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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1912
Page
2
A naval board in Washington considers discarding the flat round cap and wide rolling collar for a round narrow brimmed cloth hat and a miner style flannel shirt aboard ships. The traditional cap and collar likely remain for sailors ashore to preserve traditions.
The Cunard liner Franconia sailed from East Boston yesterday with Captain C A Smith RN. An enthusiastic sendoff greeted a Boston bridal party aboard as the ship departed.
Dr and Mrs Irving Sobotky of 366 Commonwealth Avenue wed yesterday at the Somerset. The bride Miss Wilhelmina Barius Andrews is the sole child of Julius Andrews of Brookline. The couple plan two months in England and the Continent.
Richard D Arcy of 42 Chilton Street Cambridge has been missing since last Saturday and remains unfound. Police on a new lead report a boy resembling him seen with a man driving toward Belmont. Clay pits and surrounding water holes were dragged and further searches are planned.
Secretary Knox informed Boston Mayor Fitzgerald that 240 eminent German physicians will arrive October 6 to spend two days in the city. They will stay at the Copley Plaza Hotel as guests of the German consul, and the mayor agreed to host them with hospital and clinic tours open for their inspection.
Police learn cyanide of potassium is used at the American Steel and Wire Company works where Max and Emile Biller worked. Mrs Emma Biller died last Thursday at 14 Walnut Avenue from a deadly dose. Tufts Medical School Prof Alfred Balch reports cyanide found in her viscera, suggesting multiple possible fatalities.
Police search the Biller cottage as they probe a death tied to cyanide. Emile Biller and family suspects swirl while a New York trawler Heroine ties up at T Wharf on maiden Boston trip loaded with haddock cod hake and cask. Captain George F. Steel leads the vessel once a Staten Island pleasure craft. The scene shifts to a university preacher Professor Vaughan whose career at Brown Chicago Berkeley and Hamilton Theological Seminary is noted along with his possible full professorship.
Poslam Soap marketed as pure antiseptic and germicidal skin remedy for tender skin. Promoted as ideal nursery soap for toilet and bath, claiming safet y purity and benefits to complexion, with a dandruff shampoo use. Large cake priced 25 cents. sample offer from Emergency Laboratories New York City.
City Collector Bowdoin S. Parker states that delinquent poll tax payers may be jailed for seven days per year unpaid. He emphasizes no foreigner discrimination in enforcement and cites Acts of 1909 chapter 490 section 27 detailing levy, detention limits, and release according to law.
Mrs. Cohen discovered a fire in the attic of their two family home at 10 Coburn Street Malden. Samuel Huberman rescued the three Cohen children and brought them to the street. Damage estimated at $2000. owner listed as Hyman Serviees.
The Sunday Post comic section features Percy and his inventor and Professor Wagner as the chief sufferers in another rampage. See next Sunday's Post.
The Newton Theological Institution elected Rev. Professor Richard M. Vaughan of Berkeley California to the chair of Christian Theology at a special meeting in the Ford building Boston on Tuesday afternoon August 6 He was born in Bangor Wisconsin in 1870 and will be 42 on August 28 Vaughan is of Welsh parentage and his father was a well known Wisconsin minister He graduated first in his class at Wayland Academy and won the Colby scholarship at the University of Chicago
Advertising blurb touts Hood's Lotion as producing smooth velvety skin in all weathers. It claims the lotion gives soft skin and recommends purchase from druggists at 50 cents.
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