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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1914
Page
11
Captain Sigvard Rynning of the Vera met nurse Emily Platau of Johns Hopkins Hospital in Philadelphia and married within 48 hours. He brought his bride to Boston on the Vera, and plans a honeymoon trip to Norway to meet his family.
The S. H. Harrison Co Bargain Basement offers odd suits overcoats and pants at deeply slashed prices. $12.50 suits for $7.00, $18.00 suits for $9.00, and pants from $1.98, with wide sizes and stock from 662-672 Washington St at Beach.
Meat is expected to drop within a few days. Eggs and butter are at their lowest, and green vegetables like asparagus lettuce and dandelion greens are very reasonable in Boston markets.
Yesterday's quotations list prices for eggs at 30, 28, 26 and 23 cents a dozen. Butter and tub butter ranged 34, 30 and 26 cents. Various fruits and seafood including asparagus, strawberries, tomatoes, celery, lettuce, dandelion greens, rhubarb, grapefruit, navel oranges, apples, pineapples, mushrooms, cod, haddock and more were cited with per unit and per pound or per dozen figures.
London police report a man about 60 identifying as Major Henry C. Fitzgerald an American and former paymaster on General Merritt in the Philippines was found shot at the Charing Cross Hotel. He died after to a hospital and police believe the death was self-inflicted.
Residents of Roslindale West Roxbury Mt. Hope and Germantown prepare for a Board of Health hearing Monday on gypsy sales stables at Washington and Brahm Streets Roslindale. Local associations and clubs oppose granting the permit while Joshua Stanley, longtime Roslindale resident, seeks the stable project.
Postmaster Mansfield issued several thousand circulars naming about 650 farmers and dairymen ready to supply butter eggs poultry and other farm products via parcel post. The circulars are free on request and list each producer’s address and available goods direct from the farm.
Maurice Francis Egan United States ambassador to Denmark was guest of Rev George Lyons S J and Boston College faculty and students yesterday. He visited the new college at University Heights Newton with Father Lyons and T B Fitzpatrick of Brown Durrell Company of Boston, longtime friends of the visitor.
The 1914 Harvard senior men held their annual outing in the baseball cage on Soldiers Field last night. Only seniors were admitted and the merrymaking reflected the class’s well known reputation.
The class of 1914 gathered in Harvard yard for a double file march led by a brass band to the cage. An African dodger named Pu-pu-la provided much of the evening's entertainment while seniors played tub and ball for a clothes-on bath, with proceeds funding next month’s senior picnic. Refreshments and tin cups completed the event before dispersed at dawn.
Three sailors from the Boston lobster smack J. R. Atwood were brought ashore aboard the Yar mouth steamer Prince George. They reached Boston yesterday and provided the first news of the grounding on Emerald Isle New York and the sinking of the vessel as relayed by the American consul at Yarmouth.
In Manchester New Hampshire on April 30 the entire night police force were reassigned to daytime duties while the daytime officers moved to night work. Only two officers remain unaffected. The reshuffle, described as for the good of the service, is the largest in local police history.
Woodrow Wilson and a Philadelphia lawyer shaped a novel ton as cubical capacity below the upper deck for canal tolls. The eight page Canal Record explains the method with diagrams. Frederic J. Haskin's book The Panama Canal details the system, available for 60 cents at Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
A Spencer Mass claimant recounts five years of eczema on her husband’s hands that itched burned and kept him from sleep. After trying various remedies she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment, washing with soap then applying ointment, and reports a cure in three weeks. Mrs. George Trudeau signs the notice dated Sept. 27, 1913, offering free samples and a 32-page Skin Book by mail.
The public schools under Superintendent Dyer join a city campaign to clean up Boston next week. Circulars urge principals to explain the effort, and children will collect litter and fruit scraps from streets, parks, and yards, placing waste in proper receptacles. A note closes with wedding news of the Lewis-Merrill couple among local college graduates.
Miss Alice Chesley Merrill of Wellesley daughter of Mrs Caro Merrill became the bride of George Wallace Lewis a Harvard graduate of 1910 in a ceremony held yesterday in Waltham.
Wallace J. Hutchins a master builder of S itchburg fainted in the United States District Court room yesterday while defending his own case in a damage suit brought by Henry Savilamps who was injured while in Hutchins employ.
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