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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1908
Page
3
Supervisor Shaw publicly denounces ignored building and fire escape plans at Mayhew and Somerset Street Schools. He cites tower access shortfalls and misaligned stairways that would crowd exits, detailing battles with the schoolhouse commission over safer egress arrangements.
Levi W. Shaw, 30 years supervisor of egress, declares many Boston public schools lack adequate fire escape provisions. He questions who is responsible and why action is not taken, outlining the complaint and rectification process and its applicability to public schools.
The author argues current Boston school building rules fail to guarantee safety. He proposes exterior, fireproof tower stairways connected from classrooms to the yard, to prevent panics and evacuate students directly. He criticizes the Dunn fire escape and urges decisive modernization.
Sturgis chairman of the schoolhouse commission characterizes Supervisor Shaw's charges as vicious. He recalls Shaw's push for exterior stair cases and a tip ladder in every school and notes experts opposed such plans as impractical and unsafe. The commission's stance led to a legislature exemption for first class buildings.
An old patent medicine ad promotes LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE tablets to cure a cold in one day. It offers refunds if no cure and features a signature on each box and a 25 cent price, with advertising language typical of the era.
Mental telepathy is explored in John Mason's new show The Witching Hour at The Hackett Theatre in New York City. Augustus Thomas studies thought waves linking minds, while a tailor shop pitch hints at mind control. The ad notes Schubert contract and invites in-town and out-of-town patrons.
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