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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1912
Page
8
The 15-year-old Joseph Foster of East Boston was found safe on Governor’s Island after an overnight search by harbor police. He escaped injury despite being blown out to sea in a small boat, was aided by the island’s resident Sailor Brown, then landed at Jeffries Point and ran home to tell his family.
In Woodstock New Brunswick three hours of freezing weather firefighting destroyed the Queen Hotel and stable the Victoria Hotel stable and Miss Kate Stephenson boarding house. The loss is about 20000 dollars with only 5500 dollars insured.
A Third avenue butcher was convicted and sentenced to three months in prison for secreting one pound lead sinkers in Thanksgiving turkeys. An inspector from the weights and measures department testified for the complainant. A guinea pig found alive in the Equitable Building ruins after 16 days without food or water was rescued from its cage by a medical department employee.
Albany January 25 Senator Timothy D Sullivan introduced a bill to permit women to serve as deputy sheriffs. He praised women’s tender-heartedness and urged inclusion without reflecting on current male deputies under Julius Harburger, arguing new female appointees would help families facing eviction and hardship.
South Bend, Ind. January 25 Following the disclosure that 19 teachers in the district married last year, more than 50 job applications have arrived from out of town all from women. Superintendent John A. Wood notes the trend may be driven by marriage aims and the town’s suitability for brides. He did not intend to run a matrimonial service yet acknowledges the effect.
Oklahoma City reports Professor Jamieson of the Edmond branch of the State Normal School system announced further rain making experiments after a successful trial. The prior test released liquid air as a spray from a high platform on a foggy morning, producing rain. a future attempt will use an airship to rise above cloud height and induce condensation for precipitation.
Mrs. Nicholas Longworth surprises society by wearing cut glass heels on slippers, complementing a gown with tulle shoulder wings. The train split in two during her appearance, revealing the sparkling heels as she stepped forward.
A newspaper advertisement touts a simple, harmless prescription to rapidly add weight and improve health. The regimen uses tincture cardamoms compound, fluid of salogyn, and elixir of calisaya with water, taken before meals, and claims 4 to 5 pounds gained in a week. It notes local druggists fill the prescription and warns against use by those not seeking flesh.
A crowd of thousands gathered at Grand Hall Mechan is building for the 58th Robert Burns birthday tribute by the Boston Caledonian Club. Mayor Fitzgerald attended along with civic leaders and numerous Scottish and charitable society representatives.
Manchester New Hampshire January 25 local Union 192 Cigar Makers Union of America forms a committee to raise a fund of five thousand dollars for striking workers in Lawrence. Four hundred dollars already subscribed in one factory.
Congestion rose as strike-breakers failed to handle incoming and outgoing freight at Boston docks. Local merchants complained daily about impeded shipments as ships from East Boston to Portland and New York faced delays. Several liners and steamers were listed at Mystic and other piers awaiting loading or sailing, with non-union crews noted aboard.
The Galileo sailed for Hull via New York on Sunday January 14 bringing cargo from across the water. A wool consignment paid duty but was shipped to New York for rail to Boston. Strikebreakers fail to fill longshoremen’s roles amid threats to Michael O Meara. Lawrences mill operatives hired to replace strikers as 18 liners idle at Charlestown East Boston and South Boston docks.
An advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as fast relief for stomach tightness, indigestion, and related symptoms. It claims a safe, temporary aid improving appetite, sleep, and mood, with free trial packaging and 50 cent boxes sold widely. Physicians purportedly endorse the product and mail orders are offered from Marshall Michigan.
Elise-Florence-Marie de Clugny known as Lili, daughter of a once-noble French family, rebels against a country aunt’s arranged match and sails to New York. There she meets Mrs. Cobb, a wealthy social climber who plots to end Lili’s romance with Victor Cobb and scheme to align Lili with her son.
An Athens dispatch reports a quake on Zante devastating five villages and causing $600,000 in damage in the capital. The death toll reached 30 as the government dispatched warships with provisions and tents to the island.
President Taft accepted the Ohio constitutional convention's invitation to speak on constitutional revision. The address is set for next Wednesday at 11 30 a.m. in Columbus Ohio.
Harry R. Pierce of St. Louis is being anxiously sought as he travels to a city hotel and aims to reach his home before his mother dies, prompting a statewide search for the missing man.
A vintage advertisement touts Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy as an improvement over traditional sage tea. It claims the tonic restores color, strengthens hair, and cures dandruff for a healthy scalp, with a 50 cent bottle guaranteed to satisfy or money back.
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