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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1913
Page
3
Frank Chapman of Providence claimed The M. W. Dunton Company used the trade name causing confusion with Nokorode soldering paste sold by a Boston firm. He alleged counterfeit products misled customers and caused financial losses.
Shakspere's Romeo and Juliet starred Sothern as Romeo and Miss Marlowe as Juliet in a bedsitter worthy revival. The cast included Frederick Lewis Mercutio Sidney Mather Tybalt Ina Goldsmith Nurse and Frank Bertrand Friar Laurence. Tonight Much Ado About Nothing and Hamlet are listed.
A promotional notice by Alex Stocks of the Burlington Route advertising summer hotels and lodging in Colorado. It invites readers to request books, maps, and pamphlets with details and prices, promising free assistance for Colorado outings.
Members of the Boston Telephone Operators Union denounced company officials at a recent meeting for failing to uphold the contract terms on the working of divided hours for advancement. The charges focus on how the policy is implemented and its impact on employees.
The adjustment committee reported after a conference with company officials last Saturday and will press for a quick resolution. The May party planning committee announced officers for the Huntington Avenue event led by Miss May Matthews with Annie Malloy as president and Mary Murray as floor director. Proceeds from the party will fund a convention fund and the union meeting was moved to Thursday due to the dance. The secretary was instructed to recommend Marie Smith of New Bedford to run the City Hall switchboard at the Mayor's request.
Governor Hunt signed Arizona’s new alien land bill prohibiting land ownership by non citizens. The law bars Asians who cannot become citizens and many wealthy Mexicans living on the U.S. side but loyal to Mexico.
Mrs Charlotte Despard in a London speech defines the Women's Freedom League policy as favoring law breaking without violence. She says members refuse taxes hold forbidden meetings show contempt for laws but avoid damaging property or personal assault unlike militant suffragettes.
Dr. Anna Shaw told a Westminster audience that English suffragists angered American opinion by portraying women as unsafe with the ballot. She accused American men of using that shock as an excuse, noting women hold 57 electoral votes and that Theodore Roosevelt has taken up the issue as the next presidential race looms.
Chicago May 16 coroner's jury finds Mrs Augusta Dietz responsible or having guilty knowledge in the death of her husband George H Dietz a fashionable tailor whose body was found with a crushed skull in his bed chamber on April 14.
Luigi Facchini a steward on the White Star liner Cretic has spent two days in East Cambridge jail on a smuggling charge. He will sail for Italy aboard the Cretic when the liner departs Charlestown this morning with the charge still pending.
After hearings by United States Commissioner Hayes Facchini was released on his personal recognizance to await the federal grand jury convening next month. He had been arrested on jewelry samples found on him brought by Customs Guard Francis Fallon.
A detachment of 97 Dutch bluejackets who oppose fighting are returning from the Dutch East Indies where they served on a warship. An official despatch states they will be dismissed on arrival due to anti militant tendencies.
Judge Hardy in the equity session of the Superior Court granted Mrs. Caroline S. Niver of Brookline widow of James B. Niver former general agent of Equitable Life Insurance to remove her two sons Edwin T and James B Niver as trustees of the estate The ruling cites negligence by both sides over years without accounting or investigation Mrs Niver alleged mismanagement reduced the estate’s value nearly to nothing
The Colonial Can Company in South Boston granted a 58 to 55 hour workweek after 150 employees quit. About 70 men returned to work at 1 pm. the remaining workers were to resume duties the next morning, as stated by manager Campbell.
Francis Peabody and partners of the Terminal Hotel Trust sue the Boston Elevated in Superior Court for $50,000 damages to Hotel Essex leasing rights. They claim alterations at Atlantic station and new signal house by the Elevated damaged the hotel, not in original plans approved by the Railroad Commissioners.
Harvard will publish 6000 copies of a booklet detailing college life and advantages at Cambridge. The volume includes special articles by leading undergraduates and will be funded by a $1500 graduate subscription. Distribution targets territorial Harvard clubs and readying high school graduates nationwide for fall enrollment.
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