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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1914
Page
5
A Minimum Wage Commission report shows about 1629 of 3326 candy workers earned under $5 weekly on average last year. More than half of laundry workers, with longer hours, earned under $6 weekly during those weeks.
The state ranks first in candy production value and second to New York among confectionery makers. About a quarter of women candy workers earned under $4 weekly, with most laundry workers earning under $6 weekly. Dippers and floor girls show varied pay, while bosom press operators top wages above $9 weekly.
Market reports show turkey supplies tight with geese ducks and other poultry plentiful. Public market on Castle street had few turkeys quickly bought. prices at 20 cents expected to rise, downtown markets 25 to 40 cents, Vermont New Hampshire and Western turkeys nearly exhausted.
The Post describes the famous Fox Trot by the Giants at Copley Square next Sunday. The piece notes little room to perform and invites readers to watch the dance.
Two bronze sculptural designs symbolizing Peace and War adorn four stone posts of the newly opened Anderson memorial bridge over the Charles River near Soldiers Field. Artist I Kirchmayer of East Cambridge modeled the pyramidal bronzes. Tablets will bear inscriptions and emblems including Harvard seals and Society insignia, honoring Nicholas Longworth Anderson and linking loyalty to country and alma mater with riverbank study and play.
The fragment lists the Metropolitan Park Commission's oversight of a bridge at Anderson Bridge in 1913. It names Chief Engineer John Richard Rablin and architects Edmund March Wheelwright Parkman Blake Haven and Edward Harrison Hoyt, with builders Holbrook Cabot Rollins Corporation. It includes a biblical quotation and a wisdom proverb on the Boston downstream side.
The Harvard year program continued with a second organ recital in Andover Chapel. Organist Dr. Archibald T Davison Jr led with soprano Ouida Cofrey accompanying. Selections included works by Bach Zardo Boellman Uschaikowski Tosti and Widor.
The General Electric Company plant in Lynn informs its 15,000 employees to report for full time work starting Monday. Orders from the Germany plant call for goods for South American firms while a Western railroad’s electrification project also sends a large Lynn order.
Mark Hydes of Newark arrived in Boston to greet his son aboard the Leyland liner Devonian. The man impersonating ex president Taft caused a noisy scene as he appeared on the East Boston waterfront yesterday morning.
Advertisement promises Dr. Pierce will mail his cloth bound book The Peoples Common Sense Medical Adviser free of charge for the book itself if the 20 cent mailing fee is paid. It claims over 1,000 pages with color plates and illustrations and that the home health guide is easy to read and useful in sickness or accidents. A return mailing offer is made from the Invalids Hotel in Buffalo, New York.
The Supreme Judicial Court distinguishes between clairvoyance and clairaudience in the Eva H. LeDon case from Springfield. LeDon, practising for 70 years, was convicted last May of practicing medicine without authorization and appealed, arguing the remedies were received clairaudiently.
In a trial, a healer testified giving diet and medicine to one man and salve to another while claiming clairvoyant healing. A witness described the healer entering a trance and hearing messages, challenging an acquittal. The Supreme Court clarifies clairvoyant implies seeing in trance, not hearing occult communications.
The Sargent School girls' field hockey team defeated Milton Academy 3 to 0 at Milton yesterday afternoon despite a shortened game due to cold weather. Captain Dorothy Vestal opened scoring in the first period with a legitimate goal and added a second not allowed as it was shot from outside the ring. Edith Kimball and Alice Reardon added the other goals in the second period.
Rockport news reports the death of 11 year old Robert Bales Tracci who drowned after breaking through thin ice on Rap's Pit while crossing home from school.
After weeks of meetings the Bay State Street Railway Company and union representatives select District Attorney Joseph C. Pelletier of Suffolk county as the third arbitrator in their labor dispute. The case covers outside time pay scales for regular and extra men, minimum guaranteed hours, morning report rules, and reductions in shop and yard hours.
The arbitration committee includes Henry Reynolds of Braintree and Hon. James H. Vahey of Watertown. A new working agreement, adopted Oct 1, replaces the expired contract and covers the next two years. Subjects include wage scales for association members and changes to blue uniform pay.
James A. Roberts of Milton says his brother George S. Roberts shot himself Sunday morning at 10 o clock. Mrs. Roberts and Dr. Bartel were notified. the body was found soon after. Roberts attended Harvard, class of 1904, but did not complete his course.
The officers of the newly formed South End Board of Trade set headquarters in the Lincoln House building at 80 Emerald Street. President B. J. Martin and colleagues plan regular meetings on the second and fourth Mondays each month.
The Carmelite convent Roxbury held the Feast of St John of the Cross with a sermon by Rev Augustine D Malley and benediction by Rev Maurice Flynn. A relic was venerated and an Alumnae meeting in Berkeley Street plans Namur relief work. The Miraculous Medal feast was noted at St Vincent's Orphan Asylum with high mass and medal distribution.
Major Murrough O'Brien, new military attaché to the British Embassy, was presented today to President Wilson and at the State War and Navy Departments in Washington where Navy officials noted his role.
The annual hall of the Eleventh Coast Artillery Corps will be held Monday evening Dec 7 at St James Hall. Commanded by Captain William D Cottarn with First Lieutenant M J Long and Second Lieutenant W J Stewart, the event lists committee chairs Arrangements Sergeant B T Sullivan publicity QM sergeant J V Clancy and tickets Sergeant L L Holden.
George E. Dodge of Hampton New Hampshire offers unlimited apples to poorer districts of Boston. In a letter to Mayor Curley yesterday he proposed shipping the apples to designated points. The offer was accepted and school authorities will distribute them.
An advertisement touts LAXKA TIVE BROMO QUININE as a better quinine laxative gift with improved effect and no bead effect. It instructs to note the full name and verify E. W. GROVE's signature on the box and mentions price.
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