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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1908
Page
8
A 1910s style warning against frequent washing and cheap products. It touts Birt's Head Wash with ingredients listed and claims it cleanses dirt microbes while leaving scalp moist and hair glossy. Regular use, at least weekly, allegedly restores natural hair growth and scalp health.
Mrs. A H Pettingell of Greenleaf Street and her sister Mrs Van Dunston of Detroit are named direct heirs to an estate valued at $80 million in Wilmington Delaware. The 99 year lease on Byron Springer property expired in 1908 and heirs contest reversion. Some claimants include Frian B Bralou Lowell Republican nominee and Amesbury residents Mrs WH Scribner and Fuller W Littlefield.
Speaker Cannon told the Ohio Valley Improvement Society delegation that the Ohio River project costing 63 million dollars would be financed by bonds. He said his role is to preside over the House and enforce rules, not to act as a czar with ultimate binding power.
James L. Richards urged Massachusetts street railway leaders to seek relief from taxes and free transfers at an Exchange Club gathering. He compared rising capital costs for the Elevated with future expansion plans and warned how added debt could threaten dividends. Secretary Wright notes the army’s strength near target with ongoing enlistments and militia reforms.
Miss Mary Rose Brennan held a recital in Unitarian Hall Somerville last evening displaying four years of study with friends in attendance.
Miss Brennan kept the audience laughing for half an hour with The Rejuvenation of Aunt Mary and The Other Wise Man. She was ably assisted by Miss Margaret Rogers and Miss Mary Keneally, with Rogers as soloist and Keneally on violin. Brennan is a Kelley School of Oratory and Emerson College graduate.
Albany address by Arthur T. Hadley of Yale University criticizes workingmen’s training and habits and says unions restrain labor. He argues American labor has deteriorated since 30 years ago and draws lessons from Germany for education.
Secretary of War Wright in his annual report to Congress states that in a war with a first class power the U S would need 350000 in the first line of defence. With the regular army capped at 100000 the remaining 250000 would come from state citizen soldiery and he urges higher militia equipment spending and a joint induction camp such as the New York State camp run under General Grant last year.
W H Crowninshield a 40 year old Boston man linked with the National League for the Promotion of Purity was fatally struck by a railway train in Cleveland. His body was taken to a morgue as authorities sought his friends.
W H Crowninshield, a Brockton shoe company traveling salesman, was killed by a train in Cleveland. He was the son of Mrs Kate P Crowninshield of this place, widow of a former sanitarium operator. He claimed Boston as his residence and had Cleveland as his headquarters.
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