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Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1911

Page

4

Man Surrenders After Fatal Assault on Burnett

Fred Laughlin 35 of ls street surrendered at Lynn station claiming self defence in the assault on James Burnett 60 on Muberry Street Tuesday noon. Burnett, hospitalized in critical condition with a fractured skull, was reported by police as the victim. Laughlin was released on a $2000 bail.

Fred Laughlin Ls Street Lynn Station James Burnett Muberry Street Lynn Hospital Laughlin Burnett

Million in legacies left by Mrs Cooke

The will details large private bequests to relatives including $20 000 to niece Alice Pew and $10 000 to Rev William Reed Huntington. It sets multiple public bequests to Harvard affiliated institutions and Cambridge hospitals, with several trust funds to support Harvard professors, the Radcliffe College Josiah Parsons Cooke Scholarship, and the Cambridge Hospital. The Boston real estate and other assets are placed in trusts with income to Huntington during life.

Alice H. Pew William Reed Huntington Grace Church New York Episcopal City Mission Avon Home Cambridge Josiah Parsons Cooke Cambridge Hospital Elisha Huntington Cooke Lowell Edward A. Walker New Haven Ethel Childe Walker Yale Josiah P. Cooke Oliver W. Huntington Herbert Huntington James T. Huntington Sarah Louise Huntington Elsie Huntington Radcliffe College Brattle Street Harvard College Harvard American Academy of Arts and Science of Boston

True Beauty Without Powders or Cosmetics

Mme Ferri promotes a simple lotion for beauty using one origin al package of mayatone in eight ounces of witch hazel. The mixture is rubbed into the skin daily to clear blemishes and prevent tan freckles or sun damage.

Mme. Ferri

Melrose Citizens Record Gifts for Soldiers' Memorial Hall

A large thermometer on Main Street will publicly show daily gifts toward the Soldiers' Memorial Hall. At a banquet last night $5145 was subscribed toward the $17,500 pledge by citizens to raise for the project.

Melrose Main Street

Fletcher Opponents Riled At Unitarian Meeting

Judge Adelbert Moot of Buffalo arraigned the Unitarian convention leaders at Tremont Temple. The incident followed their denunciation of Senator Duncan V. Fletcher of Florida, who in the afternoon was named a vice-president of the American Unitarian Association, prompting a temple-wide protest over his Lorimer vote.

Adelbert Moot Buffalo Tremont Temple Duncan V. Fletcher Florida Fletcher American Unitarian Association Lorimer National Senate

Unitarian meeting debates Fletcher Lorimer and Belmont issues

Judge Moot denounces hasty denunciation of Lorimer as unfounded while Fletcher is defended as honest. Clergy and politicians including Carr of Andover and Eliot preside as debates over Fletcher’s vice presidential nomination and Lorimer's case unfold with sharp exchanges.

Association Elects Officers Led by Samuel E. Eliot

President Eliot announced the motion to strike Senator Fletcher’s name failed. The association then elected officers led by Samuel E. Eliot of Cambridge. Other officers include vice presidents Reuben B. Walker Concord N. N. Eben S. Draper Hope dale Mass Emma C. Low Brooklyn Duncan V. Fletcher Jacksonville Charles W. Ames St. Paul Paris Gibson Great Falls Mont Horace Davis San Francisco G. W. Stephens Montreal secretary Lewis G. Wilson Boston treasurer Francis H. Lincoln Hingham directors for New England Paul R. Frothingham Boston Mrs. Prescott Keyes Concord Henry B. Little Newburyport John D. Long Hingham Middle and Southern States Henry W. Sprague Buffalo Western and Pacific Wilson M. Backus Minneapolis

Eliot Fletcher Association Samuel E. Eliot Cambridge Reuben B. Walker Concord N. N Eben Draper Hopedale Mass Emma C. Low Brooklyn Duncan V. Fletcher Jacksonville Charles W. Ames St. Paul Paris Gibson Great Fall Mont Horace Davis San Francisco G. W. Stephens Montreal Lewis G. Wilson Boston Francis H. Lincoln Hingham New England Paul R. Frothingham Prescott Keyes Henry B. Little Newburyport John D. Long Hngham Henry W. Sprague Buffalo Western and Pacific Wilson M. Backus Minneapolis

$700 Hidden in Money Belt Survives Hold Up

D McChern of Los Angeles registered at the Hotel Essex and was battered by two men on Essex street. They took $100 from his pockets but failed to find the $700 in his money belt. He had been sightseeing with two companions when the assault occurred around 10 pm.

D. McChern Los Angeles Cal Essex McChern Essex Street

Shorties May Enter Boston Fire Department

The Boston Fire Department may lift its three year ban on shorter applicants. A City Council hearing considered reducing the minimum height for recruits from five feet seven inches to five feet five inches. Fire Commissioner Daly argued that men under the previous height standard lack the weight and strength needed for firefighters.

Boston Fire Department Fire Department Daly

Curfewites Rile City Council in Heated Hearing

Boston's City Council narrowly faced about 100 curfew supporters, mostly women, during a lively hearing on the proposed curfew ordinance. Proponents applauded and questioned councillors who in return defended their stance, prompting promises of a second hearing to continue the debate.

Boston Aldermanic

Missionary Nurse Appointed to Pong Chuang China

Miss Myra L. Sawyer of 76 Summer Street Malden is named missionary nurse at Pong Chuang China. She will sail from Seattle or Vancouver in the near future.

China Myra L. Sawyer Summer Street Malden Pong Chuang Seattle Vancouver

Boy Killed Under Train at Winthrop Station

Harold Baker age 19 of 177 Pauline street Winthrop was struck by the 8 o clock train at Winthrop station on the Revere Beach Lynn railroad yesterday morning and killed. He was hurrying across the tracks to speak to his father a passenger on the train and is believed to have stumbled and fallen in front of the approaching engine.

Harold Baker Pauline Street Winthrop Revere Beach & Lynn Baker

Cambridge Man Dies in Maine

Stillman R. Randolph 82 of Cambridge died suddenly in Camden Maine early yesterday from an acute indigestion attack. Harvard graduate. He is survived by a wife and a five year old son.

Stillman R. Randolph Stillman F. Randolph Cambridge Camden Mr. Randolph Harvard

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