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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1912
Page
8
Mrs. George M. Woods of 6 St Botolph street was astonished to learn her husband was held in Malden as a mysterious thief and housebreaker. Malden police acknowledged the case, noting they may have a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde type suspect in custody.
George Woods, in his fifties, jailed on bonds under $1000 amid a widening Malden theft spree. Police tie his arrest to numerous break ins across Malden Everett Sommerville Cambridge and Melrose as he confessed to burgling F H Andrews on High street and being caught at Tom Sullivan’s Crescent avenue residence. His wife, unaware of the crimes, defends him as a model husband after decades of marriage.
Boston is and should be thankful with a status of activity prosperity and achievement. The city shows higher efficiency in municipal service and moves from self-satisfaction toward world leadership in industry and commerce. Citizens' duties to neighbor and community are clear as health and education improve. Boston is better bigger and busier than a year ago.
In Grenloch New Jersey on the main line of the Pennsylvania railroad a train carrying passengers from Philadelphia and New York to Pittsburg and the West derailed rolling over a fifty foot embankment. Two were killed and 22 injured.
A. B. Smith & Co. Inc cigar manufacturers at Massachusetts avenue and Windsor street Cambridge filed voluntary petitions in bankruptcy yesterday in U S District Court. Albertis B. Smith treasurer lists personal liabilities of 208167 and assets of 50247.61. The firm shows liabilities of 37887.62 with assets of 23079.86.
The Supreme Court held an electric car is a vehicle under traffic law and that street cars should be passed on the left. Boston officials, via the Board of Street Commissioners, say their traffic rules supersede the prior law and do not change local traffic.
The Boston street commissioners cite Chapter 447 of the Acts of 1908 as the legal basis for traffic regulations, asserting it supersedes the 1902 law. They will not change rules pending court tests, warn of possible disruption, and seek another opinion from the corporation counsel. They define vehicle to include horses, motor vehicles, and everything on wheels except street cars.
Professor Charles EB Lyon will speak on Progressive Drama and the New Stagecraft at Clark College in the weekly Friday lecture series. The public talk begins at 8 o clock sharp tomorrow evening and will cover developments in modern dramatic art.
The Melrose Soldiers and Sailors Memorial opens tonight with the Boston Symphony Orchestra drawing a crowd of over 1000 tickets sold at 2 and 2 50 dollars. John C F Slayton chairs the commission that built the hall contributing 25000 dollars and guiding plans started in 1911 with initial city appropriations and private gifts. The concert features Miss Aline Van Barentzen and Melrose native Miss Elena Kirmes with intermission displays of electrical effects and stage scenery.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra director Dr Karl Muck was honored at a Papyrus Club dinner at Young’s Hotel. A George W Chadwick composed song capped the program with Judge Charles T Davis as toastmaster. Attendees included Professor Spaulding Harvard Frederick Converse and others.
Karl Johannes Kaempf, long serving member for the Emperor's district of Berlin, was today re elected speaker of the Imperial Parliament. His return confirms continuity in parliamentary leadership.
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