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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1909
Page
5
An advertisement for fur storage touts vault heating renewal and insured safety with a 3 percent valuation rate minimums while denouncing price fak ing in Boston retail ads. The James A. Houston Company backs a shopper crusade against exaggerated claims.
Dr Myles Standish urged abandoning blackboards in favor of light colored walls and adjusted artificial lighting. Speaking at Harvard Medical School on artificial illumination for study rooms, he argued light green walls best support visual reading needs and that lighting should imitate sunlight.
Newburyport April 18 The Post cartoons of Mayor George A Hibbard sparked recognition as he arrived by auto tour from Boston to New Hampshire and stayed overnight after two springs broke. He met locals at the Ingalls garage hotel and at lunch with Postmaster Atkinson.
A man living in the same building as Raffaele Del Gaudio at 17 North Square was arrested on a larceny charge. Del Gaudio is not connected with the affair.
Santo Delphino, 25, presumed from Haverhill, shot himself in the head near the frog pond in Lawrence. A police officer heard the pistol report and found him collapsing. he died en route to Lawrence General Hospital. A letter to Delphino was found, police deeming the act a suicide spurred by a jilting.
Fresh berries are cultivated aboard the Hamburg American liner Kaiserin Auguste Victoria in a greenhouse aft of the superstructure. Gardener Petersen tends lettuce and strawberries, with 120 lettuce orders served during the voyage.
Dorchester Historical Society dedicates a 110 foot flag pole on Columbia Road Upham's Corner near the old North Dorchester burying grounds. A 10 o'clock ceremony includes a flag raising and unrolling of a silk flag presented by Mrs. John A. Fowle.
A fire in Cloister Annex owned by Yale University damaged a room used by John Hays Hammond and BD Winslow of New York City. Winslow was pulled out unconscious and treated at the Yale infirmary. Hammond had not returned to college. damage estimated around $1000.
In Milltown New Brunswick on April 18 robbers broke into the post office and also entered Percy L. Longs drug store and B. H. Kerrs grocery, but they realized little for their trouble.
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