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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1914
Page
6
The secret service announced a new counterfeit $10 note of the 1901 series has appeared. Only 146,792,035 notes are reported, and the fake is a two-piece photo mechanical reproduction with ink marks imitating genuine silk fiber.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure non stimulant kidney liver and bladder remedy offered in two bottle sizes priced fifty cents and one dollar. It claims a sworn purity statement with every bottle and invites readers to mail ten cents for a sample and booklet about kidneys.
Dr Mawson recounts a perilous Antarctic expedition with Lt. B E S Ninnis and Dr Xavier Mertz. After a crevasse disaster that claimed a comrade and a dog team, Mawson endured starvation, extreme cold, and perilous sledging before reaching the hut with a hidden food cache, announcing his recovery.
The Mawson expedition left Tasmania on Dec 2 1911 aboard the Aurora with 50 men 82 sledges and Greenland dogs to survey 2000 miles of coast between Cape Adare and Gaussburg. Dr Douglas Mawson aged 29 leads a highly educated team aiming for geographic and magnetic mapping not a pole attempt. Wireless stations will keep Hobart informed aided by $100000 in public subscriptions plus supplies from British firms.
Scientific note on vast Antarctic coal beds suggests ancient warmth. Theories include axis shifts or interior earth heat. Mawson's Antarctic survey aimed to aid weather forecasting for Australia and New Zealand, with magnetic studies and potential resource finds. The Mawson party faced blizzards and tragedy, with relief efforts and notes on survival in Adelie Land. Entangling events lead into Earl Derr Biggers story in the next Sunday Post Magazine.
Harvard Law School professor Roscoe Pound calls for sweeping court reforms to treat courts as a bureau of justice with administrative staff and a judicial reference bureau. He urges social science integration, a modernized judiciary, and closer ties to economic facts, warning the legal edifice could be subverted without reform.
Mayor Sandford forces husky furniture movers to remove a Prince Place manual training school. Instructor Woodbury protests, School Board vows court action. City Hall basement now houses the school as the mayor defends cutting manual training to save costs.
Chelsea boxer known as Sandy Ferguson was arrested on a charge of assault and battery after allegedly striking Al Fred Whalen in a Broadway saloon. Whalen reported Ferguson demanded payment for drinks and struck him in the head, leading to police taking Ferguson into custody.
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