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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1908
Page
5
Professor Robert Koch travels to Molokai on his world tour and inspects the leper colony. He examines administration, living conditions, and patient care while withholding comment on specific treatments or cures. He notes disease types match those seen elsewhere and praises facilities and nourishment.
The Rev. Herbert S. Johnson of Warren Avenue Baptist Church extols the godly life as the world’s strongest force. He praises Christian women as foundational to the home and calls for silent powerful influence. Also: Summer School of Mental Therapy opens at Emmanuel Church for clergy and doctors with daily lectures. Tremont Temple’s Rev. Henson returns from Oklahoma City and speaks. Boston Ministers Union holds annual meeting at King’s Chapel with Harvard’s Moore chairing.
Practical tip advises applying a coat of natural japan lacquer over linoleum or oil cloth to extend life by preserving the original varnish. This coating prevents rapid wash wear and deterioration, offering a simple maintenance measure for households.
The article notes that front doors are revived and beautified with Jap-a-lac. It urges using the color closest to the original finish to keep the appearance fresh and new.
Window and door screens should be coated with Jap a lac each spring using Brilliant Black on the wire and Mahogany Oak Cherry or Walnut on the frames. This restores life to the screens and protects the wire cloth from rust.
The note advises protecting and beautifying porch furniture each spring with Jap-a-lac. It suggests preserving the old finish color, or choosing Red or Green Jap-a-lac if a color change is desired.
Wicker furniture coated with Mahogany Ox-Blood Red Malachite Green or Gloss White Jap a lac looks better than new as shown in a maintenance feature.
Water pipes furnace fronts radiators hot water tanks and iron fences are pre settled and beautified with Japanned finishes. Users may choose Gold Aluminum Dead Black or Brilliant Black to enhance appearance. The note suggests durable coatings for urban property upkeep.
Picture frames, candelabra, gas fixtures, lamps, and similar items receive a coat of Gold, Aluminum, or Dead Black Jap alac. The Dead Black creates a striking wrought-iron effect, renewing old pieces beyond belief.
A local ad offers restoration of old automobiles carriages wagons and cultural implements with new color finishes in Brilliant Black Red Green or Empire Blue at nominal cost. No experience required for the work.
Jap-A-Lac is pitched as a multipurpose household finish suitable for all rooms from cellar to garret. It highlights easy use on old or new floors and woodwork and advises readers to ask their paint dealer for details.
The seventh article in the Past series explores Boston's religious journals and their influence on the city's literary prestige. The vast impact of these journals is highlighted, noting their unrivaled status in the world of religious publishing.
The Sacred Heart Review, a weekly in Cambridge, has gained broad esteem among Catholic magazines. It features Starbuck columns, Ecclesiastical Items, The Week's News, What Catholic Editors Say, and sections for women, youth, and medical tips, with strong editorial integrity and calls for justice.
Henry Carleton Jones, returned from the South, was found unconscious in his room at 123 East Twenty-eighth Street. Doctors say gas inhalation and morphine contributed to his collapse. he died at Bellevue Hospital. A Fon du Lac letter and engraved cards, including Major Edward H. Eldredge of Boston, were found among his effects.
In Alton on May 31 a coroner ordered a photo taken of one eye from a woman’s body recovered Thursday from the Mississippi River. The image is said to reveal a man with a hooked nose, beard, and glabrous scalp. The coroner plans to use the photograph to identify a suspect. Post mortem shows no water in the lungs, indicating body had been in water weeks, neck broken.
At the annual convention and banquet in Springfield the Massachusetts Postal Clerks adopted an amendment to set retirement at 60 and split a 1200 dollar salary between the pensioner and a substitute. Elected president was John F. Byrne of Fitchburg with remarks from Mayor Sanderson Postmaster Hyde and S J McGillicuddy.
New York dated May 31 reports Frederick D. Romine a Newark New Jersey real estate dealer started his honeymoon on a unusual note riding in an undertaker's wagon amid widespread attention and local curiosity.
Exiled Irish voices hail Douglas Hyde as a beacon of liberty. The poem longs for freedom from oppression, praises Hyde's vision of Erin's glory, and celebrates a shared journey from Erin to California and Niagara with a chorus of welcome and pride.
A fragment from a local recipe column lists Togus Bread andPlain Egg Cake with ingredients and steps. It cites contributors Mat tie Flynn and Mrs M J F, and includes addresses in East Boston Roxbury and Norton Massachusetts. The item reads like a community cookbook snippet with multiple quick recipes and notes.
General Chairman P J Coyle and Vice General Chairman A E Barnes offered their resignations citing dissatisfaction with how the board’s affairs are run. The board declined to accept, urging them to meet with delegates. A working rules committee proposed changes to current rules for future presentation to Boston & Maine officials.
Malden May 31 Chief Fletcher A Sutherland of the Everett fire department died at Malden Hospital from injuries suffered in an apparent suicide attempt last Thursday night. He had long suffered nervous trouble from overwork and had served as chief for ten years after joining the department sixteen years ago. He was a Nova Scotia native who came to Everett as a youth and worked as a carpenter before joining the fire service.
May 31 report says 700 well armed Afghans crossed into Persian territory and seized Regan a town about 180 miles southeast of Kerman.
A curative claim describes X Zalia as a cooling soothing liquid that stops itching and heals prickly heat rashes by moistening broken skin and preventing spread. The notice outlines rapid relief through topical application, emphasizing swift flesh healing.
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