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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1911
Page
6
The Salamanaca from Sicily arrived after a rough voyage marked by a lightning strike on the main top mast. Spars were shattered and sails ruined as the boat Listed to starboard during a gale. All hands stayed on deck through the storm, narrowly avoiding more tragedy.
Oct. 26 report says a debt ruling by Judge Wilson ends the federal election recount requested by Conservatives. As a result Liberal Colonel McLean is poised to hold the Queens seat.
Mrs Emma J Hutchins of 58 Boylston Street reports a Maine woman has moved to California to vote while a taxed Arlington resident plans to go to a western equal franchise state to gain a voice on local improvements and property matters.
Orville Wright plans to stay in Kill Devil Hill next week to test a heavier than air glider as a West Indian hurricane approaches. He aims to find automatic equilibrium in flight while Wright and Alexander Ogilvie made 24 short flights today but wind hindered results.
Jacob B. Ludwig a former businessman in Rockland Me committed death by own action by severing an artery in his throat with a razor. He was reportedly despondent due to unemployment and his body was found in a shed near his home.
Princeton University trustees met for about three hours in Princeton New Jersey but were unable to decide on a new president to succeed Woodrow Wilson whose resignation was accepted a year earlier.
Funeral services for Dr George Frederick Jelly longtime state examiner of the insane who died at his Wakefield home were held at the Wakefield Baptist Church. The Rev George A Gordon and Rev Austin Rice led the rites with pall bearers and honorary pall bearers including physicians and Brown University figures. The public viewed the remains as a male quartet performed. Committal services followed at Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem tomorrow morning.
Florence Luscomb brings back Kentucky papers showing a debate over voting age and the informally raised question of whether a woman must state her age to vote. A Colorado woman explains the legal voting age while Agnes Jenks recounts a husband’s lack of buttons as a joke at a suffrage gathering.
A dated advertisement urges poultry keepers to persevere with Wirthmore Poultry Feeds claiming the feeds fit every need from chick to growing birds. Sold by grain dealers and marketed by CHAS. M. COXCO, Chamber of Commerce, Boston.
Dr. Eugene Goodwin a prominent financier from San Francisco and Berkeley died by his own hand in Biddeford Maine. A letter to his wife cited illness and worry over Sherman act investigations of several companies in which he held executive posts in which he had testified. He left Biddeford 35 years ago.
Edward P. Hurd vice president of the United Shoe Machinery Company was the complainant against horse dealer Michael Murphy in police court. Murphy was charged with obstructing the street and failure to stay to the right on Commonwealth Avenue on September 21. Judge Murray found Murphy not guilty after testimony that the horse he drove was green and unused to automobiles. Murphy had leveled similar charges against Hurd's chauffeur James Lamson, who was also discharged.
Dr Henry C Marcy a leading Boston physician and Sunny Side Hospital owner was attached for 40000 in an action of contract by the National Park Bank of New York City Papers filed at East Cambridge registry of deeds The physician denied the attachment calling it a fraud Bank attorney said Marcy indorsed a note for 87000 that remains unpaid The attorney refused to reveal the note’s issuer.
Large crowds gather nightly for a men’s retreat at the Mission Church Roxbury as Redemptorist missionary delivers sermons. Final service Sunday includes benediction and papal blessing with a musical feature by the choir attracting attendees from across the city.
Arthur J. Knowles a former assistant librarian at the Social Law Library Boston was found unconscious from gas poisoning in his room at 129 Austin Street Cambridge early yesterday morning doctors at Cambridge Relief Hospital say he will recover. He had been unemployed for months and is believed to have become despondent.
Judge Hardy denied Frank R. Brine’s petition to annul his marriage to Miss Nettie Dolan claiming coercion at gunpoint. Dolan and witnesses testified to the events surrounding the 1905 marriage process from the father's alleged threats to the taxi ride and dispensation steps.
Ma dame Josephine Leconte, wife of President Leconte, died at her countryside residence near Port au Prince after a period of illness. She had traveled there several days earlier seeking rest and recovery away from the capital.
A testimonial claims Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People strengthen blood and cure rheumatism by removing the rheumatic poison. Benjamin Burns of Landenburg Pais says the remedy restored his ability to walk after a year of pain and immobility. A booklet on Blood diseases is offered free. pills sold by druggists at 50 cents per box or six for two dollars and fifty cents.
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