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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1914
Page
6
A playful scene centers on Noodle the poodle as children blow soap bubbles around a park. The lighthearted moment draws smiles from watchers while vendors set up nearby and families linger for photos. The event highlights community amusement and summertime joy.
Political group announces campaign kickoff on April 28 to block equal suffrage law in 1915. Organizers vow to mobilize voters and pressure legislators.
Prospective travelers are invited to join low cost Personally Conducted Parties to California. The trips are described as well managed and comfortable with an inductor guiding the journey and detailing points of interest. Contact Alex Stocks at C. B. and Q. R. R. in Boston for more information.
Suffragists launch a state wide campaign with a Boston kickoff at an anti suffrage mass meeting in Faneuil Hall on the night of April 28.
Joseph Britton aged 71 died at his home 101 Western avenue Cambridge after a 10 day illness. A lifelong public servant he served as superintendent at Station B North Cambridge post office and rarely missed a day of work. He came to Cambridge from Cambridge England as a boy to seek his fortune in the States.
Mayor Timothy W. Good of Cambridge portrays the new platoon fire bill as a personal crisis and says a $1.33 tax-rate hike would ruin the city’s homes and business growth while the measure sits before the House.
Agitation grows for a sailors recreation place by the new Common wealth pier in South Boston. Steam ship interests are being circulated to attract attention and support for the project.
The crew of the French fishing bark Sainte Anne, wrecked about 400 miles east of the Grand Banks, were picked up by the steamship Minnesota. The Minnesota is due in Philadelphia April 20 from London, according to a dispatch received by the Gulf Signal Service.
A fashion authority forecasts a revival of hoop skirts in upcoming styles. The Sunday Post promises a richly illustrated feature analyzing how silhouette trends shift from past to present, with guidance on integrating retro shapes into modern wardrobes.
The Hon. Charles B. Strecker publisher of the Boston Financial News was sworn in as United States assistant treasurer at Boston yesterday by Judge Morton in the United States District Court. H. W. Hight acts as his personal representative following the ceremony.
Mr Strecker becomes 16th assistant United States Treasurer in Boston the first of the Hebrew race in the post. He has been active in Democratic politics, formerly a candidate for state auditor and delegate-at-large to the Baltimore convention. An intimate friend of Governor Walsh he heads Al bert Frank & Co in banking circles and begins by counting 20 million in the local sub treasury vaults.
The passage notes the Old Colony Trust Company assisting in the count and identifies Williston Lincoln, cashier in the sub-treasury, as the personal representative of Colonel George H. Doty, the retiring sub-treasurer.
The Boston Floating Hospital is bequeathed 000 dollars in the will of the late Mrs Susan H Leeds of 259 Beacon street for Richard Arthur Leeds Day in memory of her son. Other public bequests include 500 dollars to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and 500 dollars to the New England Moral Reform Society. The residue goes to the Home for Aged Women and the city of Boston for the home for consumptives.
North Harwich April 16 In order to check the number of woodland fires set by its engines the railroad company is cutting and burning brush and leaves along its track in this section of the cape and will soon have the road patrolled by section men on velocipedes.
The Sunday Post Magazine delivers five new drummer anecdotes from the road. Narratives reveal touring life, backstage humor, and the challenges of rhythm sections on long stretches between gigs.
Assistant Superintendent Frank V. Thompson is offered the secretary role for the National Commission on Vocational Education, created by Congress to study national aid for industrial and vocational schools. The Boston school board cannot release him due to ongoing industrial training work and a pending report on Boston schools.
Harold Mac Grath’s cliffhanger adventure continues as he races across the Atlantic aboard an ocean liner. The second installment of The Voice in the Fog unfolds with high seas peril and bold characters aboard the vessel.
A renowned physician argues most intestinal and stomach diseases stem from acidity. He advocates simple bisulated magnesia over patent medicines, claiming neutralizing stomach acid cures the root cause. Take a teaspoonful after meals, repeating if needed, to relieve sour stomach and heartburn.
Mrs I P Richards of Ashford Connecticut reports her husband suffered two weeks from severe itching burning and red scalded skin on his legs due to overheating in a hay field. After ineffective powders he tried Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which provided relief after two weeks of treatment.
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