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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1912
Page
4
A Boston woman voices that bargains exist but notes fewer now than before the Tunnel Bargain Basement opened. She says tunnel deals have proven bargains by price and service and that thousands of customers back them. The Filene guarantee accompanies every purchase.
The Senate approved the Smoot general age and service pension law by 51 to 16, replacing the Sherwood dollar-a-day pension bill. It is estimated to raise the annual pension roll by 20 million dollars over the next five years.
The Senate bill lowers minimum service days and pension range to 18 to 80 dollars monthly, with House changes awaiting conference. Provisions bar attorney fees and would grant zero to disabled veterans, adding about 2.5 million dollars to annual outlay. Democrats from the South opposed final passage. Northern Democrats and Republicans supported it. Senator Overman clashed with Senator Smith over pension burdens, invoking Civil War era veterans and figures like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson to defend wartime rewards.
In Jordan Hall the New England Conservatory Orchestra under Chadwick presented Beethoven works including the G major concerto with Carl Baermann as soloist. The hall overflowed as Baermann received a near ovation and multiple recalls.
Travel notice from a Boston agent of the Burlington Route urging readers to plan early for trips to the far West Northwest or Pacific Coast. The agent offers low price tickets, information, and services including sleeping berths and ticket delivery, inviting inquiries by office visit or postal request.
Four American women claim half a million dollars each as collateral heirs to Thaddeus Dunmore of London after British courts fail to locate direct heirs. The claimant group includes Mrs. George H. Wetmore of Yonkers Mrs. Mary Bannan Cecilia Reynolds of New Slaven and Mrs. Catherine Oakley of Boston with judicial notice issued to present their claims.
Details emerge of Thaddeus Dunmore’s relatives in England and America as court records reveal no will at his 1910 death. A Yonkers woman plans summer travel to Manchester to prove kinship using letters from the late great-uncle, while tracing ties to Mary Dunmore and James Longan and the Longan family in Bridgeport.
Emmy Destinn as Minnie, Giovanni Zenatello as Johnson, and Pasquale Amato as Sheriff star in a standout Girl of the Golden West at the Boston Opera House. The cast includes Nick, Sonora, Larkens, Blanchart, Olshansky, Kaplick, Cilla, and others to a crowded, recall-filled performance.
Colonel John Sullivan plans to apply for retirement from the Ninth Regiment after more than two years in command. He cites heavy military duties as the reason, and the regiment faces a leadership decision. Possible successors include Lieutenant-Colonel John H. Dunn and Major Edward L. Logan, both long-serving militia officers.
The Good Government Association accuses Representative Martin M. Lomasney of trading votes with Republican legislators to push amendments to the Boston city charter. The group says preserving the charter is a state wide matter and asks citizens to monitor their representatives' votes.
Secretary Robert J. Bottomley alleges two Republican senators may back charter amendments due to deals with Representative Lomasney. The Good Government Association criticizes the bills as anti citizen and warns of a return to machine rule, urging vigilance at the State House beacons Hill and in upcoming Senate voting.
Bessie Pickard was granted a divorce from Albert Wes Pickard on grounds of desertion. The trial revealed he had been sentenced to 18 months for desertion from the army, reduced by six months through intervention by President Theodore Roosevelt. They wed in 1901. she recalls a brief honeymoon and a later street meeting in 1993 when he asked for 10 cents for a shave.
In Rockland Maine March 29 police seized beer whiskey and other liquors valued at 500 from a bottling works in the day’s raid. County Attorney Philip Howard was the complainant in this historic enforcement action.
In Manchester New Hampshire a three story frame building at 33 Prospect Street caught fire early evening. Mary E Jones owner fainted while saving possessions. Fireman Archie E Miller fainted from smoke and Edmund Merrill suffered cuts from flying glass. Damage estimated at 3000 dollars.
Coroner McMahon filed findings with the Superior Court clerk regarding the shooting of Private Edward K. Jones of the 129th Company Coast Artillery by Officer John C. Gentile. He ruled the incident accidental, aligning with police conclusions, and the matter proceeds to the Attorney General.
Chairman Goethals told Senate canals committee and House appropriations panel that removing inhabitants from the Panama Canal Zone and allowing jungle growth would safeguard canal property by denying enemy presence. The report notes his plan aims to prevent use of the zone as a base or threat to the canal.
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