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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1919
Page
4
Boston elocutionist Mrs Genevieve Howard sues Col Milton H French for 50000 in a breach of promise case to restore social standing. French, a wealthy shoe manufacturer, is in Thomaston Maine avoiding publicity while the trial looms, with letters and gifts to be produced.
Six married couples from Norfolk county have filed divorce petitions in the Superior Court at Dedham. Names include Gladys DeWitt Bowen and Charles J. Bowen with child custody requests. Lennie M. Higgins and Frank R. Higgins. Adeline F. Newton and James Stuart Newton. Margaret J. Levangie and James Levangie. Francis L. Savage and Sadie E. Savage. Daniel Otter and Florence Otter.
Peptiron is described as a real iron tonic in chocolate coated pills, easy to take and carry with no water alcohol or opiate. The ad promises rapid blood and nerve benefits, improved digestion appetite and health, and urges immediate use after meals twice daily.
Legislative hearing on a Feinberg bill to let Saturday Sabbath observers open shops on Sunday drew opposition from Lord's Day League the Boston Retail Grocers Association and labor groups. Critics argued it would unsettle religious norms and harm merchants, while opponents noted the law already rests on a day of rest without favoring Christian or Jewish observance.
A literature roundup reviews Katharine Reynolds Green Valley and Newton Fuessle The Flail plus Sophie Kerr The See-Saw and Francis Parkinson Keyes The Old Gray Homestead and more. The critic weighs war era charm against hard edged realism noting strong scenes and vivid settings across multiple publishers and eras.
Mrs. Evangeline L. Clementson of Milton bequeaths fifteen thousand dollars to charities and individuals in a Norfolk County Probate filing. A $10,000 gift to the New England Anti-Vivisection Society, $3,000 to the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, $2,000 to the Animal Rescue League, and $200 to Rev. Roderick Stebbins. Monthly $6 bequests to Miss Isabelle McKenzie, Charlotte W. Ham, Leslie Stenger, and Anna B. Clementson are set, with remainder to Home for Aged Couples Roxbury, American Unitarian Association, and Tuskegee Institute Alabama.
Owners of Lewiston Augusta and Waterville Street Railway bonds organize a protective committee led by William B. Skelton John Wilson and Rupert H. Baxter. The Manufacturers' National Bank of Lewiston is named depository for 845000 in bonds with first liens on lines between Lewiston Bath Lewiston Sabattus Lewiston East Auburn and city lines of Lewiston Auburn and Bath.
Mrs. Margaret Reeves, wife of Melville Reeves known as the skyscraper burglar, was awarded 25000 damages against Nicholas Hunt and Detective Sergeant Charles Gratton for false arrest. She said officers broke into her hotel while she was in the bath and made her dress before her husband was sought. She had sued for 75000. a jury awarded the amount.
An old advertisement touts LAX ATIVE BROMO QUININE Tablets for head and body pains from colds. It notes only one Bromo Quinine and features E. W. Grove’s signature on the box. Price listed as 30 cents.
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