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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1911
Page
8
For years unscrupulous manufacturers push imitations at same price under names like Nemo Self-Reducing but with no relation to our patented hygienic features. These attempts have utterly failed as the public refuses to be humbugged.
A large flotilla of yachts moved from winter quarters to Dorchester Bay South Boston as dredging around the Mosquito Fleet Club disrupts moorings. Many sailors report missing mooring stones swept away by winter dredging and will face days before all vessels can be secured. A floating life saving station was placed between Thompson's and the Head House yesterday.
A Baltimore letter highlights a fifteen year old girl named Alice restored to health after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims doctors diagnosed Gav en Sickness but after three bottles she improved. It urges women with menstrual and related symptoms to try the product and cites thousands of letters as validation.
South Lunenburg Vermont April 30 flooded river drives a 45,000,000 foot timber jam from the Connecticut Valley Lumber Company toward Mt Tom Mass. Logs jam and churn past McIndoes in a 300 mile voyage as Sam White’s crew keeps the main boom intact and sluicing resumes above Bloomfield dam.
In the upper Connecticut flood, logs undermined at Guildhall are swept away as rivermen rush to drive 4 800 miles of logs worth a million dollars to market. Manager Donald J. McDonald directs fast teams, autos, and private lines to coordinate the perilous operation against rising waters.
Aronson shoe stores at 228 and 365 Washington Street drew huge crowds last week as 30,000 worth of branded shoes from five New England factories were sold at about half price. The sale ran Thursday to Saturday and will be renewed this morning with ample stock and many styles for every family member.
Ambassador Jusserand of France will be guest of honor at the Harvard Cosmopolitan Club annual dinner in the Harvard Union on May 12. Also invited are Baron von Bergdorff of Germany Count Takahara former Japanese ambassador Aat Lowell Dr. Eliot Dean Wells and others.
Governor Foss his wife and twin daughters Esther and Helen escaped serious harm when their touring car was struck by another vehicle on South street Forest Hills. G F Beckwith drove the other car and crashed into the governors car tearing away mud guards and demolishing the front of Beckwiths car.
A crash between Beckwith’s car and the Governor’s vehicle on South street near the Arborway shook all occupants. The Governor’s chauffeur Arthur Cornett steered, while Beckwith’s car carried E F ridges Miss A L Wilson and Miss M Sturgis. Both cars resumed after temporary repairs.
Rufus Brown a 4 year old of 24 Wensley Street Roxbury slipped while alighting from an inward bound Hyde Park car on Hyde Park avenue yesterday afternoon and fell to the street a rear wheel crushed the toes of his right foot He was removed to the City Hospital.
About 1800 people attended yesterday afternoon for the second in a series of Sunday mass meetings at Grand Hall during the exposition The World in Boston The gatherings aim to address church unity amid the exposition program.
The Rt Rev Arthur S Lloyd addresses the gathering urging Christian unity amid definitional disputes hampering missions. He argues that division stems from self-will and harms both workers and the faithful, urging Christians to confess fault, unite in revelatory truth, and work together in Christ’s name to show the world the power of the resurrection.
The schedule lists sessions from 3:00 to 8:20 p.m. including a pageant Dark ness and Light, mass student meeting at 2:00 p.m., welcome by former Boston University President Huntington, responses by Colonel E. W. Halford, lectures by Dr. Isaac Taylor Headland of China and Homer B. Hulbert of Korea, a 6:30 p.m. dinner, and a 7:40 p.m. men’s conference on The Use of Money led by H. F. La Flamme.
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