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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1911
Page
4
Horace L. Brittain confirms he wrote the Patriotic Reader added to Boston public schools supplementary list to promote patriotism. The disclosure follows controversy over his nomination as head master of Hyde Park elementary district and opposition citing his alien status.
The Boston suburb Hyde Park will appoint Mr. Brittain as head master of the Elihu Greenwood district when it becomes part of Boston. A Canadian born in 1874, he holds a PhD and has written on imagination in children. He plans to introduce Montessori ideas and notes opposition from Mayor Fitzgerald, while detailing naturalization efforts and career milestones.
Paris dispatch reviews Enrichetta Godard the American grand opera soprano known as Mrs. John Quinby Wood wife of the Tripoli American consul. She gained acclaim performing at La Scala Milan and San Carlo Naples and across major Italian cities. Her husband remained at his post during the war, prompting naval evacuation to safeguard him.
In Washington on December 25, F P Veitch and the Bureau of Chemistry outlined a vast, undeveloped industry tied to lumber waste. Tops, stumps, slabs, sawdust, and dead timber from fires could yield naval stores such as turpentine, resin, pitch, rosin spirits and rosin oils with an annual value of at least an unspecified amount.
The obituary details the founder of the taxi cab service in the United States who started in New York and expanded to Boston. It notes his involvement in auto racing, a 1909 divorce and remarriage, departure from the Boston Taxi Service Company, and the recent death of his son from typhoid fever. He is survived by his wife and one daughter.
Clarence Sandefur of Sugar Creek township Shelbyville Indiana saved three large watermelons from his fall crop. He plugged one last week and found it in good condition. Today he used the melons as a side dish for his Christmas dinner.
An advertisement touts a fast one day remedy for colds using laxative bromO quinine tablets. Druggists refund money if it fails to cure. The box bears T Groves signature.
Robert Robinson of East Boston married Rose Burman at Temple Mishkan Tefila on Mdland Street Roxbury. Rabbi Harry H. Rubenowitz officiated before 200 guests. Groom’s brother J Robinson was best man and Rose Sapreiston maid of honor. Honeymoon spans New York and Washington with Congressman William F. Murray as guests.
John D. Rockefeller at Pocantico Hills on Christmas Day praised good weather and a strong game as he played golf from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. with James M. Hunt and Charles Brown. He shared plans for a big Christmas dinner and noted his health is excellent. Neighbors visited, gifts to employees were mentioned, and naval YMCA benefactions were acknowledged with gifts from sailors and a Norfolk committee.
In New York on Christmas Day Mrs K Gray hosted a novelty reception for her dog Chump at 101 West Seventy first street. The celebrant, descended from a respected line in the Fay household, enjoyed a tree decorated in his honor as visitors called to wish him well and share festive treats.
Washington notices Admiral Dewey's upcoming birthday on December 26 1837 birth date and his continued health and vigor. He remains president of the general board and keeps a modest schedule avoiding lavish celebrations except for the Manila Bay anniversary Dewey Day in the navy.
John Monahan aged 42 living at 21 Ladd street Watertown is at Relief Hospital with a fractured skull after falling from the rear of an Oak Square electric car near 19 Hanover street. Surgeons say he has a chance to recover despite seriousness.
Boston suffragist Miss Alice Stone Blackwell has reportedly become a Socialist and donated the 45 Boutwell Street home, once Lucy and Henry Blackwell’s, to the New England Women's and Children's Hospital for a convalescent home. She now lives at 3 Monadnock Street with her secretary and advocates cooperative housekeeping and state maternalism to aid women and children.
The house on a hillside is destined to become The Lucy Stone Home for nonacute patients needing air and quiet before work. The future plan, named for the mother, includes steam heat and repairs and aims to serve public welfare rather than personal luxury. The speaker details transformations toward socialism and municipal markets as economical models.
The ad claims many piles cases are cured by a free trial package mailed in plain wrapper. If satisfied, purchase from your druggist at 50c a box. Includes a coupon to mail back and urges avoiding surgery and doctor bills.
Miss Doris Fisher Amick granddaughter of J. J. Grover of Lynn and Deane Stanley Thomas a Portland insurance broker eloped to Newburyport last week. They married away from the bride's home in Yarmouthville and have been forgiven.
The bride, born in Lynn and educated there, is daughter of the late Walter Fisher who ran a Lynn shoe business. Adopted legally by J W Amick after five years, she finished schooling in Yarmouthville where she met Thomas son of Dr. Stanley Thomas of Portland. He is a University of Maine 1910 graduate and former class poet. The couple, forgiven by their parents, will reside in Portland.
In Saugus on Christmas, 14 year old George H. Sawyer son of Seward M. Sawyer was dressed as Santa when cotton on his arms caught fire. He was severely burned and listed as dangerous at Union Hospital after his parents smothered the flames and suffered burns to their hands.
Salvatore Capuiano a 12 year old of East Boston was struck while crossing Washington Street near Hanover by an auto owned and driven by Charles W. Asen of Watertown. He was taken to the Relief Hospital with contusions to his left side after the boy stepped back in fright as a car passed.
The ad contrasts the old hard wash with today’s easier method using Fels-Naptha. It claims the soap cleans white clothes in cool water, halves wash time, and reduces effort to one tenth while preserving hands and appearance. Follow wrapper directions.
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