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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1913
Page
7
The C. O. D. parcel post system starts today offering merchants and farmers a new service. For a 10 cent fee plus regular postage, the postman will collect the price on delivery.
The system applies to all post offices of any size and allows C O D parcel post only where a money order department exists. Parcels up to $50 are insured at no extra charge, and no parcel over $100 will be accepted C O D. Receipts record the amount due and mailing date. parcels may be refused for delivery C O D but cannot be returned without standard charges.
Susan McLaughlin, 19, claims Ernest G. Bennett must not marry another as his case opens in Malden court. Bennett pleads not guilty. a continuance to July 11 is granted. Miss Nellie Welch, Bennett’s Hortchester fiancée, says she will wait, while McLaughlin seeks marriage to him.
Mrs. Isabella H. Woodford widow of the former United States minister to Spain was freed in Fairfield Connecticut town court on charges of manslaughter and reckless operation of an automobile. The June 3 accident killed 60 year old William Stenhauser. The coroner declined to hold her but Grand Juror Clitus S. King had the charges brought.
More than 500 children from the Home for Jewish Children in Dorchester and pupils of the Boston Young Men's Hebrew Association Sunday school were driven to Pinehurst Billerica for an automobile outing. They were served luncheon and enjoyed a 3 pm baseball game between the two groups and a vaudeville show.
New York June 30 Society was startled when Princess Wilma Lyoff Parlaghi filed suit against millionaire miner James B. Haggin for 25000 dollars claiming he promised to pay for her portrait. The case was withdrawn today with no reason given and counsel Alton B. Farker declining comment.
Washington June 30. The government will launch a sweeping reorganization of the customs service tomorrow. Treasury officials said the machinery for collecting 300 million dollars in annual tariff duties will be radically transformed in the most drastic overhaul yet attempted.
A sweeping consolidation cuts 162 historical customs districts to 49, costing 113 collectors their posts. Officials project annual saving of 400k to 500k, with ambiguity over whether 350k or 700k is the real figure. On the Canadian border, perquisites from manifests and blanks, totaling at least 200k annually, will end. collectors will resume only salaries. Government will sell blanks for one cent or let importers supply their own forms.
Charles E. Clark a Roxbury porter on the Portland boat was arrested by Inspectors Egan and Angell charged with stealing a $50 gold watch from Mrs. A. M. Burnham of Roxbury allegedly taken from her berth on June 18 while the boat moved from Portland to this city. Clark denies the theft saying he borrowed the watch from a coworker after loaning $11 in a gambling game.
Dr. Reid Hunt, chief of the division of pharmacology in the United States marine service since 194, is named to succeed Dr. Pfaff as professor of pharmacology at Harvard Medical School. An Ohio native and Baltimore College of Physicians and Surgeons graduate, he previously taught at Johns Hopkins University.
On June 20 Byron H. Uhl, assistant commissioner, took over duties at the port of New York after William Williams resigned as commissioner. Uhl will serve until a successor is named.
Miss Brenda Fenollosa of Cambridge married Moncure Biddle of Philadelphia at Inglisby on the Searle estate with two clergymen officiating. Guests included family and Har vard men. reception followed and couple to live at Chestnut Hill after a month in Nova Scotia.
The text recounts Friedrich von Schiller’s romantic letters to Charlotte von Lengefeld dated Aug 25 1789 showing his ardent feelings and her initial coldness masking deep affection. It notes Charlotte’s sister Caroline aided Schiller and Charlotte’s later confession of hidden emotions and fear of losing him.
The Massachusetts Junior Zionist Council memorial meeting will gather all state junior Zionists at the Ohel Jacob Synagogue in East Boston on Sunday July 20. The event honors Dr. Herzl, founder of Zionism, with prominent Zionists joining the observance.
A dory marked Elsie No 1 found adrift off Sable Island is believed abandoned by its crew from the schooner James Warker. The revenue cutter Seneca rescued two dories after they went astray while fishing. No boat numbers or owners attached to the finding.
Miss Lillian Rounds and Herbert E. Larner deny engagement amid a Cambridge court hearing set for July 14 before Judge Almy. Rounds contends the warrant miscast events while Larner says the couple are merely friends and denies elopement plans.
39c and 50e Drawers, 25c Girls white crepe drawers with lace edged puffle, cotton drawers with embroidery and hemstitching. (Fourth Floor).
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