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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1916
Page
2
August sale highlights Women's tailored suits in serge and peau de cygne linings, with coats, skirts, and jackets priced from 5 to 37.50. Featuring jersey silk suits, poplins, taffeta dresses, lace and embroidery, and standout coats in navy blue and black. Includes misses and small women's coats and gowns in a range of fabrics and styles.
A large sale offers striped middies and skirts at one dollar, bath suits and girls dresses discounted, numerous hats and parasols, lingerie and corsets at reduced prices. The event runs through Sept 1 with mail and phone orders filled while stock lasts, including a wide range of fabrics, linens, and accessories in outlet lots.
The joint distribution committee of funds for Jewish war sufferers reports the embargo on the Syrian coast and the port of Jaffa for landing medical supplies to Palestine has been lifted. Oscar S Straus and Henry Morgenthau worked through Ambassador Jusserand to secure the change.
Justice Brandeis will honor a pledge to the Zion Association of Greater Boston by attending a banquet on September 21. The event, likely at Mechanics Building, will be limited to Zion Association members, with the group nearing 1000 members as pledges aim to meet Brandeis’s condition for guest status.
The Rev Father George J P director of retreats at Blessed Gabriel Monastery in Brighton announces a men’s diocesan retreat starting tonight at 159 Washington Street Brighton. Retreatants live at the monastery until the term ends Monday morning Aug 28. Full information is available from Father George. The Confraternity of the Holy Cross mass and meeting are noted with devotion hour from 8 to 9 pm. Boston’s Fr E Theodore and several Fraters are named among local clergy.
Josiah Pierce claiming fame as the seventh son of a seventh son faced Municipal Court in Burke’s chamber on a $59 Hotel Victoria check charge. Proceedings paused as his mother arrived from Washington to repay the allegedly obtained funds. Additional counts of six more worthless checks were to be pursued, delayed by her arrival.
Police report counterfeit half dollar pieces circulating around Arlington Lexington Bedford Billercia and Lowell. Lieutenant Daniel M Hooley of Arlington police says Michael McCarthy of Cambridge received a fake coin while making change at Arlington Heights. McCarthy learned from Lowell police that many bad coins moved between Lowell and Arlington.
The Rev Edward T Sullivan will lead 11 am and 7 30 pm services at the Cathedral Church of St Paul with hymn singing on the porch at 7 15 pm The Rev Robert F Leavens a native of Arlington becomes minister at First Unitarian Church Omaha Neb next month He is a Dartmouth and Harvard Divinity School alumnus ordained in 1907 The Rev W W Bustard formerly of Dudley Street Baptist will preach at Dudley Street Church August 27 morning and evening The Johns Rockefeller praised his morning sermon He Rev Charles L Page assistant pastor at Dudley Street Church plans to return next Sunday after a broken leg layoff.
Four people were drowned and one injured when an automobile driven by Frank Hailier from Saulnierville swerved on a bridge and plunged into the Mereghan River near Saulnierville and Mereghan River. The dead: Mr. and Mrs. Lee Amiro and Miss Mary Lombard of Saulnierville, and Monique Comeau of Mereghan River.
Paul Ginther of El Paso told the Post reporter that locals at the Touraine are waiting for something to happen amid the Mexican situation. He will stay two or three weeks and says that sentiment reflects the city’s mood.
Real estate brokers Simon Markleson of 4 Nahant Street Revere and Louis Rosenberg of 4 Long Street Dorchester were arrested in Court Square yesterday afternoon for violating a city ordinance. They will appear in Municipal Court this morning. Police crack down on sidewalk real estate activity outside the City Hall annex.
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