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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1909
Page
2
Bargains in Stockings offers children's tan cashmere stockings at 18c. Womens cotton stockings in seconds of 124c and 19c varieties priced around 1s? Burson's Stockings known for seamless leg and crafted foot and ankle style. Sale on Wednesday at 1.
Great crowds filled the Cathedral for yesterday's missions for women with overflow masses held in the basement. Rev Fathers Cahill Heagan and poley spoke on family duties, praising parental sacrifices and urging children to honor and love their parents.
Lieutenant Governor Frothingham, aged 48 and the youngest to hold the post, acted as governor while Draper attended the Taft inauguration. He assumed duties, signed state papers, and received the Republican State committee’s executive secretary Charles S. Groves. Morrison I. Swift plans to visit the Legislature at 10 a.m. to discuss unemployment and may invite Frothingham to address the unemployed.
A United Wireless operator aboard the steamship Northwestern of the Alaska Steamship Company sent and received replies to multiple messages between the Northwestern at Fitzhugh Sound and Honolulu, about 2500 miles away. Despite a harbor five miles long, half a mile wide and surrounded by high mountains, the wireless instruments functioned without interference.
The Supreme Court ordered removal of the four foot sidewalk projecting arch on the Codman estate property at 176 Tremont Street. The court held the arch violated lease provisions restricting building setbacks and issued a mandatory injunction.
Cincinnati March 2. The Typothete of America loses to the International Printing Pressmen's Union in a long-fought case. The US Circuit Court of Appeals rules an eight hour workday.
In a Dunton trial coverage, prosecutors present a handbook with a carotid strangle hold as evidence. Witnesses describe Grace Sturtevant and others as lovers of William C Howard, along with a draft will naming Howard as a future husband. Testimony covers alibi gaps, a hospital stay, and a court scene with the marriage certificate and city industrial interests.
Eugene N. Foss urged the legislative committee on harbors and public lands to develop East Boston as a great manufacturing center. He said harbor and water facilities should aid industry and outlined plans to make Boston a top port for large freight and passenger steamers. Other speakers included A. N. Cox Atlantic Works ex-Congressman Conry Thomas F. Anderson William C. Maguire and Norman C. McNaughton representing East Boston trade organizations.
The discussion centers on William C. Maguire's petition calling for legislation to improve Commonwealth flats and to grant harbor and land commissioners authority to plan and implement the works.
Testimony began in the retrial of Standard Oil Company of Indiana on rebates from the Chicago and Alton railroad for shipments from Whiting to East St Louis. Judge Anderson ruled the government may not introduce a tariff sheet until published rates are proven. Juror Professor Frederick R. Dapprich, a Chicago University economics instructor, acknowledged the oil monopoly.
W H Tilford, a vice president of Standard Oil Company, died at his New York City home on March 2 in the latest presidential influence loss for the firm.
London March 2 Queen Alexandra ill with a severe cold will not attend the Buckingham Palace court the King will hold alone tomorrow evening The King's continental trip remains on schedule though exposure risk is noted Another heavy snowfall blankets London tonight
The committee refused to let the city auditor shift funds between departments without City Council approval. The Mayor must now seek council permission for transfers. Hibbard has threatened to veto committee increases. The final report came long after midnight.
Martin Ryan accused mispricing in coal handling by ferry and pauper institutions, alleging possible collusion and high weighing costs. Edward Conway pressed the issue for lamplighters amid a debate on electric vs gas lighting and contract versus day labor costs. Superintendent Emerson dodged some questions.
The Osmo-Chemic Physicians announce a limited time offer for new or renewing patients to receive one month of treatment free, including medicines, if started on or before March 12. The promotion aims to cure chronic diseases and invites patients previously treated by others to begin therapy by March 13.
The Osmo-Chemic Physicians offer a complimentary X Ray examination to determine the cause of a patient’s affliction. They state no case is accepted for treatment until a careful diagnosis is made using their perfected X Ray method, available free if contacted before March 13, 1909.
Mr. Robert W. Sprowle of Eliot square South Natick Mass says he became nearly blind last August with floating spots and vertigo, plus headaches. A family doctor could not help, but Osmo-Chemic physicians treated him and he was cured.
The New York New Haven Hartford system must dispose of trolley holdings in Worcester Worcester Southbridge Blackstone Valley Webster Dudley Berkshire and Springfield Street Railway lines. The court gives until July 1 to conform with the decision and the ruling affirms a prior decree by the single justice.
At the New York New Haven and Hartford offices a Massachusetts Supreme Court decision on trolleys is seen as anticipated and not altering the current situation. The key issue is whether the controlling interests in the Massachusetts trolley system, spanning many companies and about 500 miles of track, were nearly disposed of during pretrial and trial phases.
In Harrisburg Pennsylvania on March 2 Governor Stagi accepted the resignation of U S Senator P C Knox effective March 4. The Legislature will elect George T Oliver to replace him in the United States Senate.
Princeton New Jersey March 2. Disputes between students and faculty at Princeton Theological Seminary peaked as the board of trustees referred the students’ request to the faculty for clearer courses in Hebrew exegesis theism and New Testament and for a Christian sociology course. Dr Francis J Patton president said the incident is closed. About 75 first and second year students drafted resolutions demanding clearer curriculum and the added course.
The ad credits researchers Anna and Sabourand with discovering a scalp microbe linked to baldness and promotes Rexall 93 Hair Tonic as a cure. It guarantees growth or a full refund, except when hair roots are dead, and lists two sizes 50¢ and $1.00 from Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
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