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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1915
Page
1
Full returns show Antis sweeping victory with 80 percent of registrations voting. Every county and most cities and towns go anti suffrage as Wilson precincts go to the antis over two to one. The result shocks observers and may swell the anti margin beyond sixty thousand.
John Glennon, 53, of Buckcourt, shoots four Turks gathered near their homes with a shotgun. A policeman arrests him at the scene with a revolver. Glennon, a father of ten, has worked for the U S Department of Entomology for years.
Glennon, armed with a single bar shotgun and shells, terrorized a South End street firing into a crowd on Buckman and Conn streets. Patrolman Murphy disarmed him after a chase. four Turks were wounded but not fatally. Glennon faces assault with a dangerous weapon in Woburn District Court.
Mrs. Jonas Spaulding mother of New Hampshire Governor Rolland H. Spaulding died at the Hotel Brunswick after a yearlong illness. At her bedside were Governor Spaulding his brother H. N. Spaulding and sister Miss M. I. Spaulding. Born in Mason New Hampshire she taught in Groton and other Massachusetts towns before and after marriage to Jonas Spaulding.
Local ad announces Burdett Business College on 18 Boylston Street near Washington to admit new students every Monday with ongoing enrollment and advancement opportunities.
Norman Prince son of Harvard and Boston financier Frederick H Prince has been captured by German forces during a reconnaissance mission on the western battle line in the Champagne sector. The message received in Boston offered no further details of the capture.
Young Prince has long been enthusiastic about aviation with a lifelong interest in flight. Continued on Page 14 Fifth Col.
Harvard Law School professor Joseph H. Beale said Harvard students do not need to be self supporting to enroll as voters in Cambridge. Registrars consider residency and intent to stay, not self sufficiency, when determining voter eligibility, though any student who is actually self supporting may raise questions.
Almanac style entry with moon rise and set times, moon phase dates for Oct to Dec, planetary stargazing notes, and a list of anniversaries and historical events including the 1847 Guaymas capture and Richard Henry Dana centenary.
Forecasters call for unsettled conditions in Boston Wednesday with possible showers and drier Thursday under cooler, moderate to fresh southwest winds. For southern New England expect local rains Wednesday and largely cloudy, cooler Thursday, with northern Vermont also turning cloudy and cooler.
Boston and Pride's Crossing reports that a resident serving in the French aviation corps was taken prisoner by German forces. The unnamed individual is among service members captured during the recent operations in France.
Charles S. Mellen former president of the New Haven railroad will testify for the government in the trial of William Rockefeller Lewis Cass Ledyard Edward D. Robbins and eight other directors. The government seeks to prove the directors monopolized New England traffic by unlawful means. Batts the government attorney finished his two day closing address today the longest in the district court's history.
Mr. Mellen will probably not take the stand until the afternoon session as the government will first introduce a mass of documentary evidence with witnesses Arthur E. Clark, secretary of New Haven, and Arthur Russell, its valuation counsel.
Washington Oct 19 Mrs Norman Galt fiancée of President Wilson says she is not an advocate of women’s suffrage. She is not against it, merely not interested and has no desire to vote. The engagement announcement coincided with Wilson’s suffrage declaration, fueling belief she supported the cause.
Port Directors reported to Governor Walsh and the Governor's Council that they have granted a permit to build the new high pressure station in the Fort Point Channel. They requested official approval to license the project, signaling the end of the search for a pumping station site.
Pope Benedict, urged by British and Belgian legations, has appealed to Emperor William to pause the German sentences against Baron de Hemphume, the Countess de Belleville, Mlle Thurier, and seven others. Cardinal Hartmann reports the delay to allow a fuller review of the cases.
Washington reports that Ambassador Gerard has been instructed to request from the German foreign office a formal report on the execution of Edith Cavell an English nurse by German authorities in Belgium.
An unofficial report says Miss Cavel was accused of aiding Belgians to flee German control and was condemned by a court martial to death. As she was led to the firing squad she fainted and a German officer shot her. The incident provoked horror in Washington and spurred a British request for an investigation. Ambassador Whitlock and Brussels officials are pursuing inquiries.
The Brussels nurse Miss Cavel was sentenced to death as part of a broader German terror campaign in Belgium. Reports say executions occurred in Brussels Bruges and other frontline areas with six shot at Bruges and Lille among those penalized.
Mrs. Freda Hodgdon walking in her sleep fell from the third story window at 14 Cambridge street Charlestown causing serious back injuries.
London dispatches report Italy has decided to help the Allies in the Near East with part of its navy. An Italian squadron sails to the eastern Mediterranean to blockade Bulgarian ports on the Aegean and cover Allied landings at Salonika and Enos after Italy formally declares war on Bulgaria citing Serbia's attack.
Washington Oct 19 Announcement of the wedding date of President Wilson and Mrs Norman Galt is expected this week. The couple may marry during the Christmas holidays. Miss Margaret Wilson returns to the White House after a Cleveland tour and will host musicales there.
In New Jersey on October 19 nearly 80 percent of voters turned out, delivering an emphatic no to a constitutional amendment granting women the ballot. Despite expected strength from suffragists, counties reported defeat by 50 000 to 60 000 votes, prompting plans to press new suffrage moves and back candidates who will push for voter enfranchisement next spring.
Unofficial returns show 88 275 for and 124 119 against the suffrage amendment across 1222 of 1891 districts with a 35 844 statewide majority against. Wilson's support failed to sway precincts as Newark and Essex County voted strongly against the measure.
Nine passengers were injured and about a hundred shaken when a semi convertible car hit the rear of a large new trailer on the Minot street viaduct just after 5 in the afternoon. The Elevated's rush hour traffic carried men and women who panicked and screamed as the impact threw riders forward. List of injured includes Fannie S. Francis Julia FE Larrivee Irene Hopper Mrs. Margaret Kelly Max Alperovitz Alex Moonoogian Samuel Cohan Patrick Dwyer and others at addresses in Somerville Cambridge Chelsea and Providence.
Onlookers feared a disaster as a rail wreck occurred on the viaduct. Four women over 60 were treated at a relief station for minor contusions. One passenger required ambulance transfer. Traffic paused about thirty minutes while crews worked and coupled a bent semi-convertible.
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