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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1916
Page
13
A listing of kitchenware and small house furnishings with assorted prices. Items include copper tea kettles, nickel plated irons, brushing tools, ladders, carpet sweepers, enamel kitchenware, ammonia, aluminum pans, and sauce pans with dozens of price points.
A two week New England cleanup drive begins next week with the slogan Paint up and clean up everybody help. Over 300 towns join as city departments and committees cooperate. A large cup will be awarded to the city with best results, Hartford won last year, Boston seeks the trophy this year.
Cotton manufacturers in New Bedford approved a 10 per cent wage increase effective May 1. About 25,000 operatives will gain, ending a threatened general strike after Textile Council demanded the raise. Wages rise 15 per cent since Jan 1, adding roughly $1.6 million to annual payroll and marking the highest pay for local mill operatives.
In Fall River on April 27 a threatened strike by 30,000 cotton mill workers was averted as the Cotton Manufacturers' Association announced a 10 percent wage increase. The raise, effective next Monday, lifts the wage scale to the industry's highest point in history, the mills' officials said.
The second Shakspere Festival performance at Castle Square presented As You Like It replacing Romeo and Juliet. The outdoor production impressed audiences with Arden Forest visuals and strong acting by Miss Young as Rosalind and Mr. Craig as Orlando. Cast praised for singing Amiens and characters Jacques Touchstone Celio Audrey Phoebe. Next week to feature Hamlet and The Taming of the Shrew.
A humorous note describes Nippy's Pop sending the home guard to repel an invader as a featured color comic in the upcoming Sunday Post.
The silver loving cup for best original music composition was awarded to Miss Margaret Hicks of Boston by judges W Sterling Adolph Hahn and Louis Victor Saar. Miss Pfau of Cincinnati chaired the session. The cup becomes the property of the Boston chapter. Cincinnati fraternity men and local musical colleges aided the event. Dr. Ernest Kunwald invited 160 girls to a noon performance of the Alpine Symphony at Music Hall.
George Sarton of Ghent University and editor of Isis lectured on the history of science to Harvard students in Homerson Hall Cambridge yesterday afternoon under university auspices.
Mrs. Jesse Richardson of Philpot Kentucky praises Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin after a year of use for her baby William Jr noting its pleasant taste and the child’s health. The remedy is a non narcotic laxative used for constipation and widely sold at fifty cents per bottle with a trial bottle offered.
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