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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1915
Page
7
Filene’s Mail Orders Fourth Floor showcases the Sunburst fashion at 5.95 after an earlier sale at 7.50. A simple button trimmed model costs 5 with a belt in back.
Change as often as they may, each new style in feminine apparel grows more fascinating. European conflict inspires a wartime revival in American fashion with outfits like full ski ruffles and high neck pockets. See the latest designs today or tomorrow, in a quaint family album mood.
A fragment from Filene's mail orders mentions serge, poplin, and gabar dine fabrics with a coat featuring a distinctive belt and rows of silk stitching. This brief item highlights fabric types and a detailed belt design in apparel.
Mixtures praised as attractive make Golfine coats seem good. The sand color golfine is smart and striped versions are new and pretty. Coats are inexpensive with price ranges from 7.50 for mixture coats for children aged 6 to 14 to 10 for serge and check coats featuring unstitched belts silk collars and military buttons.
The Senate swiftly approved a $150 000 appropriation to compensate for cattle and property losses from the foot and mouth epidemic and sent the measure to the House for enactment. Also debated were liquor sale restrictions, East Boston tunnel toll abolition, and a vetoed cat licensing bill. The House disposed of numerous matters and defeated the public opinion ballot signature bill.
The Boston Transit Commission will open bids today for section H of the Dorchester tunnel. Section runs from Old Colony avenue to Woodward street on Dorchester avenue and spans 2200 feet, about halfway to Andrew square where the tunnel terminus will be.
Harvard University reports gifts totaling 2300 dollars for the Fogg Art Museum and 3000 dollars for the Arnold Arboretum. The David A Wells prize of 500 dollars in economics is awarded to Lucius M Bristol for a thesis on adaptation as social progress. Samuel C Wiel wins the Ames prize for water rights in western states.
Funeral services for Francis Flint 4 retired tea merchant and deacon emeritus of the First Church of Cambridge were held yesterday afternoon from 8 Chauncey Street Cambridge The Rev Raymond Calkins officiated and the body was shipped to Lincoln Missouri his birthplace for burial.
Catalog item lists 500 better gingham school dresses in styles for 6 to 14 years with sizes 6 to 12 and 6 to 14. Includes price and ordering notes.
The committee on fraternal and bene ft societies of the New England Branch of the American Jewish relief committee organized a statewide meeting at the American House with about 100 Massachusetts groups to outline fund raising for Jewish war sufferers. A Brandeis letter urged immediate united action and highlighted Europe and Palestine needs. Henry H. Levenson chaired the session with speakers including Max Mitchell Jacob DeHallas Hyman J Danzig and others. Levenson named chair and Robert Silverman secretary of the general committee.
The United States Commission on Industrial Relations will summon R. J. Agassiz Quincy Shaw F L Higginson and William A Paine to testify at a Boston field hearing. Investigators will probe Calumet & Hecla and independent copper firms to expose labor conditions and unrest causes. Some witnesses may come from Michigan and the date is pending.
An exhibition of potted plants opens today at Penns florist 97 48 Bromfield Street and runs through the week. The highlight is a pure white orchid coelogyae cristata alba valued at 300 with 2 blooms and two first prize medals this season. Attendants will explain the collection which includes rhododendrons azaleas ramblers and many other plants in full bloom.
Hank and His Animal Friends star in a humorous Sunday Post panel. Readers are invited to enjoy the upcoming installment, praised as one of the funniest in the run.
Mrs. Hmma Thomas, mother of Archie Thomas, who died on Penikese Island, will remain voluntarily on the isolated island to minister to the lepers for life. She has stayed six years at Penikese and now continues in state service after her son's death.
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