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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1914
Page
13
Harvard students and faculty are invited to a Glacier National Park lecture this evening in the Harvard Union at eight o clock. The talk by L D Kitchell will feature hand colored stereopticon slides and emotion pictures.
Eliot C Lambert 51, superintendent in the Amoskeag mills cotton department, died today in New York of liver cancer. A prominent figure in Manchester social and political life, he chaired the Hillsboro county Republican delegation at recent state conventions.
The Women’s Municipal League of Boston launched a campaign against quack doctors and fake patent medicines. A report warned of dangerous air at the State House as the committee on quackery led by Mrs Milton J. Rosenthal, chair, plus Mrs H H Bemis, Miss Mary Mills, and Mrs Andrew J Webster, took charge.
Mrs. William Lowell and Mrs. Reid Hunt lead a subcommittee study aimed at action against a suspected quack doctor. Officers elected include President Mrs. T J Bowkler and Vice Presidents Mrs. Randolph Coolidge Jr and Mrs. Henry Pratt McKean. Housing issues surface in North and West Ends with calls to pass House Bill 1972. Air quality at the State House noted as hopeless until a new wing. Bates Hall and library areas show odor from glue and bindings. Executive and board size limits approved.
Professor Thomas J. Preston Jr and Mrs Preston formerly Mrs Grover Cleveland reach Bloomsbury lodging with their children. The quiet arrival suggests they will avoid social hospitality despite Mrs Cleveland's fame as a former First Lady.
In a letter to the Boston press Frank IL Brier thanks reporters for courteous treatment during his campaign. He notes poor turnout due to weather, commends Progressive candidate Connell y who polled 9001 votes in 1912, and says he led Connell y districtwide and defeated him in Wards 16 20 and 24. He sees Republicans and Progressives drawing closer and congratulates Gallivan on party support.
Harvard Speakers' Club held a special dinner at its new Agassiz House in Cambridge last evening. Professor L J Johnson of the civil engineering department was the guest of honor and spoke on world events with extemporaneous discussion by members.
Five New York Jewish clergymen urged Governor Glynn to stay the executions of the four men convicted in the Herman Rosenthal murder. Glynn denied the plea, saying the condemned must die in Sing Sing's electric chair next Monday as new evidence in Lieutenant Becker’s second trial could not alter the case.
The Governor rejects executive clemency after clergy and family pleas are considered. Clergymen from the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America attend and speak while the Governor, torn between sentiment and justice, affirms his duty to deny the plea.
The advertisement promotes Pinklets as a safe gentle laxative that corrects constipation without gripe or stomach upset. It claims they aid sluggish bowels and liver, suitable for all ages, priced at 25 cents per bottle, with a marketing request to write for a Pinklet book from Dr. Williams Medicine Co.
Yesterday's municipal primary results show A. W. Fawcett with a 2453 vote plurality over clergyman C. F. W. Stoever in the mayoralty race. Socialist Homer T. Bone finished third. Fawcett and Stoever advance to the April 21 election.
The Harvard Union hosted the first smoker for the freshman class last night in its living room. Refreshments and smokes were provided amid campus social rites marking the new entrants’ welcome.
1917 class members were treated to entertainment by Harvard Varsity Glee Club performers J. R. Osgood Perkins BE R. Adams Albert F. Pickernell and H. W. Frost in a campus event noted for musical alumni participants.
F. Wilson, superintendent of public schools, advocates measures to stop smoking among boys, aiming to curb tobacco use and promote health in the district.
Captain Friedrich Hagenmeyer Chief Officer Johannes Corder and nine crew members of the Seydlitz received Life Saving Benevolent Association of New York medals for bravery in saving passengers and seamen from the Vo turno, which caught fire and was abandoned at sea last October.
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