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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1912
Page
12
A committee of the State Board of Charities and Corrections advised the full board to request the resignation of Colonel James McCusker, warden of the State prison, after an investigation into charges of undue prisoner liberty. The board will act on the recommendation.
Frank W. Coughlin a real estate dealer of 01 Old South building is attached for $30,000 by his former manager John Hinston in a contract action returnable in Suffolk Superior Court on the first Monday in October. The attachment is a step toward a suit to recover commissions claimed by Hinston for real estate sales made during employment.
Eugene W. Chafin the Prohibitionist candidate closed his eastern state campaign in Detroit with a strong rebuke of the Supreme Court for recent decisions and a harsh attack on the current administration calling it the worst whiskey administration in the nation's history.
The appeal cases of Elevated strike members were heard in the Superior Criminal Court East Cambridge before Judge Chase. Four cases decided. one guilty of assault on a police officer, two not guilty, one discharged, with 150 more cases pending over two days.
The typhoon sweeping Japan from end to end left damage over 20 million dollars and a heavy loss of life. Tens of thousands were left homeless after the Sunday disaster.
A record-breaking storm, the worst in over 50 years, cut the capital off and caused widespread damage. In Nagoya every house was damaged and harbors were wrecked with ships sunk. Gifu reported 262 killed and 293 wounded while Osaka lost 20,000 houses and coast infrastructure. Nara saw the Kasuga Shrine collapse.
A female infant about three months old with large blue eyes was abandoned in the ladies waiting room at South Station around 4 pm yesterday. The foundling was later taken to the Chardon Street Home for care.
New Haven Sept 26 The Yale University annual report by Treasurer Day for year ending June 30 1912 shows total gifts and bequests to income and principal at 1 164 715 90 up from 1 134 385 01 last year The net increase after building and loan fund payments is 485 12 45 versus 806 605 82 a year ago The teaching deficit is 14 988 54 vs 16 156 68 in 1910 1911 The medical school again carries a debit balance 25 475 09 Dining hall costs cresting deficit 3 501 while potatoes and eggs rising by 3 666 accounts for it Total investments stand at 13 524 982 80 yielding 4 97 percent up from prior years
The Young Men's Club of St. Margaret's Brighton presents Reverend W. G. Read with a cane before his vacation in Europe. In his absence Reverend Joseph Dinzey of Hanover leads the parish. A peach festival and dance followed at the parish house on Eastburn Street.
Miss Alice H. Grady, secretary to Louis D Brandeis, urged savings bank insurance for women in a speech to the Stenographers' Mutual Benefit Association. The reunion and first annual dinner drew six attendees at the Women's Educational and Industrial Union on Boylston Street. Miss Mabel N. Farrar of the Royal Typewriter Company was president.
President Taft will be in Malden from 2 p m to 5 30 p m with elaborate police coverage. Officers from Somerville Everett Melrose Medford and state and Boston police will supervise crowd control and guard routes. He will address 10000 plus schoolchildren at Bell Rock park and will not visit certain homes as previously planned.
The new thirty thousand dollar Immigrants' Home at 72 Marginal Street East Boston was dedicated with a 2 PM program. Addresses by Mrs Oliver H Durrell Rev Dillon Bronson D D and Bishop Luther B Wilson D D accompanied the ceremony. Mrs C W Beckley presented the building to the clergymen for dedication.
The residuary estate of Henry F. Dimmock is appraised at 2.568 million dollars. Yale University will receive one half of the residuary fund and may receive all of it. his widow and daughter Susan Hutchinson will enjoy the income during their lives. Afterward the fund is split equally between Yale and Hutchinson descendants if any, else Yale takes all. The fortune was invested mainly in railroad and industrial stocks and bonds.
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