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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1912
Page
7
President Taft wearing a shamrock and carrying a flag will head the Evacuation Day parade in the city this year. Yesterday Mayor Fitzgerald urged the President during his brief Washington stop on the way to Palm Beach.
President Taft agreed to be the first president to march in Boston Evacuation Day. He will wear a shamrock and carry a shillalah and attend a breakfast at the Hotel Somerset on March 18. The parade aims to be the largest in city history with 10 000 along the line and participation from high school cadets civic groups and military units.
Representative John J. Murphy of South Boston files a bill requiring Boston to provide nourishing food to children under 16 who are malnourished per physician assessment. A public hearing at the State House is set for 11 o clock, with a report to follow. He cites 53 500 of 82 000 inspected pupils below normal and calls for city responsibility over poverty impacts on nutrition.
About 200 Roxbury and Jamaica Plain youngsters planned a party at Fraternity Hall Jamaica Plain hosted by the Hyde Square Association. Inspectors barred further dances after inspecting the hall to ensure better fire escape provisions. They hired a new hall in Brookline and continued dancing.
An advertisement extols Knowlton's Danderine as the cure for dandruff and thin hair. It claims a single use will double hair beauty and instantly remove dandruff, preventing itching and hair loss, urging readers to buy a 25 cent bottle at drugstores or toilet counters.
The article states durability hinges on tin quality weight and manufacturing. It warns cheapest ware rusts quickly, as durability rests on its weakest points. Mechanically stamped ware shows thin spots that rust through, leading to disposal.
An international reunion at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts on Thursday celebrates Washingtons Birthday with a display of native art from foreign populations. Irish Italian Russian Lithuanian German Syrian Greek Chinese Scotch and Scandinavian societies plan to attend.
Malden faced a week of widespread frozen pipes with 35 cases reported as hydrants thawed and re froze. The street and water department deployed watering carts to supply cooking and heating water, while steamers assisted thawing and an electrical unit from street wires aided progress.
Judge George in Suffolk Probate Court ruled it is not compulsory for James P. Magenis and John Wentworth representing the late Eugene Lynch's heirs to specify items in executors accounts to which they object. Executors Casey and Curley sought written specificity. Magenis argued the statute allows disputing any and all items. The court sided with Magenis, declining to require itemized writing of objections.
Five Woburn druggists led by Samuel Highley signed affidavits with Clerk Gage pledging to refrain from liquor law violations for one year. Earlier sentences in jail and fines from a bitter local court battle were suspended. Other signatories include William J. Young Cecil J. Duncan Daniel W. Kelley and Edward H. Callahan.
Six hundred people attended the Holy Name Society annual banquet at the City Auditorium in Melrose. Speeches were given by Mayor Had ward F. Barry of Cambridge, Hon. David I. Walsh, Edward F. McSweeney, Daniel J. Gallagher, Rev. Francis J. Glynn and Rev. James K. Brewin.
Cardinal O Connell contributed to the Boston Opera House guarantee fund and wrote to Eben D Jordan, president of the board, that the donation came from civic duty and that it would be lamentable if the opera failed in a city of Boston’s size and character.
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