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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
16
Postmaster General Burleson and Secretary of War Garrison sign an order stating embossed stamped envelopes and single one cent postal cards may be used for postage to the Philippines or the United States after July 1. Stamps are not included in the order.
Judge Morton dismissed the libel of John W. Ryan a city letter carrier who charged his wife Ellen F with being addicted to intoxicating liquor after a hearing in Suffolk Divorce Court yesterday.
George J. Kendall of Lebanon awaiting trial for the murder of Joseph Osgood at Plainfield on December 6 hanged himself in the county jail. Kendall’s wife, Mrs. Kendall, who had been keeping house for Osgood, was shot by him but recovered.
Secretary of State William J. Bryan will be the orator at the Bunker Hill Day celebration of the Charlestown Catholic Literary Society on the eve of June 17. The mayor received the announcement yesterday.
Charles W. Morse elected president of the Hudson Navigation Company owners of Hudson River steamers. Morse previously led the company in 1909 before being deposed. John W. McKinnon sold his stake to bankers who placed Morse back in control.
Joseph M. Herlihy, a Charlestown milk dealer, pleaded guilty in Superior Criminal Court to having a foreign substance in milk and received a $100 fine. He was fined an additional $10 on another charge for failing to meet proper milk standards.
Copenhagen May 28. Automations may replace soldiers in the next war if an invention patented by Danish engineer Resen works as claimed.
At Goddard Home for Nurses Roxbury yesterday eight girls received diplomas after a three year training. They will begin as private nurses with two exceptions. Marie Josephine Ward will stay as head nurse at the hospital and Henrietta Sutton becomes a district nurse. The class also includes Gertrude Morton Marion E. Smith Bessie C McGee Mary M. Landers Jensine K Gundolph and M Eugenie Anctil.
The Federation of Jewish Charities held its annual meeting in Temple Israel vestry with a crowd. Louis D. Brandeis delivered the chief speech replacing Edward A. Filene who went to Europe. A. Ratshesky chaired as reports were read.
Aeson reveals a ground buried electric cylinder that rises two feet and fires 400 shots at 3000 yards. Operated from a station four to five miles away, it could defend areas with multiple units and claim to mow down 90 percent of attacking forces. Crops could grow over the automatons in peace, concealing them until firing.
City officials opened the Chelsea north bridge built at 400000 dollars. The 368 foot long, 60 foot wide span carries two side walks two car tracks and two roadways. It features two 125 foot channels and 30 foot depths at mean low tide.
The Old Guard of Atlanta with 47 members and 180 total veterans arrives in Boston to attend Memorial Day exercises May 30. They are greeted by Post 113 G A R and the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company, then tour Lexington Concord and Belmont before returning by boat.
The treasurer’s report shows a cash balance as delegates from constituent bodies are elected. The nomination committee names directors for three years and one year, all unanimously chosen. President Ratshesky notes relief methods worked, cites higher expenditures, and urges more visitors to focus on individual cases. Brandeis speaks on poverty causes and solutions, urging shorter work hours and addressing child labor and nutrition.
The work horse parade on Memorial Day will begin at 9 o clock and finish by 1 o clock or a little later. The horses can be seen on Commonwealth avenue and Bay State road before the parade starts and while it is in motion. After the horses pass the reviewing stand the parade will proceed eastward on Commonwealth avenue to Massachusetts avenue where it will be dismissed.
The Treasury Department issued new rules to curb abuses in issuing expedite orders allowing quick inspection of a tourist's baggage on arrival. Expediting will be limited to specific Treasury directives emergencies delegates to international conventions returning from such meetings and certain travelers including lone women and elected U S officials.
Eva Kirchevsky aged 4 living at 80 West Cedar Street West End was saved from oncoming runaway horses hitched to an ice wagon on West Cedar Street by John J. Murphy. Murphy was knocked down by the horses and Incapacitated at his home 74 West Cedar Street for several weeks.
The Republican legislative committee met yesterday afternoon and elected Treasurer Thomas W. White of Newton and Secretary James E. Fowle of Newburyport. The executive committee includes James L. Harrop Worcester, John W. W. Faxon Fitchburg, Edward Hathaway New Bedford, John L. Sherburne Brookline, Channing H. Cox Boston, and Victor L. Jewett Lowell.
Henry Russell, managing director of the Boston Opera House, cables from Paris to deny reports that Alice Nielsen would quit. Nielsen has been re engaged for the Boston and Metropolitan opera companies and also Covent Garden.
Writing from Detroit during the Northern Baptist convention, the president of Denison University today accepted the secretaryship of the American Baptist Foreign Missionary Society.
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