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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1908
Page
3
Testimony details how firms fixed bids on Boston school and bridge projects through prearranged allocations, profit sharing, and information brokers. Accounts name W F Kearns, George P. Bullard, Roebling, and others, describing collusive practices and payoffs.
Testimony details payments and bid rigging among Boston area firms including Boston Bridge Works Chelmsford Iron Co L. M. Ham Co New England Structural Co Eastern Bridge Structural Co and others as part of alleged Boston Agreement. Officials describe arrangements to alternate contracts and fix bids with no real competition. A follow up hearing is scheduled for tonight.
An old ad urges readers to protect eyes from sun wind and dust to avoid strain redness and granulation. It promotes Murine as a soothing tonic for eye relief and encourages asking your druggist about it for safer, reliable comfort.
Funeral services for Judge Charles A. Dewey who presided in Milford for nearly fifty years were held at the Congregational Church. Hundreds attended, town business was suspended, with burial at Pine Grove Cemetery.
The Harvard Association football team left on a two day trip to face Columbia and Haverford College. The season has been slow and the early results are unpredictable. The article also promotes a laxative product with BeW. Grove signature.
Olin Downes notes a second Adamowski Trio recital in Steinert Hall featuring Smith’s Trio in G minor Op. 63 and Schumann and Chopin works. Smith, born 1877 in Toledo, presented a 1905 composition dedicated to the Adamowskis, praised for earnest playing despite generally hackneyed program choices.
A toilet preparation said to produce a rose tinted complexion and replace cosmetics uses two ounces Rose Water one ounce Spirits of Cologne four ounces Sartain. Dissolve Sartain in a pint of hot water cool, add Rose Water and Cologne Spirits, strain and bottle.
Duke of Abruzzi, a Lusitania passenger, isolates himself in his cabin in Queenstown and declines to discuss a rumored engagement to Miss Elkins. He tells newspaper men he does not wish to speak on the subject and ends the interview by shutting his door.
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