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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1914
Page
5
Students at the Technology Union after dinner try the new dances in the smoking room. They learn the Joy Ride Jump Pivot Spin and Hesitation Hop and imitate the latest ragtime steps amid dinner crowd chatter.
A Bennington Vermont man Richard Voss writes that after five months using Cuticura Soap and Ointment his long running skin condition with pimples itching and sores cured completely and he feels like a new man.
A Middletown Connecticut mother recounts a dark blue blister on her son's hand that worsened daily. After two weeks of ineffective treatments, she used Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two weeks and his hand healed completely. The ad promotes Cuticura products for skin and scalp and offers free samples with a book.
Mr. S. D. Lent a railroad man quit smoking after 30 years by following guidance from a book he obtained. The method helped him stop quickly and easily and the notice urges others to write to Edward J. Woods in New York City for a free similar booklet.
Boston's department heads submitted estimates about two million dollars above the legal spending limit. Mayor Curley announced he will cut that amount and enforce rigid economy across city departments this year.
Mayor Curley hosts Harvard professors specializing in taxation at a luncheon to discuss the state tax system. He notes department head estimates for the year total 16,390,480.82, up from 14,604,263.52 last year. Under law the city can spend only 14,446,601.86 this year, about 157,000 less than last year. Debt needs rise, school tax increases, and health and poor relief demand more funds. The new widow's pension act shapes several increases.
Boston and surrounding areas faced heavy snow and high winds as a second winter storm paralyzed travel. Trains and buses ran far behind schedule or stopped, while streets became treacherous. Officials counted 0.22 inches of precipitation but many cities reported heavier accumulations by night. Emergency services, including horse ambulances, endured severe strain as commutes stretched for hours.
At daybreak an incident left several horses needing emergency care as ambulances rushed them to stables or animal hospitals for treatment.
Three long overdue steamers reached this port yesterday while the passenger liner Marquette from Antwerp remains missing with 28 cabin passengers aboard. Storms and hurricanes batter shipping. other vessels Sachem Wartenfels and Kingstonian docked or anchored awaiting calmer seas. Wind at Boston light hit 45 miles per hour as gales raged along the coast and capes, delaying sailings of Ontario and Maine boats until weather clears.
Portland Maine February 16. A fisherman and his son were rescued at sea after their boat encountered trouble off the coast. Lifesaving crews responded quickly and brought them safely to shore.
Stewart a Long Island fisherman and his 15 year old son Benjamin were picked up two miles off Portland Head light by the sloop Iceland under Captain Lewis Gott. A thick snow and stiff gale forced their disabled motor boat to drift until rescue this afternoon.
Grave fears are entertained for the safety of the Gloucester fishing steamer R. J. Killick which left port to reach her nets about 25 miles southeast of here. Captained by Eugene Murray the vessel with a six man crew was due back about 2 PM but no word has come since departure.
Nantucket Island is severed from the mainland as ice blocks all communications since Friday. Over 200 fishing boats are trapped in the harbor as a violent blizzard rages, making road travel nearly impossible and turning Nantucket into the storm center.
A blizzard around Narragansett Bay stops all vessels after dark and hampers transportation on shore. A Newport Supply Company plant fire causes 10000 dollars in damage, with firefighters battling to prevent spread.
Providence Rhode Island Feb 16 The city faced the worst storm since the 1898 gale. Street cars were demoralized and stalled, suburban lines halted, steam trains on the New Haven road lagged behind schedule. Deep drifts blocked outer streets making thoroughfares impassable.
In Beaufort North Carolina on February 16 the schooner Bayard Hopkins, badly leaking with sails stripped by gales, was towed to Cape Lookout Cove for temporary refuge by the revenue cutter Seminole. One crew member was seriously injured while repairing rigging.
A weekend snowstorm damaged a telephone cable near Cypress, Walnut and Boylston streets in Brookline, cutting off service to about 30 lines. Water and other weather conditions were reported as complicating recovery efforts.
Frost caused over 30 telephone lines to go out Sunday, leaving customers unable to reach services and disrupting local commerce as businesses faced serious interference throughout the day.
Forty residents of tenements 112 and 114 Sprafer Street fled in their night clothes as a blaze at about 3 am caused $300 damage. The incident occurred in Manchester New Hampshire with temperatures at 14 below zero.
London February 16 The marriage took place today of Edward Bell of New York second secretary of the American embassy in London and Miss Bertha Etelka Surtees daughter of Colonel Herbert Surtees formerly of the Coldstream Guards at St Ethelburga s Church Bishopsgate.
Nellie Curran of West Chestnut street Wakefield slipped on a slippery sidewalk in front of a local store while out to buy a mourning veil for her sister's funeral and suffered a broken ankle. She was taken to her brother Michael Curran's Vernon street home for care.
All aboard for the Springs round trip 25 cents and no hotel bills. Rheumabath claims to ease rheumatic pain and obesity with mineral bath treatment using pores and sweat glands. Send 26 cents for a full size package or buy at drug stores. money back if no relief.
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