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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1912
Page
8
In Chicago on March 29 a hush fell over teachers summoned as witnesses in the Esther Mercy case against University of Chicago dean Marion Talbot. When asked their ages with a single brief question many fidgeted and stammered, showing confusion and consternation in court.
In week two of the trial David Allan Robertson testified from New York via Rome notes while Miss Hulick, a Mosely School teacher, faced probing questions about Mercy’s reputation and past discussions at Moseley School. The judge overruled an objection as Hulick finally stated her age and details of who she knew.
Advertises Rexall 93 Hair Tonic as a scientific antiseptic for hair loss. Claims to destroy microbes boost circulation and nourish roots, remove dandruff and restore health. Promises a money back if not satisfied and offers 50c and 1.00 sizes from Liggett's Rexall Stores at three local corners.
Professor Morton Kilgallen discusses a marine mystery cited by Captain Berg of the German steamer Beta. While ashore in Boston last Wednesday the officer reported a ghostly glow along the hull and a silver sea beyond the horizon near Cape Hatteras.
Captain Berg observes a silver sea after a clash between porgy and squid. Professor Kilgallen explains the milky phenomenon results from porgy defense, when fear triggers milky secretions, creating a silvery water patch that blinds squid and scatters prey.
The Norfolk Unitarian Church at the corner of Norfolk and Capen streets serves Dorchester Centre and Mattapan. Founded by Rev. Caleb Cod Bradlee about 20 years ago, it has seen several leaders with Rev. Benjamin F. McDaniels guiding its affairs since 1899. Services alternate between Dorchester and Warren ton Street locations, with Sunday schools in both.
Jefferson F. Howell a mining engineer now on trial in federal court for mail fraud testified he spent $300 on assessment work in 1907 on the Goldfield Boston properties and found no ore, only worthless float. He trenching on the Bright Star claim produced no ore indications.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on March 29 an iron bridge connecting the mainland to Belle Isle over Little Harbor collapsed after the abutment washed away, dropping into the river. The 150 foot structure, first of its kind in America, was moved from Niagara Falls where builder W H Keepers installed it in 1901.
Funeral services for Philip Hichborn the Washington lawyer who died by his own hand after his wife eloped with Horace Wylie were held at Mt. Auburn Chapel Cambridge with Rev Philo W Sprague officiating. Interment followed in the family plot at Mt. Auburn where his father Rear Admiral Hichborn of the U S Navy is buried. Attendees numbered fewer than a dozen. The body arrived in Boston at 715 am yesterday and was accompanied by Mrs Hichborn his mother and Captain P S Pearsall USN his brother in law.
Political Editor answers a reader question about party enrollment. The new act wiped out the former designation. since no vote in last September, the writer is not enrolled in any party. They may secure either a Democratic or a Republican ballot at the presidential primaries.
Miss Bessie Bell Collier substituted at short notice for Sylvain Noack and played Bruch G minor violin concerto with remarkable sincerity and technical command. The Rachmaninoff Second Symphony followed, praised for color, structure, and expressive depth, with Fiedler and the orchestra receiving enthusiastic acclaim.
City Hall hosts an eight o'clock town meeting inviting voters to address the Mayor and Council. Residents may suggest improvements for the heart of the city.
Ad copy promotes Cascarets as a remedy for indigestion sour stomach belching and chest discomfort. It claims the product cleanses regulates the stomach removes sour undigested and fermenting food and foul gases carries off bile and decomposed waste and ends stomach trouble by morning with a 10 cent box for the family.
Adventist and other church notices list 10:30 a.m. services at Adventists on Warren Street with Evangelist Rev. J. M. Currie and evening talks on The Devil and The Voice of God. Additional services include Putnam Street Adventist class and Rome Iron Kingdom lecture, First United Presbyterian Church programs, and Warren Avenue Baptist Church sermons and musical offerings with The Adelphi Quartet.
Public worship at multiple churches including First Baptist on Commonwealth Avenue and Tremont Temple Baptist with morning and afternoon sermons. Sunday school at 12:10, vesper music programs, and free seating. Also Ruggles Street and Dudley Street Baptist notices with sermon topics and choir offerings.
Local church notices list services at First Church of Christ Scientist in Falmouth and Boston, Park Street Congregational, North Congregational in Cambridge, Union Congregational on Columbus Ave, Shawmut Congregational, and others. Sermon topics include Reality, Why Society Could Never Take Up Jesus Christ, Heralds and Hosannas, Life's Palms of Victory, Life's Gethsemanes, and Home-made Righteousness with musical offerings by church choirs and quartets.
Mt Vernon and Brimmer streets liturgical timetable for Palm Sunday through Holy Week at Church of the Advent led by Rev. William Harman van Allen S T D. services include Holy Communion Matins Blessing of Palms procession choral eucharist sermon Titles and times listed. St Stephen's and St Mark's also feature services with sermons special music and Holy Week observances.
A roundup of church and spiritualist events lists preaching at Bromfield Street and Tremont Street churches at 10:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m., a Dorchester Stanton Avenue sermon, First Methodist on Temple Street, First Presbyterian services on Columbus Berkeley, Roxbury Universalist, Old Boston Corps self denial week, Salvation Army events, and multiple spiritualist meetings at Tremont and Cambridge venues with lectures, musicals, and test work by various pastors and speakers.
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