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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1911
Page
4
Paris July 16 Slight improvement noted this morning in the condition of John W Gates and maintained through the day. Doctors report kidney congestion diminished and attention shifts to the heart. No heart appendages needed yet as the heart itself responds well. A heart specialist will examine tomorrow.
An old advertisement describes hot weather scalp care with a canthrax solution for dandruff and a spurmax lotion for oily skin. It promotes Delatone hair removal and a homemade tonic from sugar and alcohol to improve complexion, claiming quick results and clear skin.
The Majestic Hotel Company announces Allen Ainslie will oversee the hotel in the Central Park area. Ainslie formerly ran the Hotel Majestic and now leads Lenox Hotel Company of Boston and Ainslie Merry & Boomer. He will push for higher service standards, with tariff advances planned as service and accommodations are perfected.
Bluff and hype aside, Wilson Bros the Scot Jewellers advertise glasses at two dollars while the Big Bluffs charge six. They promise honest goods, own lens grinding, and eye tests, with five stilted staff and evening hours next to Big Tea.
Clerk Walter French of the Hanover street police station owns one of the country’s most valuable cats. The Persian Angora from Argent stock, a shaded silver beauty with white beneath, is worth over 500 dollars to French. Each morning the cat visits his bed to awaken him before returning to the kitchen to signal breakfast. It has won prizes and draws cat fanciers at exhibitions nationwide.
At the Hibernian Total Abstinence Association meeting in Rathbone Hall Boston officers were elected to command a new Catholic T A Union regiment. Maurice Dinneen was named Colonel with Cornelius J Shea as lieutenant colonel, William M Anderson and S Peene as majors, J D Farrell adjutant, and Dr. Joseph L Sullivan surgeon. The group also planned the 16th anniversary reunion at Castle Island on Aug 20.
South Boston firemen rush to a blaze in a baby carriage at 142 West Sixth Street. Patrolman Coughlan believed a child was inside and grabbed the figure, only to discover a rag doll had been saved.
In St Die France July 16 Franco American fetes honor naming of America. Ambassador Robert Bacon and French Minister of Colonies M LeBrun attended a banquet at City Hall with toasts to Presidents Fallieres and Taft. LeBrun praised Franco American bonds as Bacon recalled the sword and baptism linking nations. The event closed with an aviation exhibition drawing twenty thousand spectators featuring Sommer and Nieuport flights.
Arthur Parks, 25 years old, a seaman aboard the Mayflower, Taft's yacht, drowned when a boat capsized in the Potomac River after being lowered from the ship's sailboat. His two fellow seamen were rescued.
A. J. Roberts, an aeronaut, started from New York in a dirigible bound for Philadelphia and was found unconscious near Deal, Asbury Park, within ten feet of the high water mark. His gas failed, forcing him to release the bag and the craft drifted out to sea before washing ashore. He swam to the beach and survived.
Roberts narrates a perilous ascent from Allenhurst aiming for Philadelphia but wind forced a landing 12 to 15 miles from New York. A squall and fog drove the craft over the sea. He shed ballast to rise, then leapt from about 50 feet as gasoline ran low. He floated, swam with a plank for buoyancy, later reached shore near a beach and was found semiconscious before returning to New York.
Edwin F. Naulty of New York argued last night that a comet caused the recent heat spell. Professor Pickering of the Harvard Observatory called the idea scientifically worthless, noting regional heat and no observable solar change, and saying there is no comet of significance between Earth and the sun.
Two Springfield youths boarded a freight train to visit a relative in Newton Centre. James Rolshan died after his head struck a bridge as the train passed Auburndale. James Coughlin, 23, was arrested in Newton on railroad law violations and to be arraigned.
A Cambridge police patrolman disrupted a Black Hand abduction attempt on West Boston Bridge by spotting Francesco and Domenico Spinali awaiting two masked men who demanded 500 dollars from Carmelo Spinali. Revolvers in hand, the cousins were arrested, stalling the payment plot and escape.
Three cousins and a Boston merchant faced extortion from men described as foreigners of the Black Hand. A bridge sting failed to trap the suspects as officers clashed with Cambridge police amid warnings of bombs. A Hale street shop blew up after Black Hand demands were not met, intensifying fear across Spinall and Poleo families.
John Broadhead of Methuen his wife and two daughters narrowly escaped serious injury when their auto collided with an electric car on the Fellsway near Ford Street Medford. Both drivers believed they had the right of way and slowed just before the crash. Mrs Broadhead landed hard and was shaken but no serious injuries were found by a doctor summoned to the scene. The others escaped with a shaking up.
The mesh bag of Miss Elsie Carroll was found in Crystal Lake Newton Centre containing her eyeglasses and a ring she wore when leaving Mrs. William Grothe’s home. Relatives argue the items support death by own action and dismiss hints of attack or a note. No motive or love affair details emerged, and Mrs Grothe denied reports of a burning ring or a note.
A brief note describes a girl known to many as always wearing glasses, referencing relationships with people who knew her well and the shared memory of her appearance.
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