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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1913
Page
5
The new state child labor law tightens requirements for under 16s, mandating school attendance unless employed or legally exempt. Officials worry about capacity in textile areas while truancy enforcement remains unsettled as 25 000 youths aged 14 to 17 were previously out of work or school.
Superintendent Dyer announces rapid issuance of new child labor certificates under the recent law. He says the new rules are less burdensome than the old system and will seem clearer once familiar. About 25,000 to 40,000 children in Boston work under school certificates, and several city rooms will open to issue certificates locally rather than at the main South End office.
Thomas A. Edison, 66, was too ill to go to his Llewellyn Park laboratory today, a rare setback after years of activity. He contracted a cold in New England during a motor trip and suffers an indigestion attack but is not seriously ill.
Miss Esther Cochran the principal witness for the state against George H. Bixby a Long Beach financier charged with offenses against minor girls could not be found when the first trial date was called in the Los Angeles Superior Court. The girl and her mother have lived in a county cottage since being brought back from San Francisco during the investigation.
Walter Brocail was found guilty of first degree murder in Mount Vernon Indiana for shooting Harrison Hitch, a Princeton policeman who was protecting Mrs. Brocail from her husband last May. He received a life sentence after a change of venue moved the trial to Mount Vernon due to local hostility.
Four valuable Henry Bacon paintings once thought lost were found in Gustav Thaler's Berkeley residence. Thaler, a plumber, had bought them years ago from an auctioneer who insisted on selling a track of art with household goods. He has been offered $300 and plans to send the works to a Bacon exhibition in New York.
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