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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1911
Page
6
Herbert B. Sweetser, a Shawmut National Bank clerk long believed to have jumped into the Winchester Reservoir, has been located in Lake City Florida. His disappearance prompted police searches and the recovery of his hat on a road near his Winchester home, with bank accounts found correct and no body recovered.
Mrs Ephraim Robichaud of 22 Tabor Avenue dies at Central Hospital from injuries suffered Thanksgiving Day when a car driven by her husband lost control and overturned an embankment near Whitman. Husband fined $15 for driving without a license. chauffeur Jos eph Proulx injured. DA may order an inquest.
Advertising copy extols Knowlton's Dandeline claiming immediate soft fluffy lustrous hair, no dandruff or itching after use, with new hair seen after weeks. Recommends 25 cent bottle from drug stores and toilet counters to restore neglected or injured hair.
J L Plunkett M D chief consulting physician Ear Nose Throat Chest and chronic diseases offers a free book. Permanent offices Suite 8 9 10 entrance No 18 Boylston St Boston. Office hours 10 am to 12 m 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 pm closed Sundays and Xmas.
Private detectives search Boston pawnshops and auction rooms for a small four by three inch brass Japanese box said to have been stolen from Mrs. Jack Gardner's museum during palace repairs. The box rests on four brass legs and features a small Japanese animal on its cover.
A mysterious antique casket said to have been brought to the country by a Gardner family member vanished after home alterations. Detectives were hired, publicity avoided, and a liberal reward offered for its return to Graham & Streeter at 709 Boylston Street. Arthur F. Graham denied confirming ownership of the box.
James O'Brien of 182 Dudley Street Roxbury was hurled through a basement window by a gas explosion caused by a defective meter. The blast rocked the building and O'Brien lay unconscious in the window frame before rescuers saved him from a fire that followed. Earlier the lodger smelled a strong gas odor from a basement meter leak.
O'Brien volunteers to inspect a defective meter in a basement when a blast erupts. The blast throws him among smoke and debris as Excelsior burns. Ladder Company 4 extinguishes the blaze. He suffers cuts, burns, and eye injuries but is described as seriously hurt yet improving with medical care.
Miss Donna Maria George of Brookline will present a program of national dances at Whitney Hall Coolidge Corner tonight. She has trained rigorously and recently declined an offer from Charles Frohman to join his company. The Mexican Serenaders will accompany her performances.
Everett Emmons, 14, vanished from West Kennebunk yesterday. He was found in the horse he rode, near Oaks Hill West Scarboro, 20 miles away, suffer ing convulsions but alive. The horse carried him until exhausted after veering toward Portland.
In Philadelphia a technicality under a long standing federal rule halted the poison pen case against Miss Harriet DeWitt of Easton Pennsylvania. The court ruled handwriting samples could not be admitted as evidence as they only tested comparison, ending the trial with a not guilty verdict.
U S district attorney J C Swartley announced the case fell with the exclusion of a test paper. Judge McPherson directed the jury to return a not guilty verdict citing federal law. The paper was deemed inadmissible though the judge preferred its admission. The letters, likely by a jealous woman targeting Rev Elmer E Snyder, were read in testimony but rejected. Miss DeWitt smiled as friends congratulated her after the verdict.
Oscar G. K. Robinson a Democrat won a second term as mayor of Westbrook defeating Republican James A. Trafton by 916 to 714 a 202 vote plurality Democrats carried three of five wards and elected three Aldermen at large.
Mrs. Molina Elwell secured a divorce from sculptor Frank Edwin Elwell on grounds of desertion after a Paris wedding in 1882. She testified he wanted a solitary life, and she supported the family for 30 years. Elwell, born 1858 in Concord, is known for works including Hancock statue at Gettysburg and busts in Washington’s Senate chamber.
A home remedy described as secret and helpful for overworked and anxious individuals. The text prescribes mixing syrup sarsaparilla compound with balm wort and cardiol essence plus endomene compound, to be taken after meals and at night, claiming it restores circulation and nerve strength.
An advertisement extols Fels-Naptha as a simple laundry method that saves time and physical effort. It promotes rubbing soap on clothes, soaking, light scrubbing, rinsing, blueing, and hanging to dry, claiming minimal effort and no scrubbing boards or heat.
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