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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1910
Page
3
1,198,037 immigrants landed in the United States during the year. Total funds involved were $28,197,745 with an average of $27,274,000 assisted by friends. About 24,270, or 2 percent, were deported, including 1,700 deported under the contract labor law. The bulk of arrivals came from southern and eastern Europe.
SecretaryNagel’s annual report to the President outlines key reforms for the Commerce and Labor Department. He advocates a compulsory retirement option for clerks, supports straight pensions if salaries stay unchanged, and calls for pension funding without employee contributions.
Secretary Nagel urges family unity in immigration and tighter ship company regulation. He notes pressingly inadequate facilities at ports, predicts a strong 1911 year, and calls for a central federal bureau for corporate publicity to ensure reliable, uniform accounting and public information.
A Providence bound passenger train carrying 450 passengers collided with a stalled freight train in dense fog near Attleboro. Brakeman Smith was struck by the cowcatcher and broke his leg while the collision damaged three freight cars and left a passenger locomotive out of service.
An old quarrel with a home remedy claims to break up a cold in twenty four hours. Mix 2 ounces glycerine 8 ounces whiskey and 1 4 ounce virgin oil of pine for a teaspoonful every four hours. Promoted by Dr W A Leach and Leach Chemical Co Cincinnati Ohio as a non narcotic family medicine. pine oil said to soothe throat and vocal irritation.
Four days remain for a mass mail advert offering a free month of Osmo-Chemic treatment including all medicines for anyone starting or renewing before January 1. Free consultation and X-ray exam are promised, with a list of patients and ailments across Massachusetts attesting to prior success.
The OSMO CHEMIC SYSTEM OF MEDICINE led by J L Plunkett M D Chief Consulting Physician announces permanent offices at Suite 8 9 10 entrance No 18 Boylaton St Boston Massachusetts Office hours are 10 am to 12 noon 2 to 4 pm and 6 to 8 pm daily closed Sundays.
The article reports that Brand withdrew from the city council contest and attacks the league. It notes his breach with Good Government Association support since election, his Ward 20 address, and his felt business. A nomination-challenge committee can substitute another candidate before five tonight. The piece also covers School Committee races with Corcoran and Leen amid Democratic backing.
A Boston resident urges the city press to warn the public about spitting on streetcar floors. She cites TB risk from dried sputum and calls for constant notices in daily papers to curb the habit.
The Rev. Leon ard Z. Ferris, Congregational minister with pastorships in three New England states, died today in Gorham Maine at age 76. A Dartmouth College 1856 graduate.
Paro Ointment promises a refund if it fails to cure itching burning and bleeding piles in 14 days. The ad targets sufferers with a guarantee from druggists.
Max Mitchell of the Federated Jewish Charities of Boston described his observations of Jewish immigrant farms across Massachusetts. He noted about 130 farms are tilled by Jewish families and predicted a future where immigrants populate many more farms and regions, arguing against artificial distribution of newcomers.
A late December fire in Pomfret destroyed Elsinore the summer home of Mrs. R. N. Clark of New York with an estimated loss of 50000. A caretaker found the blaze believed to have started from a defective flue. Paintings and much of the furniture were saved but water shortage left the building unsalvageable. Mrs. Clark is abroad for the winter.
Lynn reports a settlement reached by the State Board of Conciliation and Arbitration over the Brophy Brothers strike on Market Street. Seven hundred workers idle for a week will return to work tomorrow while about five hundred fifty shoe operatives remain out at two other factories, Randall Adams in Liberty Square and Hennessey Maxwell Harrigan at 95 State Street.
Robert M. Osborne of the Lynn Lasters Union told a Post reporter the factory row at Hennessey Maxwell Harrigan should be settled in two or three days. Randall Adams Company faces a tougher issue as a non union worker seeks an injunction to block union interference. The State Board of Arbitration met 2:30 to 6:30 pm with James Brophy for the firm and Joseph Cordeau for the union.
Soldiers removed a prisoner from a vault at the express office in a railroad station and sent him by a special train to Clarksburg. Deputy sheriffs had kept him under lock as a mob clashed briefly, then retreated under threats to shoot.
At midnight a secreted nesro was recovered from a vault and hidden under a stair. Four trains from Clarksburg arrived with Colonel Osborne and guards to clear the station. Marion White and an accomplice attacked Osborne. both were arrested as troops fired warning shots to deter a mob while Furby boarded the train.
The Knadler family of 34 Newark Street Roxbury were arraigned on four counts of larceny after being caught shoplifting on December 20. Mrs Lena Knadler and her daughter held at $2000 and Frank Henry and Lillian $1500 each awaiting grand jury review. Police recovered hundreds of dollars in stolen goods from a canvas waist bag and thousands more at the home.
Mrs. Nathaniel B. Goodwin, mother of actor Nat Goodwin, at 69 St Botolph Street yesterday denied reports of a third divorce. She produced telegrams from Edna Goodrich and from Miss Goodrich asserting they had no plans to separate and that divorce rumors were false.
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