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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1911
Page
7
In Hardwick Vermont on May 2 strike leaders for lumpers drillers and cutters signed a five year wage and working agreement with employers ending a month long stoppage that idle 800 workers. The settlement followed concessions by both sides easing a local granite industry paralysis.
Lincoln issues a proclamation calling 42,034 volunteers for three years to fight the insurrection and preserve the Union. He also directs eight regiments of infantry and more naval enlistments, with details to be sent by War and Navy Departments. The document seeks citizen cooperation and outlines plans to present to Congress.
Adjutant-General Schouler quotes Colonel Wardrop reporting 1800 troops at Fortress Monroe with 5000 needed for full garrison. Wardrop notes Virginia secession zeal, possible big fight, and Confederate attempts to capture the fort. He mentions supplies, prizes taken, and civic sentiment, including Governor Andrew’s popular regard and local Mobile editorials attacking the North.
The State Department provides the diplomatic corps with two proclamations announcing a blockade of Southern ports. They express respect for Commodore Stringham's fleet of at least 50 war vessels and steam transports for 20 000 land troops, enabling a robust blockade of all inlets reachable by vessels drawing six feet of water.
The Hon. Rodney French of New Bedford offers a privately built whale ship from Quincy intended as a privateer to the U S Navy for commerce defense but has received no reply from the Navy Department. If declined he will place her at free use for defense and may command her himself.
A famed Boston attorney contesting the Post claims the paper’s 1861 report is official only if supported by letters and communications from fifty years ago. He notes rebels armed black troops before Bull Run and that Negro volunteers served in Louisiana before any colored man wore a Northern uniform.
The New England Trust Company as trustee seeks a Superior Court order against Automatic Vaudeville Company Edward G Donnelly and the Christian Moerlein Brewing Company to remove a large electric advertising sign atop the building at Washington and Beach streets. It argues the sign increases insurance risk and breaches the lease by altering the premises.
For the first time in years City Point police lack a patrol horse as the patrol wagon becomes unusable. Arrests now require officers to walk prisoners to the station. The wagon horse Peter no longer serves, forcing street escort to the station.
Next Sunday’s Sunday Post features a waist front braiding design for embroidery. The pattern is described as very pretty and can be transferred with simple soap and water.
Ninety one years old Alvan Brown Campello’s oldest resident died at his son William A Brown’s home 26 French avenue. He never shaved by a barber preferring to shave himself. Born in Moultonboro New Hampshire where no barber existed he began shaving at sixteen with his father. He spent much of his life in Boston as a traveling salesman.
Mrs Annie Cole Cady a teacher and author of historical works for younger readers died at her Warren Rhode Island home. Born in 1850 she taught at Germantown Academy guiding girls to Bryn Mawr College. Survived by husband Henry N Cady and two sons H Deweese Cady Brown University and Lawrence W Cady electrical engineer Cleveland Ohio.
The body of Timothy Gilbert Wright, a retired Brockton shoe magnate, was found on the steamer Ontario near Vineyard Haven. Despite eight Baltimore medical students and ship crew exhausting all means, Wright died of heart failure at 10 40 PM as the vessel neared port. He had left Boston last winter for health travels and had long resided in Roxbury after retiring twelve years earlier.
The Old South Association owning the office building on Washington Street contends it should not pay $6000 yearly to Edmund D. Codman and others, trustees of the Old South Meeting House, to keep open the space between the two structures. Transit Commission tunnel station under a portion of the space prompts the dispute.
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