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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1911
Page
8
Miss Katherine M. H. Blackford M D lectured on Scientific Character Analysis to a large Tremont Temple audience. She claimed women are slow in thought and quick to act and used local businessmen to illustrate her points.
Congressman George A. Loud of Michigan declares Taft will be Republican nominee in 1912 and will inaugurate the Panama Canal in 1914. He speaks at the Boston City Club praising Taft, reciprocity with Canada, and a graft free canal program while noting party divides.
The War Time Post from the Boston Post offers sidelights on events around 1861 as the Civil War crisis looms. It highlights daily life and public sentiment during the Days of ’61 with concise notes and reflections.
On March 24 1861 South Carolina Governor F W Pickens wrote General Beauregard denying a proposal to inventory public property seized by the state at secession. He argued US army forfeited ownership at Fort Moultrie after retreating to Fort Sumter.
In Augusta on March 23 the Maine House favored the minority report on a constitutional amendment to grant women voting rights by a 70 to 66 vote. Despite the action the final passage requires a two thirds majority, making success unlikely. The same session defeated a bill for a single board fourth of government for cities by 85 to 5.
United States food and drug inspectors seized one thousand pounds of jelly beans in Providence Rhode Island the candy shipped from Buffalo to the city was confiscated for allegedly containing talcum This marked the first seizure under the pure food law in the city.
A Washington despatch from March 24 1861 reports a surge of office seekers disrupting departmental work with four to five hundred daily letters. It notes removals from civil offices will be common and mentions William Jayne of Illinois as a gubernatorial nominee for Dacotah. Senators Mason and Hunter travel to Virginia to press secession while Southern commissioners report improving prospects for peace and a collision being nearly impossible.
In Portsmouth Virginia at noon on Tuesday snow had fallen for 32 hours, leaving a ground cover of 12 inches. The article notes the event as extraordinary and unexpected labeling it a northern invasion.
Despatches from Lieutenant Slemmer at Fort Pickens Florida dated March 24 1861 report near famine levels of provisions and a risk of abandonment unless supplies arrive. Bragg says no landing without Jefferson Davis approval. Ships off the fort include the Brooklyn Sabine St Louis and Wyandotte. Fort Pickens guards Pensacola Bay and threatens Mobile waters, seen as crucial to Confederate aims.
Nathan P. Tobey a Dorchester druggist with a business at 719 Walk Hill Street faced a Licensing Board hearing yesterday morning for selling liquor to a 16 year old. The board revoked his license for the balance of the current year.
Robert S. Brown, confined in the Charles street jail since last Friday after his New York arrest for forging George Otis Draper’s name on a $5000 note and uttering it, was released yesterday afternoon after bail was reduced from 5000 to 3500.
The Armstrong court martial shows enough force existed to defend the Pensacola Navy Yard. Commodore James Armstrong led the yard early in 1861 before its seizure by Southern forces on January 12 for Florida secession.
A New York despatch dated March 24 1861 reports orders to fit out steamers Wabash and Roanoke at the navy yard with work underway. The Roanoke is to head into the stream in the morning.
The Post reports a novel bombshell designed exclusively for the Confederacy by H. L. St. James of Mobile. It is a long two chamber shell intended to explode on impact and disperse a burning fluid that water cannot extinguish.
A Boston Post brief notes a winter storm sweeping the South with up to four inches of snow reaching Wilmington North Carolina and southwestern Virginia aiding sleigh bells to echo through old settlements as Norfolk reports wintry weather.
The Meeting House Hill station housed Engine 17 and Ladder 7 after a blaze destroyed O Connell s lime storage on Freeport street Dorchester. Lime washed over firefighters when water and chemicals met the flames 3000 barrels of lime drenched the crew causing burns to hands feet and ankles. Lt James O Connell worst off with burns and a sprained ankle. others burned on hands while two have bandaged feet.
Judge Sullivan ruled in favor of William M. Wood of Boston and Andover, presiding over a case against him by H. W. Patterson to recover 527 dollars for damage to Patterson's car. Witnesses included Inez Patterson, 20, daughter of Patterson, who testified about Wood's car skidding into her father's vehicle on Ocean avenue on May 2, 1910.
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