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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
2
Filene's announces Friday sales featuring remaining model items and assorted lots not fully sized or restocked. The event highlights end of week clearance of unsold pieces and unique pieces with limited availability.
Sacramento January 13 Assemblyman Johnson urges three anti Japanese measures in the state legislature. He argues Japanese youths 16 to 18 threaten local girlhood and calls for denial of directorships, school segregation, and strict geographic containment of Japanese residents.
Two bills introduced last session by Mr Johnson face suspension at President Roosevelt’s telegraphic request during US Japan negotiations over San Francisco school board actions excluding Japanese youths. A separate bill by Assemblyman A M Drew of Fresno would bar aliens from owning land. A Japanese lobby is active and prepared to contribute funds as hearings approach in a few days.
In the Baby-to-Miss Annex section multiple numeric lots are listed with prices such as 1.95 12.50 15.00 1.89 1.06 75.00 50.00 7.50 5.00 25.00 20.00 1.50 69 3.05 and notes that many other lots are not advertised. The fragment provides no clear scope or entities beyond the currency values and item counts.
Dr Harvey Graeme Furbay secretary of the Industrial Christian Alliance told the Women's Republican Club at the Waldorf Astoria that 75 percent of aid applicants were college graduates while only 12 percent came from the laboring class.
Julian W. Curtiss Yale rowing coach says in a letter to Yale Alumni Weekly that Dwight T. Griswold died from typhoid fever, not from the June Thames River race collapse with Harvard.
Survivor Cutroneo recounts a night of terror as a tidal wave engulfed Messina. He searched the ruins for his wife and three children, wept on the debris, and was rescued by Russian seamen and later placed aboard the Regina Margarita with hundreds of refugees.
A satirical piece touts Marmola Prescription Tablets as a weight loss remedy with a hoax escape from fat fashion. It claims the tablets are harmless, economical at 75 cents, and eliminate dieting and exercise, urging readers to buy from local druggists or Marmola Company in Letroyt Michigan.
Alderman Anderson opposed the move to a chairman position as Aldermen face a potential months long deadlock. Alderman Curley cites a meeting with James Donovan and says a Democratic party stalwart blocks any chairman election. He notes he will push only one committee on legislative affairs and vows not to be obstructionist. The board adjourned until Monday.
Politicians witnessed a lobby confrontation between Alderman Curley and James Ponovan, Democratic city committee chair, as Curley was nominated again for chairman. Donovan refused caucus attendance, stated he followed party instructions, and criticized Curley while Attridge and O'Hare stayed away. Aldermen Curley Giblin Whelton Timilty pressed Curley’s renomination despite Donovan's stance.
In Boston the Divorce Court heard Abbie E. Christiernin seek a divorce from Adolph F. Christiernin after he abandoned her in 1903 following a hasty elopement. Her earnings as a stenographer supported the home while he refused to work. Witnesses, including her mother, described him as lazy, even refusing to shovel snow on washday. Other cases followed of elopement and desertion involving various couples, with testimonies of mistreatment and family appeals. Judge Fessenden reserved ruling in these matters.
In Clinton on January 13 the body of 59 year old George W. Morse was found hanging in his barn by his son Cleveland Morse of Boston. Despondent for nearly a month, Morse left a wife, another son at Harvard Medical School, and a daughter in Chicago.
A tribute to fresh breath argues that foul breath harms social standing for women more than men. It promotes Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges as a cure, claiming they purify breath after meals and at night. The ad urges readers to buy or request a free trial from F. A. Stuart Co. Marshall Mich.
A public notice promises completely free treatment for deafness and catarrh to those who begin care by January 16, aiming to help sufferers until cure. The program emphasizes no charge for services.
Mr James Crane of 49 Old Harbor Street in South Boston suffers 22 years of Deafness with terrible head noises. Mr Wm Davidson of 225 Longwood Avenue is stone Deaf in his right ear and the left is badly affected. Mr William Orr of 112 West Ninth Street in South Boston is nearly stone Deaf. Mrs M R Parker of 801 Huntington Avenue cannot hear conversations across the table.
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