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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1911
Page
5
The rehearing on the Glover case in the Supreme Court at East Cambridge was postponed from yesterday to next week with a likely not reaching this session. The case, first on opening list, was moved to the end by agreement of attorneys, making it likely to go to the May session.
The Woman Suffrage party held its inaugural convention in New York City. Mrs Stanley McCormack, who spoke at the Louisville suffrage meeting, attended to take a platform seat, and Mrs Maude Wood Park, Boston Good Government Association secretary, came for the caucus.
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle celebrated its 70th anniversary with a 96 page special edition and an evening reception for current and former staff. Dr St Clair McKelway and Colonel William Hester spoke on the paper’s role in Brooklyn’s progress and public approval. Messages from around the world, including Lord Northcliffe, were received.
Dr. Harvey W. Wiley, head of the chemistry bureau at the Agriculture Department, criticized many public school teachings in an address to the National Unitarian Conference. Devotional exercises and talks on Church Unity closed the meeting tonight, with delegates set to travel to Richmond, Virginia tomorrow.
At a business meeting officers for the next conference were elected with Dr Charles W Eliot named president and Adelbert Moot, Hugh M Landin, Louis A Frothingham, and Charles A Murdock as vice presidents. Secretaries and treasurer were re elected. Dr Wiley urged schools drop sciences for practical teaching and praised decimal reforms while predicting ministers will guide rural corn raising in 15 years.
In Portsmouth on Oct 26 a large touring car from A. H. Hislop’s garage carrying navy officers was crushed by an Atlantic Shore Railway electric car in Kittery. The auto wheels wedged in the track. driver Joseph Hickey fled to warn the motorman who allegedly told him to get out of the way. The electric car then wrecked the $190 machine and much of its front end.
Hammond High School students backed by teachers call for banning Shakespeare from the curriculum deeming the author licentious and objectionable. The move targets works including The Taming of the Shrew Venus and Adonis and Pericles as unsuitable for study.
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