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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 27, 1912
Page
3
House Judiciary Committee will launch a general trust investigation after the Christmas recess. Chairman Clayton said no specific inquiry lines are fixed yet, and the panel will focus on gathering information to aid anti trust legislation.
Albert Parker faced United States Commissioner Hayes on a charge of possessing spurious coins. He claimed starvation drove him to counterfeit. The commissioner held him for the grand jury with bail set at 2500, and Parker was committed to East Cambridge jail.
In Franklin New Hampshire on November 26 William W. Edwards Republican won the mayoral election. He defeated Democrat Julius B. Hale while third party candidates Irvin Drake Progressive and James Terry Socialist trailed with 186 and 42 votes respectively. Edwards totals 419 to Hale's 287.
City coal merchants forecast lower anthracite prices within weeks if shipping weather remains good. Current price stands at 8.25 dollars per ton, about 50 cents above normal, driven by coal scarcity and premiums from independent operators supplying the port.
Mrs. J. C. Layman and her three young sons were burned to death in a fire that destroyed a Mennonite settlement farmhouse in Warwick county near Newport News. Several other families lived there and several occupants had narrow escapes.
There will be no delivery of mail on Thanksgiving Day this year. The post office will be closed for the day to give letter carriers and clerks a real holiday. Special delivery letters will be delivered as usual and mail will be collected and dispatched as on other holidays.
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