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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1917
Page
6
An advertisement touts a cost effective cough syrup made at home using 2½ ounces of Pinex and plain sugar syrup to yield a pint. It claims rapid relief for throat irritation, bronchitis, spasmodic croup, whooping cough and asthma, with a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co.
A club gathering for poor children of Roxbury at 2181 Washington Street was organized last night by a committee led by Thomas F. Hennessey with members including Mr. and Mrs. Sefton, Mr. and Mrs. Donohue, Mr. and Mrs. O'Sullivan, Mr. Coburn, Mr. Brest, Mr. Breen, Miss Breen Gertrude and Florence, Mrs. Maliff, Mrs. Dineen, Mrs. Kinard, and Joseph P. Maffeo, among others.
Bloomfield Hall hosted the St Ambrose Men's Club annual concert and dance drawing about 1200 attendees. Club president J Paul Canty and arrangements chair Frank Berryman led the Dorchester district reunion with attendees from camps on the north and south shores.
Mayor Edwin 0. Childs of Newton condemned the adoption of preferential voting as a scheme to oust him from the mayoralty. He urged repeal as in the city’s best interest. The Aldermen organized with Bernard Early as president and George W. Angier as vice-president.
A Waltham man credits Varinesis with curing muscular rheumatism after a year of pain. He reports relief from joint stiffness and knee pain and relief from constipation after using the Boston remedy Varinesis. He urges others to obtain the booklet and try Varinesis, with Boston office details and druggist availability.
Dr Hodson testified about the night of the cottage fire at Ossipee Lake where Mrs Small died. He described traces from the cellar and a possible murder weapon while Small cried and denied guilt. Experts from Boston prepared to testify on weapons as the case risks a jury verdict.
Oxford Paper Company and Maine Coated Paper Company gift life insurance policies totaling 1,000,000 for 1500 employees in Rumford and Portland. Coverage varies by department and service length with a six month worker insured for 50 dollars and maximums up to 2000 dollars. Disability clauses payout in fixed sums until policy face value is reached.
A quiet family gathering at the Boylston Street home in Newton Upper Falls marked the 51st wedding anniversary of the artist Darius Cobb and his wife. Friends offered congratulations as the couple recalled their January 1 1866 East Boston marriage in the Sixth Massachusetts Regiment chaplain’s ceremony.
Pittsfield on January 1 inducted William G. Moulton as the city’s 1917 mayor in the shortest inaugural on record. Moulton read a nine minute address pledging strict economy. The City Council also elected an entire set of Republican office holders, and Frank P. Gray won the president of the Board of Aldermen over Democrat Patrick J. McMahon with GOP support.
A Chicago timetable found in an apartment on Wilton Fifteenth and Poplar streets points to a Philadelphia fan and admirer of Mrs Grace Roberts as a possible slayer of the advertising models. The man aided her financially and left for Chicago early last week. authorities know his name and expect his return before the weekend.
Mrs Roberts 23 is found dead in her Wilton Street apartment. police say death caused by an electric iron blow after a pattern of break ins and intruder sightings. Janitor Richard Benjamin recalls a tall slender man nicknamed the bulldog visiting before the crime.
Queenstown January 1 The Italian steamship Legano, badly damaged in a collision in fog outside Cork Harbor, was towed into this port today with the fore part of her hold filled with water.
The ship’s crew arrived yesterday with the exception of the captain and one seaman who were drowned. Rescue efforts and casualty details remain under investigation by local authorities.
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