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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1916
Page
10
A library suite priced at 375.00 with blue silk upholstery includes 15 cushions offered for 248.90. The listing presents a bundled furniture set with labeled price points and a prominent discount.
Ashland New Hampshire February 14 Mr and Mrs Samuel Plaisted marked the sixtieth anniversary of their marriage with a family dinner at their East Main street home. Mrs Plaisted aged 80 cooked the feast and a keepsake cake from their golden anniversary was shared. The couple born in New Hampton in 1833 and 1836, moved to Ashland after a fire destroyed their buildings eleven years ago. They are in good health. Mr Plaisted remains active. They raised five children Celia Eastman Chicago Belle Bowen Lowell Jennie Leavitt Portsmouth Annie Morse Ashland who died four years ago Carrie Hartwell at home. six grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Maynard voters elected a license status by a 12 vote margin in the annual town election. Frank Binks and James Malloney were re elected Selectmen with Harry B Morse joining as a new member.
Worcester February 14 Massachusetts Pharmaceutical Association meets at Hotel Bancroft with 100 druggists. They oppose abolishing sixth class licenses for medicines and urge enforcement of current laws. They back Stephens bill on drug price regulation and purity standards. Five candidates named for State Board of Pharmacy. Governor McCall to select one after referendum chooses three.
Clairvoyants and mediums abandon Boston for Worcester Springfield and other cities as Captain Driscoll notes numerous complaints about circles where money and jewelry figure prominently. Spiritualist meetings persist but police seek to curb readings using jewelry as a conduit, deeming it unnecessary.
Philip Hale, music critic, lectures to a crowded hall illustrated by George Copeland. He discusses origins of folk songs, citing Combarier and noting two types, with Dixie and Way Down Upon the Swanee River as genuine American folk songs. Gottschalk is praised for transposing Creole melodies with talent. Future talks will cover Modern Musical Currents in France and Russia.
Police dispatched officers to investigate trance mediums in plain clothes and found them collecting money from grieving clients. The deception led to arrests of well known psychics and a warning of strict probes into clairvoyant parlors. The schemes unraveled as officers revealed they were not in mourning and had no real powers.
Angelina Giminardo a 14 year old girl of Waltham and Francesco Guiliano 21 left East Cambridge Probate Court to file marriage intentions after a city clerk had denied a license due to age.
Donald R. O'Brien of the Springfield Union will describe how daily papers aid advertisers via a cooperative merchandising service to a Boston University advertising class tonight. He is a recent graduate of the same class. Henry C. Thompson of the Pilgrim Publicity Association will follow with a stereopticon lecture on trademarks.
A blind orchestra of six pieces performed for a children's matinee at the Boston Women’s Educational and Industrial Bureau yesterday afternoon. Stuart Walker and his Portmanteau theatre presented three plays titled The Trimpler Never theless and Six Who Pass While the Lentile Boil.
An advertisement touts Anuric tablets and Favorite Prescription from Dr. Pierce for backache kidney and rheumatism relief. It claims physicians at the Buffalo institute endorse the remedies and offers a 50 cent box and a 10 cent trial package by mail with free medical treatise. It also notes a claim that Anuric is a potent uric acid solvent and compares potency to lithia.
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