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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1914
Page
3
Mrs Mary Grabau wife of Professor Amadeus W Grabau of Columbia University known as Mary Antin author and immigration expert spoke to Girls Latin School pupils in Boston yesterday recounting her struggles as an immigrant girl to obtain an education.
Peter W Meldrim of Savannah Ga was unanimously elected president of the American Bar Association to succeed William H Taft. George Whitelock of Baltimore was re elected secretary and Frederick E Wadhame of Albany re elected treasurer. Executive committee members named: John H Voorhees S D Seldon P Spencer Mo Greensboro Chapin Crown DC William H Burges El Paso William H Staake Philadelphia and William C Niblack Chicago.
Washington expects a conference tomorrow on foreign exchange conditions and the global cotton problem. Attending are Sir George Palsh and Basil B. Blackett for the English treasury and the Federal Reserve Board, Secretary McAdoo, and leading American bankers including H. P. Davidson J. S. Alexander A. H. Wiggin Jacob H. Schiff William Woodward Samuel McRoberts James Speyer George Foster Peabody Benjamin Strong Jr James Brown and D. C. Wing.
The US Circuit Court of Appeals, in a majority decision, reversed a prior ruling in Gardiner Investment Co. of Maine v Jackson Co. of New Hampshire, allowing Nashua Manufacturing to acquire Jackson stock for 975 per share. Masters valued Jackson stock at 1174.94 in May 1911 and replacement value at 3228.13, but minority shareholders now receive only 975. Judge Putnam dissented.
Kingston area police report a 50 year old woman, Mrs Ed win Van Aken, murdered at Port Ewen. Her body was found in her bedroom by her husband upon returning home after a two hour absence from Kingston. She had blunt force injuries to the head and marks on her throat suggesting choking.
The will of Mrs Maria Haskins of Beacon Street, who died October 19, leaves $1000 to the Massachusetts Convention of Congregational Ministers for relief of Unitarian clergymen and their wives. A second cheque of $50 goes to the Children’s Mission.
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