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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1916
Page
11
Readers line up to defend stenographers after a Somerville bookkeeper’s critique alleging they are light headed and husband hunting. Letters defend conduct, wages, and professionalism, noting most women act decently and deserve fair pay above ten dollars weekly.
Mrs. Robert Bruce Liggett, a Duluth society leader, urged women to rebel against motherhood until life-suffering is relieved. She argued higher education increases suffering and attacked the sacred status of motherhood, calling for selection of women for breeding and limiting mothers to those of a lower type.
Taunton May 21 Louis Souza of North Dighton was arrested today charged with the murder of William Jayne a 21 year old moulder killed in a street fight last night Autopsy indicates death from a neck wound apparently from a pocket knife.
Harvard announces a 1916 17 year course for students. Dr Ernest Bernbaum will teach a special class on the literature of 1890 1915 focusing on living authors and their works.
Mrs Lucy Alexander mother of Francesca Alexander the artist died in Florence age 105. Born in Cambridge Massachusetts she had lived in Lipston and Florence. She supported 40 families with annual pensions and left an estate valued around 5 000 000 dollars.
A mass meeting of union weavers in New Bedford decides 14 to 17 5 to delay final strike action until after a second gathering next Sunday. The delay follows reports of possible conciliatory action by manufacturers on the wage and work standard issue.
Frank Curtis will speak to Shawmut Avenue Mission men on The Power to Save and host supper after. The Free Religious Association of America holds its 49th annual convention and festival next Thursday and Friday with business Thursday at 4 00 in Copley Hall Studios Boston. Tremont Temple opens Friday May 26 at 10 00 am with The Message of Free Religion to Our Time led by Rev. John Haynes Holmes. The morning service at Clarendon Street Baptist Church accommodated invalids with auto transport. Rev. William Allan preached What Wasl We For Death or the Second Advent of Christ. A special vestry meeting at Union Congregational Church on Columbus Ave next Friday at 7 45 pm will decide cooperation in a Boston Sunday evangelistic campaign and review State conference reports and summer plans. Cathedral of St Paul noon services assign Rev Joseph H Cooper today Rev James J Cogan tomorrow Rev Charles H McCurdy Wednesday Rev Raymond H Kendrick Thursday.
More than 100 children from St Joseph's Parochial Schools Somerville joined in the May procession and crowning of the Statue of the Blessed Virgin yesterday afternoon, marking a community religious celebration.
John Shea age 40 of 291 Arsenal Street Watertown was attacked by an unknown man at 2 50 yesterday afternoon in Province Court. He was taken to the relief hospital with a lacerated forehead wound.
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