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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1913
Page
9
The ad urges buyers to consider $25 suits instead of higher priced options. It argues many dismiss $25 gowns as cheap, but notes they can offer good value with solid quality. It cautions against overspending on tailor made fits and promotes affordability with perceived value.
The ad copy showcases unsolicited testimonials for URIC O claiming rheumatism relief and claims it cures conditions from rheumatism to kidney trouble. Musterole is promoted as chest relief, preventing pneumonia with mustard oil, endorsed by a nurse and advertised with pricing and mailing options.
An advertisement touts Diapepsin as a fast cure for indigestion, sour stomach, and related symptoms. It claims five minute relief, pleasant candy flavor, and no laxatives, with a fifty cent bottle and home stock benefits for family use. It urges readers to ask pharmacists to show the formula.
Mrs. Cecilia Newman of New York City credits Father John’s Medicine with helping her baby’s health. She says she gives it for colds coughs and general frailty and endorses its use.
A vintage advertisement touts Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap as cures for eczema rashes ringworm and pimples. It claims eighteen years of professional approval and offers a free trial by writing to Resinol Dept 11 8 Baltimore Md.
Mrs. Charlotte Smith told a public health committee that babies were for sale in Boston, citing a Back Bay poodle price range of 100 to 1000 and a baby for 2 to 10, while the bill sought birth certificates from midwives. She noted few birth returns from midwifery. A separate Ways and Means delegation urged damages for property abutting the Boston Psychiatric Hospital due to patients shaking window bars.
Both chambers hurried through the afternoon session to reach the ballpark. The House halted its recess to reject a $125 Civil War veteran bounty bill for Joseph G. Warren of Brockton and then passed a relief measure on grade crossing costs for railroads petitioning cities. An amendment limiting municipal costs was defeated. Resolutions protested national forest transfers to states, and the white slave commission resolve was engrossed.
Senate roads and bridges committee reports a 300000 appropriation for the missing link boulevard between Winthrop and Revere. Public Service backs a retirement bill for prison officers and instructors with 30 years service at age 70. Agriculture pushes forest tree cultivation enabling towns to acquire land. Hobbs opposes a 500 bond for sightseeing autos, saying it should apply to taxis. Lift jack bill remains, in Legislature 10 years, with act to take effect July 1914.
Attorneys for hydroelectric power companies argued before the lighting committee that transmission firms should not come under the gas and electric light commissioners. General Morris Schaff led the contention, asserting separate supervision.
Chairman Macleod of the railroad commission and Representatives Hardy and Duncan work on a bill to permit New Haven to hold Western trolleys. The governor vetoed a similar measure last year and the current effort aims to align with his vetoed plan.
An order by Priest of Haverhill proposes investigating the state fee and pension system. A bill to tighten anti price fixing was argued before the ways and means committee, granting the attorney general authority to spend funds, with Representative Channing H. Cox supporting it.
The comic section previews a tale where Papa suffers bad luck with Willy's invention while Muggsy foils a jail escape. Read next Sunday's Post for full strips and punchlines.
Dr. Mary Isabel Montgomery Fitz of Boston filed a $15,000 attachment against Benjamin Fitch of Lexington in Middlesex County Court, alleging Fitch moved her Temple Street office furnishings to storage while she was away. The suit, a tort action, is assigned for trial in Suffolk County Court on the first Monday in June. Richard E. Johnston of Boston represents Dr. Fitz.
A bill by Representative Taylor of Colorado proposes a Lincoln memorial highway from Boston to San Francisco. It would pass through New York Washington Springfield Ill Denver and be managed by a highway commission of all state governors. Two thirds of the cost would be borne by the states and one third by the federal government.
Milton Maine April 10 William Lyons a Bangor and Aroostook fireman who struck with others in January and who was convicted of a charge of assault upon a strike breaker was sentenced today to serve one year at hard labor in the state prison A motion for a new trial was then made and allowed and the respondent was released under bail.
Mayor FitzGerald announced the Ward 19 playground site behind Mission Church in Roxbury after a long dispute. The $90,000 project was endorsed by a citizens’ committee and the Park Commission had previously split on the choice.
An old advert promises yellowed sales pitch for Hay's Hair Health claiming to restore color to gray hair after one or two uses. It promotes easy self care and youthfulness with glossy, vibrant results and urges readers to buy from their local druggist.
Fort Smith Arkansas April 10 The Rev Marion Cappe recently convicted of burning two of his children to death in an oil soaked bed was sentenced yesterday to be hanged here May 3.
The Harvard Dames a group of wives and sisters of Harvard students residing in Cambridge held a reception yesterday afternoon in the Phillips Brooks House parlor. Mrs. G B Franklin of Radcliffe read from Les Miserables.
Mrs Marcelle Navratil of France sues White Star Line for death claim linked to the Titanic disaster. The widow of the late Navratil was helped by Miss Margaret Hays of the city as she lacks funds to pursue the case. The suit notes the Titanic sinking anniversary and the legal filing deadline.
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