowned yesterday afternoon at Leverett pond in the Fenway near Huntington avenue while two other boys aged 11 and 14 were rescued from the water. State ward Alexander Zakowski, 11, living with Peter J. Welton of 267 Eustis Street Roxbury, is identified as the deceased. Superintendent E C Wade of the city lamp lighting department helped rescue the two survivors.
Three boys fall through thin Fenway ice while playing near 67 Norfolk Street Roxbury. Alexander V entures far out and sinks. Joseph Bomeardeu and Harry Egan plunge to aid. A rope and life preserver are used. Egan also sinks before rescue by E Wade. Alexander does not survive.
Mrs J E Whelan Goelet, once named the most beautiful woman in America, is granted a divorce on extreme cruelty grounds. Custody set for their elder son Ogden, 6, with mother to keep Peter, 6, until age 12, then shared custody with the father. testimony presented by affiliates in a hushed court session.
The court cites extreme cruelty including insulting language and physical violence by Goelet toward his wife. The testimony describes a pattern of acts aimed to annoy and embarrass her, seriously impairing her health, and supports granting the divorce.
The two masted power schooner Grace Smith owned by Chase Prospecting Company of New Bedford ran on Great Ledge in Woods Hole inner harbor at 10 o'clock this morning and sank rapidly. The captain and two crew members escaped with only personal belongings and were rescued by another boat.
John E. Redmond presided at an Irish National banquet in London and predicted that the home rule bill would become law in a few weeks, likely in its current form, barring a political upheaval.
Mr Redmond denounces government efforts to conciliate Sir Edward Carson as insulting and insists on no erosion of Irish principles. He says nationalist Ireland will not concede even one inch of territory for peace and vows to meet any force with force, asserting unity with the British cabinet on core principles.
Paris erupts as royalist mobs rage after the shooting of Gaston Calmette editor of Figaro by Mme Caillaux wife of the finance minister. Police under Prefect Hennion clash with crowds near the Seine and in streets as elections loom.
M Caillaux resigned from his post today as the cabinet faced several changes, leaving the government in a reorganized state.
Moon rises at 2 18 and last quarter occurs as the year advances. Day length and the approach of Easter are noted with evening Mars Saturn and morning Jupiter visible. Lighted auto lamps tonight before 6 24. Anniversaries list Grover Cleveland born 1837 and Bonaparte becoming King of Italy in 1805.
The forecast calls for rain and colder conditions in Boston and northern New England Wednesday, with a turn to fair and colder Thursday and a brisk shifting northwest wind. Washington reports increasing cloudiness, possible rain Wednesday, then 82 Thursday with fair and colder conditions and brisk nighttime winds.
Yesterday's temperature data shows average values and times with scattered digits and codes from Thompson's Spa. The fragment lists multiple readings and daily figures, including times around 5 PM and references to mean temperatures and comparisons to the previous year.
An electric car jumped the track at Bow Street hill in Woburn shortly before midnight. Two people were seriously injured, eight more hurt, and others shaken. The motorman, conductor, and several standers were thrown from vestibules. passengers inside the car suffered minor bruises.
A crowded Woburn to Reading trolley derailed after leaving the track on a steep hill. Passengers were thrown inside and through vestibules. Mrs Henry Neergaard and Marcus Neergaard were bruised. Marshall from Wakefield suffered a near severed tongue and broken nose. conductors Melaniss and La Clair also sustained injuries.
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