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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1910
Page
6
Dr Lewis Baker answers readers on health and beauty with home remedies and prescriptions. He cites remedies for scrofula skin sores hair loss dandruff and weight gain and lists internal tonics and syrups, advising mail requests for guidance and offering formulations and dosages.
A bill to bar liquor sales to women in saloons was defeated 98 to 80 after a heated debate in the House. Representative Cavanaugh of Everett defended it as protecting womanhood, noting a nearby saloon served women within three feet of a bar.
Hamilton April 28 Word reached here that Representative Augustus P Gardner of Massachusetts will close his Washington home and office next Tuesday and move back to Hamilton to live permanently. Health concerns and past strains from the rules committee fight led to the decision. his secretary Winfred B Lufkin will accompany him.
An old newspaper advert promises a new beauty process that fades wrinkles in one to two nights and grows new flesh in 24 to 48 hours. It touts enlarging the bust, smooth skin, glossy hair, and a well rounded neck, with a free copy of the Magic Key to Beautyland sent to readers who cut out a coupon within ten days.
A 12 year old Elizabeth Laughlan pleads with the editor to help her father Thomas J. Laughlan, a 50 year old painter fired from the navy yard, find work. She describes a large hungry family, with ailing mother and eight children, relying on scraps and church relief. The piece notes a recent Dorchester eviction fundraiser spurred by Post readers.
A Post photographer captured a Brighton schoolgirl on her way home. The winner can claim a five dollar gold piece at the City Editor's office by presenting in person in weekday business hours. Each weekday a child will have a photo printed, with twenty Sunday snapshots. Yesterday's featured child was Ethel Patterson, 14, Bowdoin School eighth grade, West End.
The Hebrew Bakers' Union 45 held a meeting in Engineers Hall at 164 Canal Street to decide wages and hours. After discussion the nine hour day was approved to start May 1, preserving the old wage scale. Charles Feldman chaired the session.
Fireman David Cockling collapsed and died on the Tacony off Cape Ann after drinking ice water in extreme heat. Captain R M Wallace completed the trip to Portland and returned the body to Boston. Cockling, from England, leaves a wife and child, with prior service on the tug Covington.
George H. McKenzie, president of Boston Floorlayers Union No. 1096 and business agent, remains in both roles as the union grows. He has worked across the country, helped build carpenters’ craft, and Boston wages at $3.25–$4 winter and $4–$4.50 summer. In four weeks 29 applications, six new members Monday, five Tuesday.
South Boston Odd Fellows celebrate the 100th anniversary of their founding with a banquet in Pilgrim Hall. National Lodge 7641 S O O F Manchester Unity oversaw the event with toastmaster Herbert F. Price and speakers including Joseph W. Young James W. Gregg James Reedy and E B Jutton.
Members of the St John s Church Dorchester Choir Guild staged In a Southern Garden a minstrel melange for about 600 attendees in Norfolk Hall. Participants included Full Blooms Marion Hutchinson Anna Humphrey Hazel Whitman Ruth Monroe Marion Frye Hester Beaumont Buds Florence Moore Helen Farwell Pearl Sylvester Edith Coburn Stella Brownell Grace Holden Gertrude Bucknum Lillian Cook Edith Sylvester Natalie Prescott Myrtie Lowell Pauline Hervey Daisy Holden Grace Hawes Doris Rowe Wall Flowers Ralph Whitman Albert Bruce Albert Hervey Lawrence Crosby James Munroe James Niblack Eben Holden Carroll Buckman Ralph Jenkins.
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