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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1907
Page
12
BE F Slocum vice president of Safety Car Lighting and Heating Company leaped from a ferry’s upper deck on Nov 15 in New York. He was rescued after his bride of four months and his sister tried to stop him.
Judge White of the Superior Criminal Court sentenced Giuseppe Malavio to 18 years in State prison after a five year- old indictment for the murder of Placido Russo. Malavio has a noted criminal record.
Statemakers labor to assemble a seven man slate backed by the Republican and Democratic City Committees and the Good Government Association. The GGA will back Benjamin Bates who beat George Battis in East Boston, W Prentiss Parker in the Sixth District, Frederick J. Brand and Louis Clark in the Eighth District, and Walter Ballantyne who defeated Berwin in the Ninth District.
Keefe, head of probation, reversed course on Edna Houghton case after earlier defiance, agreeing to place the matter on file rather than proceed in open court. The condition tied to the filing required the woman to return to Maine.
The piece details tentative Democratic and Republican slates for Boston politics. It names candidates in multiple districts including James B. Noyes, George P. Anderson, Robert Bowen, Alexander Rose, and Dudley Cotton, with others like Ellery Clark and Bill Cundy as potential picks and mentions internal party tensions and factional alignments.
About 100 members of the Massachusetts Reform Club gathered at the Parker House for the November meeting. Speakers included James B. Reynolds Louis D Brandeis and Henry Beach Needham who outlined the People Lobby aims to influence national legislation and provide factual information to the public. Subscriptions for support were invited to Henry B Needham in Washington.
A jury in the U S Circuit Court’s second session returned a verdict for 15700 dollars against the Boston Elevated road in Grace and Hyde Company of Illinois versus Boston Elevated. The Illinois firm leased Huntington avenue exhibition grounds from the road on January 1 1896 and opened a Shoot the Chutes enterprise but vacated after a little over two years with three years left on the lease.
Surgeon General Rixey in a public report recommends enlarging the Chelsea Naval Hospital with an extension on the Mystic River bank at a cost of 200000 dollars. In the past year 813 patients received treatment at the facility.
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