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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1913
Page
6
The Chamber of Commerce issues a new Port of Boston handbook designed for importers exporters and other business men. The compact 265 page volume provides valuable information not previously available in a single publication.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce committee on foreign trade directs a forthcoming handbook on shipping facilities customs rules and weights and measures to aid New England businessmen. A revised edition may appear in 1914 if demand warrants, with corrections and additions based on reader input.
In Cadillac Michigan on June 29 a hunting dog named Barney twice saved Violet Haveman a 3 year old by grabbing her in his teeth and pulling her to safety just feet from an oncoming train at the G R I railroad back of the family home.
Washington June 29 A report shows Postmaster-General Burleson has appointed 7530 postmasters of all grades in four months nearly all appointees being Democrats. This equals 162 per day or about 4880 per month in 1882 terms.
Resinol Soap claims to improve skin and hair by using a gentler formula than ordinary soaps. It asserts the soap prevents redness roughness pimples dandruff and chafing while maintaining hair lustre. Sold by druggists with trial free from Resinol department 1 A Baltimore Md.
The letters reveal Robert Browning’s ardent courtship of Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, starting on December 2 1845 and continuing with intimate promises. The pair, despite her father’s opposition, wed in 1846 and the romance is celebrated as a landmark literary union.
A wife with a four year marriage and a son asks whether to invite her estranged husband back. He loves another and seeks a divorce after a possible reconciliation. The adviser urges freeing herself, ensuring support for the child, and shutting the door to him to preserve health and future happiness.
Samuel O. Lunt, a veteran of the Boston and Maine system and former Eastern Railroad station agent, will be placed on the pension list after forty nine years of service. He began in April 1862 and has spent the past 30 years running a passenger train between Boston and Portland on the Portsmouth division.
The excerpt shares a scallop frying recipe by Mrs Marie L Flinn from St Johnsbury and a lemon pie filling by Mrs M A Cummings from Wakefield. It lists ingredients and steps for scallops fried in hot fat with tartare sauce, followed by a lemon custard pie with toasted meringue. Also included is a molasses ginger cookie style batter by Mrs P S Flint of Silver Lake.
Judge Burke of the Municipal Court will open an inquest Thursday into the death of Lucien D Tennant a Harvard student who lived at 8 Massachusetts avenue Cambridge and was found dead Tuesday morning April 22 behind a West Boston bridge tower with a bullet wound to the head He hailed from Terre Haute Indiana
An advertisement extols affordable Colorado travel with weekly fares from $7 to $10 and easy rail connections via Rock Island Lines. It promotes the Rocky Mountain Limited from Chicago to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo and the Colorado Flyer from St. Louis. The piece mentions “Little Journeys in Colorado” and “Under the Turquoise Sky” as reading, offered by S. L. Parrott, General New England Agent, 288 Washington St Boston.
Ruth, short on funds for a planned vacation, contemplates selling her roses. A Boston charity letter requests roses for the poor, inspiring her to donate them. Months later she meets Guy by a lakeside, discovering the donor she thanked is G H Bowen, the charity organizer, and begins a budding romance.
This report describes a chaotic scene at the old Camp Ground where gunfire and chaos leave many dead or dying, others in tears as rescuers work amid casualties and smoke.
The Federal Council Commission of Church and Social Service calls for Labor Sunday observance on Aug 31 with reflections on present day tendencies in the labor movement. Pastors may recognize on Sept 1 or 8. Also notes summer church activities, itinerant ministers, and summer preaching schedules in multiple churches including Pilgrim Congregational Upham’s Corner and Nanant Church.
Letter to the editor offering guidance for animal care in heat. Advises removing poke bonnet hats at sundown, using two story canopies, wet head sponges, protection for mane and tail, fly nets, light oil mixtures, moderate drinks for horses, avoid high rein, promote airflow at night, sunstroke treatment with ammonia spirits and water, keep dogs hydrated and shaded, avoid rabies misbelief, avoid tying dogs, clip long coats, oppose abandonment of cats under Massachusetts law, contact Animal Rescue League at 61 Carver street Boston, and ensure birds have water and airflow.
A letter from C M H Dorchester dated June 29 urges keeping a water basin in every public fountain and suggests placing a jar with fresh water near doors for birds and small creatures. The note emphasizes humane care for wandering animals as a common custom in some countries.
Boston and Maine railroad employees will soon receive notices of changes. A M Gosselin of Salem will succeed John Humewell as station agent at Haverhill. W S Goodwin, freight agent at Minot Street, becomes general agent at Salem. W T Doherty, ...
A forest fire started on land owned by Governor William T. Haines in Dimick and burned 12 miles of timber land along Hale stream destroying a large quantity of sawn lumber. Two lumber camps were wiped out while 250 guards protected the district to prevent a new outbreak.
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