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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1915
Page
5
The New York Herald on the European continent serves American readers with dispatches and notices from the United States and Europe. This item reflects the paper’s role as a sole American newspaper in the region, catering to all Americans abroad.
A French language war newspaper has become the most read outlet among officials and business leaders, cited by the state and social elite as essential reading for informed stance and policy guidance.
Paris letter notes the New York Herald’s European edition supports the Allied cause and informs Americans in Europe about the war. It claims the paper’s blunt warnings to Germany about attacking American ships or citizens on neutral vessels have angered Berlin and could push an American entry into the conflict.
Sherman L. Whipple, counsel for Mrs. L Vernon Briggs, files bill of exceptions after the Norfolk County Superior Court sustains the will contest over property valued at $2,000,000.
The defendant, Mr. Whipple, seeks a new trial on exceptions recorded with the Norfolk county clerk of courts at Dedham. The bill asserts that testimony showing fraud or undue influence relating to Louis Cabot's will and three codicils was improperly barred by Judge Hardy. The 24 page bill of exceptions lists witnesses and rulings deemed irrelevant by the appellants' counsel.
The late Samuel W. Emery's $60,000 New Hampshire estate will be shared by his two daughters and son after a Suffolk Superior Court jury found the will procured by undue influence from his widow Mrs Mary E B Emery. The widow must relinquish about half to the three children while Emery's son Samuel W Emery of Portsmouth argued the case for himself with help from James Richardson a Suffolk bar member and nephew of Judge Richardson. The jury deliberated for one hour and thirteen minutes.
The Reading Public Library trustees received a Carnegie offer of 15000 dollars for a new library. The town must provide a site and annual maintenance of 1500 dollars.
A vintage advertisement describes Sandow being held aloft by partner Lambert using Trutone apparatus, highlighting strength display and the product contrast.
Miss Margaret Foley delivered a bold appeal at a noon rally in Faneuil Hall urging Massachusetts men to grant women the vote. The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association campaign convention began yesterday and will end this afternoon with a mass meeting on Boston Common.
The crowd fills two thirds of Faneuil Hall as speakers including Miss Foley Miss Helen Todd and Professor Hart push Massachusetts toward November 1915 vote on women’s suffrage. Powers Zueblin and Hoar preside with Todd’s California testimony and West vs East contrasts. The Parkman bandstand rally closes the convention with planned speeches by Agnes Jenks Minnie Mulry and others.
The American Federation of Musicians adopted by acclamation a resolution mourning Charles Frohman killed when the Lusitania sank. They eulogized his character and treatment of musicians during the convention in San Francisco.
The White Star liner Cretic sails for here with nearly 1000 on board from Naples. Many Americans living in Italy aboard are believed to return due to the war risk. Women and children form a large part of the passengers.
London authorities drive mass arrests of hostile aliens of military age. Hundreds surrender and are sent to concentration camps. Five hundred are shipped to Southend for steamer transport. lack of space hinders processing after rapid government action following riots.
Citizens report that all subjects of enemy nations are registered and must report to police. Some German and alien business owners have closed premises, causing shortages in the East End where many small bakers are German. Repatriation plans for women children and older men face the hardest task.
Brookline police entered a rear manhole at O Day s livery on Boylston Street to search for a man seen entering the sewer. Six officers worked two hours with lanterns under Sergeant Gleason then abandoned the pursuit, believing the man used the sewer to escape. The sewer stretches from Brookline Hills depot to Leverett Pond with varying height.
Worcester May 14 One man was killed and another seriously injured in two accidents tonight. Thomas Racine of Prospect street Oxford was struck by an automobile near his home and died 30 minutes after being brought to his house by James H Watson owner of the car. Francis Whitcomb 20 of Harvard street fractured skull when the front fork of his bicycle broke and he was tossed to the sidewalk.
The New York appellate division ruled it would not interfere with placing Harry K. Thaw's mental status before a jury. It dismissed the prohibitory writ that would have barred submission to a jury next Monday.
Portsmouth New Hampshire May 14 Mayor Harry B Yeaton petitions Boston and Maine railroad owners of the Portsmouth and Kittery bridge for lower tolls between Maine and New Hampshire. He argues railroad earnings over the last decade justify a rate cut and says he will seek PSC action if a new rate is not set.
William Aprons a 52 year old seaman aboard the interned German steamship Kronprinzessen Cecelie at the Clyde street pier East Boston fell down a stairway yesterday and died from his injuries.
Superintendent Crowley and Boston police refute Peter Krakus's statement that New York and Boston officers profited from the outlawry of a gang. Krakus, hanged for a Wilmington police death last March, claimed on the scaffold that he and officers belonged to the same gang.
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