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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1914
Page
16
Port Connecticut January 30. Judge J Phelan wrapped up his inquiry into the death of Mrs Hannah A Cross widow who died here recently and found no indication of foul play or violent cause. He will deliver his ruling tomorrow.
Spencer Kellogg & Sons of Buffalo refine castor oil to remove taste and odor. Doctors endorse castor oil as a simple safe laxative, now tasteless so children will take it. Kellogg's Tasteless Castor Oil is sold in 25c and 50c sizes, with a green castor leaf trademark and signature on every label.
Mrs. Charles M. Newton of 121 Griggs Road Brookline learned that during the day her daughter Harriet M. was quietly married to Albert Amos Sargent of Harvard College and London England. The father was away.
Harriet Newton wed Mr. Sargent, a Harvard class of 1915 student, after the couple secured a license and married quietly with a justice of the peace. Mrs. Sargent then returned to Brookline and told her mother. Sargent’s father, Harry C. Sargent, operates American interests from London. The groom lives at 27 Holyoke Street Cambridge with several students. news of the wedding surprised his friends.
Allan Stern and Beatrice Kendrick wed via phonograph in a cathedral on Storm King Heights without a minister or witnesses. The ceremony appears in George Allan England's novel Darkness and Dawn, a 1000 year post apocalyptic tale about civilization’s revival.
Mrs Mary C Benson of Cambridge 78 signed a petition to appoint Professor Owen H Gates conservator of her estate. Mrs Dillenschneider from Boston filed a similar petition. Benson is blind and crippled, with caregivers stating she receives good care.
Mrs Nelson A Taylor niece of Mrs Benson of Cambridge Mass learned of her aunt's situation today. She was found at 828 Amsterdam Avenue arranging a new apartment she had just moved into after writing to Mrs Benson without a reply.
A Dover factory of J. F. Hodgson & Co. burned, destroying the three story main building, a two story annex, and three smaller structures. Loss estimated at 60000 dollars. The Dover station and freight train were damaged and surrounding woods were afire at midnight.
A massive fire at a town factory spread to an annex under construction and ignited a loaded freight train. About 500 gallons of gasoline in a tank beneath the main building posed explosion danger. Firefighters from four towns fought through the night as trains were halted and woods at the rear burned.
Fire swept through a large American Hide and Leather Co building on Fowle Street in Woburn shortly before 6 AM. Firefighters battled for over an hour to keep flames from reaching four gasometers of the Woburn Gas Co nearby. the fire caused about 100000 dollars in losses.
A large fire threatened seventeen tenement houses and several neighboring factories in Woburn, causing about $100,000 in losses. Firefighters from Woburn and help from Wakefield Winchester and Stoneham confined the flames to the origin building and cooled four nearby gas tanks within 200 feet. Residents fled their homes as sparks showered roofs but no homes ignited. This fire followed another major tannery blaze in the city within weeks.
A well dressed woman identified as Mrs. George Snow, 30, of 6 Washington Street Portsmouth NH, is at City Hospital with gas and arsenic poisoning from an apparent suicide attempt in a room at 285 Tremont Street South End.
Police report a woman who arrived from New Hampshire rented a room, left a note for her husband claiming she took her own life, and indicated she would stay a week if she found work. Landlady Mrs. Voster said the woman gave no name and would stay longer if employed.
Rome January 30 reports Cardinal Merry del Val is likely named chamberlain of the church filling the post left vacant by Cardinal Rampolla. The chamberlain is among the churchs highest offices directing ecclesiastical and political governance during interregnum.
Advertises creamery butter at 29 cents, canned corn 71⁄2 cents per can, yellow eye beans 0 cents at, pea beans 71⁄2 cents per quart, sweet Florida oranges 121⁄2 cents per dozen. Located Cobb's on Hanover Street at Union Corner.
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