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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
5
A historical ad lists deep discounts across garments and home items. Brassieres, laces, dresses, and cretonnes are priced from fractions of a dollar to several dollars. Home furnishings include mirrors, clocks, mahogany desks, and wardrobes with discounts highlighted for quick sale.
Harvard Professor Wallace C. Sabine of the physics department was named exchange professor to France for the 1916 17 academic year. He will teach at the Sorbonne in Paris as Harvard's representative.
P H Callahan of Lowell was elected president of the Massachusetts Master House Painters Association for the coming year at the 26th annual convention in Horticultural Hall. New officers include Ivory H Morse as vice president Alexander Peters as secretary treasurer Fred A Moore as state organizer and Charles F Smith as trustee E C Beck joins the international executive board.
The narrator seeks a letter of introduction to Mr. Belasco. Blanche Bates shows kindness, sending her to Belasco with Miss Bates’s endorsement for a possible role. A dramatic, hopeful journey through theater doors ends with a hopeful start toward a breakthrough.
Mary Pickford seeks a chance with director David Belasco after a spring wait. He invites her to read, gives a book of verse, and schedules a return visit to discuss her ambitions and possible stage work.
Mary Pickford's talks to appear five days weekly in the Daily Post and every Sunday in the Sunday Post, according to the notice.
A speaker advises Marion to find a stenographer who will type her plays and hope for acceptance. The proposal suggests a small commission of five percent as payment for the service.
A reader reports using white vaseline on the eyelashes to promote growth without eye injury. The note advises applying at night and washing the eyes thoroughly in the morning.
Harvard students face oral exams next week to join the junior class. Those who fail cannot progress with their class and must pass a French or German test to qualify.
An anonymous letter to Waltham city clerk Richard Steele asserts ex Mayor Thomas F. Kearns is living and will stay away for months. Police treat it as the work of a crank and investigate.
An advertisement touts Sargol as a flesh builder to treat malnutrition by aiding digestion so the body absorbs fattening elements. Sold by most druggists with a money back guarantee for weight increase, the note warns it should be avoided by those not seeking weight gain.
Dr. Richard P. Strong spoke at First Parish Church Cambridge yielding about 175 dollars to send surgical dressings to Serbia. He described typhus history from biblical times to today and explained how Harvard units controlled outbreaks. Lantern slides showed Serbian hospital wounded and trains for disinfecting clothes and shower baths, drawing interest.
Edwin D. Carter pleaded guilty in District Court to murder in the shooting of Deputy Sheriff Richard F. Lawton in Westfield. The court rejected the plea and held Carter without bail for a Jan. 15 hearing as Lawton tried to arrest him on a warrant charging threats against Carter’s wife.
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