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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1915
Page
9
The Fashion Centre of the World fills with the annual spring influx of foreign visitors. International guests arrive to shop and attend events as crowds and storefronts buzz with seasonal activity.
Three young siblings aged 7 4 and 2 Joseph Helen and Madeline Hugh residents of 10 Thorndike Street Everett were found starving at home by an agent of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Mrs Rockwood the society agent describes a dire scene at the Hugh family home. Four year old girl cries for bread while the mother admits the children had been without food for five days. A physician was summoned and further action will follow in a few days.
Dr. W E Crockett of 435 Shawmut avenue argues that The Birth of a Nation reflects Civil War scenes. He recalls capturing a Confederate prisoner near Fairfax Court House and relates dialogue with an Ellsworth Zouave. He cites letters from Tuscaloosa dated 1871 describing Ku Klux history and praises Griffiths film for historical resonance.
Charles Olsen, 53, of 221 Sumner Street, East Boston, was struck by Engine 29 as it rushed to a fire at National Dock Warehouse, 19 Lewis Street. He died instantly after being knocked down as the horses galloped past 3 Lewis Street. he was taken to East Boston Relief Hospital.
A blaze at a six apart ment three story brick dwelling at 42 Holborn street Roxbury spread to an adjacent house on Blue Hill avenue stirring residents to move furniture. Embers from the fire set a 2 1/2 story wooden building at 303 1-2 Blue Hill avenue owned by Abraham Glickstein on fire as a second incident.
Harvard will send a delegation of 150 students to the Northfield session starting June 25 and running through July 4. It is the largest group ever from the university and over ten members are undergraduates.
Werner Horn a German army officer whose petition for a writ of habeas corpus was denied by Judge Morton will appeal to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals. His counsel Daniel T. O'Connell issued the statement yesterday.
Horn, arrested for the Feb 3 dynamiting of the international bridge at Vanceboro Maine, is jailed in East Cambridge under an indictment for illegally carrying explosives on a New York to Vanceboro passenger train. He contends German army status and wartime acts shield prosecution, and questions removal legality under German treaties. court notes lack of domicile allegation renders petition insufficient.
A court rejects a defense claiming acts were authorized by a foreign state for war on Britain. The judge notes no authority or avowal from the foreign state and states the prisoner cannot invoke international law or his foreign commission to excuse the actions.
Lieutenant Werner Horn’s attorney Daniel T. O’Connell announced plans to appeal Judge Morton’s denial of the habeas corpus petition. He argued the hearing is fundamental and that the district attorney’s demurrer deprives the German officer of due process, potentially up to the Supreme Court.
Mrs May H Gaynor of Jamaica Plain was honored with a reception in Norfolk Hall Dorchester as the new president of the Rebekah Assembly I O of Massachusetts. She is the youngest woman ever elected to the position in the order.
Advertisement extols Poslam as powerful for pimples eczema and surface conditions claiming antiseptic action and quick itch relief. It promises immediate benefit and notes availability from druggists with Poslam Soap priced at 25 and 15 cents.
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