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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1912
Page
12
Theodore N. Vail announced Western Union Telegraph Company will grant pensions to employees retiring after 25 to 40 years of service. Pensions range from 25 to 100 dollars monthly with a maximum of 50 percent of final salary, not exceeding 100 dollars.
The 1912 Kennedy Official Catholic Directory reports 15,015,589 Catholics in the United States proper. The Catholic population grew from 14,618,761 last year to gain 396,808 this year and shows a 4,038,812 increase over the decade ending this year.
A circa twenty year Catholic directory shows the national Catholic population rising from 8,615,185 to nearly double. It lists 17,491 priests, 13,989 churches, 9,256 with resident clergy, 4,683 missions, 88 seminaries with 6,006 students, 2 archbishops and 97 bishops, 2 archabbots, 15 abbots, 2,229 colleges and 701 girls academies, 5,119 parochial schools with 1,333,861 pupils, and 289 orphan asylums housing 47,111 orphans. Largest Catholic populations by state are New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, and Massachusetts.
Frank A. Munsey is summoned to testify tomorrow before the Stanley Steel Trust investigating committee. He will be questioned about a magazine article on Tennessee Coal & Iron Co valuation and alleged submission of figures to F H Gary and others in U S Steel. Chairman Stanley seeks additional funds to continue the inquiry, which nears its 10 month mark with no report expected soon.
A Boston Post letter from Wellfleet Mass. expresses gratitude to the Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital nurses amid a Flynn ward stay. The writer praises night nurses and probation helpers, describing care as comforting and encouraging, calling the hospital a magical refuge.
Thomas Lowe, pardoned Wednesday by Governor Foss, will be released at 10 this morning after 28 years of a life term at Charlestown and plans to sail back to his former home in England under the terms of the papers.
Lowe, 60, who spent 28 years in state prison for murdering Nellie Sullivan in May, will depart for his native land after receiving passage funded by old friends in North Andover and Lawrence. He has shown change, moving from rough English immigrant to sober machinist while under Episcopal chaplain Rev. Albert Crabtree. The warden praised his behavior and noted Lowe once supervised plumbing and steam fitting.
Tarbell sues Phipps in a bill of equity seeking to recover on notes totaling 4800 with Phipps as endorser. The note by Deputy Watts due Feb 1 1912 was part of the action. Watts not defendant. Tarbell seeks injunction to stop transfers to wife Mary and son George W Phipps and to protect safe deposit boxes. An injunction issued with notice. bond of 5500 from a surety may dissolve the injunction.
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