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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1913
Page
2
More than 600 men from 51 colleges gathered at Copley Hall for the Dartmouth Club of Boston event. The first intercollegiate smoker featured grotesque paper hats, college humor, and stunts performed by entertainers, drawing wide attendance and new friendships.
Graduates from several colleges performed in a program of glee club and dramatic pieces. Monsignor Roffi of the University of Padua led the night with opera mixed with humor, followed by Newton Newkirk and Fred Brown in witty and barnyard staged scenes. The evening featured Bowdoin, Union, Wesleyan, Cornell, and Dartmouth ensembles with a chalk talk dog named Gorgonzola and a Dartmouth orchestra interlude.
Ad for a laxative remedy titled Bromo Quinine promises to cure a cold in one day and grip in two days. The sample ad highlights a signature by FE W Grove and lists a price of 25 cents.
Two flood waves from Northwestern New England storms swept down the Connecticut River causing property damage in lowlands, halting mill operations and disrupting railroad traffic. No deaths reported. The first crest reached Holyoke by sunset and threatened old flood marks as residents watched anxiously.
Former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company James McCrea died at his home in Haverford tonight after serving as a leading figure in American rail. He was known for his long tenure and influence in transportation and corporate leadership.
A blaze in West Roxbury known as German town destroyed a two story frame house at 4 Fall Road owned by Frank Stone and family. Firefighters from West Roxbury arrived after twenty minutes but the house was already consumed. Neighboring residents formed bucket brigades to prevent spread to adjacent cottages.
A West Arichat despatch reports Hattie LeBlanc now Mrs Peleg Linden mother of a baby boy named Arthur Francis Linden. The French woman previously found not guilty in the murder of Clarencé F Glover, a Waltham laundryman.
The second flood wave trailed 125 miles behind as it crossed Woodsville New Hampshire and Lancaster settling, while the first wave halted Boston and Maine service and disrupted lines on the Central Vermont and Rutland. Bridges washed out, factories closed, and towns along the Connecticut River faced rising waters with Holyoke recording a new flood crest.
Albany N Y March 28 Colonel Theodore Roosevelt told a Progressive party dinner that leaders will push to elect women delegates to the next constitutional convention He warned that a coming change must be wise and sane or else it may come in evil fashion and end the old corrupt practices in politics and business life.
At a mass meeting in Arbeiter Hall Roxbury about 500 taxpayers representing over 500000 in property urged reconstruction and paving of Amory street. A petition was drawn up to be offered to Mayor Fitzgerald for consideration.
Justice Henry Bischoff of the New York State Supreme Court fell 11 stories to his death in the Immigration Savings Bank building where he held offices. The tragedy occurred this afternoon in New York.
Justice Bischoff entered an elevator on the ground floor aiming for the twelfth floor but left at the eleventh by error. He corrected his mistake too late as the car ascended and the door closed. Near sighted, he did not see the rising car and was killed by the fall through the open door.
Twenty two cadets graduated from the Massachusetts training ship Ranger after a two year course in marine engineering and seamanship. Eleven earned diplomas in marine engineering and electrical work while eleven earned diplomas in seamanship and navigation.
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