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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1911
Page
4
William Hepburn Russell president of the Boston National baseball club and L Coues Page vice president face a stock control dispute. Page seeks relief in Suffolk county courts while Page fights to keep control away from Russell in a contested company stake.
In the suit the complainant seeks to enjoin Russell from action on the bill in equity and requests relief as permitted by law. The petition outlines grounds for injunctive relief and cites applicable statutes. Further proceedings will determine whether the injunction is granted.
Mr Page seeks injunction to stop Russell from holding a May 11 meeting and from voting his stock to push bylaws changes including more directors and expanded presidential powers. He alleges an 1910 agreement for stock delivery and equal management, with disputed stock transfers and a planned New York office. The suit notes prior bylaw amendments and ex officio director roles, aiming to curb Russell’s control and protect Page’s interests.
Final arrangements for the funeral of Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, who died Tuesday at his Cambridge home, will be announced this morning. Service at 3 PM tomorrow at First Parish Church Harvard Square with Rev. Dr. Crothers officiating. Remains cremated at Mt. Auburn. burial private. Messages of sympathy flow in from President Thwing and others. Cambridge pauses with flags half staff.
Two hundred fifty workers at Lane Trap Rock Quarry dropped tools to aid the new State Sanitarium as a forest fire threatened the site. They joined 20 local firefighters, saved the building after eight hours of blaze, and the woods burned over hundreds of acres before dusk.
Court Square police praise Sergeant Charles T. Reardon who donated 48 pieces of his skin for grafting to his 11 year old daughter Doris to shorten her hospital stay by six months after a severe burn. Doris was admitted to City Hospital last November with a severely burned body.
Sergeant Reardon had skin grafts performed on his right leg by Dr. Hepburn after his daughter Doris endured a critical illness. Doris showed grit during the operation as her father and Mrs. Reardon watched. the hospital says the graft shortened her stay by months. Reardon returned to work the next day, keeping the news private from colleagues.
Mrs. Carrie B. W. Frost of 20 Holmes Street Malden filed a libel for divorce at East Cambridge against Daniel T. Frost alleging cruelty and involvement with three women. She seeks alimony custody of their 4 year old daughter and an attachment on his property. They married in 1902 and lived at Weld Hall Malden. Frost worked as a traveling salesman for a Boston leather firm.
Six hundred twenty five entries are set for the New England intercollegiate meet to be held in Springfield on May 19 and 20. Tech leads with 82 entries, Dartmouth has 66, Amherst 64, Colby 64, Trinity 57, Bowdoin 50, Williams 50, Holy Cross 38, Vermont 35, Worcester Tech 28, Brown 27, Maine 26, Wesleyan 25, and Bates remaining entrants, Tufts absent.
The Senate finance committee hearing drew protests from border state farmers fishermen from Gloucester paper and wire cloth and paper product manufacturers. Ex Governor John Strange of Wisconsin called the measure cowardly and accused the Associated Press of forming a newspaper trust.
A massive forest and structure fire in South Sudbury spread across fields and a 10 acre swamp, threatening 25 farms and the Yo-Yo Tomie factory. Over 500 men from multiple towns battled the blaze, destroying the Cavichio homestead and several outbuildings while rescuers saved others and contained the flames near rail lines and the Sudbury river.
A joint resolution by Representative Pepper of Town urges Congress to adopt the Decalogue and the Golden Rule as guiding standards for law and government. The Christian party backs rightful ground and income taxes, opposes a standing army, and calls for saloon suppression. The Rules Committee will handle the measure.
Brush fires in Tyngsboro and West Chelmsford caused alarm but were controlled by nightfall with help from a train load of Boston & Maine employees. One Tyngsboro building burned. only a Dunstable blaze remained active.
Mark H. Jackson of 499 James Street Syracuse New York claims a permanent cure for muscular and inflammatory rheumatism after three years of illness. He states the remedy has helped many bedridden patients and offers a free trial by mail to any sufferer who writes.
A long obituary notice list from Dorchester and surrounding cities details funeral plans for Ellen E Agnew Mary J Allen Lycender Allen Miles B Bell and others with dates May 9 10 11 12 and service times at St Peter s St Mary s St Eulalia Holy Cross All Saints Gate of Heaven and local cemeteries. Relatives friends invited with addresses listed.
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