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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1914
Page
3
A bustling advertisement lists discounted items on the street floor including nickel folding coat hangers, spool cotton, sanitary aprons, sewing silk, gray switches, self adjusting hair nets, and a range of waists from crepe voile to crepe de chine. Promotions highlight Dolly Varden styles and broken sample lots across sizes and trims.
A mass gathering of jobless people on Boston Common drew under 500 attendees. Speaker Emily Balch failed to appear and police halted the event when the chairman forgot the permit. Fred B. Chase spoke briefly, criticizing Mayor as favoring capital and taxes over workers. A separate incident reported a man hit by an electric car, presumed dead and later revived at a morgue.
Joseph Crist a laborer woke in a coffin at an undertaker's morgue after falling asleep on a railroad right-of-way. He claimed to have been dreaming of a missing foot and awoke in the morgue with his foot believed gone before doctors examined him.
In Rome on April 19 Countess Spottiswoode Mackin formerly Miss Sallie Britton of St Louis met the Pope. Pius X received her presenting a new skull cap in exchange for the one on his head. He also gave an autographed photograph.
In the Charles Kickley disaster off the New Jersey coast, Abijah Hardy, mate and brother of Captain Horatio G. Hardy, is reported lost alongside the captain and the captain’s wife, a Seabright lighthouse keeper’s daughter. The wife’s body was brought home to Maine and buried near the wreck site. Captain Hardy and his brother’s bodies are due in Maine tomorrow.
Columbus April 19. W H Magee of Port Clinton Ohio owns 2300 acres with only 200 acres tillable. the rest is marsh. He gathers 13 472 muskrat skins from the marsh and plans further harvests.
A farmer marketed a winter crop from the marsh likely exceeding his dry land yield. The marsh crop produced 13 472 muskrat hides valued at 50 cents each and included carcasses sold for food.
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