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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1912
Page
10
In St Paul on March 29 Colonel Roosevelt outlined a new plank for his campaign. He argued for stronger government action to conserve natural resources and improve rural life, contending progress slowed since his administration.
The article recounts Theodore Roosevelt’s Midwest tour with rapid train stops in Iowa and Minnesota. He defended government by the people, urged farm cooperatives and conservation, criticized Ballinger, and pressed for direct presidential primaries and rural reform.
Partial OCR shows delegate tallies by state for Wilson Clark Harmon Marshall, listing Oklahoma Maine Indiana totals with scattered numbers. Readable entities include Maine Illinois Indiana and names Wilson Clark Harmon Marshall though some figures are garbled.
Final push in 10 day drive nets 455 donors pledging 6149.43 bringing total to 99691.81 toward a new Melrose hospital and finishing this evening. Local committee expects completes this campaign with strong turnout and ongoing fundraising.
A vintage advertisement promises Cascarets cleanse and regulate the stomach removing sour undigested food and foul gases. It asserts a Cascaret tonight will straighten you out by morning and a 10 cent box brings months of clear head and cheerfulness, urging parents to remember the children.
President Roosevelt calls for active government aid to farmers and a broader push to conserve resources now. He praises Pinchot, urges rule by the people, and criticizes Taft and primary opponents. Signatures group for Clark in Massachusetts. Illinois considers a preferential primary law today. Roosevelt defeats Taft in a Portland Maine caucus.
The school committee ignored Mayor Fitzgerald by refusing to send a representative to his health conference at City Hall on stopping disease spread among school children. The committee sent a letter via its secretary expressing willingness to cooperate but insisting that more nurses are the remedy.
City officials and medical leaders debated improving Boston school child health after a study found over 65 percent below standard. Attendees urged hospital, dental, and dispensary cooperation, with the Forsyth Dental Institute and Tufts Medical School offering expanded care and a formal plan to be set promptly.
Princeton won the decision over Harvard at Sanders Theatre Cambridge in the first round of Yale Princeton Harvard series. Harvard argued against monopoly control while Princeton supported regulation. Yale defeated Harvard at New Haven, and Princeton beat Yale at Princeton.
An advance in wages from five to nine percent will take effect next Monday at the Hudson Worsted Company and Hudson Combing Company. The mills employ 200 operatives.
A campaign button featuring Governor Foss and the slogan Elect Foss and reduce cost of living a business man for president the Democrat who wins is being handed out. The item underscores a campaign style message highlighting Foss as a shopowner candidate.
Governor Foss handed out campaign buttons and Vermont maple sugar to South Boston residents who called yesterday to back his bid for President. The list of first recipients was lost amid the crowd of callers.
Governor Foss campaigns against opposition while Mayor Fitzgerald and ex-Congressman Kelcher unite against him. Williams plans speeches as he withdraws. Foss welcomes Clark and Wilson as the primary law aims at free presidential choice.
Jackson College students held a straw poll for president. Taft led with 25 votes, Roosevelt 23, Wilson 14 first choices and 22 as second choices. La Follette also appeared in the tally with a total not fully shown.
Retiring superintendent Stratton D. Brooks will be honored with a complimentary dinner at the Hotel Somerset on April 25. A Boston committee of 100 organized the event with representatives from schools, clubs, and civic groups. executive details were assigned to five members. In Atlantic City a fire on Young's pier destroyed the theatre dressing room, with flames spreading beyond control.
In Lynn on March 29 Abraham Ribalsky forced a man with scarlet fever to march through the city streets and toward a street car barn seeking a police officer. He captured the Italian laborer in a cellar, mistaking him for a burglar, then surrendered the patient to hospital authorities after learning his identity.
A blazing fire roped off the board walk to keep crowds back while thousands view the spectacle. The playhouse sits near the pier center on a section over 2000 feet long as flames rise high. The toss is expected to exceed $250,900.
Professors Francis Greenwood Peabody and Arthur Searle have tendered resignations to the Harvard Corporation to take effect at the start of the next college year. Searle has served 42 years and Peabody 31 years on the faculty.
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