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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 27, 1913
Page
4
A duck wandered into the eagle enclosure at Franklin Park Zoo provoking a rare quarrel among Old King Baldy and his two mates Gray Beak and Long Beak. Old Baldy intervened, asserting dominance and claiming the duck for himself, ending the dispute.
Edward F. Cole of Waterbury ridiculed the New Haven bond issue before Massachusetts regulators, calling it a bid to win stockholders’ approval while outsiders finance debt. He charged Morgan interests and bankers with loading the railroad with debt to force costly bonds, urging dismissal of the petition.
Dean William Richard Castle Jr. of Harvard, long known as the freshman's friend, resigns due to ill health after years directing the freshman class. Henry A. Yeomans, assistant professor in government, becomes dean. Castle, Hawaii native and Harvard 1900 graduate, departs to pursue literary work including his novel The Green Vase.
Eleven Wellesley seniors have sacrificed the last year on the college campus and will live in the village to look after the freshmen, carrying on a traditional duty of elder oversight.
In Lisbon five men, arrested while placing bombs around the premier's villa at Praia das Macas, confessed today that they intended to assassinate the Portuguese premier and incite a revolt. The confession follows a raid that uncovered the bomb placements and linked the group to the planned attack.
The village is divided into 1L districts with seniors appointed to supervise homesick freshmen enforce Student Government Association rules and grant occasional dispensations in exceptional cases. A campus committee supports this effort, while Miss Bernice Barnett was elected president of the Wellesley College Equal Suffrage league. Outdoor singing on chapel steps, led by Marian Mulford, resumes as the senior class song leader.
Ulric Trudel, wife, eldest son Antoine and a daughter escaped the St Francois street blaze in Quebec. Eight children under 16 perished while sleeping. Mrs Trudel died later from injuries.
Fulton Mo September 26 Mrs Susan Ross on trial for killing her husband J H Ross was found guilty of murder in the second degree. The jury set the penalty at 10 years in prison.
Former President Taft departed for New Haven Connecticut after spending three days in the city attending sessions of the Lincoln Memorial Commission and concluding his duties here.
Janitor Gay at Cambridge City Hall notes curfew and the big 1600 pound clock weight breaks free during weekly wind up. The weight fell 35 feet into the clock well, shaking the building and prompting relief that the reinforced well prevented serious damage. The cable snapping disrupted hourly timekeeping.
Henry W. Pohlman former business agent for Seattle Structural Iron Workers Union testified in Seattle that he wrote love letters to a stenographer in Indianapolis and was tasked to seduce her. He said the stenographer worked for steel workers headquarters and a detective agency sought her testimony against union men.
Brigadier General Edouard Moale U S A retired is seriously ill at a San Francisco hotel. Attending physicians say little hope remains and attribute the illness to advanced age.
A fire department exhibition run for a moving picture benefit ended with a hook and ladder truck crashing through a piano store window. Fireman Samuel Ingersoll suffered a broken leg and serious injuries, colleague Benjamin Harvey was cut on the head, and a fire horse had to be shot after sustaining severe injuries. The piano shop’s plate glass, two sewing machines, and a piano were ruined. the film was later ordered destroyed.
In Litchfield Kentucky a crowd overpowered the jailer and hanged Joe Richardson a Black man from a tree in the public square after taking him from his cell. He had been charged with assaulting Ree Goff 11 as she walked to school on Tuesday morning near the county.
Secretary Daniels awards the Carbon Steel Company of Pittsburgh a steel bolts contract for Battleship No. 39 at 448 per ton, 1002 ton less than prior metal supplier rates. He also assigns bronze bolts to the New York navy yard with claimed 300 per ton savings. He withholds armor plate contracts amid a price-confidential dispute with Midvale Carnegie and Bethlehem firms. Daniels toured Pittsburgh plants before returning to Washington.
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