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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1913
Page
8
Chicago interview reveals Blanche Rose describes a home blend to darken gray hair and promote growth. The recipe uses bay rum water Barbo Compound and glycerine, applied twice weekly for a younger look and healthier scalp.
An advertisement urges readers to take Dr Edwards Olive Tablets to cleanse blood liver and bowels. It claims pimples vanish after nightly use and contrasts Olive Tablets with calomel as gentle effective and non irritating. Priced 10c and 25c per box from The Olive Tablet Company Columbus Ohio.
The Grand Lodge of the Knights of Pythias of Massachusetts met at Ford Hall for the 44th annual session. About 300 delegates from 176 lodges elected officers including Grand Chancellor Ralph R. Ellingwood Revere and Grand Vice-Chancellor George S. Harrington Taunton.
John T. Coullihan, 29, of 603 Shawmut Avenue, is at City Hospital with a fractured skull. He was found at the Oak and Washington streets corner yesterday afternoon after a fall.
The board of editors selects undergraduates Samuel A. Peters of Watertown Henry Jackson Jr of Boston and William C. Sanger Jr of Sangerfield New York as regular editors for the Harvard Advocate.
Speaker Cushing defending Governor Foss veto policies addressed the House. He warned Republicans against expanding the pension list for court officers and other attendants in Suffolk county courts.
Sullivan of Boston defends a bill for a 70 year old court officer. Kinney moves to delay a week to tailor the measure to the beneficiary. Speaker Cushing urges reference to a special committee. He notes governors have vetoed similar bills and says public opinion may respond.
The blue sky bill moves to seal securities sales with a licensing requirement for dealers and access to promoter records. The commissioner of corporations can prohibit sales and impose a $1000 fine for violations.
The Post's comic section hints at a playful tale about Hank the Hermit deceiving camera men with his animal companions. Readers are teased with a humorous set piece for the next Sunday edition.
Republican House and Senate members met after adjournment to set up a legislative committee to campaign for a Republican majority next year. An amendment allowed the executive committee to add members from inside or outside the current Legislature. Channing Cox urged independence from the state committee while White of Newton argued the plan would bypass machine rule.
The Senate defeated a bill to appropriate 10 000 for a free home for consumptives by 19 to 10 after noon votes. Supporters named Bagley Brennan Draper Fitzgerald Halley Joyce Mack McGonagle Timilty Williams. Opponents included Bazeley Bellamy Chase Clark Coolidge Eldridge Fay Fisher Garst Gordon Hersey Hobbs McLane Norwood Quigley Stearns Ward Wells Wheeler. Paired votes and debates cited sectarianism as a point of contention.
The Senate sustained Governor Foss in his veto of a bill granting civil engineers 10 years eligibility on the civil service list. The vote was four to 50 with Allen Halley Joyce and Timilty among the senators voting to pass. the measure failed to override.
Arthur Lipman a 22 year old credit salesman for a Lynn firm committed suicide in his Hotel Winthrop room by drinking carbolic acid. Despondency from business troubles is cited as the motive. Miss Mary Whalen a maid found his body two hours later.
Washington May 7 Viscount Chinda Japanese ambassador will be first Bryan visitor in Washington from Sacramento. It is thought he will seek from the secretary an outline of administration plans after Governor Johnson signs the California alien land bill.
The article notes Mr. Bryan will report to President Wilson on his California mission and may postpone his conference with Viscount Chinda. A new treaty to replace the 1911 convention is suggested to avoid a Japanese protest by removing discrimination grounds, though it could harm American missionary and business interests with property in Japan under the surefices law.
Some administration lawyers argue that if California law is challenged the case should rest on general international law rather than the treaty. They contend no treaty specifies all rights an alien may enjoy and that violating a right common to civilized peoples counts as discrimination akin to treaty breach.
In Vienna Georgia on May 7 a gunfight left two men dead and a third gravely wounded. Oscar Blow fought neighbor P P Sangster in a revolver duel, Sangster was killed. Sheriff Bennett pursued Blow, Blow shot the officer, the sheriff returned fire and killed Blow.
A vintage ad extols GETS-IT as the sole enemy of corns offering quick action in two seconds. It claims no pain, no skin damage, and immediate relief, with warts and bunions also disappearing. Sold by E Lawrence & Co Chicago for 25 cents and by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores Boston.
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