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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1911
Page
12
Freshmen at MacAlester College in St Paul wear blue caps marked 15 spar, hats pulled, hair pulled, and fists fly after chapel. Sophomores and later faculty intervene to quell a chaos sparked by student tensions. The article targets degradation of womanhood and critiques social ills including the white slave traffic.
In Binghamton New York a Philadelphia rabbi Rev Dr Henry Berkowitz warned at the New York State Conference of Religions that society places a price on girlhood and forces women into wage labor outside the home. He denounced modern conditions that remove women from home life and push them into competing for daily bread.
In Ithaca on November 16, co ed dining hall workers at Sage Dormitory returned to duty after a strike by student waiters ended. The agreement allows workers to earn 4.20 dollars a week and eat meals where they choose, ending butter-use disputes with the girls’ tables.
The Chicago School Board's one cent lunch program, begun as an experiment, has become a curricular feature in several public schools. It helps hungry children from strained families become healthier and more alert, with meals paired with table etiquette lessons.
Michael J. Coffey overslept on his wedding morning delaying the ceremony at St. Joseph's Church in Winsted. He arrived late with Miss Mary O'Brien causing the pair to miss an early honeymoon train. Friends teased them at the railway station as celebrants waited for the next train.
London November 16 The Admiralty Court began cross actions over the collision of the Olympic and the Hawke off the Isle of Wight on September 20. The suits claim negligence by both sides with liability for large damages. evidence includes suction theory and testimony from Captain H B J Smith of the Olympic.
Cambridge Massachusetts was chosen as the next annual meeting site of the American Ornithologists Union at its final session. Researchers from across the country presented papers on bird habits during today’s sessions in Cambridge.
The Rev. Father Connolly aged 63 a well known figure across Canada died suddenly today of heart failure at his home in Sault Ste. Marie Ontario. He previously served as pastor in Guelph Ontario and Montreal Quebec.
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