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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1912
Page
9
An advertisement touts Booths Hyomei as a cure for catarrh and related ailments. It features a rubber inhaler and offers a bottle for 50 cents or a full outfit for one dollar. Claims include germ killing soothing air and guaranteed relief with money back. Distributed by druggists nationwide.
Cape Cod canal progress is five eighths complete according to engineers who shifted three large dredges from Buzzards Bay harbor work to the Monument River valley. Officials avoided predicting a opening date for the canal part of a coastal inland waterway system. Civil and criminal action may follow New Haven Grand Trunk traffic investigations as the December grand jury examines the arrangements.
After three years of hard labor blasting boulders the main ship canal from Wing's Neck Light to Monument River entrance was finished in late November. Rail relocation and a new Monument River drawbridge were completed last summer. A 3000 foot breakwater long is under construction marked by a gas buoy and a lighthouse is eyed for the far end. A nearby island may be built to resist ice fields as Cape Cod Bay freezes yearly. The government also aims to straighten the Nantucket Shoals channel near Pollick Rip to reduce danger.
The Dallin statue The Appeal to the Great Spirit will remain at its current site before the Museum of Fine Arts, as stated by C How ard Walker president of the Metropolitan Improvement Association. He noted a letter from Mrs Peter O Brooks indicating her husband wished the statue stay in place, honoring donors who funded the purchase without specifying a site.
Hearings progress in a grand jury inquiry into New Haven and Grand Trunk ties. Assistant AG Jesse Adkins and A U S district attorney Henry Guiler lead efforts, with potential indictment under the Sherman act. Testimony so far includes Hi Fitzhugh and likely Byrnes, Murdock, Cochrane, and others as witnesses.
Henry Russell director of the Boston Opera House argues that operas require three to three and a half hours, making late trains essential for out of town patrons. A group including Auerbach Brackett Williams and Delano testifies before the Board of Railroad Commissioners urging a late schedule.
In New York on December 4 two men Pietro Dutto from Naples and Charles VanVent a Frenchman were arraigned on dueling charges. They stated a quarrel lasting days led them to shoot at each other at six metres. VanVent had a head wound. both were held for the grand jury without bail.
A fragment hints at a luxury comfort or expedition the speaker never found in daily life. It also promotes Gillette blade packets priced at 50c to $1.00 as acceptable gifts for Gillette users.
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