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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1916
Page
5
Ee Bing Fook and Lee Chang of the steamship Lord Cromer crew were each sentenced to three months in East Cambridge jail by Judge Morton in the US District Court for smuggling opium into the port.
An advertisement touts a home made cough syrup using 2 1/2 ounces of Pinex in a pint sugar syrup for under 54 cents. It claims rapid relief from coughs throat and chest ailments and promotes Pinex as a long trusted Norway pine extract with guaranteed satisfaction from The Pinex Co Ft Wayne Ind.
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals posted thousands of notices in hunting grounds and post offices warning hunters against trapping poisoning snaring and using scented bait. A $10 reward is offered for evidence leading to conviction under state hunting laws.
A flood of handwritten pleas arrives at the Post Santa Claus desk detailing dire family hardship this Christmas. Families describe missing fathers and mothers needing work, small children hoping for aid, and towns and names referenced in the heartfelt appeals.
The Boston Post Santa seeks donations at the Post building and 263 Washington St to help children for Christmas. Letters from readers across New England show urgent need as volunteers report on the fund and deliver gifts from a workshop at 35 Federal St.
The body of Andrew Wotherspoon, 65, chief engineer of the Clyde line steamer Katahdin, who died from injuries in an automobile accident last week in Jacksonville, will be brought to New York today for funeral services and burial at his New Jersey home. He is survived by a wife and three daughters, and flags at Lewis Wharf and on the Katahdin were half mast.
Professor Kuno Francke told Emerson Hall the postwar era demands a genuine coalition ministry including the Socialist party and urged disestablishment of churches in Germany. He defended rule by experts over bosses, urged tax and housing reforms, unemployment aid, and nationalization of key industries as steps toward a renewed Europe.
Mrs. Pasqualine Gelsomini of Wakefield was discharged yesterday in Malden court by Judge Bruce after prosecutors failed to present sufficient evidence to bind her over. The judge stated the case would not have gone to a jury if she remained in custody.
Mrs. Florence Padmore filed for custody of Dorothy Brickley a 15 year old New Haven student missing for 12 years. She searched Philadelphia Pennsylvania Chicago and portions of Connecticut for the child. She says the Brickleys adopted the girl under a 1908 agreement she did not sign and obtained a court order for Eli J Brickley and his wife to appear on December 5 to justify custody.
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