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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1913
Page
8
A Yale educator Arnold Gesell surveys a village of 1000 people to argue superior individuals retain plasticity and grow beyond childhood. He classifies eccentrics including cranks and religious figures, notes a miser with a hat for 20 years, and mentions a wicked stepmother as an abnormality within his eugenic framework.
Michael J. Cummings, staying at Kingston House Boston, arrested in Lexington while painting a house by Patrolman Patrick J. Maguire for stealing a conductor’s bag from Frederick W. Phelps on a Boston to Winchester train on Aug 17. The bag contained 100 rebate checks a punch and cap valued about $20. He was traced by the rebate checks and attempted to dispose of nine checks on arrest. He faces arraignment in Concord District Court.
Giuseppe Ammendolia a 21 year old former watchman of Washington Street theatre in the North End was sentenced by Judge Dana in Suffolk Superior Court to six to nine years at Charlestown State Prison for manslaughter in the death of Joseph Puluso of South Boston last July.
The Public Service Commission finds adversely on New Haven railroad request to issue 67 million dollars in debenture bonds and road officials may appeal to the Supreme Judicial Court as provided by law.
The Supreme Judicial Court may review, annul, modify, or amend unlawful commission orders under Section 27 of Chapter 784 Acts 1913. Procedures follow the court's rules and may stay enforcement. An attorney must certify probable ground for appeal. Double costs apply to delays or frivolous inquiries. Preference given to related proceedings over other civil actions, except election cases.
Joseph Rhodes, 19, son of State Representative S. A. G. Rhodes, was found dead in his Williamson home. He apparently shot himself in the head during the night. Family offered no reason for the death. The father, recently sentenced to the penitentiary for bribery tied to a U.S. Senate election, is a notable detail in the case.
Two men arrested in Toronto on a charge of selling worthless stock were identified as Charles Gondrof a wireless wire tapper now on $15,000 bail and John Fair alias Sam Gertie Gary under indictment for the same swindling offense. Detectives had searched for Fair for some time.
John Howard Griffin of 1 Cushing Street Wollaston and his wife discuss caring for their two curious children aged three and a half and a baby in a portrait of domestic life amid preparations for the Panama-Pacific Exposition. The father, a traveling salesman, notes partnership in child care and the siblings’ playful mischief. Those interested in the contest details should contact the Temple of Childhood in San Francisco.
Two new steamship lines will begin service to Boston with the North German Lloyd’s Koln and the Russian American Birma. Koln will dock off quarantine Monday afternoon awaiting Franconia’s departure before taking a Cunard pier berth, likely Tuesday. Birma, sailed from Libau, is due Oct 8 and will dock at the Commonwealth pier. Both services run Boston to Bremen and Libau, with triweekly calls and calls to other Atlantic points.
Representative George W. Fairchild of New York said he would appear early next week before the House lobby committee to answer charges raised by former lobbyist Martin M. Mulhall of the National Association of Manufacturers. He said Mulhall's testimony on their past relations is entirely without foundation.
In New York on September 25 the Supreme Court at Long Island City found Louis Windmuller incompetent to manage his affairs due to senile paresis and appointed a committee of three to oversee his estate. The panel includes Noah Park, Muggsy, Dolly Dimle, Gasolene Gus and the Tiny ads.
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