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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1913
Page
6
The piece promotes a new installment of George Gibbs charming serial appearing in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine, inviting readers to follow the tale in the weekly issue.
A riot broke out in London as police clashed with suffragists at the Women’s Social and Political Union headquarters in Kingsway. Beatrice Saunders and Harriet Roberts Kerr were rearrested under the cat and mouse act during the incident.
Mrs Saunders and Miss Kerr received 15 and 12 months respectively for conspiracy at the London Assize Court on June 17. They were later freed after a hunger strike and resumed duties this morning amid a raid on their offices on April 30 where officers were assaulted by office staff. Four others were arrested for obstructing police during the interruption of a welcoming at home gathering. A policeman’s tunic was torn as he escaped.
Washington October 1 two important changes in the treasury department were announced Byron R Newton of New York took the oath as assistant secretary succeeding Sherman Allen of Vermont Gabes Parker a Choctaw Indian of Oklahoma was sworn in as registrar succeeding J C Napier of Tennessee
Allen Weidman a high school football player died in Minneapolis after suffering a fractured spinal column during a Sept. 24 game. He was running with the ball when he collided with another player and was thrown.
Washington reports the Republican campaign committee failed to reach a quorum to discuss plans to reduce Southern representation at the national conventions. Advisory committee members explained the proposals, and a full committee meeting is hoped within weeks. The favored plan would base convention representation on the Republican vote in each congressional district.
Miss Eliza M. Greenwood of Wakefield filed a will in East Cambridge probate court. She leaves 35000 in total bequests, with 25300 to 14 institutions and 9200 to private individuals. The Wakefield home goes to First Baptist Church as parsonage. The residue to seven named societies.
William E Hingston a handwriting expert said nine notes payable to George E Williams were raised some to ten times the original amount. Williams, Boston agent for Connecticut Mutual Life, died exposing a dual life in finance and society. Equity proceedings hold up payment on five matured policies as suits claim notes for personal loans were escalated.
New York police create a bureau of unidentified dead under Police Commissioner Waldo. A corps of detectives will identify corpses before burial, inspired by the 18 day unidentified death of Congressman Timothy D. Sullivan.
Bruce Rogers of Seattle an attorney for the Seattle Socialists whose property was damaged in recent sailor riots asked President Wilson to back Senator Poindexter’s bill to fund compensation for property losses. Wilson said he would consult Poindexter.
Earle B. Phelps of Melrose an MIT assistant professor of chemical biology and renowned sanitary expert has been appointed sanitary engineer of the United States public health service. He has gone to Washington to assume duties and implements a rural health department cooperation plan. The program runs from two laboratories for milk standard inspections and infectious disease culture diagnostics, operated at bare cost without interfering with existing town health departments.
The article notes Professor Phelps has earned a federal honor for the second time. It recalls his 1907 Chesapeake Bay investigations and the shellfish examination methods he developed which became standard practice. Early in the current year he originated this work.
In Bartlesville Oklahoma on October 1 arguments began in the case of Mrs Laura M Reuter charged with conspiring to murder her husband a prominent Tulsa attorney last year It is expected the jury will hear the case late Thursday night
Harvard undergraduates contributed 25000 toward the new 2000000 gymnasium fund yesterday marking the initial gift in a campaign. Additional gifts from alumni are anticipated as plans and construction move forward once a solid fund base is formed.
Harvard undergraduates pledged twenty five thousand dollars to the gymnasium fund and yesterday the pledges were redeemed. Hamilton Fish Jr in charge of alumni solicitation said his report would come later. A freshman class committee will soon be named to gather pledges from the 1917 cohort.
Mr and Mrs Joseph Leiter with guests sail from the Potomac aboard the yacht Niagara on a around the world voyage expected to take about a year. Bermuda will be the first stop where New York guests join the party.
The first issue of a new weekly in Everett named the Gazette will be published on Friday. It becomes the city’s second weekly paper. John L. Wells and Elmer E. Spear will edit the Gazette, with Spear serving as Boston daily correspondent.
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