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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1912
Page
12
A bill reported favorably by the labor committee to the Legislature would create a State Board of Employment. The board would oversee the three state employment offices and any new offices, with five members appointed by the Governor for five years from December 1, 1912.
Judge John B. Ratigan of Worcester received a two cut glass punch bowl and tray from 80 jurymen serving in the second session of the Superior Civil Court at East Cambridge.
Mary B. Meissner aka Mary White and Bertha Gorman pleaded guilty to breaking and entering multiple homes and stealing jewelry silverware and clothing. She was sentenced to the Sherborn Reformatory for Women. Co-defendant John Carter also pleaded guilty to four counts and was sentenced to five to seven years in State Prison.
Orrin Brown, an elderly Melrose recluse, shot himself in his Rowe Street shack. He left an estate totaling 5500 dollars, consisting of 1500 dollars in real estate and 4000 dollars in personal property.
Democratic Leader Underwood introduces a wool tariff revision bill in Washington proposing a 20 percent ad valorem duty on raw wool. The measure mirrors the House version from last summer and was to be reported tomorrow to avoid a caucus and free wool advocates. It had been vetoed by President Taft after Senate revision.
The Suffragists led by Mrs. Eameline Pankhurst and Mr. Pethick Lawrence, joint editors of Votes for Women, with Mrs. Mabel Tuke, were remanded by Bow Street magistrates after a further hearing on charges of conspiracy and inciting malicious damage to property.
The famous Cousin Dave letters between Washington B. Thomas head of the sugar trust and his cousin David S. Stetson containing confidential information from Adolph Segal about the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company became part of the record today in the trial of Thomas John E. Parsons and other American Sugar Refining officials for violation of the Sherman act.
Judge Hand ruled to admit letters once made public in the congressional sugar probe, despite defense efforts to exclude them. Samuel Untermyer testified that the trust blocked a Pennsylvania plant's operation until Segal paid a $1 250 000 loan, and that a receiver took the plant while a $2 000 000 damages suit proceeded.
Eugene H. Grace acknowledged that his wife shot him after a Philadelphia statement claiming he would vindicate her at trial. Grace’s condition remained unchanged as reports continued from Atlanta on March 1.
A lighted candle ignited a fire in a clothes closet on the first floor of a three story frame house at 252 West Sixth street South Boston yesterday afternoon. The blaze forced two families into the street and caused about 10 dollars in property damage. The owner is ry Doherty and the first floor tenement is occupied by Catherine Murphy and family.
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