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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1911
Page
14
The rush yesterday overwhelmed our usual splendid service and caused mistakes, which we will gladly correct. Extra salesmen from our New York store are on hand today to fit out a regiment. Come early.
Glacia Calla, stage name of actress Mrs Paul E Roy, longtime New Hampshire figure nicknamed Barefoot Lil, is named as corespondent in a cross libel for divorce in Baker Oregon tied to a $12,000,000 fortune. The suit stems from her 1908 murder accusation against her brother’s husband in Newington New Hampshire.
A New York broker named Love faces accusations tied to Gracia Calla with alleged indiscretions in Washington and New York between September and March 1910. Gracia Calla, known by many names, has a dramatic past marked by a brother’s death, a suspected killer husband, stage work, and high society ties in Paris and Washington. The Love divorce case spans continents, while Calla’s daughter inherits a vast fortune under trust until adulthood.
Florence Luscomb and Margaret Foley, who studied militant suffrage in April abroad, returned convinced militant methods won't work in America. They plan to charge admission to their speakers meetings and map a lawn party campaign in Middlesex County for the coming month.
Miss Luscomb describes a seven mile long march of 60 000 women in London during Coronation week with seven abreast and a passage time of three hours. She notes diverse participation from all classes creeds and nations and details British suffrage societies militant and nonmilitant activities including tax resistance and Parliament petitions.
A nostalgic note promotes Horsford s Acid Phosphate as a refreshing remedy for hot weather. A teaspoonful in cold water or plain water is suggested to create a cooling, revitalizing drink, capturing era advertising language.
Mrs Hazel Pratt Woodbridge seeks removal of her late husband William B Woodbridge’s executors in Norfolk County Probate Court. A commission to take oral depositions will enable attorney Daniel J Daley to pursue the half million dollar estate, with possible involvement of the Columbian National Life Insurance Company.
Attorney Daley is empowered to take oral depositions of New York figures tied to the William B Woodbridge estate matter. The petition alleges deliberate actions by executors Parker Ganse and Westervelt to dissolve the agency company, hurting the Woodbridge heirs and prompting a commission for depositions in New York. Subpoenas compel appearance at 41 Wall Street on July 19.
Mrs Harry Humphries and her husband begin a walk around the world from City Hall New York with the aim to cover 48000 miles visiting nearly every country. She formerly public figure Elsie Kelsey and he has served in the British army. They will use the nom de plume the Kelsey Kids.
Police Commissioner Waldo concludes high ice prices stem from greed of leading ice firms. Knickerbocker Ice Company raised rates from 2.25 to 5 a ton amid ample storage and barges, despite plentiful supply. President Wesley Oler met with DA Whitman to discuss the findings, denying the allegations.
Washington reports an unfavorable Mexico border assessment leads the War Department to keep four cavalry troops at Nogales, Arizona, rather than sending them to Fort Huachuca, until conditions along the border calm. The detachment had been slated for departure today but the plan was reversed after new warnings.
Double stamps awarded with every purchase mornings until 12 o'clock noon at Wolf's My Clothier located at the corner of Hanover and Portland streets.
Augustus Elliott and his wife with three children left Morgan Centre Vermont seeking Florida Realty Company farmland in the South. Lacking funds they traveled by foot or rail, slept in a Brockton park for days, and were taken into state care after officials intervened.
Andrew J. Barnard, 68, a Lunt-Morse Co. supervisor and Civil War veteran of allston place, will wed 62 year old widow Elizabeth Johnson of Lentmountain N B after obtaining a Boston City Hall license. Barnard has had three prior wives, one dying, one divorced, one in England, and five sons from earlier marriage. He boasts 15 western Massachusetts farms and says money is no motive, only love and companionship to end loneliness.
Two auto accidents occurred at 8:15 last night in separate city sections. Gustave Ferrendi eight lived at 2 Board alley was struck on Hanover street by an auto owned by Dr. William M. Lindsay Worcester and operated by Angelo M. Testa Readville. He suffered abrasions and other injuries and was taken to the Relief Hospital. Margaret Hemsworth fifty alighting from an electric car at 540 Hyde Park avenue was struck by an auto owned and operated by Henry F. Wedding Readville and thrown to the ground, suffering a fractured left hip and was taken to the City Hospital.
A cyclone today nearly destroyed Richardsmen, eight miles north of Port Deposit in Octoraro Valley. A flour mill built to feed Washington's army was demolished, and total damage is estimated at 40,000 dollars.
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