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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1916
Page
4
A group of Wellesley College women are placed on bounds by the student government, effectively confined to the village for the rest of the college year. They may not leave the village or attend theatre or dances, with only limited in-town access and the possibility of dismissal if they breach the rules again.
St Johnsbury Vermont April 9 officers located Mrs Fred Hill a St Johnsbury Centre woman missing since Thursday. Relatives feared suicide but she was found suffering a nervous breakdown and is now being cared for.
During Textile Week from April 24 to 29 in Boston the fifth national textile exhibition at Mechanics' Building will showcase American made ani line dyes. Major dye houses display hues once sourced from Germany now produced by American chemists.
A Boston textile show will showcase a major dye producer with in advance sold dyes and the industry’s largest collection of textile machinery. The exhibit will demonstrate every step from raw material handling to finishing with carding spinning weaving and knitting equipment plus humidifiers in operation. Delegations from Greenville South Carolina plan a boosting trip to attract the next national show to that city.
Citizens report using a penny in nickel slots to mimic five cent calls after a war tax on calls of 15 cents or more. The telephone company plans new coin boxes to stop the theft as it continues to surface.
Boston plans a volunteer military aviation unit composed entirely of millionaires. The group is organized with headquarters in Marblehead and will begin lessons aboard the Burgess-Dunne hydroplane presented by George R. Fearing Jr. The effort is led by Norman W.
Cabot Balch and John W. Philips are involved in a project featuring a plane priced at $10,000. The names indicate a business or personal venture centered on the aircraft cost and ownership details.
The article notes an estimated first year cost of 10000 dollars for the aviation corps. Subscriptions will fund the expense, with Bayard Tuckerman Jr leading fundraising efforts and urging support from members. Prospective aviators include Edward Bowditch Jr and others ready to serve when trained.
Wilfred Philip Ward editor and author of the Dublin Review died today in Hampstead at age 60. He was a prominent figure in religious journalism and literary circles in Dublin and London.
The Rev H Houghton Schumacher, formerly of Helena Montana, was installed yesterday afternoon as pastor of the Old Ship Unitarian Church in Hingham Massachusetts. He is the 11th pastor in the church’s 285 year history. The welcome was given by Rev George Browning Spurr and Harvard’s Rev Edward Caldwell Moore preached the sermon on Reliance on the Divine Ideal.
Concord women active in wartime aid sent 1707 articles in the just closed month. Gifts totaling 267 dollars were received. They meet each Wednesday at 10 a m in the Concord Court House for all day sewing with a box lunch at noon.
Patrick Hogan, an elderly inmate of Cambridge City Home, was found collapsed on Garden street Cambridge yesterday morning after an acute pneumonia attack. He was treated by Dr. Frederick J. Goodridge and taken to Cambridge Hospital in serious condition.
R H Stearns Co announces a sale of 306 new blouses in Crepe de Chine. Styles include tailored shirt, tucked, flat collar and convertible collars in 10 models with full size and color variety. Prices start at $1 and include multiple colors such as white flesh gray coral maize and bisque.
Store offers a batch of women's gloves described as 2 clasp glace style with overseam stitching and wide 16 strand embroidery. Colors available are tan and gray with contrasting welts priced at an unusually attractive value of 115 dollars at Pe gperata.
A dealer advertises a sample line of hand-embroidered pure thread black silk hose with unique designs. They note prices ranged from 2.50 to 5.00 per pair and promote a new stock of tan lisle thread hose in light weight as an exceptional 50 value atCc.
Non shrinkable fine cotton dress goods finished like handkerchief cloth. Printed in wide patterns on white and colored grounds. Product of Pacific Mills, Lawrence Massachusetts. Originally 25 cents per yard. On Monday offer several thousand yards at a reduced price per yard. Quantities per style/color limited and samples cannot be furnished.
A New York firm offering 2000 yards of fine dress goods in limited patterns. Styles and colors suitable for spring and summer wear, 54 inches wide, usually 5 to 6 yards per pattern. Previously sold to dressmakers at 2.50 to 3.75 per yard. offered in the 165 sale at a reduced price per yard.
Night dresses in fine nainsook and batistes with lace embroidery picot edges feature round square and pointed necks. Specially priced at 1 and 1.50 for 1000 night dresses and 2 2.50 and 3 for 600 dresses with Empire and yoke styles.
Mrs. Anna C. Gonsalves of St. Michael's Azores travels 3600 miles to Boston to obtain her son’s Fall River birth certificate proving he is an American citizen. The 10 child mother fears duty in the Portuguese army after the draft order. She arrived aboard the Cretic and will sail back to New York next week.
Police say William J. Rose entered the Phoenix Club at 97 Mt. Auburn Street Cambridge to steal from the wine closet. He slept in an arm chair before the fireplace with club silverware on the dining room table, leading to a breaking and entering charge.
A salesman extols smooth performance and gear specifics while touting service coupons and a range of touring cars and roadsters priced at 1050 to 1400 dollars. Distinct color and hood combinations are offered, with terms negotiable through Culiee dealers.
The Revere Catholic Literary Union and Chelsea Holy Name Society hold a joint debate on US munitions export policy with KEJ Sullivan, W V Barritt, George McCarthy for Revere and Charles Smith, William Ryan, Daniel Murphy for Chelsea. Also a Boston Catholic Union retreat begins at Immaculate Conception Church with Cardinal OConnell to give communion and a Palm Sunday mass followed by breakfast with speakers from Boston College and Mayor Curley.
Wolf's offers $15 men's suits for $10 using all wool fabrics and guaranteed satisfaction. Located at the corner of Hanover and Portland Streets the shop offers legal stamps as a trade bonus.
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