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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1916
Page
15
The arrestee provided the address 9 Anson Street Jamaica Plain as her home but the resident Mrs Rahill is not related. The real Mrs Rahill is middle aged. The suspect gave her age as 20. A note mentions Hank and His Animal Friends and a surprise in the next Sunday Post.
Specials highlight a Bedford Cord coat at 5.00 with silk braid collar cuffs and a back belt. Sizes up to 2 years. Also offered are hand smocked dotted muslin styles with chiffon rosettes and silk rose accents and pique bonnets priced 50 cents to 1.00. Little Pique Coats feature among the selections.
In black white or tan for men women and children 50e attached at all dealers. Be sure to get O Sullivan s avoid the disappointment of substitutes. Most good dealers now sell latest styles already O Sullivanized.
Mrs Emmeline Pankhurst told reporters in Boston that militant suffrage in England is temporarily sleeping and that the English people will accept conscription if necessary. She defended Ireland’s position, praised wartime unity, and said women will take on roles in the medical field while the war continues. She arrived from Paterson and spoke at Ford Hall on women’s wartime contribution.
Before the war, she organized National Service meetings and urged government to mobilize women as a reserve force. She noted Glasgow tram staff driving intoxicated crowds and spoke at a Women’s City Club luncheon honoring a three month Serbia aid tour. She promotes pictures of four fatherless war babies she has adopted and a square deal for them. Serbia worse off than Belgium.
A Med ford Hillside articulated car bound for Sullivan square jumped the tracks at Pearl and Cross streets Somerville yesterday striking an automobile owned by An son B. Wedgewood and then hitting a wagon from Louis E. Merry Company bakers. The wagon overturned against Nathan Schwartz’s provision store window at Cross street. No one was injured.
Portsmouth New Hampshire council approves a 500 reward for the arrest of George E. Stillson’s killer and will provide any needed funds to police to pursue the suspect after the Friday night attack near his home.
An eleven year old, Fred H Gould of 42 Carroll Street Chelsea, stole a horse and wagon from the F L Moore Company at North Station and drove up Broadway Somerville before Patrolman Drew intercepted him and took him to the station.
In New York on April 27 Ernest Trigueros a Paris coffee merchant unveiled a “beer tablet” that supposedly turns water into beer. He claimed five tablets per nickel create varying foams and even a bathtub full, promising a world where thirst ends and beer flows like water. Federal and state officials witnessed the demonstration alongside several dignitaries.
Mayor Curley and a large group of Boston bankers hosted a complimentary luncheon at the Boston City Club yesterday afternoon in honor of Assistant Secretary of the Treasury John Burke. The event drew prominent local financial figures and city officials.
The State of Massachusetts filed a suit in federal court to suspend an Interstate Commerce Commission order prohibiting the Boston and Maine railroad from absorbing recone charges on freight via Commonwealth Pier in South Boston. It appeals ICC decision, a first of its kind in the local court after the commerce court was abolished.
An advertisement urges confined indoor individuals to guard against excess fat and promotes oil of kerein capsules as a cheap, safe weight loss aid. It claims improved digestion, energy rebound, and lighter steps after several days of use, recommending 15 to 20 pounds overweight users try the regimen.
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