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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1919
Page
9
The article advises avoiding alkali in soaps and shampoos as it dries the scalp and brittles hair. It promotes Malsified cocoanut oil sham poo as pure grease free and safer, noting a small amount creates rich lather for cleansing and leaves hair soft, bright, and easy to manage. available cheap at drug stores.
An old advertisement promotes mercorized wax as a daily night cream to remove weathered skin buildup and improve complexion. It claims the method can erase freckles moth patches liver spots and pimples within a week or two with no harm or discomfort.
William Howard Taft testifies at the Federal Electric Railway Commission hearing that public utility finance is fragile. He says higher fares or a zone system are imperative to avert chaos and protect the 5 billion dollars invested in traction securities.
Witnesses at the commission hearing discuss raising streetcar fares to six or seven cents or higher. Taft backs a fair trial of the long and short haul zone plan while opposing government ownership as extravagant. John H. Pardee warns the public of losing essential service, and Gaylord Cummin classifies streetcar lines by financial viability.
The Boston Elevated trustees report a May deficit of 324002 dollars due to excess track and car repair work. Total May receipts were 2453191.30 with 2385156.87 from passenger fares. total service cost reached 2777194.98, wages 1316418.86, yielding a per passenger cost of 9.267 cents, a slight drop from 9.328 cents the prior month.
Judge E. B. Dillon of Franklin county Common Pleas Court upheld voters rights to approve or disapprove the Legislature action in ratifying federal constitutional amendments. The ruling allows a referendum on both the federal prohibition and woman suffrage amendments if not reversed by higher courts.
Lieutenant 7 S Rengrave of the British Navy travelled from China to San Francisco and Boston seeking a Liverpool passage on the Leyland line steamer Winifredian. The liner was fully booked a week earlier. He waited at the pier hoping for a last minute cancellation, but the ship departed yesterday. He then went to New York to sail tomorrow on the Lapland.
Letter to the editor praises Senator Cavna naugh for criticizing Yeomen and questions granting extra government pay to a Lynn yeowoman. The writer cites a chief yeowoman with Dependant mother and father and urges Navy to cut red tape and expenses by removing yeowomen. June 18, 1919 Boston.
The funeral of Peter F Gartland former headmaster of South Boston High School will be held tomorrow from his Dorchester residence 9 Merlin Street with a high mass of requiem at St Leo's Church at 9 o'clock. Interment follows at Calvary Cemetery with delegations from the Harvard Teachers Association Massachusetts Schoolmasters Club Knights of Columbus Catholic Alumni Sodality and other organizations he served.
The American Air Service backs a summer project to photograph and chart nationwide aerial routes. Planes will fly from New York to Seattle to develop landing fields, a key factor for early aviation adoption. Alumni air trips, including Cornell grads from Hazelhurst Field to Ithaca, illustrate growing air travel interest. The Canadian Pacific seeks an air passenger freight charter, signaling a new era in aviation commerce.
The Catholic Truth Guild begins its third annual season with an inaugural open-air meeting on Sunday at 3 30 p m on the Park Square side of Boston Common. Guild officers will speak and unveil a new autovan to be blessed by Right Rev Mgr M J Splaine D D I P P chaplain.
An exhaustive federal hearing before Judge Morton addressed the age of Peter Carr, Lawrence public safety commissioner. Carr and his two sisters testified to uncertainty about their own birthdates, raising questions about Carr’s citizenship status based on his birth date.
A veteran voter in Lawrence for 14 years who served two terms in the Massachusetts Legislature now occupies the most influential political job in the bustling city by the Merrimac.
The dispute centers on Commissioner Carr removing a fire department official over whether Carr was a minor when his father naturalized. Carr testified he believed he was a citizen based on his father’s statements and delayed voting until 1905, awaiting confirmation. Judge Morton heard arguments on good faith and potential citizenship based on prior oaths. final arguments were set for the morning.
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