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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1916
Page
5
Relatives of David M. Kelly of Sharon appeal to police and press to solve the mystery of his absence since January 21. The 75 year old man left his Boston office around 4 30 pm likely to catch a train at South Station for home.
An extensive search is underway for a former Wisconsin State Senator and long-time House Speaker who lived in Sharon for about twenty years. Descriptions note he is 5 feet 7 inches tall, 160 pounds, with blue eyes, reddish mustache, dark clothing, and a black derby hat. He always wore his G A R button and was known as a patriotic Memorial Day speaker to Sharon schoolchildren.
In Chicago, Miss Blanche Rose endorses a simple home mix to darken gray hair and add gloss. The recipe calls for water, bay rum, Barbo Compound, and glycerine, applied twice weekly to achieve a younger appearance while aiding hair growth and scalp condition.
A reflective piece celebrates mothers as Rock of Gibraltar figures, sacrifices, and guiding educators. It contrasts maternal love with social status, honors Canadian mothers awaiting sons, and recalls a widow’s five empty chairs at dinner, illustrating enduring maternal devotion.
A young man signs as Pennsylvania praising the writer for not acting the part of a bad girl in a play. He reflects on the difficulty of defining bad girl and argues there is good in everyone if we seek it. He says he would hate to pretend to be deceitful unsympathetic or unloyal and believes it would hurt to play such a role.
A notice states Mary Pickford talks will appear five days weekly in the Daily Post and every Sunday in the Sunday Post, detailing schedule for readers.
Brother Ralph of St John’s Preparatory School Danvers died yesterday after a tubercular illness. Born in Somerville 24 years ago he entered the novitiate at St John’s at 18 and taught at Rich mond before returning to teach at St John’s. Funeral at 9:30 a.m. in St John’s School with a solemn high mass. Students will attend in a body. Burial in St John’s.
Monks and travelers are trapped on Mt St Bernard in Geneva Switzerland as twelve feet of snow piles up to the monastery windows. Avalanches block telegraph and telephone lines while snow falls for eight days. Monks expect isolation for a month but remain well supplied with food.
Coat deal at Wolf's corner Hanover and Portland Sts. offers winter coats for five dollars with purchases priced at twelve fifty and fifteen dollars. Customers receive double legal stamps all day.
Flour prices, after a 50 cent drop in three days, may fall another 25 cents this week and perhaps a full dollar from last week. Boston dealers cite weak export demand, vessel delays, and a Western reactionary period as causes while prices for top brands hover 6.50 to 7 per carload.
Funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon for Mrs Caroline Chute a lifelong Milton resident who died yesterday at her home 1051 Adams street Milton She is survived by a niece Miss Florence EF Chute and a nephew Charles H
Deputy Superintendent Otis F. Kimball, longtime Hanover Street Station commander, assumed his new job yesterday. Officers sent a large horseshoe and numerous floral tributes with “success” banners and hundreds of congratulatory letters. He later sent the flowers to the hospital after his wife visited.
The British embassy in Washington says it was authorized to deny any warning to British subjects to avoid ships of belligerents in the Russo Japanese war. London’s foreign office had no knowledge of such a notice and argued any such issue would conflict with instructions. The note addresses claims tied to the U S Germany submarine dispute.
The Young Ladies' Sodality of St Ambrose's Church Field's Corner Dorchester hosts its first leap year party tonight in Bloomfield Hall Dorchester. Proceeds go to the Building Fund. Miss Louise F Mara and Miss Margaret E Lilley lead the program.
The ad argues the whole body relies on pure blood and promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as uniquely effective for scrofula catarrh rheumatism dyspepsia loss of appetite and fatigue. It urges readers to buy today from all druggists.
West Somerville Congregational Church members hosted a reception for the new pastor Rev. Daniel Fraser and Mrs. Fraser in the church vestry. Nearby church leaders and Mayor Cliff attended. Fraser arrived from Manchester to take charge of the church.
A home cough syrup recipe using 2½ ounces of Pinex and granulated sugar syrup makes a pint of medicine costing 64 cents. Take a teaspoon hourly to relieve dry and loose coughs, bronchitis, and croup. Contains claim of rapid relief and guaranteed satisfaction from The Pinex Co. Fort Wayne Ind.
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