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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1917
Page
3
declarations of marriage intentions resumed after two holidays with 60 filings in a day. The article notes last year starting on Saturday produced 14 filings and the following Monday 46, making yesterday equal to the combined day and a half of last year.
An advertisement touts Knowlton's Danderine as the easy inexpensive way to have heavy soft lustrous hair free from dandruff. It claims quick results in ten minutes and a longer term growth effect with new hair sprouting across the scalp.
Sixteen year old Josephine Christine Mergiotti testified before Judge Connolly that Bert V. Borkhart, a moving picture promoter, pressured her to marry after school, and she described abuse at her mother's home where her mother Laura Parillo suggested sacrificing her daughter.
Mrs Laura Furbish and Brookhart started a moving picture corporation in this city and offered stock. She has several children by Antonio Mergiotti of Cambridgeport Massachusetts. He appeared in court today with the Children's Heart Work Society seeking custody of the children. Judge Connolly vacated the decree awarding custody to the mother but reserved final decision.
Isabel V. Hoff man of Portland filed for divorce from Elwood Hoffman of York Beach after he refused to wake for work. A Superior Court decree granted the separation and ordered $400 alimony. She testified he pulled the bed clothes, threatened to shoot, and twisted her arm over a 50 cent dispute.
Lucius M. S. Horton a longtime East Boston resident died at his home 420 Beach street Revere after a three year illness caused by an injury while employed by Boston as an inspector He was foreman of the Sudbury River conduit under Mayor Hart and later served in the public works department as a State inspector of masonry on dams bridges including the Wachusett aqueduct Clinton Pathfinder dams and other municipal works in Boston and vicinity
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