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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1912
Page
14
James B. Connolly, Progressive candidate for Congress in the 12th district, had his wife on duty at Precinct 6 Ward 20 from 7 AM to late day urging voters to back his candidacy.
Mrs. Connolly in black corduroy velvet and a white plume hat stood about 100 feet from the Benjamin Cushing School polling place urging voters to back her husband James B. Connolly on the Progressive ticket. She worked nearly all day, thanking supporters as they voted and staying until polls closed.
Falls a mile and yet lives as Charles E. Niles, aviator at a Hammondport flying school, survives a forced descent after his engine fails in strong wind. He had flown four and a half hours against a 650 mile wind when a connecting rod loosened and tore a hole in the crank case, leaving him with a dead plane and minor bruises.
With over half the votes counted by 10 p m in New Haven Connecticut shows Wilson and Marshall leading with seven electoral votes. Wilson 55073 Taft 50052 Roosevelt 24913. Baldwin suspected re elected by about 9000 plurality. Democrats likely win four of five Congress seats.
Wilson carried Arkansas by about 60 000 votes with Roosevelt likely second. All Democratic congressional nominees were elected by usual majorities.
An ear of sweet corn from a Cambridge area farm bears a pig’s foot shape with three branched kernels at the tip. The six inch ear, grown by F. P. Robinson of 92 Inman Street, Cambridge, was allowed to harden for display and can be kept indefinitely.
Vermont returns show a tight race between Taft and Roosevelt as 194 cities reported Taft 19,568 Roosevelt 19,081 and Wilson 13,248 with about 50 districts missing. Governor race remains unsettled as no candidate won a majority and the Legislature will decide. Fletcher is indicated as governor by the September election.
Jackson Mississippi shows a Democratic landslide with an estimated 105000 majority. Roosevelt electors are expected to receive the second largest vote, and all Democratic congressional nominees appear to have won by large margins.
Early returns from Ohio suggest Wilson leads the state by about 125000 votes and Cox wins the governorship by a larger margin. The Democratic ticket appears set to capture the state, most of 21 congressional districts, and likely push Republicans from numerous county offices amid Progressive party competition.
In San Francisco and across California women took a leading role in the first election where they could vote. In Los Angeles women aided Progressive workers as they delivered many voters to the polls. In San Francisco women served as clerks and 80 women in the 31st district did picket duty to oppose Eddy Wolf for State Senator and his favored race track. In North Beach women chalked anti race track messages after signs were blocked by a saloon keeper and others. Rain began after 8 pm but did not much affect turnout.
William H. Poole of Belmont Republican won the 30th Middlesex district seat, defeating Democrat Joseph H. McNally of Watertown by 176 votes. Progressive candidate George N. Lockhart of Belmont earned 517 votes. Poole 1288 and McNally 1107. Poole said he had not decided on a US Senate choice.
In Georgia incomplete returns from 130 of 148 counties show an estimated 30 000 vote lead for Wilson with two counties Haralson and Paulding credited to Roosevelt.
Twenty fishing vessels docked at T wharf bringing 235 000 pounds of haddock 57 500 pounds of cod 169 200 pounds of hake 26 400 pounds of pellock 8000 pounds of cusk and 1500 pounds of scrod. The Foam beam trawler delivered the scrod while Eva Mildred Jeanette Rebecca and Valerie contributed cusk amounts. An overturned dory signals another incident.
A long shipping update lists arrivals and clearances at port with many vessels names and destinations. Steamers and schooners from Bangor Philadelphia Boston Norfolk and others are noted as arrived cleared or sailed along with barges towed by multiple tugs and the dates November 6 provide the time frame.
Under a Circuit Court decree the company creates Hercules Powder Company and Atlas Powder Company. The new issues total 9 million and 8 million dollars respectively, guaranteed by E I du Pont de Nemours Powder Co, with exchange rights for 414% thirty year bondholders and terms for subscription and delivery through the Guaranty Trust Company of New York. Deadline December 1 1912.
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