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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1913
Page
9
Chicago reports Mrs. Ethel Smith, wife of Rev. Paul Jordan Smith, accused him of pretending to kiss her and striking the back of her neck. She filed for divorce.
A San Francisco case shows conflicting medical opinions on Brights disease. A cor poration manager’s son was deemed incurable by two physicians but later recovery was attributed to Fulton’s Renal Compound. The ad promotes the product via Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
Dublin reports a conference between employees and employers with labor leaders failed to resolve the dispute. After 20 hours of talks, workers demanded full reinstatement and the employers refused. The strike has driven evictions and disrupted the community, despite offers to reinstate 80 percent of the strikers.
The Rev John H Gavin pastor of St Pauls Catholic Church Blackstone died after a shock in the confessional Friday. He was appointed pastor two years ago. He is survived by a brother James J Gavin of Worcester.
Mr and Mrs R N Strouse of Third street Belvidere New Jersey marked their 66th wedding anniversary with an informal reception. The husband danced a jig and the wife played the piano. Mrs Strouse is 85 and Mr Strouse is 88. Both remain active and hearty.
A poorly dressed woman visited the Post Santa’s office and turned over a 25 cent mite. She recalled last year when the charity kindness had brought joy to her and her three children during hard times. This year she is better off but still gives what she can to help others in need.
Saturday appeal urges readers to donate money or toys to the Boston Post Santa Claus department at 26 Washington Street. Readers are asked to collect letters and deliver one toy or a full basket of toys to spread Christmas joy to ill mothers, unemployed fathers, and hospitalized children. The piece quotes grateful letters from recipients and notes the Cambridge Nest of Owls has offered to supply ten letters.
The Franklin Park Zoo's six year old buffalo nicknamed Bill has left the round house after a year and now inhabits a fenced area on Schoolmaster hill near the elk runs. Born at Norumbega Park about five years ago he was shown in Havana during a winter exhibit and later purchased by Boston. Bill weighs over 2700 pounds and is described as a domesticated animal not yet exposed to wild plains life.
Albert Gunn an 82 year old Albany resident is at City Hospital relief station Haymarket square with a fractured left ankle. Police suspect the injury occurred during an attempted robbery at 46 56 South Street early yesterday morning and have orders to hold him for questioning when able to leave. Gunn was found at Grace Hospital Kingston street after the break was reported claiming a fight or a fall and that he crawled to closed hospital steps.
Morrison I. Swift told the Humanist Forum at Franklin Union on Berkeley Street yesterday that greed stems from both sexes. He argued that women of a class use feminine allurements to obtain what they crave, and urged understanding this to lay foundations for a better society.
A speaker argues that women and their families have benefited from male predatory wealth and played a crucial but unacknowledged role in driving the crisis. He contends women could end the exploitation if they challenged it, and blames both sexes for social decay while denying sole male fault.
A frail 95 year old woman in the Texas and Pacific station in Fort Smith, Arkansas, sits among travelers and finally lights a pipe to ease toothache and fatigue from waiting for a train. She says she has been smoking on and off for eight years, has about nine teeth left, and weighs little.
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