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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1912
Page
8
Pilsy Wrentana editor Cosmo Hamilton arrives in New York on a four year tour to study American people and manners. He plans first stop in Montréal where his new play The Blindness or Virtue is rehearsed.
The Panama Canal Commission announced revised estimates showing a vessel could travel from the Atlantic to the Pacific via the canal in 13 months. The act has been given as October.
Judge William N Gemmill in the Court of Domestic Relations plans an elaborate statistical record to determine the causes of family quarrels. He seeks day by day data on why homes break, including effects of fathers' sins, mother in laws, youthful marriages, and moral or physical factors, to guide social statistics.
Washington reports Harry B. Nolan, recently named secretary to the Panamanian legation, has formally declined further appointment in the diplomatic service. Nolan, tied to a New York arrest involving Marion MacVicker, said he would not seek any post due to the notoriety surrounding the matter despite insisting his conduct was misrepresented.
Gordon Kyle a Middleton High freshman lies at death's door from hazing injuries at home in Kyles Station. He was forced to push a pencil across the gym floor with his nose while being kicked, leaving his spine severely injured.
Miss Cecilia Loftus arrives in New York and says she will discuss her reception by the King and Queen of England but will not discuss rumors of a divorce from Dr A H Waterman. She denies filing divorce proceedings.
Minnie Gallagher 19, of Moody Texas, sues Pullman Car Company for 20000 dollars claiming a Black porter offered her one dollar for a kiss while traveling from Columbus Tennessee to Montgomery Alabama. She says the conductor laughed when she complained and she had to seek the train conductor's protection.
Fifty Japanese gathered in secret in Grand Junction to draw lots. The chosen individual was to commit hari-kari as a mani. The event signals a clandestine meeting reportedly tied to suicide ritual practices.
Police broke the room door during a meeting and arrested two leaders who confessed death by own action. Druggists in Grand Junction warned not to sell poison to Japanese.
In St Louis on Sept 19 Fred Koenig aged 6 died after swallowing carbolic acid at City Hospital. Beside him lay his wife’s false teeth and her ashes as he requested burial with her in St Marcus Cemetery. He left a note stating life was unbearable without his wife and asked for his wife’s picture eyeglasses and citizenship papers to be included.
At the cigar makers convention in Baltimore delegates stressed women’s growing role in the trade and condemned the Tobacco Trust. A New Jersey factory reportedly employs 1200 women with no men, as unions push for broader cooperation to produce only union made cigars.
Miss Lucy Goode White the first woman in California to receive a judicial nomination failed today to pass her bar examinations. The Socialist candidate received 7000 votes in the recent nonpartisan judicial primary. She has history in Virginia and extensive study of law.
President and Mrs. Taft and Miss Helen will be at the Brockton Fair on Oct 3. This was positively announced yesterday by the President in a telegram to Congressman Robert O Harris.
W Gould of Millis' is sentenced to two years and six months at the House of Correction for polygamy in Chester.
A promotional notice touts Poslam as the most modern remedy for all skin troubles with fast results. It sells Poslam ointment and Poslam Soap through druggists and offers free samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York.
President Edmund James of the University of Illinois warned freshmen at the opening convocation that much college failure in the first two years stems from alcohol and tobacco. He urged seniors and juniors to prohibit freshmen and sophomores from drinking or smoking on campus, calling them still infants academically.
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