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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1908
Page
9
An advertisement extols Mapl Flake as the superior whole wheat product. It claims steam cooking for six hours and four hundred degree toasting to create a fully digested, non fermenting cereal with maple syrup flavor. The copy urges mothers to choose Mapl Flake for children and notes shelf availability in hotels cafes and dining cars.
Charlotte Grosvenor, a Boston product trained under Mrs Avonia Bonney Lichfield, debuts in New York as Violette Valery in La Tra viata with Nordi opera company at the West End Theatre. If she proves herself in arduous roles Hammerstein may enroll her at the Manhattan Opera House.
The Shepard Norwell Company offers a record sale on the entire stock from Shapiro of Washington Street Boston. About 25 000 yards of coats suits dresses fabrics and trimmings from a fire damaged warehouse will be sold at 50 cents on the dollar and more about the lowest prices ever seen. Early buyers will have the best selection in this great value giving sale managed as a profit sharing benefit for customers.
In Chelsea at 1521-2 Broadway a Hebrew cigar store operator and his family were evicted after notice from the owner. A crowd grew distressed as a police officer intervened while two wagons moved the stock and furniture to a Chelsea storage warehouse, the process taking about thirty minutes.
New England farmers unhappy with last season's tobacco prices plan to quit tobacco and expand corn cultivation. In Marblehead Henry Ki Caswell died at 74 after heart disease while walking on Waldron street. Yale announces next fall women janitors will oversee dormitories and student rooms.
Fifty heavyweight automobiles of all classes departed Paris on May 6 for a month long tour of France. They engage in an industrial competition across the country.
Charles Dexter Tuttle, custodian of the Old Colony Trust Company safe deposit vaults, receives greetings on the 70th birthday anniversary.
The colonel, a Concord native, is a Civil War veteran who served three years with the army of the Potomac and took part in major battles. Despite being well past seventy, he appears twenty years younger, and friends hope he will continue to greet them for years to come.
The Gordon School class will visit Clarendon Street Baptist Church to hear Rev. Dr. William C. Minifie deliver the baccalaureate sermon. Evening service features Rev. Dr. McElwain. Stereopticon service paused then resumes next Sunday. Rev. Charles Page seeks book form for Men and Marriage talks. Chelsea sufferers fund at New England Methodist Conference nears $4700 pledged with about 40 percent more expected.
A large crowd is expected tonight at Tremont Street Methodist Church for the New England Bible School and Deaconess Hospital commencement exercises. Rev. Jucius H. Bugbee of St Mark's Brookline will deliver the address titled The Mediatorship of the Christ.
One of the beauties in the chorus of Richard Carle's Marys Lamb is a selected group of featured performers. Carle expects a long summer run in New York and has chosen his coterie of bright talents for the production.
A prepossessing young woman, Miss Rita Stanwood, stands out as a Sample with a striking beauty that contrasts with others who are also attractive. Stanwood has made a positive hit with the audience.
Chadwick, a Tremont and Suffolk mills official and notable state figure, wore Lowell’s first straw hat of the season on Merrimack street. Major Garrity, who held the honor last year, conceded Chadwick’s lead, then bought a Panama hat to chase him downtown.
A historic cosmetic formula outlines a rose tinted complexion lotion using two ounces Rose Water one ounce Spirits of Cologne four ounces Sartain dissolved in hot water then cooled and strained. Apply after washing to small skin portions with bare hands twice daily without other lotions or powders.
Monday preview hints at the greatest sale by the enterprising house with massive crowds. Basement offers below cost shoes for women and children, bedding and linen in domestic department, waists and undergarments on the street floor, and below-cost gloves and hosiery. Second floor features the famed millinery, while third floor expands suit and skirt sections with baby bonnets and coats.
A month long sale offers dresses for children up to five years with new lots added periodically. Legal Stamps are given on every purchase.
The international tele graphic conference began in Lisbon. Belgium will propose a major change to word counting, abolishing current distinctions between plain, conventional and code language and substituting a uniform five letter or five digit word.
In Frankfort Kentucky on May 5 night riders set fire to a tobacco warehouse owned by James Stockden about four miles from Governor Wilson’s home. Soldiers guarding the area witnessed the blaze as it occurred.
At the opening of the Men’s Church in Atlantic City the Rev. Sydney Goodman preached from the pulpit while smoking, witnessed by a congregation of about 200 men who smoked pipes and cigars during the sermon.
An explosion of chemicals at the Lexon Flashlight Manufacturing Company near Ardmore Pennsylvania damaged the plant. Albert Grubb was blown 80 yards and severely injured and nearly suffocated as the building burned.
Mrs. Wilder sues Rev. Alfred J. Wilder an Episcopalian minister for divorce claiming marriage vows were neglected and his love was only spiritual He is stationed at Dayton Florida with no defense yet alimony of eight dollars weekly and fifteen dollars for attorney fees awarded pending trial in Common Pleas Court Experts believe clergy law may compel a defense.
Uncle Dan Whipple aged 109, veteran of Fremont's exploring party and a companion of Kit Carson, died last night in Traverse City Michigan. He never married and remained true to the memory of a sweetheart killed by Indians before his eyes during the Civil War era.
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