13 Nov 1911
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1911
Page
1
An automobile carrying four people including two women struck a 24 inch water main on the Beacon Street bridge over the Boston and Albany tracks near the Buckminster Hotel at 1 35 this morning. The impact broke the pipe and caused a heavy water flood.
A car crash toppled occupants including Mrs. Charles R. Hayden of 80 Beacon Street who broke an arm while her son-in-law Horace B. Stanton suffered head cuts. Mrs. Stanton was uninjured. Henny Langdon Stewart sustained severe cuts as a 24 inch water main ruptured, sending water 40 feet high and flooding the street and railroad approaches a foot deep.
The four masted schooner Pendleton Brothers arrived with a lumber load from Georgetown SC and spoke of a terrifying gale off the coast. Two seamen plus two officers and the engine crew tried to handle sails as the storm worsened. The main boom split and sails tore while the cook was seasick and unable to help.
Harvard is described as stronger than Dartmouth by Parke Davis. Withington notes Carlisle game disappointment for Crimson coaches. Yale appears ready to face Princeton. Yale in good shape to meet Princeton. Tigers expect no luck in their final game. Exeter alumni pledge to investigate faults in the football system as Suburban league race intensifies. Review of school football.
Severe weather leaves multiple dead and many injured across Virginia Illinois Iowa Nebraska Indiana and North Carolina. Property losses run into millions with at least one hundred aeroplanes wrecked at Mineola as sheds collapse.
City proper reports plate glass windows destroyed in three stores and a flagpole toppled on Hanover street injuring Geantano Lanni. Downed trees in Dorchester Roxbury Chelsea and Cambridge cut power and blocked transport while ships drag anchors near Boston harbor. One vessel breaches Dorchester avenue sea wall tearing railing. a horse dies from a live wire in Malden. Page 8 details.
The Homestead Commission reports a plan to provide workingmen with homes under a state backed program. The plan envisions suburban tracts, streets, parks, and recreation areas funded by a stock issue and state loans at 3 percent. Owners of five shares gain rights to homesteads for themselves and family, with a building association to promote common interests.
The report outlines buying land in the name of the Massachusetts Homestead Commission using state savings bank deposits to fund home building. It proposes a permanent commission with Henry Sterling as secretary and Eva W. White and Warren D. Foster as governor’s appointees. Other members include Director Gettemy, Bank Commissioner Chapin, President Butterfield, and Health Commissioner Coogan. If approved, workers could obtain loans at small interest to build homes, with authority to purchase tracts for the program.
Fire officials conclude a blaze at a three story brick apartment house 14 Limewood street Roxbury started from rats after an 7 PM alarm. The first floor and basement sustained about 500 dollars in damage as occupants evacuated into the street.
Claremont New Hampshire November 12 three Williams College students were forced to descend an anchor rope when their large balloon became snagged in treetops in Unity during a 77 mile flight from Pittsfield. Pilot H Percy Shearman former Williams Aeronautical Society president and H R Corner of Cleveland and J A Jones of New York were rescued.
The Stevens 21 ascended from Pittsfield Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon aiming for a long distance record. A lack of ballast and a thin air layer caused a descent into Unity Maine area where the aerostat snagged in treetops and farmers freed the crew after felling large trees to reach the craft.
Calbraith P Rodgers, fresh from a trans continental flight, fell 100 feet into a plowed field two miles west of Compton between Los Angeles and Long Beach. He arrived bruised but without broken bones. his airplane was wrecked. Rodgers had left Pasadena for Long Beach at 3 24 this afternoon.
The record lists sunrise at 4:58 PM and moonrise at 11:48 PM marking the 317th day of the year. It notes a length of day 9 hours 58 minutes, a 5 hour 24 minute decrease, the 51st day of autumn, and 17 days to Thanksgiving with lights to be lit at 4:55.
Joseph Hooker born 1814, George W Chadwick born 1854, and John Drew Jr born 1854 are noted as notable anniversaries in this brief commemorative item.
Forecast for Boston and vicinity calls for Monday fair and much colder with a cold wave. Tuesday will be fair with high westerly winds. The New England forecast notes fair but much colder conditions with a Monday cold wave and high west winds.
White Star liner Canopic with Cardinal-Designate O'Connell was reported not in the storm's path. Weather officials said the gale shifted course and moved northward toward the St Lawrence Bay, avoiding the vessel and its party.
Foreman Nathan E. Butterfield shot Henry C. Williams at the U S fish hatchery two miles from St Johnsbury Vermont and then killed himself. Both men were expert fish culturists and close friends. Butterfield, 40, Williams, 35, died instantly. Butterfield had worked for the government about five years and Williams about three. motive traced to temporary derangement after Butterfield’s recent daughter’s death.
The noon hours brought a double killing as Faulkner Carter overheard colleagues discussing work before finding two men dead in blood pools at the hatchery barn. Williams was shot twice in the chest and Butterfield through the mouth. The revolver near the scene belonged to Maurice Kelley, a photographer, who had borrowed or lost a gun earlier that morning. Kelley’s note offering his new gun to himself hinted at possible motives amid grief over the loss of his 18-year-old daughter who had been set for study at the Boston Conservatory of Music. The incident prompts questions of insanity driven by bereavement, though the employer saw the worker as normal. Continued on Page 14-Sixth Column
Reverend George W. King and the People's Temple Methodist Church on Berkeley Street object to paving work done in front of the church during Sunday services. Neighbors report disruption and noise affecting worship. Local authorities have not announced any timetable for work changes.
Pastor of People's Temple backed by Sabbath Protective League accuses Berkeley street paving of desecrating Sunday worship. A 100-man gang worked despite protests, disrupting services at the People's Temple and First Presbyterian Church as plans for further action are threatened.
Springfield reports tension as Bertram G. Spencer faces trial with Attorney-General James M. Swift and District Attorney C. T. Callahan coordinating from the Navaset Club. Swift to conduct cross-examination after a month of case study by both Commonwealth attorneys.
Spencer goes to trial in Hampden County Court House for the March 31, 1910 murder of Springfield teacher Martha B. Blackstone with Judge John C. Crosby presiding. A 233-member venire and extensive alienist testimony mark a likely mental condition defense. The Commonwealth reports elaborate stenographic and phonographic methods for witness testimony.
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