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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1912
Page
18
Mayor Fitzgerald disapproved the school committee order setting the business agent salary at 5000 and assistant superintendents at 6000. He cites rising expenses and notes many assistant roles are advisory while affirming superintendent pay for a distinguished educator. The veto leaves in place raises for practice and training leadership for the year ending Aug 31, 1913.
Four young people aboard the yacht Busy Bee escaped serious injury when a sudden squall snapped the mast and drove the boom overboard. Miss Florence Wyman steered, leaped forward, and avoided injury. Miss Nickerson Frank Hardwick and George Newcombe were also aboard as the yacht was towed to Quincy Yacht Club.
The annual election of officers of the Young Men's Hebrew Association of Roxbury was held yesterday afternoon at the club house on Warren Street. Elected as officers were Dr. N. A. Finkelstein president Edward E. Ginsburg vice president Jacob L. Wiseman recording secretary Samuel A. Levine financial secretary and Samuel Magid treasurer. The board of directors includes Nathan S. Sodekson Casper Greenberg F I Commandy M M Reinhertz A Adelson P Ratskoff J Canter H Falkson J Berkowitch J Lebovitch A Pinanski H Wollman A E Rose H Cohen A Hurowitz Carl Gerstein W I Schell S Gordon B Lewis and A Wollerstein.
An old advertisement touts Strength-Father John's Medicine as a tonic to build strength and cure colds. The copy emphasizes health benefits and invocations of vigor.
Ma Belle the English dancer insured her ten toes and hair for eight years with Lloyds as she arrives in Boston for B F Keith’s Theatre engagement. She joins Pavlova and Genee as toe insurance holders and cites ballet versus voice study and the rising American vaudeville scene.
A two year old girl Agnes Gerhowitch suffered serious burns when four year old Angelo Ballerini accidentally set her clothing on fire in a Lynn yard. Her mother Mrs Gerowitch and Samuel Hoffman helped extinguish the flames and were burned while assisting. The child was treated at Lynn Hospital. condition listed as serious but improving.
A Sunday morning police raid of Hotel Taxi at 408 Tremont Street arrested 34 people, 17 couples, for lodging without license. Detainees were booked as statutory offenders and sent to the Tombs due to limited cell space. They face Municipal Court arraignment today.
Jacob Bennig of 11 Brattle terrace Arlington died suddenly from heart disease. He was an organ maker for Mason & Hamlin and installed instruments nationwide. Next week he planned a trip to New Orleans and Denver to install organs. Survived by wife and five children, with two daughters studying music in Germany. Funeral from St. Agnes Church Arlington with burial at Mt. Pleasant.
President Taft rejects Lyman Abbott's warning that immigration will alter national character. He argues immigrants already boost prosperity and national resources and cites the strong physical type and abilities of immigrant children seen in school playgrounds.
President Taft declared he is satisfied with political conditions and cited a flood of letters and newspaper clippings showing the party’s rise, platforms, and candidates. The remarks came as he spoke in Dalton.
The speaker reports strong Republican confidence in the Northwest, noting a shift away from a third term candidate toward the Republican platform. He cites home protection and trade expansion as drivers of prosperity, with rising wages, growing demand for goods, and a peaceful approach to labor disputes under Republican policy.
President Taft argues that supply and demand along with labor organization and arbitration and applicable legislation govern hours and pay in public service and set an example for private employers. He warns a general minimum wage should not drive up the maximum. He notes labor orgs understand this outcome.
The speaker defends tariffs to protect wages against foreign competition and rejects an Interstate Trade Commission. He cites Sherman law enforcement, praises immigration for national prosperity, and lauds U S Marines in Nicaragua for humane conduct amid regional upheaval.
President Taft insists wages must stay up by maintaining a protective tariff, arguing that lowering tariffs to boost revenue would harm American workers. He criticizes the Democratic party and Governor Wilson for proposing tariff cuts amid conditions he calls unfavorable.
Mount Holyoke College observes 75 years with an alumnae endowment report of 500000 dollars and a 125000 dollar student alumni building project. The celebration includes a Field Memorial Gateway opening, campus light displays, and a program featuring degrees awarded to educators and alumnae.
About 250 foreign physicians from Germany Austria and Switzerland arrived at North Station and checked into Copley Plaza Hotel for a three day Boston stay accompanying the International Congress of Hygiene and Demography in Washington. They will tour hospitals colleges and parks with receptions at the Public Library Somerest and Harvard University.
Berlin aviation week ends with two more fatalities as a monoplane driven by Ernst Aug and carrying a mechanician plunges from 600 feet after a wing failure. The mechanician is hurled from the craft at 450 feet and falls. Atig also dies, all instantly.
The Society San Ciriacco of Boston held a grand celebration for its patron saint with church services, parades, and a banquet. The parade began at 193 Han over street at 2 PM led by the Italian Marine Band, with Angelo Cervelo as marshal.
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