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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 08, 1913
Page
7
London nerve expert Dr John Beazley Webb endorses Tona Vita in Boston as a tonic to combat nervous debility. He argues disease is fought best by a prepared nervous system and cites pneumonia and typhoid as examples of maladies overcome by strength of mind and body. Boston druggists report strong Tona Vita sales.
A St Louis reader reports severe winter hand chapping with cracking at finger tips and joints. After trying numerous remedies, he finds relief from Resinol Soap and Ointment, used for a month with no return of symptoms. The notice promotes Resinol products and free samples from Resinol Chemical Co.
A large kitchen fire at a Somerville tenement trapped residents but rescuers saved numerous women including Mrs. Ellen M Brown and Mrs. Sarah Oliver. Fire spread rapidly before responders arrived and many valuables were lost as occupants fled through smoke filled stairways.
The Osmo-Chemic Physicians announce a limited time offer giving one month’s treatment free for new or renewing patients who begin on or before January 18. The notice lists numerous location points and patients invited to seek cure, with emphasis on various chronic ailments and the need to act within ten days.
A $30,000 blaze gutted the Boston Rattan Works plant in Somerville plus adjacent buildings in Water Street. Charcoal plant, leather shop, sage factory and ladder shop nearby prompted a citywide alarm and help from Cambridge as residents gathered to watch the flames.
Congressmen Samuel W. McCall and John W. Weeks spoke at a Young's Hotel dinner for Middlesex Republicans. McCall declared his Senate candidacy to save Massachusetts and denounced the Republican State Committee as arrogant and despotic.
A three alarm blaze at the Water and South streets packing district in Somerville, near East Cambridge, destroys rattan stock in a wooden three story building owned by the John P. Squire Company. Flames reach high, water floods streets, and Chief Rich coordinates Cambridge and Boston aid. Loss around 30 thousand dollars. many residents and horses saved. Louis L. Drake identified as rattan works proprietor. initial call from William Barry.
Sir Arthur Sullivan's O Hush Thee My Babie with words and music and Ottendorff illustration is slated for inclusion in next Sunday's Post Magazine.
The event honored Chester Williams and Adelbert Messer with McCall delivering biting jokes about the Commonwealth battle. Weeks warned of a coming two party split while all speakers praised Taft as they lightly assailed the Progressive party.
More than 2000 people filled the State Armory in Cambridge for the 41st annual Cambridge Police Mutual Aid Association ball. Miss Lillian Hall led the grand march with Mayor J Edward Barry beside her as Patrolman Timothy Crane and Mrs Crane followed with others, including Patrolman John W Roberts and Miss Roberts, Representative John P Brehan and Mrs Charles Doyle.
The weather beat reports a new record for perverse and eccentric conditions as a weather historian remarks on Mark Twain and the vagaries of New England weather. The piece notes yesterday’s futility in forecasting and highlights unusual conditions across the region.
The report details a gunman leaping a fence near a graveyard after New Year’s Eve, with blood stained gloves found nearby. James B. Jennings, the prize fighter known as Kid Carter, is identified as the suspect, with multiple sightings and a pending murder indictment. Municipal and Malden police coordinate the case.
The text presents Miller Huggins at a crossroads between exploiting the Bresnahan treasury for a measurable sum or forming a new alliance with a park keeper as the central figure.
The ad promises Cascarets will relieve headache biliousness constipation and sour stomach by morning. It touts a 10 cent box to keep head clear stomach sweet and bowels regular for months and urges the reader to care for children as well.
Riccardo Martin, famed Metropolitan Opera tenor, writes No 2 of his articles on voice training by famous singers for next Sunday's Post.
Testimony before Senator Smith's committee states about 6 million rounds of ammunition have been shipped from New Orleans to Mexico since Taft's neutrality proclamation. Firearms company reps presented orders invoices and purchaser details during the hearing.
Two large British freighters are overdue. One is declared lost and the other is thought badly damaged or crippled, drifting in the Atlantic as wind and storm torment the ships.
Dec 8 freighter Fernley sailed from Bremen to Boston and has not been heard from two weeks later raising fears of disaster. Snowden Range from Philadelphia was due five weeks ago at Fowey England and is believed foundered after reinsurance actions. Local maritime officials warn this winter is the worst at sea in years.
The Daughters of 1812 held their annual reception at the Copley Plaza Hotel with President Mrs. Nelson W. Titus presiding General Charles K. Darling was guest of honor and gave the address. Vocal music by Mrs. Ethel Frank Brigham and Mrs. Merian Frances Bagley plus piano by Mrs. Mary Swan Swain complemented the program. An afternoon tea closed the event.
An advertisement by Dr. T. Frank Lynott offers free distribution of a medicine that allegedly dissolves uric acid, strengthens kidneys and bladder, and eases rheumatic pain. It invites sufferers to send symptom lists, age, and address to receive not a sample but a complete course and a medical book, with no obligation.
A historical symptoms compilation notes back pain frequent urination burning urine bladder soreness stomach gas general debility dizziness right rib soreness body swelling constipation liver trouble heart palpitations hip pain neck or head pain kidney soreness joint and muscle pain nerves acute chronic rheumatism.
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