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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1921
Page
4
An advertisement explains stomach debility and weak nerves can trigger heart area pains. Dr Williams Pink Pills are promoted as a tonic to improve digestion, enrich blood, and strengthen nerves, with free books offered and price sixty cents per box.
Advice warns against harsh soaps and shampoos that contain alkali. Promotes Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure greaseless and safe, creating rich lather with 1 or 2 teaspoons to cleanse hair and scalp. Claims it leaves hair silky, quick to dry, and easy to manage, with wide availability and low cost.
PASQUALE PASAINO is held in Taunton in connection with the stabbing death of William Riley, a railroad watchman. The suspect reportedly told authorities he killed the victim.
In Taunton at Wales and Mason streets a quarrel after a late night trip led to William B. Riley, 31, of 666 Cohannet Street being stabbed to the heart and left in the street. He had boarded a car driven by a man nicknamed Benny and was urged to depart near his home but insisted on riding to Wales Street where the fatal stabbing occurred.
Pasquale Pasaino, 32, held without bail as he faces Taunton court on murder charges after police say he confessed to driving the knife home five times and discarding it beyond a fence following a dispute over a Hart street crap game. Four other Italian colony men were present. Riley, a railroad fireman, stood apart. Pasaino had been in the country nine years and moved to Taunton 19 months ago to prepare a home for his wife and 14 year old daughter arriving from Italy.
Eight year old Philip Bruno of 121 Summer Street Medford ran across Nantasket Avenue chasing an ice cream soda promised by his parents. He was struck by an automobile driven by Leonard Orknall of Boston, suffering head and facial cuts and other injuries. Patrolman Armstrong took him to Sturgis Hospital. No arrest was made.
Plymouth July 24 Mrs Emma F wife of Warren P Rickard 223 Sandwich street was struck by an automobile this morning while crossing to meet friends in front of her home The car owner and driver Henry B Cummings of Groton was unable to see due to her defective sight and struck tossing her to one side spraining an ankle and bruising her body In trying to avoid her Mr Cummings side swiped another car He stopped and aided her home nearby
A Brooklyn eye specialist Dr Erasmus Arlington Pond has developed a serum that may restore sight in optic nerve atrophy blindness, long deemed incurable, and plans to present it to the Academy of Medicine and the American Medical Association.
Dr Pond reports a serum restoring sight in at least nine of ten atrophy related blindness cases. It requires discernible vision and cannot help total darkness or accidents with hemorrhages. He plans to reveal the formula after his professional report, with trials already showing success in hopeless cases.
A tragic sequence of drownings occurred around Lake Dennison as multiple swimmers and canoeists were pulled under by weeds and currents. Rescue attempts failed initially. divers were planned and dynamite considered if recovery proved impossible. Other incidents nearby include two men drowning in the Charles River near Norumbega Park and a Brighton resident succumbing off Nantasket amid cramps.
Police estimate a record crowd of 500000 at Coney Island New York with 150000 swimming. Early at 7 am thirty people queued for bath house access and by noon all lockers were seized as the day drew steady crowds at the popular recreation spot.
New York July 2 4. J T Tregoe secretary of the National Association of Credit Men says crooks using reputable firm names and store-adjacent addresses swindled credit institutions of at least half a million dollars in recent months. He urges buyers to investigate applications and obtain correct addresses before shipping goods.
An advertisement for Fresh Broken Crackers and Price Educateer Crackers and Sweet Cookies and Wafers. Pricing listed includes 170 a pound, 2 pounds for 80 cents. Also promotes 20 pound baskets for $3.00. Contact Carl at Johnson Educator Food Company, 90 Sidney Street, Cambridge. Central Square Section.
A series of fishing and swimming mishaps along Massachusetts shorelines claimed several lives. Draftsman Louis Licciardi, 28, of Watertown Arsenal, and fisherman Napoleon Bauchette, 35, of Lynn, perished, with others pulled from the water by rescuers. In Pembroke a diver, John Riordan, 22, died after a shallow water dive near Mayflower Grove. Sherwood Wade, 19, of Palmer, died from a fatal dive at South Pond. Eugene Marcotte, 25, of Lowell, was injured after striking a rock in the Merrimack River and remains hospitalized.
Richard Hannah of Worcester Massachusetts drowned at Bass Pond Richmond New Hampshire after cramps while swimming late today. The body had not been recovered tonight.
Fast Rochester N H July 24 Harry T Hayes a well known New England horseman sustained a compound fracture of the right arm and severe lacerations while Hayes swerved to avoid a car and was struck by the other vehicle which crashed into a pole Demolished car occupant fled without aid Miss Cecil Reynolds of Fall River Mass and Miss Sarah Ettinger of Portland Me were badly injured about the head and body in the Saturday night accident Marines aided until Hayes regained consciousness and attempted to help the women.
A man in a truck conveyed the injured to the Cottage Hospital at Portsmouth. Miss Reynolds remained on the danger list until this afternoon. Mr. Hayes received 18 stitches for a gash in his right arm and was able to return home later today.
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