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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1911
Page
8
A Philadelphia physician Dr F Turner recounts a drastic fat loss with no drugs or exercise, shrinking from 254 pounds to 150 in seven months. He promotes a self developed system and offers a book for 6 cents postage, with copies distributed widely and translations planned.
Testimony in a U S District Court trial centers on deferred redemption of stock and exchange for other stock after a raid by postal authorities. Rev Norman Plass Charles H Brooks and John S Traphagen face charges of using the mails in a fraud scheme.
Witnesses describe involvement with the Redeemable Investment Company and its subsidiaries in a raid related case. Mrs. Babbitt and Miss Tucker recount stock exchanges and evidence of redemption delays caused by trustees. Exchanges moved to Santo Domingo Mining and other firms. Sunier testimony touches on Dr Plass and commissions. Trial resumes next morning as proceedings outline stock guarantees and cross examination limits.
Bernard H. McGovern four of 1 Middlesex street Malden fell into the Spond brook behind Guptill's carpenter shop on Middlesex street about five yesterday afternoon and drowned. He was found face downward in about three inches of water.
Daniel J. Kiley of Ward 8 addressed a special committee on Governor Foss’s proposal to abolish the existing boards and create a public utilities board modeled after New York. He argued the bill would uniformly regulate public service corporations and would replace the Railroad Commission, Gas and Electric Light Commission, and transit board. The plan divides the state into districts with initiation investigation regulation and prosecution as core functions. Board member salaries are listed at 7000 dollars and 7500 dollars for the chairman.
The Harvard senior class plans a big sendoff this morning with four members departing from Cambridge in a lively picnic event. The celebration marks the culmination of their four years, though the report notes some bragging among participants.
The 1911 class of the Boston Latin School held its first annual reunion last time.
Washington June 1 The fight over Canadian reciprocity sharpens as a Democratic farmers free list bill is set to amend the pact bill. The move is aimed at embarrassing reciprocity supporters, with President Taft holding daily White House conferences to keep both parties in line.
President Taft expects Senate passage of the reciprocity bill by a comfortable margin if final action comes without amendments. He warns that floor amendments from Root Lodge and Nelson could defeat the measure and seeks a strategy to secure Democratic votes while avoiding House-reported free list changes. Gould and Cutler relocate to a larger Boston paint supply house in Bowker area with new address and phone.
Fifty-one young women graduated from the Dr. Dudley A. Sargent school for physical education on Everett Street in Cambridge. The hall was filled with relatives and friends as the highest honors ever awarded by the school were bestowed, highlighted by Miss Faith Tyler’s record-breaking achievement.
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