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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1912
Page
5
Four Republican presidential electors were chosen by New Hampshire Republicans at the state convention in Concord. The party adopted a platform focusing on state issues and Taft administration support, and reorganization of the state committee followed resignations by members who joined the Progressives.
Orton B. Brown of Berlin George P. Crafts of Manchester Roland H alding of Rochester Edwin H ason of Nashua named as presidential electors. Franklin Worcester of Hollis nominated as the party candidate for governor. The convention adjourned less than an hour and a half after convocation.
Boston is shown as a panoramic night to day sequence in the Edison building window on Boylston Street. Bert Poole’s enlargement depicts harbor, wharves, Beacon Hill streets, State House dome, and shifting lights from dawn to night with 45 000 lighting holes creating the scene set to open next Saturday night.
M Jean Jufffrey curator at the Museum of Fine Arts brings back a Gainsborough portrait of John Eid Esq. of Seighford Hall Staffordshire. The five by seven foot canvas, painted about 1772, was sold at Christie’s London on May 10 for charity to the Staffordshire General Infirmary founder's institution.
Washington clerics condemn summer evenings of public hugging near the Capitol. Reverend Earle Wilfley calls for a crusade and Capitol police action as cold weather is hoped to curb the activity.
In Chicago on September 17, Rev Norman B Barr of Olivet Memorial Church told the Presbyterian Ministers Association that women who dress modestly need not fear mashers. He blamed current fashions for encouraging such behavior and warned that active women in public life appear less modest.
Frank Fink, an Indian, was arrested in Tulsa county after riding a horse at a gallop through a school building near Skiatook during school hours. The incident caused a panic among students and staff as authorities charged him with grossly disturbing the peace.
In Anderson Indiana Charles Carroll widower 46 was wounded by buckshot while prowling near the residence of Mrs Ethel McKinley Connelly early morning. McKinley and Clark McKinley were inside when a shot was fired through the door and Carroll was hit as he tried to flee. He lies in precarious condition at St John’s Hospital.
Salina Kansas reports that six million dollars does not cover the loss from cerebro spinal meningitis among Kansas horses in the past month. Doctors Schoenleber and Webster say in western Kansas some twenty thousand horses died, a two million direct loss, with indirect losses possibly twice that amount due to farm work disruption.
At a special UNC meeting President Venable and trustees drafted resolutions urging legislation to outlaw hazing on college campuses. The move follows the killing of student William Rand by four hazers last Friday morning.
An advertisement touts Pape's Diapepsin as fast five minute relief for sour stomach gas indigestion and heartburn. It claims to regulate weak stomachs and enable meals to be enjoyed again, urging readers to buy a fifty cent case from any drug store.
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