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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1914
Page
3
Reports from Cambridge indicate Harvard has curtailed certain offerings at Wellesley that affected the college’s female students. A new course for “spies” at Wellesley is said to provoke dismayed reactions among Harvard observers who believed Wellesley girls aimed to marry. The change disrupts long held impressions about spinster prospects.
Edward H. Bonsall of Philadelphia was re-elected president of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew at the national convention in Atlanta. New officers include vice-presidents H. D. W. English of Pittsburg and Courtenay Barber of Chicago, treasurer A. M. Hadden of New York, general secretary Hubert Carlton of Boston, assistant secretary George H. Randall of Boston, and national secretaries G. F. Shelby of Denver B. F. Finney of Savannah F. H. Spencer of Chicago and J. A. Birmingham of Toronto alongside Bonsall.
Washington October 16 President Wilson may visit Pass Christian Mississippi this winter Representative Harrison who seats the district extended the invitation and the President promised to consider repeating his visit from last year.
Seattle dispatch reports the famed battleship Oregon entering dry dock at Puget Sound navy yard for final repairs before commissioning on December 1. The ship will lead the naval parade through the Panama Canal next spring.
Washington report says Treasury Comptroller Williams ordered engraving of 250000 dollars in federal reserve notes for 12 banks. Delivery starts November 1 to 15. Denominations include five 16 20 50 and 1000 dollars with new back designs. Federal Reserve Board invited committee members to a conference with bank representatives next week in Washington.
General Ballington Booth, chief of Volunteers of America, will visit Boston for three large gatherings. On Sunday October 18 he will address at Warren Avenue Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m. on God's humanity and man's Inhumanity. At 3 p.m. he will oversee a Volunteer Mission hall service, present colours, enroll soldiers, and discuss Volunteer work. Evening services at Dudley Street Baptist Church will feature his talk Great out of Little.
Portland, Oct 16. A federal court order directs the North German Lloyd steamer Kronprinzessin Cecilia, then at Bar Harbor, to be transferred at once to the District of Massachusetts. Removal cited is safety concerns from ice at her current anchorage.
William D. Taylor of North Lake Mining will amend his suit against Henry Tolman and the North Lake directors to allege the corporation neglected to sue and that the acts were continuous. He seeks $158,000 of a $272,000 note from Stephen R Dow. defendants had argued the suit should be brought by the company.
The curator of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts print department lectured Harvard students yesterday in the Harvard Lampoon rooms on drawing with emphasis on illustration and cartooning. Lampoon staff members and Harvard seniors attended.
United States Marshal orders convoy for the steamship now under new jurisdiction. A torpedo boat may accompany the voyage to Boston, with limited three mile cruising. Libel for 1 040 000 withdrawn in New York. another suit filed in Massachusetts. Passenger Charles W Rantoul seeks damages over not being landed in Europe. Ship expected to sail Monday or Tuesday.
Frederick Deininger of San Salvador killed himself in his room at the Hotel St Denis on Broadway and Eleventh Street, shooting himself in the right temple with an automatic pistol. A note on the table asked to notify Dr Vincent Y Bowditch of Boston, who said he knew Deininger and was unaware of any reason for the act.
San Francisco reports the middleweight championship bout between Jimmy Clabby and George Chip Bax is scheduled for November 9. Clabby leaves for San Francisco tomorrow, per a letter from his Chicago manager.
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