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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1912
Page
9
On the Hamburg American liner Cincinnati bound for Oriental ports the ship left 2 minutes late due to Miss Julia Ackerman of St Joseph Missouri crying at farewells and worrying her wardrobe fit in her stateroom. She paid $1000 more for a regal wardrobe suite to store her clothes.
Six parents appeared before a magistrate in Philadelphia for neglecting to send children to school. Each was fined $2.50 with five days in county prison as an alternative. All paid except James Fee of 1739 South Front Street who offered his wife as a proxy, a proposal that was rejected. he later paid the fine.
A health column warns that general organ failures cause many symptoms seen as diseases. It prescribes a home remedy with balm wort, sarsaparilla, cardiol essence, and eadomene tincture to restore vitality, claiming it averts embarrassment and restores happiness.
Ten members formed the Norwalk Cremation Club in South Norwalk Conn with a plan to share burial and survivor costs. The program provides the final survivor pays portions of earlier deaths and bears burial costs, with officers named Frank Webek Arthur Swartenbach Frederick Baer and William Westfield.
Emma Richardson 18 and George W. Peterson 22 fled their homes in Laurel Delaware at 11 o clock in a heavy snowstorm. They walked two miles to the Rev. Martin V. Pierson's residence where a marriage was performed after the clergyman's wife supplied dry clothes. The couple then borrowed a buggy to go to the bridegroom's brother's home.
In Battle Creek Michigan the only radium bath in America was used yesterday for the first time. Patient G C Clark of Houston Texas has paralysis and was treated under Dr J H Kellogg who arranged the bath through Austrian government courtesy. Only six institutions globally can provide radium treatment, with this one in Battle Creek joining Joachimstahl Vienna and Berlin facilities.
Carl Jensen 18 of Cambridge was arrested by Officer Ginty after a half hour basement search at Klashman Brothers 679 Massachusetts Avenue. Two packed suitcases guarded the exit as Jensen held two keys and a knife. It was the fifth break in a short time at the store and the first arrest.
Winter causes cracked hands and skin eruptions. A Boston woman credits Resinol Ointment with healing her severe cracking after trying other salves. The testimonial praises Resinol for soothing pain and quick recovery, alongside Regino l Soap and the Retinol Chem Co in Baltimore Maryland.
Dorchester resident Miss Della Finnegan daughter of merchant William Finnegan will debut in vaudeville with Miss Eileen De Roath after appearing in amateur plays for the Dorchester Catholic Club and P M Marquette Council K of C in South Boston. She is a Dorchester High School graduate and active in society circles.
Omar Grotto of Clarendon street held its second full ceremonial in Copley Hall last evening with 300 veiled prophets from Fall River Springfield and Worcester. A 36 piece band accompanied the Arab Grotto of Fall River as Alfred Anderson led the procession to the hall. A banquet followed, then the annual meeting and officers elected including Alfred Anderson Monarch Thomas F Murray master of ceremonies Dean Lochman secretary Maes Pleschinger treasurer Charles F Bruce. The order comprises Freemasons at the third degree and Omar Grotto is the largest in New England.
Noodle Island Longshoremen's Assembly 5789 unanimously votes to continue the strike until a living wage is secured. The executive board reports nearly $1000 from local labor groups and about $850 from sympathizers. Secretary O'Meara says prospects of victory improve. Ship captains complain of sailing delays from a week to 10 days. A New York New Haven Hartford committee delivers $500 to aid the strike fund and plans a Sunday meeting at St Omar Hall South Boston to place its treasury at the council's disposal.
A promotional notice touts Knowlton's Danderine as a remedy for dandruff and hair loss. It claims ten minutes after use all dandruff vanishes, itching ceases, and hair stops falling out, with promises of lustre, fullness, and new hair growth after weeks of daily application.
The centennial celebration of Charles Dickens began with exhibits at the Boston Public Library and the Twentieth Century Club yesterday afternoon and last evening. A well attended meeting followed at Tremont Temple.
A Boston initiative moves to establish a relief fund for Charles Dickens grandchildren in dire need. A committee of prominent locals will oversee the effort, with funds to be received by Houghton Mifflin. Professor E Chariton Black led the Tremont Temple meeting praising Dickens as a reformer and humanitarian.
Syracuse N Y Jan 31 A will for Simon D Paddock noted as a paper manufacturer orders distribution of more than 1 000 000 writes Fred Templar of St Louis and Robert Templar of Boston each receive 4230 The American Humane Educational Society of Boston gets 3000 and many friends and employees receive bequests
George H. Haynes a Brookline resident died at his home 85 Harvard Street after a weeks illness. Born in Bangor in September 1830s he formerly ran lumber and mercantile businesses in Winn Maine before turning to authorship in 1880. He published works on New England and edited the official World’s Fair book of 1893. He celebrated a golden wedding in 1900 and left a widow and two children Minnie R. Haynes and Dr Harry M. Haynes a dentist.
A reception was held for the Rev Francis J Ryan pastor of St Argela's Church Mattapan attended by about 150 parishioners.
The Twentieth Century Club schedules religious talks in club rooms with speakers from Feb 3 to March 110. Topics include wealth and poverty, education and religion, and life’s meanings. Boston University marks Dickens centennial with a lecture by Rev Hy Charlton Black in Jacob Sleeper Hall.
A physician’s prescription made in 1855 for Rev. Father John O’Brien of Lowell Massachusetts evolves into Father John’s Medicine. The claim dates the remedy’s spread among parishioners and friends with a $25,000 charitable pledge if proven false.
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