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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1908
Page
3
Dr. Thomas F Harrington orders city school physical instructors to prohibit public exhibition or practice of girls athletic events for the coming school year. Evelyn O Donnell, a Dorchester student and athlete, denounces the rule saying girls should be allowed to play publicly and applauded for skill and teamwork.
At a meeting led by Dr Harrington the school physical directors warned against public girls basketball games in the coming year. He said physical development will be managed by each school and no interschool or intra class competition will be allowed while girls may participate in athletics as directed. Public play in running jumping or basketball must be barred.
Judge Fox opened a Maine Superior Court case to decide if Dr Heber Bishop is a Maine resident or a resident of another state Mrs Bishop says Boston is his true home He testified he owns a farm in Industry Missouri and employs workers but has never voted in that town nor naturalized never voting in Boston or Maine.
A clash erupts as critics call the Boston Schoolhouse Commissioners grossly incompetent and demand removal. Labor unions urge members and allies to stop supporting the Franklin Union and press the Boston Central Labor Union to condemn the Franklin Union building.
Last night the Boston Building Trades Section of the Central Labor Union urged the resignation or removal of the Schoolhouse Commissioners. They cited 2000 students without classrooms and repeated notices of non citizens and incompetent workers on city schoolhouses, plus unfair building practices at the Franklin Union project. The meeting also blocked nonattentive delegates and announced notices to affiliated unions to replace absent delegates after the next session.
Patrolman William F. Golden of the Chelsea police was discharged from the force at roll call after a Board of Control hearing. Charges of neglect of duty were preferred and the board decided to discharge him last night. Golden had served 18 years on the force and was regarded as capable and efficient.
William Jennings Bryan, Democratic presidential candidate, arrives in Wheeling West Virginia aboard the private car Olivette. A massive riverfront welcome greets him as he enters the city and a large crowd forces him toward the hotel. He speaks from the river shore contrasting Democratic and Republican platforms and urging support while denouncing Taft. He highlights labor and anti injunction planks amid applause from local unemployed steel workers.
The smelt fishing season offers daily trips from the foot of State Street at 8 and 10 each morning, rain or shine. Charles E. Davis leads the excursions famed for large catches, with boats supplied with bait and ice. A noonday meal is available at Peddocks Island, at the hotel overlooking the bay.
Meehan, a curate from St. John's parish, left town yesterday for Otter River to assume duties as pastor of the Catholic Church there.
Still Rage reports from September describe Beaver Bay and Grand Marais burning on the north shore of Lake Superior. The Booth ship America and the training ship Gopher are aiding evacuees as hundreds of homesteads burn and thousands are left homeless amid advancing wildfires. Governor Johnson is urged to provide aid.
Louisville police report shows Bill the green parrot cited for drunken and disorderly behavior at Central station. The bird swore vigorously during the arrest, alongside Charles Busey, a colored man.
A great granddaughter of General Ulysses S. Grant was born last night at the Brookline home of Lieutenant U S Grant and his wife, daughter of Secretary Root. Lieutenant Grant, in the U S Army, and Edith Root wed in November 1907 amid a fashionable season. Lodge visits Wood's Hole on way to Tuckernuck.
Abner Rice 88 longtime Lee resident died at his Franklin Street home after a brief illness. Survived by children Mrs Augustine Sackett New York Mrs William May Lee Dr Clarence C Rice New York William Rice Hudson N Y James A Rice and Sarah Rice Lee and brother Edward Rice Newton Mass.
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