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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 29, 1916
Page
7
A home remedy advises using plain malsified cocoanut oil as a gentle, greaseless shampoo instead of commercial soaps. It notes most soaps contain alkali that dries the scalp and harms hair, while cocoanut oil creates rich lather with water and rinses clean. The oil is inexpensive and widely available at drug stores.
Dr. Bartholow cites calcium gait as alterative with limited proven value in consumption. Eckman’s Alterative combines calcium lime with other ingredients and is claimed to aid elimination. The text notes lack of strong public endorsement for opiates or habit-forming remedies and points to Eckman Laboratory in Philadelphia.
Explosion at the New England Manufacturing Company plant in Woburn blasts a T N T building, with Brickwork hurled and a boiler flung 60 feet. Frank Cornett survives by a chair, later recalling the roar and collapse as neighbors and officials rush to aid. Police and medical examiners investigate the cause as two liquids failed to fuse in a trinitrotoluene process.
Harvard students dispatched a Brandeis confirmation petition with about 600 signatures to Senator Walsh, chair of the Senate judiciary committee. The drive, started by pro Brandeis supporters at Harvard, aimed to counter the notion that Harvard as a university opposed his appointment.
Professor Harry F. Ward of Boston University warned that industrial and economic despotism threatens political and religious liberty in America. Speaking at Tremont Temple under the Boston School of Social Science, Ward argued a small, tightening group of capitalists control payrolls and credit agencies, with bankers in Philadelphia and New York shaping the anthracite miners dispute.
Brazilian pianist Miss Guimar Novaes performed at Symphony Hall Boston yesterday afternoon. She opened with Liszt arranged Bach’s Chaconne and delivered a vivid Beethoven sonata movement, Schumann Carnival, and works by Liszt and Chopin to an attentive audience.
The International Union of Pavers and allied trades declares an initiation fee increase from 10 to 25 dollars for Boston area members. Loreto Cedrone, president, expects a surge in membership before the April 2 change.
The State Board of Pardons refused to grant clemency for Isaac N. Williams of Bridgeport and Harry B. Roe of Poughkeepsie N Y who were convicted of murdering County Commissioner Hubert B Case at Barkhamsted in 1914. Both men face execution by hanging at Wethersfield prison on March 3. Williams and Roe maintained their innocence and were supported by Mary S Wagner of Poughkeepsie who urged mercy. The case involved beating Case to death with a wagon axle in a robbery motive.
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