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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1913
Page
7
A Standard Oil tank holding 1,400,000 gallons of oil burned since yesterday at five inches an hour and was still burning on Oct 6. Officials estimate losses at 300,600 dollars. A 250,000 gallon gasoline tank nearby could explode at any moment.
Eternal vigilance guides the National Biscuit Company in ingredient selection. Products are protected by attractive tins, Inter-seal Trade Mark packaging, or glass-front cans. Wherever biscuits are sold you find the perfect biscuit of the Company. Each variety cracker cookie wafer jamble cake or snap is the best of its kind.
The Burma of the Russian American line arrived at Mystic wharf Charlestown on its inaugural voyage with 397 passengers eight cabin and 54 steerage were landed in Boston. The ship will make monthly trips starting anew and will stop at Halifax and New York before continuing to Lipau.
Boston Mayor Fitzgerald returns from a West tour and reports he is glad to be home. He issues a statement describing sights and opinions formed, criticizing Boston banks for not investing in local enterprises. He notes widespread investments of Boston capital he observed.
A Lynn bound trolley struck a single horse team driven by Frank H. Whitten of 79 Pleasant street in Lynn while on the Lynn turnpike in Revere last night. The horse was thrown about fifteen feet and badly hurt.
The Progressive party convention in Massachusetts featured unusual openness allowing public input on planks and women on committees with Edna L. Spencer as secretary and forty women on the state committee. Ex-Speaker Joseph Walker led proceedings with broad latitude as delegates debated but remained orderly, while infighting over a Cambridge critic and allegations of paid articles surfaced briefly.
The Progressive party touts reforms including direct primaries, initiative and referendum, nonpartisan budgeting, and labor capital relations. It attacks monopolies and calls for extended civil service, women suffrage, and a reform of the executive branch, with internal debate over railroad policy and various planks debated and largely endorsed by vote.
Chairman Hale praises a red letter day for the Progressive party in this state and denounces the rival Republicans. He notes the Taft Independent Club and Weeks’ connections, argues for direct nominations, direct elections, and direct legislation, and urges enfranchisement of women as a core issue.
William R. Watson, 75, of Roxbury, father of Councillor James A. Watson, was severely injured when knocked from a wagon at Beacon Street and Charles Gate East after a Brighton car struck the wagon. Driver Frank Grant also fell but escaped injury. Watson is at City Hospital with injuries to his left hip and an X ray to determine fracture.
First Assistant Postmaster General Roper and other national, state and city officials will be guests at Branch No. 34, National Association of Letter Carriers, annual banquet in Ford Hall on Monday night October 13. Carriers join a morning parade and evening banquet.
Important witnesses for the Jennie May Eaton murder trial are reportedly missing. The sixteen key witnesses were to be summoned in Plymouth, with notices to be served soon as officials complete notification.
Odge Phelma Prince, aged years, of 854 the street, was seriously injured today when struck and run over by an automobile driven by Joseph White on the Amoskeag bridge in Manchester.
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