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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1916
Page
2
Mrs Victoria DeLucca alias Pauline Fish was found guilty of soliciting by Judge Murray in the Police Court and the case was continued. She claims Agents Grossman and Bryan of the Watch and Ward Society insulted her at dinner on Feb 9 at the Hotel Florence in the North End. Her husband Frank corroborates her account.
An advertisement urges readers not to trifle with a cold and promotes Adamson's Balsam as a cure. The brief note emphasizes danger from illness and touts the remedy with a single persuasive claim.
Readers are invited to join a thrift plan that blends spending with saving. For every purchase from five cents upward, Bank Savings System Certificates are issued equal to the purchase amount and redeemable at two cents on the dollar at designated banks or trust companies. Guaranteed checks then issued for deposit in savings accounts.
In New York on April 24 prosecutors prep the case against Dr. Arthur Warren Waite who confessed to poisoning his wife's parents. Key witness Mrs Dorothy von Palmenberg testified Waite planned a separation and that Mrs Margaret Horton anticipated an Egypt trip with Waite. Waite was arraigned and a May trial date was set by Judge Crain.
The fifth national textile exhibition and third national power show opened with a display spanning from ancient looms to modern high speed machinery. Highlights include a 1700s loom from Danvers State Hospital exhibit run by Miss A L Tompkins, spinning and weaving demos by Mrs J N Jackson, and live cotton mills processing raw cotton. The event features a "beauty show" with skilled young women operating machines and handling threads. The assembly includes leaders like Frederick H Bishop and numerous industry figures, with plans for international and domestic orders and the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers meeting at Copley Plaza. The week also features a foreign commerce address by Frank A Van der Lip and an association banquet midweek.
U S agents seize papers from von Igel's offices and the German embassy evidence a 60 Wall Street room rented by Von Igel for advertising business. An affidavit shows the space not part of the embassy, while other seized items include material on the Von Rintelen-Lamar conspiracy and labor peace council witnesses.
Grafton D. Cushing will preside at Tremont Temple for a free mass meeting in aid of French army orphans under the Boston branch of Orphelmat des Armes. Miss Florence M. Schofield of Paris will speak on organized care for soldiers’ children with Lantern pictures and music provided by the Harvard Club glee club under Malcolm Lang.
Arraigned in police court yesterday she admitted stealing from two department stores on Saturday. Placed on probation she initially gave the name Margaret McAuliffe of 8 Park Street Charlestown, then confessed the alias was to shield her real identity.
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