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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 11, 1909
Page
6
A model bakery advertises Sunshine Biscuits costing $1,500,000 to produce, claiming superior quality from white tile ovens and pristine air and sunshine. The engraving invites readers to compare these biscuits with common kinds and accept the gift for future orders.
Advertisement offers a 10 cent Sunshine Boston Grahams or Sunshine Butter Thins package. Send the full package label with name and address to receive a mail order for the chosen gift, good at any grocer. One gift per family. Offer valid thirty days from date.
President Taft spoke to the Congress of Roman Catholic Missionaries in Washington. He praised religious tolerance and warned against election bias based on belief. He discussed church and state relations in the Philippines and argued for complete separation of church and state as strengthening the church.
Washington reports the proposed 14 foot deep Gulf waterway project has been turned down by authorities. The brief note notes the decision as of June 10 and cites the official stance against the waterway expansion.
The board of engineers told Congress the lakes to the gulf waterway is undesirable. They estimate construction at 128 million dollars and annual maintenance at 6 million dollars.
The three day meeting in Kittery Maine ends its session with elections naming A. H. Merrill of Laconia New Hampshire as president Waes Wolfe of Haverhill Massachusetts as vice president F G Palmer of Somerville New Hampshire as secretary and F W Woodward Hill New Hampshire as treasurer.
The Massachusetts Dental Society elected officers yesterday at its annual meeting in Paul Revere Hall. Dr Cornelius Hurlbut of Springfield was named president with Dr Eugene H Smith of Boston as vice president and Dr Carl Linstrom of Boston as second vice president. Dr Charles H Rodgers was named assistant secretary and Dr Joseph T Paul treasurer.
An advertisement warns against fake hair preparations and touts Birt's Head Wash as a transparent, effective remedy. It explains dandruff results from neglect and oily scalp secretions, claims the product’s ingredients are listed on the package, and urges consulting a doctor or pharmacist before use. The piece ends by asserting the product makes hair lustrous and scalp clean, priced at 0 cents.
The garbage commission appointed by Mayor Hibbard debates a $7,125,000 contract that would erase the sanitary division and its 700 workers. The panel met with Superintendent Guy C. Emerson and asked for a draft of the agreement as it would look upon signing. Members include MIT professor William ST. Sedgwick and others: X. H. Goodnough, Francis R. Bangs, Arthur M. Huddell, Franklin L. Young.
Commission members favor public hearings on garbage matters. Emerson offers no objection. A 10 year contract with Metropolitan Refuse Disposal Company would start around 600000 dollars the first year, plus 25000 yearly increases to cover growth, totaling about 825000 in year ten. The city now spends 54000 on New England Sanitary Product Company for garbage with contracts expiring 1912. City Refuse Utilization Company handles ashes and other refuse with an expired contract.
Grace Chandler says she loves Byron Chandler and believes his London marriage to Grace La Rue is unlikely. She notes their six year Bermuda wedding was a love match and that his fortune was only an allowance, not the reason for marriage. Her family regrets the match but says they remain estranged.
The Leopold Morse Co salesmen from Washington street clothiers plan a Thursday outing at Lee's Inn Squantum on June 11. They will settle a rivalry between wholesale and retail departments with a baseball game followed by a noon dinner and an athletic meet including hop, step and jump broad jump and shot put events.
John Noble longtime clerk of the Supreme Judicial Court for Suffolk County died yesterday at his Roxbury home at age 80. He resigned a year ago after 33 years of service.
The Shubert Holding Company of New York bought the vacant Tre Mont street and Seaver place lot from the Charles H. Bond estate for a new Lyric Theatre in Boston. Plans call for rapid construction aimed to complete the theatre by Thanksgiving with Edward D. Smith likely to manage, though he declined comment until further notice. The site covers about 19 thousand square feet valued far above the assessed $153,700, and the foundation already exists from contractor Keyes.
Miss Eleanor P. Chew daughter of Mrs William McCullough Grafton of Sewickley has chosen Tuesday June 29 as the date for her marriage to Frank M Boynton of Boston.
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