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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1908
Page
7
The battleship Ohio's commanding officer reports a five inch dynamite stick found in coal from the collier Fortuna at Port of Spain Trinidad while refueling. A similar incident occurred over a year ago with dynamite likely used to mine coal and overlooked by miners.
A personal advertisement claims a night treatment removing wrinkles without creams or injections. The writer, Harriet Meta, states months of trials yield a dramatic facial change and offers free full particulars by mail from Syracuse New York.
Miss Grace Coburn of Medfield wins $5500 from Charles Marble in Norfolk Superior Court after a breach of promise case. Marble defaulted. damages assessed for the 20 year old plaintiff who testified of a six week engagement and gifts.
The Federal Retirement Association of Boston endorses a new Congress bill for civil service pensions. It proposes a Federal Retirement Trust Company led by the President and Cabinet, with branches and a safe deposit loan and trust arm. Deductions of 0.25 percent monthly fund retirement, 40 percent pensions, and $600 yearly for substitutes are outlined.
The bill would place bank control in the President and Cabinet and seek funds within 25 years to prevent old age and poverty for civil servants and widows. It proposes retirement at age 62 for all employees, with deficits covered from bank funds when needed.
Carl B. Lincoln of Brookline, a Harvard junior, married Ruth Benton of Boston at St. Stephen's Church in Florence Street. The couple, now in Portland, Missouri, honeymoon after engagement begun two years ago. Lincoln plans to leave college for a business career.
Miss Phebe Couzins, ex temperance activist, denounces the Women’s Christian Temperance Union as narrow minded and ignorant of real temperance. She criticizes women and preachers as mad over prohibition and opposes the Tillman bill banning liquor shipments to Prohibition States.
In Ain Sefra Algeria on February 1 twenty one men of the 20th company of the Foreign Legion were killed when a blinding snow storm separated the unit on the way to Fort Hassa. Searchers recovered 21 bodies. others are unaccounted for and some reached Fort Hassa in a pitiable condition.
Three young women wearing makeshift pajamas bathed in a snow drift behind Hubert Miller's snow bath establishment in Chicago. Lou ise Quinn Elsa Dowling and Leona Adams posed with bare arms and legs for five minutes in ten below weather and declared the plunge fine.
Lieutenant Governor Draper of Massachusetts is expected in Washington for several days. He will dine at the White House tomorrow evening as Massachusetts politicians anticipate his visit with interest.
A young woman asks if she should return a diamond ring given by a jealous, aging suitor who cannot publicly acknowledge their engagement. The advisor warns against accepting expensive gifts to avoid obligation and suggests returning the ring if the engagement is broken.
Listing lists ruffled muslin curtains with hem stitching and tucking priced at 9 dollars 59 cents per pair. Also mentions another muslin item with stitching and tuck and a lower price about 69 cents.
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