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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1911
Page
7
Parson s Kansas April 18 Engineer Harold Porter was killed and three others injured in a head on collision between passenger trains on the Missouri Kansas Texas line. The wreck was blamed on a misunderstanding of signals.
Two hundred members of the Massachusetts Automobile Operators' Association gathered at the Quincy House for its first annual banquet. Mayor Fitzgerald opened the event before the guests realized the banquet had begun, explaining he must hurry to another banquet in Salem to reach it before 9 45.
The meeting featured Mayor and highway officials urging careful driving and industry self regulation. Speakers including Senator Tolman and James Fortescue urged reporting intoxicated chauffeurs and protecting pedestrians and bystanders on busy streets.
Chelsea and Boston figure John J. Connolly, prominent attorney, died at his Chelsea home after months of illness. Born in Chelsea sixty years ago, he was a Dartmouth College and Chelsea High School graduate and left a widow and one son.
Massachusetts Senate President Allen T. Treadway denounced proposed Boston charter changes as schemes for political patronage. Speaking before the Mercantile Market Association at Ford Hall he warned that expanding the council from nine to 27 would create 18 more government jobs.
The Denver and Rio Grande railroad raised wages for passenger and freight conductors by 10 percent and 7.5 percent respectively. About two thousand workers are affected.
Erie resident Mrs J P ENpLica describes five years of suffering from female troubles. After three doctors failed, she used Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, taking two bottles then six, and regained strength. She urges other women to try the remedy, claiming it cured numerous female maladies and backing its safety.
A $30 000 moving picture The Fall of Troy is being shown at the Premier Theatre with previews at the New Palace later this week. Motion picture experts call it the most realistic ever made and a new epoch in the industry. Thousands were trained in Italy to produce perfect scenes. The film reportedly cost $80 000 to secure and features dramatic love scenes, Greek Trojan battles, and the fall of Troy for immersive historical fidelity.
An advertisement lists rush braided items described as durable, clean, reversible and rain resistant. It shows sizes 39x58 and 39x58 inch patterns with prices 4.25 15.00 6.50, plus 75x116 and 96x96 inch options priced at 15.00 and 20.00.
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