14 Feb 1913
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1913
Page
1
The diary based narrative recounts Captain Scott’s polar ascent and return from the pole. It details weather, solar observations, and fossil finds at Buckley Island and Cloudmaker Mountain. It notes Scott, Wilson, and Bowers died after reaching the pole and Oates and Evans perished nearby with a cross and cairn marking their deaths.
Mrs Kathryn Jenkins claims a simple method by a university professor cured her facial and arm hair. She invites sufferers to send name and address with a two cent stamp to receive her full experience by return mail from Scranton Pennsylvania. The ad emphasizes a visible appearance improvement and urges broadcast sharing.
Mrs Rantoul testified to numerous cruel acts by her husband including verbal abuse and two physical assaults while she lay ill. He allegedly threw a heavy glass stopper at her, pounded on the wall, and dragged her to the floor during an exit attempt. He also tried to wrench her wedding ring and reportedly spoke for hours with abusive remarks. The couple’s custody petitions were filed in New Hampshire and Suffolk County. The trial focused on the Fonda deposition, with more testimony expected to follow and many witnesses to be heard.
In March 1912 a man walked to his death in a blizzard to save comrades amid hardship. Bodies recovered with sparse tea found. diary used as head support. Dr Wilson and Lieutenant Bowers lay in sleeping bags. Indian government supplied seven mules, improving progress to 14 miles daily outward. Return journey heavier. mules ate rope, tea leaves, dog biscuit, tobacco ash. Heaviest mule load 760 pounds. two mules shot at barrier, five returned after 350 miles in temperatures sometimes 20 below. Two teams of eleven dogs each aided efforts.
British public questions the silence of Lieutenant Evans on the Scott polar trek losses. Reports suggest possible supply depots tapping, mutiny rumors, and how Oates died. The debate centers on accountability, potential disclosures, and whether to print fuller narratives.
Dancers fleeing a fire were carried down the stairs as flames raced through the building. Waterhouse's pharmacy survived while several shops suffered heavy smoke and water damage. The blaze began in a fruit store ceiling and spread to S A Corey shoe shop Kirk's barber shop W H Brayton grocery M Sullivan tailor shop near Lincoln Hall. Total loss about 40000 dollars. Chief Ranlett ordered multiple alarms. Janitor William Jackson escaped via the rear. The Stevens building, owned by Mrs Annie Cline, had burned badly here in 1898.
Mayor Fitzgerald will submit to the City Council next Monday the largest municipal budget in the city’s history. The budget, prepared by the Mayor yesterday, totals $20,927,192.69.
The Finance Commission urged the State Senate to reject Mayor Fitzgerald's bill to transfer Rising Sun lamplighters into city service without civil service exams. It warned the move would set a dangerous precedent and enable private contractors to shift less efficient workers into municipal jobs at higher pay.
Superintendent of Public Grounds and Acting Park Commissioner D Henry Sullivan was named chairman of the new park and recreation department. Park Commissioners Robert S Peabody and Daniel H Coakley were named as the other two members of the new board by Mayor Fitzgerald. The department will include park public grounds music and bath departments and will spring into existence on March 1.
The Rt. Rev. Mer. P. J. Supple was welcomed as chaplain of Mt. Pleasant Council, K of C. A reception in Palladio Hall Roxbury drew about 200 attendees, including many clergy.
A Niagara Falls correspondent, Geo Colquhon, reports his lungs improving after taking Father John’s Medicine for four months. He praises the remedy for stopping his son’s cough and notes it is not a patent medicine, contains no poisonous drugs or alcohol, and claims fifty years of use while preventing pneumonia and consumption.
An advertisement extols three grain hypo-nuclane tablets as a safe self treatment to increase red and white blood cells, improve complexion and flesh, and enhance digestion, claiming physicians prescribe them though they are marketed for direct consumer purchase from apothecary shops.
Boston physicians promote Tona Vita as a rapid relief tonic for nervous debility. Patient testimonials claim sleep improves and energy returns after using the remedy, which is widely sold by leading druggists in Boston.
Mrs. Frank Barber details twelve years of painful salt rheum on her hands. After trying various remedies, she reports rapid improvement within a month using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, with results lasting three years. Items sold nationwide, samples offered by mail.
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