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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1911
Page
5
RWPIMS France reports a mono plane crashed from about 200 feet near May 18 killing Lieutenant Paul Dupuis and Pierre Marie Bournique. Both men died in the incident.
New Haven Conn May 18 Henry H W Sykes general manager of the Southern New England Telephone Company died at home today death due to kidney trouble and complications He was 48 years old a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School in 1889 and MIT in 1891
Harris S. Bean leads Conant & Bean, long time fruit and produce dealers at Faneuil Hall Market. Originating from Furber Conant Co and connected to Rand Furber, Bean served in the Forty-fourth Massachusetts Volunteers, helped found the Boston Fruit and Produce Exchange, and held roles in the Boston Chamber of Commerce and Masonic and veterans groups.
Providence May 18 The Rhode Island Commission on Inland Fisheries votes to suspend operations as Governor Pothier vetoes appropriations totaling 19 500 for the lobster program. The Wickford hatchery will close and wardens halt, risking the state lobster industry without new funding. The Tax Commission’s action underpins whether an extra General Assembly session is called this summer.
Three teenage girls from Lynn Massachusetts Josephine Hanley Irene Grady and Edith Nickerson aged 16 to 17 who vanished a week ago were found in Portsmouth New Hampshire and returned to Lynn Their escape started in Lynn then Boston Worcester and other Massachusetts cities before ending in Portsmouth where they slept at sailoffs and wharves until arrest.
May 18 in the House of Lords the Earl of Selborne accused the government of extraordinary supineness in not safeguarding UK interests in the American Canadian reciprocity agreement. He cited President Taft’s speech and warned that the agreement sets a precedent open to large extensions.
The article records a parliamentary exchange over a reciprocity agreement with Canada. Lord Selborne warns that better terms for dominions could erode UK leverage, while Baron Trancas argues the trade damage is overstated and Canada has rights. Baron Lucas says Britain must allow Canada a fair field as talks continue.
May 18 Lynn. The lasters at A. E. Little & Co. shoe factories refuse a workers committee proposal to return to work while a settlement is sought. Over 1000 idle employees press for arbitration, while lasters insist on not adopting an open shop policy pushed by company president A. E. Little.
Mrs Edward Harriman and Ronald Harriman arrived from Boston and will visit Harry Payne Whitney's October Mountain preserve and Antlers Lodge where Mr and Mrs Charles Cary Sanger honeymooned. Mrs Harriman may buy the villa and is said to be ready to draw a check for 100000 to secure the preserve including 30 moose 40 wapiti deer and elk.
Miss Isabel Curtis of Boston stays at the Willis Inn Stockbridge and has sleeved two cords of wood in three weeks for exercise. She chopped wood in nearby forests last winter and can fell a tree as quickly as four men. She makes long walks, often walking from Lenox to Stockbridge and back in a forenoon, a twelve mile round trip.
Counsel for Harry F Curtis in the Sederquist Barry trial in the Criminal Court will decide today whether to offer any evidence in his behalf. The defense seeks a verdict in Curtis favor while the Assistant District Attorney Webber prepares to state which counts he will rely on after previously discontinuing many of the 103 counts alleging larceny of 126060 dollars.
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