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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1914
Page
4
The Cuban government loan term expired with no accepted proposals. A New York bank lawyer presented a single offer to the secretary of finance, while many European and American financiers asked for conditions but offered no definite bid.
Poslam promises swift improvement for skin diseases and eruptions with few applications. It claims to control acne, itch, dandruff, chafing, and inflamed complexions and is sold by druggists with free sample offers from Emergency Laboratories, New York.
In Connellsville Pennsylvania detectives recovered $12,300 of a $13,000 theft by Ralph Wiant, a United States Express clerk. The money was hidden in a flour-filled crock at Freda Wiant's home after leads from Miss Margaret Dunnington. Ralph Wiant confessed his brother had asked him to conceal the funds.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra performed last evening in Sanders Theatre at Harvard. Soloist assisting was George Proctor. The program featured Overtures by Mendelssohn and Berlioz and Rimsky-Korsakoff’s Concerto for Pianoforte in C sharp minor.
Men regarded as direct controllers of over a billion dollars took part in winter sports and a luncheon at the Brookline Country Club. They are guests of the Boston Commercial Club, with ties to the Cincinnati Chicago and St. Louis commercial clubs and Boston's leading citizens.
A cordial exchange among Chicago Cincinnati and St Louis men ends with a Copley Plaza dinner and an Engineers Club smoker. Notables from each city wear color coded badges while Boston hosts plan a Copley Plaza buffet lunch an auto tour and a dinner at the Algonquin Club.
All public and business buildings in Somerville will be inspected for fire hazards by fire department captains under Chief Rich, by order of Mayor Cliff. Any dangerous item found must be removed immediately upon demand.
Washington reports that Mrs Richard C Burleson wife of Lieutenant Burleson of Fort Myer has left society life to study as a special student at Washington University in economics and sociology. She was grand marshal of last March's suffrage parade in Washington.
Four Roxbury youths were arrested as they viewed the burned remains of the Bacon department store on Washington street Roxbury and turned over to Cambridge police charged with breaking into the Harvard square store of the Andrew J. Lloyd Company early last Monday morning. Henry J McIntyre 22 George T Curry 28 James A Cavanaugh 21 and John Donovan 21 were nabbed by Patrolmen Davis Littlefield and Cassidy on information from a man in the crowd cited by Inspectors Angell and Egan. Police expect to recover about 500 dollars of loot from Lloyd's.
Constantinople January 15 The Sublime Porte informs the American embassy that Turkey will participate officially in the Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Ambassador Morgenthau hosted an at home for the exposition commissioners who depart next Tuesday for Romania. Turkish commerce and agriculture ministers and Balkan diplomats attended.
Richard D. Lankford 46, vice president and secretary of the Southern Railway, died by inhaling gas in his Brooklyn apartments on the eve of his wedding to Nellie Patterson. A porter found the body. no note was left. Lankford had risen from clerk to senior corporate officer with multiple directorships.
The Berlin Women’s Bank, believed to be the world’s only bank run by women, completes five years of operation and plans a January 17 celebration. A key event will be the launch of the world’s first financial daily for women with an initial edition of 30,000 copies.
City Hall officials report Mayor Fitzgerald approved a broad raise for municipal employees in recent days. The action adds to prior pay increases already announced by the Post.
The latest group to gain raises includes 147 draw tenders who now get $100 more annually. Chief drawtenders rise from $1300 to $1400, first assistants $1000 to $1100, second assistants $900 to $1000. Increases proposed by Commissioner Rourke in 1914 budget were approved by Mayor Fitzgerald and applied immediately.
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