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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1913
Page
4
Elizabeth McAlvin's will filed in Suffolk probate bequeaths her entire estate to Phillips Congregational Church South Boston with small private bequests to friends. The valuation is not listed.
A Mrs. M. J. Bateman reports in Philadelphia 1912 that after years of suffering and wasting money she found relief using Resinol Soap and Ointment. She says the entire facial eruption disappeared in four weeks and her skin became clear. The ad invites readers to request free samples from Resinol Baltimore Maryland.
Mrs Florence Ada Jenness faces a divorce libel in Middlesex Superior Court April session while confined in a sanitarium for mental condition. Her husband Walter G Jenness a Somerville lumber dealer and their counsels decline to reveal the sanitarium's location. She is named libellee.
Mrs. Jenness caused a stir when found with William E. Miller of Somerville in New Hampshire in February. She claimed she was not Jennesss wife but his stepdaughter and that she was not yet 22, while he said she was 42. Miller only learned the truth after a birth certificate was shown in Revere.
The 12 week Boston mens garment strike ended after an all night conference at the United States Hotel. Marcus M. Marks and Meyer London helped mediate a union recognizing agreement granting no more than 50 hour weeks a $1 weekly wage rise for week workers and wage-linked piece rates, with anti subcontracting and sanitary shop standards.
Roland G. Hopkins of a Boston Ice Company acknowledged a lake and pond ice shortage caused by last winter’s mild weather. He said prices will stay the same as last year unless weather worsens or a major fire destroys ice houses.
Ice dealers from across the state gather at the American House for the Massachusetts Ice Dealers Association two day convention. Nearly 3800 attendees heard papers on profitable handling use of new cutting and preservation methods and discussed delegates for a Chicago refrigeration congress. Elections for officers and further papers planned.
Mrs. Minnie S. Quimby of Chestnut Hill seeks a Supreme Court review after a Superior Court order bars her from laying a two inch water pipe across land of Mrs. Helen P. Dane to access town mains. Quimby vows to continue despite poverty and water shortages for her two children following a Board of Health order to discontinue using her well.
Engagement announced in San Francisco linking Miss Nellie Grant of San Francisco and Santa Barbara to Lieutenant-Commander William Piggott Cronan of the U S Navy. Cronan commands the destroyer Jouett in Hampton Roads and is son of paper box manufacturer P J Cronan of New Haven.
Arthur H. James donated $3500 of the $4100.50 found on a gold filled birthday cake at a Woman's Charity Club luncheon at Copley Plaza. Funds go to the Massachusetts Women's Hospital on Parker Hill Roxbury. The event honored 25 years of charity with Mayor Fitzgerald Governor Foss and Rev Horton speaking.
Cornell University named Professor Allen A. Young of Washington University Missouri to the economics chair left vacant by E W Kemmerer. Young, a Harvard lecturer and former professor at Dartmouth and Stanford, is an authority on economics and writer for the American Economic Review.
A physician’s prescription for freckle removal promises a clear complexion. Sold by Riker Jaynes and Houghton Dutton drug departments with a money back guarantee. Early applications reportedly reduce lighter freckles and may vanish some.
The Aquitania, Cunard’s largest liner, will launch at Clydebank on Monday April 21. A ship within a ship design divides space into watertight compartments to limit flooding after a collision.
Fire engines rushed to Box 55 near Tremont street and Van Ransslaer place around 8 pm last night. A blaze ignited on the third floor at 224 Tremont street, the costumer Mrs. Duff’s shop, producing smoke and a small flame before firefighters arrived.
Norwood resident Patrick Welch, 66, of 109 Fulton Street, was crushed between a freight car and a shed at the George H. Morrill Company plant. He was walking toward the car, did not hear warnings, and died. He leaves a widow, three daughters, and five sons.
George E. Homer, lessee of 45 Winter Street, sues the City of Boston in Suffolk Superior Court claiming his building and business were damaged by Winter Street subway construction. He alleges the Transit Commission took property and disrupted use, causing loss of profits, prevented sales, and harmed goodwill.
President Thomas J. Kenny of the City Council was charged by Mayor Fitzgerald with hindering needed city improvements due to his stance this year on municipal finance.
The mayor and President Kenny dispute whether the city should spend 500000 for street improvements outside the debt limit. The Legislature allowed annual outside spending, voters approved, but Kenny opposes it. A council deadlock looms as four or more members side with the mayor, risking delays to suburbs streets and other major projects.
The April 11 deceased Mary M. Donovan of 6 Waverly Street leaves 500 to the Little Sisters of the Poor on Dudley Street 200 to the Home for Destitute Catholic Children 500 to the Carmelite Convent Roxbury and 300 to St Elizabeth's Hospital Brookline Street The remaining estate goes to a named beneficiary.
The will names her sister Helen A. Keenan as executrix and designates Sister M. Malachi of Holy Trinity Hospital Manitowoc Wisconsin as beneficiary of 300 dollars.
An advertisement extols Croxone as a universal remedy for kidney and bladder trouble and rheumatism. It claims the drug cleanses kidneys, dissolves uric acid, and relieves backache in days. The copy asserts high efficacy and offers price back if it fails in any case.
Musterole advertised as a chest and throat rub for croup and many conditions. The copy cites relief for adults and children, price options 25c and 50c, a hospital size 2.50, and mail order from Musterole Company Cleveland Ohio plus a testimonial from Mrs H F Stoddard London.
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