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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1914
Page
6
Rain is forecast to break Boston’s severe drought with showers Friday and likely Saturday. Forecasters note only 0.21 inches in the current period, near Boston’s driest month record, and warn widespread losses to crops and rising milk prices. Rain would aid forests and curb brush fires across New England.
Cambridge reports Professor W M Davis, who left Boston in June to study coral reefs, is in the Society Islands and plans to return to Harvard the end of next month. He has been awarded an honorary Doctor of Science by the University of Melbourne. Davis has visited New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, and the New Hebrides and attended the British Association meeting at Adelaide in August.
Laide delivered several lectures in Melbourne and Sydney, Australia. In September he sailed from Sydney, via New Zealand, to the Society Islands.
Sir Lionel Carden the former British minister to Mexico repudiates an interview attributed to him aboard his sailing from New York in which he allegedly criticized President Wilsons policy on Mexico. The repudiation was conveyed to the U S State Department by Ambassador Paget in London after inquiries to the British foreign office about the interview.
The Rev. Edgar Warren Johnson of West Wordsboro Vermont, pastor of the Baptist Church there, married Miss Ethel Marian Hall of Wakefield at the bride's home last evening. The ceremony was performed by the Rev. Francis D. Taylor of the Wakefield Methodist Church.
The Sunday Post announces the start of a loose-leaf scrapbook project featuring weekly pictures and a note on how to assemble it next Sunday. The item describes collecting images, preserving memories, and creating a continuing visual record for readers.
A speaker questions a proposed $10,000,000 bequest to Harvard noting he has no such fortune to leave. He cites Clarence's unstable finances, denies leaving all wealth to him, and mentions a sister needing care. The statement suggests doubts about relying on a prospective inheritance.
Longstanding Harvard critic Professor Munsterberg faced escalating protests from alumni and outsiders over his wartime remarks and admiration for the Kaiser's divine right. After a $10 million offer circulated, he submitted a resignation that the corporation reportedly rejected, amid faculty opposition and speculation he would remain.
The piece portrays Harvard endowment doubt over Mayor Clarence Wiener a war veteran and artillery brigade commander in France. His uncle J L Ketterlinus, a Philadelphia lithographer, questions his wealth while Wiener offers to leave Harvard 10 million dollars if Professor Munsterberg is expelled for pro German statements.
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