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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1913
Page
5
A vintage advertising note promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe non calomel remedy for bad breath. The tablets are described as a gentle bowel and liver stimulant that purifies the system without griping or after effects. The ad notes a twenty five cent price and credits Dr F M Edwards with the formula.
Manager W. E. Holmes blamed for a two hour blackout after 18 union workers walked out including firemen and oilers. The walkout followed union demands for an eight hour day and higher wages, with prior notices given and two conferences held to review the conditions.
Judge Morton names Rufus B. Sprague and Walter M. Gifford as receivers for Louis D. Margolis doing business as the Eastern Tea and Coffee Company of Boston. Bond set at 10000 dollars. liabilities around 85000 with assets about 35000.
The Boston Elevated Railway will run three lines currently ending at Park Street subway to North station via the Back Bay. The Milton Cross Town Back Bay line, Allston Brookline Village Longwood avenue line, and Alliston Brookline Village Huntington avenue line will be extended, enabling about 18 cars per hour from North Station through the Back Bay district.
Burton Holmes presented his third Tremont Temple lecture In India last evening using stills and motion pictures. The trip began at Charing Cross London and proceeded to Marseilles where the P and O steamer carried travelers to Bombay. The audience saw monsoon scenes on the Arabian Sea and Nautch dancers in motion pictures. The up country visit showed English army life and the latter part covered Delhi and the route thereto with views of the Purbar past and present and Holmes on empire duties. The same talk repeats this afternoon.
In New York on January 1994, William K. E. Corey testified that Judge Elbert H. Gary, then chairman of United States Steel, knew subsidiaries joined price fixing pools long before he ordered their abolition. The testimony occurred during cross examination in the government suit to dissolve the antitrust-affected combination under the Sherman Act.
The testimony shows Mr. Corey tracing his 1910 resignation as president to a power struggle with Judge Gary. Corey says the finance committee backed Gary, contradicting Gary’s claim of no knowledge of pools aside from the rail combination. He asserts Gary attended pools meetings, including plate and structural pools in 192 or 1903, and possibly others.
Edgar R. Jackson, president of the Jackson Brothers Realty Company, already serving five years for grand larceny, will be tried again on another grand larceny indictment involving $23,362 from a separate real estate deal. He pleaded not guilty to this charge.
Otto Urack conducted a public rehearsal at Symphony Hall with the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Maggie Teyte sang Debussy, Charpentier, and Salome excerpts, praised for dramatic nuance and sensuous phrasing. Gustave Strube offered two colorful sketches, while Dvorak’s New World Symphony closed the program with noted charm.
The promotion links headaches to a bilious liver and recommends Cascarets as a gentle cleansing remedy. It claims the product purges bile and waste, relieves a sour stomach, and improves mood, promising waking refreshed and able to work after taking a 10 cent box.
Ralph W. Dennen of Gloucester files in Essex County Superior Court at Salem for an annulment of his marriage to Abbie Josephine Burdick of Rockport. He claims Burdick was already married to Pardon Tillinghast Smith in 1884 and Edward F. Ferdinand in 1894, with neither divorce nor annulment obtained. Records show multiple marriages and dates, Dennen's age and occupation, and Burdick’s prior marriages and residence histories.
Washington January 24. The Federal Board of Food and Drug Inspection issued an order forbidding the sale in interstate commerce of fruits damaged in the recent California freeze to protect consumers and prevent market flooding with unfit food.
Chairman Charles E. Hatfield of the Republican State committee invites a conference with Bull Moose leaders to reconcile differences and reorganize along Frank A. Munsey’s suggested lines. The call follows a state committee meeting that discussed amalgamating the parties as proposed by Munsey.
President elect Wilson arrived in New York for a weekend retreat from duties. He and Mrs. Wilson shopped at several stores unrecognized, and tonight the Governor dined with a close friend at the theatre with no political duties scheduled.
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