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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 02, 1912
Page
2
Japan pursues growing export trade in cotton underclothing, a new industry that has developed quickly. UK miners have averaged 6.19 work days per week over the last decade. US farm raw produce prices have risen about 36 percent in recent years.
More than 1200 school teachers at the 83rd annual Essex County Teachers Association convention in Tremont Temple voted to seek town authorities' action on teachers' pensions. They plan an old age annuity and will use funds for a literature campaign to spread the pension message.
The group endorsed funding for a county agricultural high school with costs shared by all towns. Key speakers included Dr. P P Claxton who forecast shorter indoor school hours and practical education, and Dr George H Martin who spoke on Education as a Career. Officers elected: Peaslee, Andrews, Sayward, Ireland.
The sixty sixth annual Norfolk County Teachers Association meeting at Ford's Hall featured United States Commissioner of Education Philander B. Claxton, Superintendent George S. Aldrich, and Rabbi Stephen S. Wise. Claxton argued for culture and vocation in education, noting shifts from elite student lines to a growing immigrant and diverse student body and urging equality of opportunity.
Federal authorities destroyed 1500 bottles of vodka and 2 percent apricots after a court order. Macaroni valued at 150 dollars seized in the North End as misbranded for failing to disclose coloring matter. shipped from New York by the Atlantic Macaroni Company.
Albert J. Patterson and Mrs. Emma Bamberger were convicted of murdering James Bamberger at the Bamberger home in Baltimore. The 25 year old son was stabbed to death last July, according to the verdict announced today.
The Evangeline, a Glasgow built Plant Line liner, arrived from Halifax on her maiden voyage to Boston. She measures 364 by 46 feet with 5660 tons displacement and 700 passenger capacity. The vessel features six decks, steel hull, watertight compartments, 18 knot speed, 260 staterooms, and luxury lounges and dining suites. She will sail to Halifax this afternoon and later this month on a Panama Canal tour, with plans for service between the provinces and Boston next spring.
An advertisement promotes The Packard Shoe as the best made in the United States at any price. It claims easy walking comfort and superior appearance, better than $10 custom and bench made shoes, priced at $3.50, $4.00 and $5.00 from S. H. Harrison Co. at 662 672 Washington Street corner Beach.
Agnes Gaitley age 20 of 13 Mindora street was arrested by Sergeant Horton for violation of the white slave law. Rose Sklover 17 of Marblehead was induced to leave home. Annie Armour 24 of 79 Charles street booked after warrant for Gaitley issued. Both on probation for idle and disorderly conduct.
Troy N Y Nov 1 Professor Charles P Hiller shot and killed himself at his Waterford home. Despondency over ill health prompted the act. Hiller aged about 35, a Cornell BA, once held the chair of modern sciences and languages at Colonega College Georgia but resigned because of ill health.
Miss Frances Rose Fay of Jamaica Plain has devised a piano teaching method likened to language instruction. Starting with key locations and tone values, she introduces counterpoint and harmony early to help improvisation and sight reading, aiming to deepen musical understanding beyond mere note translation.
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