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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1912
Page
4
Professor Vida Scudder of Wellesley argued Roosevelt is a socialist but conceals it to keep public support. She urged Christianity to embrace socialism’s aims of community ownership of resources and trust reform, advocating wealth tied to worth and condemning idle moneyed interests.
Walter I. Collins of Somerville says Tona Vita cured his nervousness and insomnia after a week. Dr. Charles Dean Gray notes the tonic targets nervous debility common in city life and claims it will be immensely successful in the United States. Available at leading Boston drug stores.
Alice Stone Blackwell, longtime editor of the Woman's Journal and a prominent Boston suffrage advocate, is chosen to lead the New England Suffrage Association, continuing her mother Julia Ward Howe’s efforts to extend voting rights to women.
Three horses of Hose 5 of Somerville Fire Department named Tom Jim and Tobey died after being struck by live wires at an A B Wood Company fire on Water street. The two story wood building collapsed, cutting power to sawing motors and triggering live wire contact. City losses run about 1500 for horses and 3000 for property as Angela Barber and family escaped a nearby tenement.
President Taft, unable to travel to California, sent a telegraph message to Taft supporters in the state. He spoke to Colonel Charles H. Hammond in San Francisco and P. A. Stanton in Los Angeles, arguing his administration’s achievements and accusing Roosevelt of failing to give a square deal and of stirring class hatred with sham issues.
St Paul May 12 Colonel Roosevelt carried all but eight of 133 precincts in St Paul by about four to one over Taft. Across about 70 counties Roosevelt led in most primaries and caucuses with Taft securing nine county delegations and La Follette five as Roosevelt commanded 67 of the 71 delegate slots for the state convention in Minneapolis next Thursday.
Passengers on an inward bound tunnel train from Cambridge about noon yesterday were unsettled when a missile shattered a window in the first car as the train passed midway under the Boston bridge. Investigators believed workers near the bridge may have been fooling around at the time.
A crowd of about 500 I W W members and Wakefield police faced off yesterday afternoon near 54 Valley Street. Despite Chief Pollard's warnings, protesters gathered to demand the release of Joseph Ettor and Arturo Giovannitti, now jailed in Essex County on charges of being accessories before the fact of murder.
Chief Pollard confronted a tense I. W. W. crowd at Giovanni Salvatore’s Valley Street house after attempts to enter Grand Army Hall failed. Officers warned of immediate arrests and the crowd dispersed toward Valley Street headquarters as speakers Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Jones, W. E. Trautmann, and Joseph Schmidt prepared to address them.
The town staged a show of force as police and a dozen officers were ordered on duty after inflammatory circulars circulated among factory workers. Ettor and Giovannitti remain jailed as tensions rise among local workers and officials.
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