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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1908
Page
5
A 1900 era advertisement extols Fels Naptha soap noting the biggest women’s club in America is the Anti Drudgery Club with over a million members. It promises easier washing, no boiling or rubbing, faster chores, and whiter cleaner clothes while warning that counterfeit soaps are worthless.
The theater figure Byron Chandler is killed in a French automobile accident after a history of high profile escapades. Details trace his European trip with Miss Grace Estelle Stencher, a New York singer, and prior legal battles over his Massachusetts license.
Miss Leila M. Webster a Holyoke real estate entrepreneur is engaged to Mahlon D. Simpson of Newark New Jersey. The couple met in Elizabeth New Jersey with Webster once representing Walter Perkins Co. and Simpson leading Ball Wood Manufacturing.
A familiar auto race figure in Florida winters, he often entered high power cars. When arrested for speeding he claimed his car forced him to exceed limits, but judges typically fined him.
Harvey Wells former bank bookkeeper from Kenosha Wis was arrested in Boston on embezzlement charges and pleaded not guilty before Judge Quarles. He was held to the grand jury.
A fragment from the Sunday Post lists recipes and contributors from New England homes. Included are ginger cream and custard desserts from Miss Margaret McSweeney of Brockton, Massachusetts, a chocolate fruit pudding from Mrs George P Ayres of Boston, a bread pudding from Mrs D B Newcomb of Taunton, and an apple pie technique by A J Randolph.
A teen girl asks if a first kiss from her 18 year old sweetheart implies marriage. Brown Eyes counsels that a kiss may mean different levels of affection and warns a girl to consider how she will feel if the relationship ends and she cannot retrieve the kiss.
In Lincoln Nebraska William Jennings Bryan Democratic presidential candidate spoke to the Lincoln Typographical Union honoring G Humphrey Sullivan of Lowell Massachusetts. He praised labor organizations for their role in the world and argued they benefit both members and non members stating labor groups have driven improvements in U S labor conditions over the last 25 years.
In the channel off Fort Andrew today the new Davis torpedo gun was tested. Commander Cleveland Davis claims the weapon will eclipse the Whitehead in power and effectiveness. The cigar shaped device is about three and a half feet long and automatically propelled, with three compartments housing two discharge chambers and propulsion mechanism.
Miss Anna Rowe, 18, camps beside the United States Office in Duluth to press for opening Fond du Lac Indian reservation for settlement five weeks away. She is sixth in line and intends to become a farmer with a supply of reading material for the wait.
Friends defend Inspector Rogers as a victim of circumstances after he is removed from his post. They praise his integrity and say his long service with the building department shows no fault. They expect the mayor to reinstate him once the case is reviewed.
Delegates of the Knights of Pythias were hosted at the Hotel Somerset for an official farewell reception. George W. Penniman opened the event as grand chancellor of Massachusetts, with toastmaster John M. Cole. Supreme Chancellor Henry P. Brown received the founders’ Bible from Walter D. Pritchie, Ohio. Lieutenant-Governor Draper lauded the order as a public-spirited force and noted Massachusetts’ hospitality. Supreme Chancellor Charles A. Barnes of Jacksonville praised the visit and the Commonwealth’s welcome, amid a successful gathering marked by cordiality and patriotism.
Patrolman James Toomey faced a mob in Brattle Square last evening as officers arrived to guard a prisoner, James H. Eliott, 35, accused of stealing Mrs. James Ossmar's handbag and $7. The crowd surged, striking at Toomey until Inspectors Farley and Collins intervened and dispersed the aggressors.
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