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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1908
Page
5
Lieutenant Frank P. Lahm spoke on The Conquest of the Air to the American Society of Mechanical Engineers noting balloons rise three miles high where oxygen is needed to sustain life. He described dizziness as absent explains motion appears minimal and observers lose height perception.
A well dressed young woman registered as Mrs S H Falconer of Susquehanna Falls South Dakota in a Brooklyn hotel. She stood before a mirror and shot herself in the head. she died before a bellboy could reach the room.
The opening session in Trinity parish house, led by Bishop William W Lawrence, formed an organization committee to report later. A missionary secretary for the dioceses was debated and assigned to a year‑long study. The panel includes bishops Vinton and others with church and civic leaders. A appeal for $5,000,000 to aid aging ministers was presented by J. Wilkins. Daniel J. Keefe, new U S immigration commissioner, arrived home from Washington.
Bishop Arthur C. A. Hall of Vermont outlines New England mission needs during the New England conference in Trinity Church. He calls for elastic parish methods, lay participation, Sunday seminars in schools, and outreach to Puritan traditions and growing foreign immigrant populations.
A vintage remedy outlines a wash using refined soap white of eggs glycerin coconut oil and salicylic acid to cleanse scalp and combat dandruff. It promotes Birt’s Head Wash made to this formula claiming safe weekly use for men women and children and notes superior shine and scalp health.
Keefe asserts he had no knowledge of the appointment until a Denver meeting and a November 4 letter from the President offered the post. He says he consulted before accepting and credits Roosevelt with aiding organized labor. He denies the appointment was a campaign reward.
President Charles W. Eliot presided at a meeting of physicians in Ware Hall Fenway last night addressing the aims of the Massachusetts Child Labor Association. He contrasted U S policy with Germany noting Munich operates 60 trade schools. Speakers included Everett W. Lord Charles E. Gettemy and Dr. Joel E. Goldthwaite.
Fire destroyed Anthony Shapiro’s clothing and jewelry store in Dickson City Scranton area. Five family members died including Mr Shapiro a son and daughter and Mrs Shapiro's parents. Mrs Shapiro and two other children escaped by leaping from second-story windows.
Federal inspectors recommend including the Custer homestead, boyhood home of General Custer, in the property for the new Monroe Postoffice amid a roundup of wire service briefs from across North America.
Fritz Mohl was thrown and dislocated his shoulder in a 15 minute bout with Raoul de Rouin at the Columbia. Lundin filled in as substitute and wrestled 15 minutes with de Rouin, neither securing a fall.
Amid chaotic scenes at the Port au Prince wharf crowds attacked the fallen president Lord Alexis as French tri color shielded him. Gunfire erupted, a knife failed to harm him, and valuables were looted from a left behind trunk containing about $10,000 in gold and 20,000 Haitian gourdes.
The Rev. Ambrose White Vernon of New Haven has accepted a call to the Harvard Congregational Church of Brookline to succeed the late Rev. Reven Thomas. He resigns his professorship of practical theology and homiletics at Yale Divinity School, effective likely at term end.
The article promotes a home asthma cure named ascarco from Austrian Laboratory New York. It claims a four to five week remedy that stops night choking spells and suits long standing cases. It notes availability via Riker Jaynes drug stores and Houghton Duttons, with 50 cent and 2 dollar sizes for varying severity.
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