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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1914
Page
8
Revere man who police say shot Mrs. John Frusciello and was then shot by her husband. The only weapon found was a single firearm, with police noting a bullet fired from a distance.
F F. Davis of 204 Merrimack St Haverhill Mass reports Var nesis cured his long standing rheumatism after twenty years of pain and costly treatments. He credits dramatic relief to the remedy and invites visits to Boston headquarters for demonstrations and free advice.
An earnest pledge invites wives and mothers of heavy drinkers to try Orrine with a money back guarantee if results are not achieved. The home treatment comes in powder No 1 or pill form No 2, costing $1.00 a box, sold at all Riker Stores.
New York Socialist leader Ryan Walker denounces Boston's rich and poor state of streets, politics, and Rockefeller era wealth. He laments mothers selling babies for $2 while a society dog is valued at $1000, drawing strong applause from 500 attendees. He mocks debutantes and capitalists in a fiery address at Franklin Union Hall.
Railroad officials gathered in a large semi circle as the curtain rose at 2 PM. Howard Elliott urged moving beyond finance to push the safety movement, outlining five do's to improve alertness, health, loyalty, and public duty, while President Justis defended disciplined labor and cautioned against overreliance on union committees. Edgar J. Rich warned against recklessness and advocated a no drink-on-site rule to cut accidents.
Police recount a quiet prisoner who allegedly confessed to multiple safes, a murder of Patrolman Heath, and other robberies. They found a luxurious Shawmut avenue chamber filled with children’s books and a vast burglary kit including nitroglycerin materials and a 40 foot fuse. He asserted he works alone and showed distrusting hauteur during questioning.
In Boston over 42 months a series of daring center city burglaries led investigators to Kaufman who posed as a chef while describing his deadly chemistry. He planned the Rhodes Bros robbery with precise timing and estimated a $1600 safe haul and over $5000 in checks. A patrolman stopped him as he fled a wall breach, while associate Dyato Dechechia was jailed pending inquiry.
George A. Parker slept in a hammock between two pianos in his Franklin store when a piano toppled, breaking his back. A nearby policeman forced entry and pulled him free. He was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital where doctors later reported his injuries not serious.
Mrs O H Belmont, New York suffrage leader who spoke at a local meeting, departed Boston for New York yesterday morning at 10 30. She was asked to stay for an evening suffrage gathering at the organization's headquarters on Boylston Street but could not.
Teresa Carreno and Julia Culp performed a joint concert at Symphony Hall yesterday. Carreno charmed a large audience with Beethoven and Chopin, while Culp sang Wolf and Schumann with refined legato. The program received enthusiastic recalls from a stageful crowd.
Mrs. M. R. L. Sharpe told Millenium Guild members at 74 Commonwealth Avenue Newton that about eighty percent of murders in England are by butchers. The remarks followed a lecture on Capital Punishment by Mrs. Florence Spooner of the Anti Death Penalty League.
Mrs Sharpe argues murderers and butchers share blood ties and calls for abolition of capital punishment in Massachusetts. She cites Jesse Pomeroy and notes bloodlust among butchers while praising church led reform. Mrs Florence Spooner supports ending the death penalty and reports Cardinal O Connell endorsement.
An outbreak of measles hit the Utica Orphan Asylum as a nurse mistook a laxative for poison, killing Frederick Gilmore aged 4 and Julia Vincent aged 8. Four other children are in critical condition after receiving similar doses.
Sophie XIX, a cow from Lowell, sets the world's Jersey milk records for one year and for five years. The year yield is 17 557 pounds 12 ounces of milk, equivalent to 1175 pounds 7 ounces of butter. Five year total yields reach 64 258 pounds 2 ounces of milk, about 4428 pounds 14 ounces of butter.
A delegation from the National One-cent Letter Postage Association led by Cleveland’s Charles William Burrows arrived in Washington to urge President Wilson Postmaster-General Burleson and Congress to support one cent letter rates.
An advertisement touts Cascarets as a cost effective cure for constipation biliousness headaches and upset stomach. One 10 cent box is claimed to cleanse the stomach liver and bowels restoring normal function and leaving readers feeling well for months, with a note that children also need gentle cleansing.
General Venustiano Carranza replied to European peace society messages claiming peace will be established in his country with the triumph of the Constitutionalist cause. The statements were sent as Europe-wide inquiries spurred speculation Carranza’s advisers suspect Huerta agents prompted the move.
Nine year old Walter Prepetor found his father Kasimer hanging by a rope in a cellar and cut the rope with a jack knife to save him. Police say Kasimer had been despondent.
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