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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1918
Page
4
Testimony details a costly split involving Ernest Eaton and Mrs. Eaton with notes on coffee price rises, assets, and the Spa business. Miss Susan Borden described family finances, partnerships, and accusations of mercenary demands amid divorce proceedings.
Evidence points to a careful break in at Sender Burstein’s store at 40 Washington Street North. Robbers pried doors, spent hours selecting stock, and loaded hundreds of dresses silk waists coats and suiting into a waiting truck totaling about $15,000 while a safe remained untouched. Police seek suspects and truck connection.
The piece discusses price tags as honest records showing sale date, current price, and planned reductions. It argues tags reveal when items sell, how prices drop, and when items may be given away, contrasting plain English tags with coded signs.
In New York on February 21, common coal gas escaping from a defective flue sickened about 150 workers at a garment factory making uniforms for the United States army. Health officials ruled out an enemy plot, attributing the incident to poisonous fumes from the cloth and continuing the investigation.
A three week mission at St Ambrose Church Adams street Dorchester by Passionist Fathers opened last Sunday at 11 30 mass. Led by Rev Camillus C P of St Marys Monastery Dunkirk NY assisted by Rev Benedict I and Rev Raymond CP of St Anns Monastery Scranton PA. This week focuses on married women and Pastor Harrigan notes strong turnout.
Jordan Marsh Company promotes a campaign to ease traffic congestion with the Retail Trade Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Boston Elevated officials. The notice highlights fashion items, cooking events at the Boston Fish Pier, a February sale on wares, and a shoe polishing area on the fourth floor to aid shoppers during the campaign.
Reports from the Don region say fighting continues as Rostov garrison and Bolshevik besieging force clash two miles from Rostov. Admiral Berens is named commander of the Baltic fleet.
British airmen and infantry accounted for twelve German airplanes, with a report of successful attacks on Thionville and Pirmasens in Germany.
Washington news reports E T Potter of the Minneapolis Saint Paul and Sault Ste Marie firm telling the Railroad Wage Commission that time and a half overtime is unfair and impracticable. He cites impossible to operate railroads without overtime due to delays beyond control and says reductions depend on employees, while railroads favor arbitration by a government board.
Private Clarence E. Reed of 15A Traymore Street Cambridge died last week in the Jacksonville Florida quartermaster camp of natural causes. His funeral with full military honors was attended by a State Guard detail which fired a salute over the grave and a bugler from Watertown Arsenal sounded taps. Services were at St Peter's Episcopal Church Cambridge and burial followed in Everett.
City Hall closed on the legal holiday but Mayor Peters will be at his office at 9 a.m. to devote time to budget work. The document notes the holiday status and the mayor’s plan to work despite closures.
Bates College professor Frank D. Tubbs denied claims he urged the United States to exit the war. He said in Rockland that nations should unite to end the war and stop further slaughter of human lives.
Frank Harbaugh of Cincinnati a barber for over forty years offers a cheap home formula to darken gray hair and leave it soft and glossy. Mix half a pint of water with one ounce bay rum a small box of Barbo Compound and one half ounce glycerine apply twice weekly until the shade deepens.
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