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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1913
Page
3
A Boston Chamber committee recommends building regulation and creation of fire investigation and public education bureaus to lower fire losses and insurance rates. The panel, while not recommending an immediate rate cut, calls for retrenchment of losses and an education plan to prevent fires.
Walter H. Gibbons, art dealer, seeks $10,000 damages from a Providence restoration company over the disappearance of a Rousseau painting valued at $59,000. The work, owned by the late Walter Richmond, vanished while in the company’s custody after Gibbons was dismissed in 1911. Gibbons alleges two years of detective harassment and a ruined reputation culminating in a 48 hour police detention. the painting remains missing.
In Newport Rhode Island on Oct 12 Mrs. J T Comerford of New York disclosed the drowned seaman from the Bridgeport harbor collision after applying for removal of his body from the naval burying ground. The sailor had enlisted under the name Joseph P Russell of New York.
The Citizens' Municipal League plans to endorse a mayoral candidate after the State election. Congressman Andrew J. Peters is strongly backed by Richard Olney for the nomination. Councillor Thomas J. Kenny may consider running, and ex Congressman John A. Kelcher seeks endorsement through a likely fierce league meeting. The league committee reportedly cannot agree on a single candidate.
James J. Storrow will not run, leaving a free field for reform supporters. John R. Murphy vows to stay in the race to the finish amid possible floor nominations. Mayor Fitzgerald says he will not run except in extraordinary emergency, fueling expectations of a second term from reform allies.
Lazarus Finkelstein celebrated his 105th birthday in Chicago. He recalled changes since his Poland birth and expressed support for women's suffrage. He criticized fashion and bombings by English ladies, reflecting on his youth.
The Methodist Episcopal Church effort to raise 20,000 toward a 200,000 fund for superannuated ministers widows and orphans was set back by bad weather as collections were postponed.
John Barrett, director-general of the Pan-American Union, told a Faneuil Hall audience that Boston must grow its South and Central American ties to become a world port. He urged making Columbus Day a Pan American get-together with all 21 republics. Mayor Fitzgerald welcomed the idea and defended Latin America’s role alongside the United States.
The affair was arranged by the Citizens' Public Celebration Association with many Boston consuls from South and Central America on the platform. Mr. Barrett was introduced to the audience.
The Rev. Peter Quinn of Jamaica Plain has leased the Buck mansion on Nichols Street Chelsea for a parish house. The new parish Our Lady of Grace will serve Prattville Chelsea and East Everett including Whidden Memorial Hospital and Soldiers Home. A church will rise on vacant land opposite Washington Park near Nalhajain and Mitchell residences, with construction to begin immediately.
Groveland New York October 12 Ralph Boothe reports a record honey haul from a nearby wild bee tree. After waiting through the season he extracted 62 pounds of comb including some very dark aged sections, counting the comb in his tally.
Frank Waldron Rollins editor of the Ellsworth American died suddenly after a heart failure following an indigestion attack. A Harvard 1877 graduate he led the Plymouth County Journal and the Graph, worked for the Boston Commercial Bulletin and New York Journal of Commerce, and served 12 years as Ellsworth postmaster. He is survived by a widow and two married daughters.
New York, Oct 12 Floyd Dumond returned home to West New York New Jersey from work on the West Shore Railroad to find his wife and children absent. He died of carbolic acid yesterday after neighbors found him dying. An emptied phial lay by his bed with a Stroudsburg Pennsylvania return address letter at the bottom declaring This is a cause of my death.
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