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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1912
Page
4
Ten lots are cut 25 percent and 50 percent in price under the Automatic Price Reductions system. After two to three weeks on the market, slow sellers face steep cuts or even giveaway pricing. The policy aims to force rapid sales by making the initial price unusually attractive.
Lord Mersey as wreck commissioner leads first Board of Trade hearing into the Titanic disaster. The session at the Scottish Rifles armory covered pre casualty actions, equipment, lifeboats, manning, and the Merchant Shipping Act, with 26 listed questions guiding the inquiry.
Bodies of Titanic victims arrived in Boston and Lexington yesterday and today. Notables include A W Newell of Lexington president of Fourth National Bank and Isidor Straus of New York. Del Carlo’s f uneral will go to Italy while Hoberson to New York.
Halifax reports discuss Titanic inquiry with 26 questions to witnesses and a prospective rescue search for more victims. Officials note 59 unidentified bodies slated to be buried, with 93 remains at the morgue and several bodies shipped to relatives or reidentified.
William H. Clark relates a rash that began on his right thumb and spread to both hands over eighteen months. He suffered itching burning and wearing pain preventing washing and sleep. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two months his hands healed becoming soft and smooth as a baby’s.
Francis D Millet Boston artist author and sculptor who died in the Titanic disaster was honored with an immense wreath from President Taft. Funeral services were held at Mt Auburn Chapel Cambridge with Harvard friends and Boston Art Club members in attendance. Cremation followed and ashes to East Bridgewater for burial with a second service at First Parish Church scheduled.
The Rev. Francis E. Clark honors William T. Stead, Titanic victim and noted English author, calling him brave and principled. He recalls Stead facing mobs, exposing white slave traffic, and enduring imprisonment for truth.
The House voted an amendment to the post office bill to grant 6000 dollars for the widows or next of kin of three U S postal clerks who died in the Titanic disaster. Each nearest relative of J. S. March O. S. Woody and W. L. Quinn receives 2000 dollars.
J Bruce Ismay president of the International Mercantile Marine sailed home on the Adriatic today. He said he had given all Titanic testimony and wished to retire, while noting no ill feeling toward the American public. He met with P A S Franklin and J P Morgan Jr before departure. In Albany a Vermont New York northern delegation urged the NYNH Hartford to acquire Rutland railroad from New York Central at a Public Service Commission hearing led by Governor John A Mead.
The steamer Gibraltar reported on April 26 in lat 41.21 N lon 49.34 W sighting seven dead Titanic victims, lifebelts and wreckage. No living person found. ship continued to Middlesbrough and arrived at New York today. One body belonged to a child, others were men.
Petitions with hundreds of signatures from 20 towns along the Rutland line in New York and Vermont support the New Haven request. They say New Haven control would boost traffic by about 500000 dollars yearly and favor routing business to Rutland. Samuel Untermyer opposed on minority shares, while Mellen of New Haven denied any stake. The commission closed the case and reserved its decision.
In the forthcoming Sunday Sun Post, the comic features Percy the mechanical man on a new rampage as he goes outside to mow the lawn. The gag highlights the quirky action in the big comic section.
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