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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
1
A dispute arises over whether James W Osborne former assistant district attorney of New York and Oliver are the same person. Contention centers on identity and legal implications.
The March 24 hearing on Rae Tanzer versus James W. Osborne for breach of promise features a clash between government and Tanzer's contentions. United States District Attorney Marshall confirms Oliver Osborne can be produced if needed. James W. Osborne testifies he never met Tanzer before court and denies writing to her, noting he only called to stop her letters before the civil suit.
Rae Tanzer and James W. Osborne allegedly registered as man and wife at a Plainfield New Jersey hotel. The proprietor and Clarence Osborne disputed the match, while Tanzer sisters and the hotel clerk supported the Osbornes identity. Two sisters testified they knew the Osborne courting Tanzer and matched his appearance.
The legislative committee on public lighting favors a 10 year extension of the current gas sliding scale for Boston and proposes a maximum price of 75 cents per 1000 cubic feet, replacing the present 80 cent cap. Chairman Senator Wells will draft the bill covering all related measures, though no final maximum is set, with 75 cents seen as most likely. The 75 cent limit would take effect next year once the current law expires.
Desperate eastern warfront battle rages along the Carpathian line from Sandec to Uzsok Pass as Russia unites forces after Przemysl victory. Hundreds of thousands projected to push toward Hungary while Germany opens a northern Poland drive to divert attention.
Fire swept the eastern section of Ayer early today destroying the Chandler machine shop on Faulkner street where it started and ignited many roof fires. Estimated loss to the shop reached 25000 dollars.
Mayor Curley sharply criticizes the rich and educated for failing to set a moral example in a speech to MIT students and Catholic Technology Club at Tech Union. He cites his recent ban on two plays Maternity and The Natural Law, one advertised but not produced, the other withdrawn after debate.
The mayor asserts a duty to censor art and drama to uphold community morality, recounting banning Brieuxs Maternity and another play. He argues wealthy elites fail as moral examples and warns against effeminacy eroding the home. He cites Taft on Catholic guidance and claims graft is nearly eradicate in city affairs.
The Wilfred M. crew from Lunenburg Nova Scotia landed at Boston aboard the St. Ronald recount a lone German raider sinking merchant ships in equatorial waters. They reported vivid scenes of ship destruction and debris as they survived the encounter.
Captain Cyrus W. Parks and four sailors from the Nova Scotian schooner were prisoners for over a month aboard the converted cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm, the last German raider at large after wrecking British shipping off the South American coast. They witnessed 87 captures, the raider sink the Highland Brae, and shoot down the Norwegian bark Semanthia after the vessel was riddled by 14 shots before the Germans removed its crew.
Daniel T. O Connell, counsel for Werner Horn, seeks habeas corpus and certiorari in Portland Me to challenge U S jurisdiction over charges tied to a dynamiting of the international bridge between Canada and Vanceboro Maine. He argues the United States lacks authority to try Horn under Massachusetts indictments claiming explosives through Massachusetts. Horn’s removal to Massachusetts and the war act theory are disputed.
John A. Hall the former Southbridge Savings Bank treasurer pardoned by the Governor and Council last year will testify under oath before a House special committee. The inquiry aims to learn his physical condition prior to the pardon and any influence behind it.
Firemen carried little Lucy and Joseph Sylvester and a nurse and maid from 4 Gloucester Street Back Bay when smoke filled the home from a stubborn pantry fire started at 11 last night in their night attire.
A blaze trapped a 12 year old girl and a younger boy on the third floor as smoke filled the stairways. Annie Mcleod and Margaret Sullivan guided the children to a rear window and cried for help. Laddermen rescued them with Lt Bona hue and two others carrying all four to safety. Miss Sullivan remained in serious condition afterward. Mr and Mrs Sylvester were in New York. Mrs Sylvester's mother escaped from a first floor room.
Lynn police investigate the unexplained vanishing of 46 year old Mrs Jennie Wentworth of 103 Lewis Street. She left home to deposit 100 at Central National Bank and has not returned. a mystery man warned her husband she would be back, police fear she was abducted by criminals.
Salt Lake City March 24 General Scotts new Indian friends from southern Utah are locked in Salt Lake county jail tonight. The general and his party rest in a hotel after a long difficult journey into one of the wildest portions of the United States. Officers and Indians arrived this afternoon with the Indians immediately taken to the jail by automobile.
General Scott tells how he met Polk Posey and others near Bluff and Mexican Hat to discuss their troubles with cowboys. He proposes moving the Indians to Washington to calm hostilities and later return to their people. Tse Ne Gat faces possible transfer to Colorado for murder charges.
Three men fell from a 125 foot chimney at the Naval Hospital grounds in Chelsea. Otto Fitterer died at 28, Walter Hess died later in hospital at 24, John Dreishman a New York man survived. Hess’s brother William Hess escaped death by clinging to a brick then tearing away bricks to descend to a ladder.
Terrified by a premonition that her husband Charles W. Cootware planned death by his own hand, Mrs. Nellie Cootware chased him through Charlestown streets and reached the Elm Street engine house just as he fired a revolver and killed himself.
A carpenter, after handing a farewell note to Dennis Quinlan, stepped behind a hose wagon and shot himself. He died en route to hospital. He had been friendly with the fire crew, including James Gillolly, and chose the engine house to ensure his wife could be found.
Athens reports from London that the Greek minister in Paris has been told by President Poincare that future events will prove Greece must abandon its neutrality.
A man labors nearly an hour after his brother and friends are carried to hospital by stretcher. Bricks are torn from a 36 square foot area as a buttressed iron ladder fails and a derrick possibly tears away staging. Competing theories blame a pulley and snatch block or a weight on the pulley line. Details continue on page four.
The forecast calls for fair weather in Southern New England on Thursday and Friday with cooling temperatures by Friday night. Northern New England should see fair conditions Thursday with a possibility of local rain or snow on Friday.
Fragmentary weather data reads unclear but shows temperatures around 14 and 15 with times 9 pm and 2 am. Several garbled letters and symbols interrupt a potential temperature log. No coherent location or date identified.
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