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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1911
Page
6
Taunton suffered two major fires on March 22. The Channet Silver Company plant, maker of silver plated ware, was destroyed with an estimated loss of 20000 dollars. The Taunton Oil Cloth Works factory also sustained about 7000 dollars in damages.
Fire at a wood two story oil cloth works traps three men on an upper floor. John Waldron and George Turner suffer facial and limb burns while John Wilinski escapes after leaping from a window. The blaze started in the drying department by spontaneous combustion and swept through the building causing near total loss. Forty workers lose time at Cohannet Silver Company plant with some personal effects left behind. Insurance covers the damage and the cause remains undetermined.
An advertisement touts TIZ as a non powder foot cure for sore tender and swollen feet used by policemen and other workers. It claims to draw out poisonous exudations from every pore and promises no more limping. Sold by Walter Luther Dodge & Co. Chicago for 25 cents a box.
Registered physician with 17 years in attendance offers rapid relief from prostate gland issues without operation. Claims to cure urinary pain and control problems across ages, with free consultation and examination. Addresses at 140 Boylston Street Bellevue.
An executive committee hearing at City Hall last night reviewed the proposed trolley express franchise sought by the L road and the current passenger service run by the LL road, which were both challenged during the session.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce committee favored granting the petition with limits while remonstrants from improvement groups, expressmen, and team drivers opposed. The council ended hearings with a 41 to 0 vote against the petition and will likely reject it, possibly offering another information period as last year.
First Officer Walter Postell of the Glasgow liner Tymeric arrived in Boston after a three year world cruise. In North Queensland on the Great Barrier Reef he shot a 1500 pound shark and brought its backbone as a souvenir. The crew used improvised bullets and a rope lure to haul the shark aboard. The Tymeric also carried 5000 tons of saltpetre from Chile and had last touched England over three years ago.
Professor Kilgallen of Balliol College announces he grafted a complete set of human teeth onto a salt water sculpin. He says the feat creates a new species and shifts the fish’s behavior toward human traits, a claim backed by his own assertion of responsibility for the statements.
A scientist demonstrates a sculpin with human teeth and predicts the fish will walk on shore within years. He claims dental work advances evolution toward humans and foresees sculpins robbing roosts as they diversify. The reporter notes the strange experiment ends with a humorous remark about fitting human teeth to an automobile.
A black hand insignia flag depicting a white skull and cross bones was floated from the copper dome of the new Stock Exchange building. Brokers and curb boys clamored for the pennant, but Phil Stingel the B A A jumper kept it, with bids reaching twenty dollars. It was the first flag raised from the dome.
The Colorado Senate and House have ratified the proposed constitutional amendment for an income tax, with Governor Shafroth approving. The action was completed earlier but not made public until today.
About 150 tailors employed in Hartford department and cloak stores walked out today after the discharge of a woman worker. Employers refuse to negotiate with the strikers and declare a fight for open shop conditions will be waged.
The Rev. Daniel Cronin aged 68 pastor of St. Agnes Roman Catholic Church in Dalton collapsed and died of heart disease at the parsonage tonight. Born in Worcester he graduated Holy Cross College in 1869 and was ordained in Montreal in 1872 after serving in North Brookfield and Hinsdale.
Tea products priced at 60 cents per pound and offered in half pound and quarter pound sealed air tight canisters.
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