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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1913
Page
2
An advertisement extols Pape's Diapepsin as a fast remedy for sourness gas indigestion heartburn and upset stomach. It claims relief within five minutes and promotes a fifty cent bottle as a household staple and guaranteed cure.
Mayor Fitzgerald laments clothing hijinks by his two taller sons who snatch and wear his neckties collars shirts and socks. He jokes he must dress first before his boys wake or else his wardrobe vanishes on the football field. The antics end with playful brawls over apparel.
Boston lawyer Charles H. Pratt left most of his 760000 estate to MIT to found a Pratt School of Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. He signed the will on the margin of four pages before witnesses arrived, prompting a re execution. Six cousins contest the will claiming unsound mind and improper execution in the Supreme Judicial Court with Justice De Courcy presiding.
A biennial resolve for resubmitting the constitutional prohibition on manufacturing and selling intoxicating liquors in Maine was introduced in Augusta on April 8. Representative Seth F. Clark proposes a new law allowing liquor sales in cities under certain conditions if such sales are desired. The bill mirrors the draft from the special session after last year’s election reaffirmed the prohibition.
Prominent women attended a three episode story dance at the Boston Opera House. The Grecian dance led by Mrs. Alexander H Higginson drew enthusiastic applause, with pupils of Miss Orence and Miss Kelley choreographing the rest and a Boston Opera House orchestra providing music. Society figures such as Mrs. George H Root and Elizabeth Letherman participated. The patronesses list included nearly all Boston society women.
Hank the Hermit and his animals enjoy a lively scene centered on a good live battery. Readers are invited to check the comic section of next Sunday's Post for the full episode.
A nine girl committee from the Boston Telephone Operators Union conferred with New England Telephone and Telegraph Company president P. L. Spalding last evening. They presented requests for higher wages and improved working conditions.
President Spalding told a nine member operators committee from the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company that wage and employment change requests would be taken under serious advisement. The union operatives committee led by Miss Annie Malloy reported to the joint executive board and will inform about the result at afternoon meetings.
At the American House a rally backing Alfred L. Cutting in the 18th district drew about 200 Republicans. Speakers including Hatfield Ellis Dow and Hackett urged party organization and vote mobilization for Cutting ahead of the April 15 election.
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