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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1911
Page
6
New Yorks annual Easter Sunday parade along Fifth Avenue attracts thousands as visitors view the spectacle. The Hotel St Regis at Fifth Avenue and Fifty Fifth Street offers unmatched service and top dining, with rooms from 3 to 6 dollars a day and higher rates for parlors with baths.
Hall Cambridge last evening the Harvard Dramatic Club staged its sixth production featuring T M Spelman as Henry Hilltop and A A Berle Jr as a newsboy. both delivered strong performances in four original plays.
Washburn of Worcester and Lomasney of Boston lead opposition as charter reform battles in the House unfold. Debate la sts into adjournment with Norman White voting for change and conservative members opposing. If approved, plan 2 would push primaries by ward and shift elections to January with a statewide referendum in 1912.
Sixteen year old Roy Baker of Addison Avenue met Governor Foss at the State House to seek a pardon for his mother Mary Baker who was sent to Sherborn Reformatory. The lad had supported his three sisters Marion Mabel and Grace and carried a petition signed by city officials and lawmakers. The Governor promised to help and the boy was allowed to continue guardianship in Police Court.
William Peppers gateman at Union Station suffered a severe eye injury when a fashionably dressed woman forced through a crowd. A long hatpin in her hat pierced his left eye damaging sight and leaving a several inch gash. Police sought the woman but could not locate her.
The Highland Club of West Roxbury hosts a two night vaudeville and minstrel show on April 20 and 21 at its hall on Corey and Centre streets to raise funds for enlarging the bowling alleys. Charles H. Botsford chairs the vaudeville committee with E F Poland as musical director and Doane co chairing the music group. The program features Old King Cole with three Jesters, Bill Reid as Cole, a 40 voice chorus, and routines from H C Stack including The Strawsman. The iolo parts promise strong performances.
Soap and muscle won't clean pots and pans thoroughly. Ordinary washing misses hidden germs. Gold Dust sanitary washing powder removes grease and digests germ life, sterilizes pots and kettles, leaving them clean and safe. Shake a little Gold Dust in dish water for startling results.
The Boston Finance Commission hunts Ragland Momand the missing New York street lighting contractor who failed to appear at a hearing to substantiate graft charges against Louis K. Rourke Rising Sun Lighting Co and Boston Consolidated Gas. A second anonymous note appeared at the Boston Post while investigators shadow Momand near Parker House and his mail disappeared from Box 312.
A New York based promoter, described as a Southern man born in Texas, accuses Boston officials of overpaying for street lighting over $700 000 and claims his lamp device could outperform public works cost estimates. He alleges corruption and faults the commissioner for incompetence and neglect of duty.
Lieutenant-Governor Frothingham released a statement denying reports he had acquired an interest in a south shore paper. He said an offer was made to buy, but he refused the purchase.
The Governor and Mrs. Foss announce their approval of the engagement of their son Benjamin Foss, 24, to Dorothy Chapman of San Francisco. Dorothy and Benjamin reconnected in Frisco on business, after a world tour and a prior two year gap in correspondence. The family, unfamiliar with her, are pleased with the match.
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