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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 14, 1909
Page
7
In Woodbury New Jersey January 13 1910 bus driver William Rambo planned to move a hive of bees on a city bus. Bees came out on German Street and staged a council of war. The swarm attacked horse and driver. the hive toppled and Rambo won the confrontation.
William F. Steese reports scalp problems after typhoid fever and dandruff, using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. after two cakes and a box, he claims his scalp cleared and hair grew thicker within months, with his condition improving from near baldness.
Warm baths with Cuticura Soap and gentle anointings with Cuticura Ointment, aided by Cuticura Resolvent, claim instant relief from itching burning rashes and inflammations in infancy and childhood, restoring rest and suggesting a speedy permanent cure when other remedies fail.
In Villefranche France on January 13 the town praises the U S battleships Vermont Minnesota and Kansas for their officers crews and good fellowship. The fraternal spirit is evident and kindness hailed.
Two Sisters of Charity tour three ships begging for food for the aged poor. Sailors crowd them and donate money while baskets of food are sent ashore. The Minnesota's pet bear earns cheers as it visits Nice.
Milford boy Herbert Inness, six year Post hustler, sells over 230 copies of the Boston Post each morning. He boards the early train bundles, rides the Post wagon to Milford square, and serves Draper works workers in Hopedale before others. He also sells other papers on a second trip.
The complaint notes that customer demand for the Post has risen steadily and may soon exceed capacity. Young Inness leads all other boys in the mornings and also in the local evening papers.
Seventeen year old Jennie Clouse of Hazleton was sent to the House of Refuge in Wilkes Barre to prevent her eloping with an actor she has fallen in love with.
A collection of Lincoln anecdotes recounting his responses to critics. He declines to publicly rebut attacks, recalls a farmer’s claim about hay and a horse, and shares moral tales about a raft captain named Jack Chase and other fronteir encounters.
Golfer Pauline Mackay daughter of Mr and Mrs George H Mackay will marry Bruce Donald Smith of Chicago at Arlington Street Church this afternoon. The Rev Paul Revere Frothingham will officiate with Louis de V. Dousman best man and Julia Fairbanks maid of honor. The couple will honeymoon in Chicago where the groom conducts business.
Dishearted by his stepfather and mother and deserted by friends George N Schaeffer jailed in Allentown on a murder for robbery charge with the fiancé Miss Florence Shuler offering support.
A health warning from a period advertisement claims a deep seated cough or lung cold can be cured in five hours using a tonic laxative cough syrup made from wild cherry bark cardiol essence and white pine syrup. The directions describe dosing every half hour for four hours then several times daily and note children receive smaller amounts.
Ten young men from the eleventh district appeared before Secretary Stebbins of the Civil Service Commission to take exams for the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis. Congressman Andrew J. Peters will appoint the top two contenders, with the best as the primary appointee and the second as an alternate if the winner cannot qualify. exams continue today and tomorrow.
In Altoona Penn Mrs A M Brode outran fire companies to reach her home after a fire alarm sounded near the corner. Carrying purchases she ran downhill and reached the foot of the hill just as the fire apparatus arrived.
Lowell Jan 13 Octave Javiere charged with breaking and entering and larceny from the Walker Street house of prayer and Episcopal Church pleads not guilty and is committed to jail until tomorrow Rockland Me Jan 13 Rev Am H Chapin resigns as Universalist pastor of the church here resigning to take effect once a successor is found
New York January 13 Opera singer Nellie Melba sailed for Liverpool aboard the Campania. She praised her treatment at the Manhattan Opera House and said she ultimately expected to settle in America.
A Duxbury youth named Sibley Tarrell age 18 was stranded on Sand Flat two miles offshore when his dory drifted away.clam hunters Leander Raymond and Warry Beytes rescued him as the tide covered the area. He was taken to Warry Beytes’ home for medical care and remained in critical condition from exposure. He had rowed with his collie when the dory parts its anchor leaving him to endure nearly three hours afloat.
In Mankato Minnesota on January 13 James York a quarry worker killed four of his children by throat slashing and then hanged himself in a suicide the violent act shocked the town and prompted investigations.
Haverhill elects Fred I. MacGregor as president of the Board of Trade succeeding Judge John J. Ryan. Hull adopts printed loaf lists under new weights and measures law. Lowell forms a labor bureau and reports a mayoral initiative. Mrs. Wilfred Beaulieu, shot by her husband, remains at St. John’s Hospital as murder charge continues to January 23. Providence names Edward Church Dubois chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court. Goffstown reports an official death by suicide of Colonel William H. Stinson. Claremont Machinery adds half day to the workweek after nearly a year of five days. South Hanover notes John Jewett’s death at 76. longtime Cohasset station agent and Hanover lot supervisor.
At the annual Massachusetts Society of Brick and Stone Masons Masters and Craftsmen meeting in the Master Builders' buildings the open shop method was unanimously approved. The report also outlines 8 to 5 regular hours in Greater Boston with a one hour dinner break, time and a half for outside work, double time for Sundays and holidays, and wage rules based on skill. Discharged workers receive due wages on the spot. quitters are paid on regular payday. The year’s board of governors includes I F Woodbury Ek P Willcutt Nick Russo G R McClellan Charles Swell and W W Bates for the employers and Charles Pratt for the craftsmen.
J Montefore Myers held in the Tombs on forgery charges fell ill and was sent to Bellevue for an appendicitis operation. He refused surgery and was returned to the Tombs, where he is rapidly recovering.
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