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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1913
Page
4
Daniel A. Shea who joined the U S district attorney's office as an office boy six years ago was named second assistant U S district attorney by Attorney General McReynolds. He becomes the third ranking attorney in the office with a salary of 200 dollars. Shea, of Hingham, is married with a baby boy.
Professor E L Thorndike of Columbia University proposed scales to weigh pupil efficiency in the school room. The devices would measure tangible skills like spelling arithmetic and geography rather than rough estimates.
Professor Thorndike discussed testing 3000 Massachusetts pupils this fall while Professor Ernest C. Moore of Harvard spoke on teaching fundamentals. Over 50 teachers from across the state attended, with rural school topics dominating the afternoon.
Thanksgiving at City hospital saw 120 pounds of turkey vanish among patients while wards bloomed with flowers. A. Shuman, board president, visited patients and played with children. Gerald Harrigan from East Boston enjoyed a doctor table dinner at East Boston Relief Hospital. Dr J G Breslin served him, and Haymarket Relief Station cared for five patients.
The Gardner campaign committee filed a treasurer's account at the State House showing $34,692.83 spent with a $1.83 deficit. Contributions included $4000 to the Republican legislative campaign committee and about $6000 for rallies plus $7000 to local town and city committees. Gardner contributed $2000.
Washington November 28 The Senate may block President Wilson’s nominees as the special session ends next Monday noon with several confirmations in doubt. L E Pinkham Hawaii governor Henry M Pindell ambassador to Russia and Alexander Sweek minister to Siam face extended executive sessions tomorrow.
Harvard students attended the first faculty sanctioned tea at Phillips Brooks House in Cambridge. The event aims to connect undergraduates with professors and their wives, with weekly teas planned Fridays 4 to 6 PM, inviting all students and featuring Mrs. Abbot Lawrence Lowell leading the effort.
Edwin D. Mead of the World Peace Foundation Dr James L Tryon secretary of the Massachusetts Peace Society and Mrs Fanny Fern Andrews of the American School Peace League left Boston yesterday to attend the American committee conference commemorating the hundred years peace between the United States and Great Britain to be held in Richmond Virginia on Wednesday and Thursday
Thomas A. Forsyth J. H. D. Stevens George A. Miner Edward Burbeck and Henry A. Wyman were chosen directors of the Boston Belting Company yesterday at a meeting of the stockholders. J. H W. S. Smith was elected treasurer and clerk and Thomas Lang Jr and Charles J Upham were auditors.
Jeremiah Donovan known as O'Donovan Rossa lies near death in his New Brighton cottage as Boston Irish societies organize a relief fund. A meeting at Sherwood Hall on Sunday will unite delegates from Irish clubs to plan a testimonial and raise money. The committee includes Charles McCarthy and Thomas J Collins among others. over 200 societies have pledged support.
Tomorrow ends the sale of a five volume set at 1.98 with a voucher. Thousands of readers in Greater Boston took advantage as the price dropped from 12 to under the cost of one volume. Limited sets remain for today distribution. vouchers must be presented at Liggett Drug Stores with 1.98. Mail orders available, express charges paid by receiver.
A controversy surrounds the play Damaged Goods set to open Monday at Tremont Theatre. Critics fear content, mirroring debates in New York Philadelphia and Buffalo, with Mayor Fitzgerald weighing whether to allow the production locally.
Widespread support and sharp opposition mark Boston debates over the play The Easiest Way. Proponents include Eliot of Harvard and Mrs. Putnam, while critics led by Dr Th orndike argue it harms public morals. Mayor Fitzgerald will view a first performance with independent reviewers before deciding.
Governor elect Walsh will meet Democratic members elected to the Legislature at a noon luncheon in the Hotel Lenox next Wednesday. He will outline his policies as governor and appeal to progressives of all parties to support his program without seeking the Speaker nominee.
The Pope received Rt. Rev. Dennis J. Dougherty bishop of Jaro P I in private audience. The Pope showed great interest in the bishop's report on conditions among the people and on the progress of the country.
The document cites supporters and opponents of Brieux's Damaged Goods. Margaret Deland endorses the work, calling it a moralized ethics lesson. Dr. Thorndike and Dr. Stevens urge suppression, arguing the play harms public morals and should not be performed.
G T Collins a Queenstown pilot became an involuntary passenger on the Lusitania after rough seas forced him to remain aboard in Ireland. The liner departed Liverpool and reached Queenstown where storms continued as it sailed toward America.
Nearly 1000 attendees filled Brookline Town Hall for a Lucy Stone carriage occasion on suffrage. Speakers Miss Helen Todd and Professor Albert Bushnell Hart debated antis arguments, with Hart defending the practical gains and duties of voting rights.
Miss Todd recounts how women’s political engagement aided child welfare laws. She notes her Chicago Hull House ties, six years as an Illinois factory inspector, and later prominence in California’s equal rights movement, highlighting women’s votes as pivotal to reform.
Washington Nov 28 Treasury Department issued instructions to internal revenue collectors altering tax rules on bonds. Collecting agents may attach their own certificates to interest coupons instead of owners certificates to avoid publicizing owners names. Other changes extend bond number reporting to 1913 and foreign-holder form deadlines to Jan 15 1914 to aid compliance.
The executive committee of the New York New Haven Hartford Railroad met to review October subcommittee reports on divesting subsidiary companies from the main system to satisfy federal requirements. Chairman Howard Elliott said progress was steady and the panels aim to finish soon. The dividend issue was not discussed. a decision is expected in early December.
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