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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1915
Page
11
An ad proclaims ethine double strength removes freckles without shame. Purchase an ounce at Riker Jaynes Drug Stores or any druggist and apply nightly and morning. Results claim lighter freckles vanish, and a full clear complexion follows. Money back guarantee if it fails.
The Boston City Council appropriations committee debated how the sewer department's 335000 annual spending should be budgeted. Representatives for the Finance Commission and the Mayor pressed competing formats including lump sum, 10 items, 14 items, segregated budget, or 27 items. The meeting adjourned to Monday at 11 o'clock.
A midday downpour drenched East Lexington and Arlington, flooding streets including Massachusetts Avenue opposite Sylvia Street where water reached about a foot. Traffic on the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway was briefly impeded. Lightning accompanied the storm but caused no reported damage.
London reports the Goliath torpedoed during a Dardanelles assault. Twenty officers and 160 men were saved, with fears of heavy losses as British and French ships faced mines and Turkish fire. Churchill confirmed the loss, noting a torpedo attack by destroyers near the Straits.
Yaqui Indians attack a colony of 65 Americans near Piperanza south of Guaymas. Three Americans killed John Wilson W A Fay and William Stocker with J J Donovan missing. Governor Jose Maytorena orders 500 troops to Guaymas to aid refugees amid widespread looting and violence.
Charles Jones, who traveled the world from 1878 to 1913 and was later declared dead by a Norfolk county Probate Court, challenges the ruling in the Supreme Judicial Court. The case questions whether he did enough to notify relatives and trustees of his actual status, with Judge Braley reporting to the full bench for decision.
The Medical Record notes a Dr John F Russell article arguing lime starvation as a cause of pulmonary tuberculosis and promotes Eckman’s Alterative for TB and bronchial troubles. It claims lime salts aid cell food, cites Riker Drug Stores and Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia as sources.
In a Commons statement, Winston Churchill says the British battleship Goliath has been torpedoed in the Dardanelles and that up to 500 lives may be lost. He adds the submarine B-14 penetrated the straits, sinking two Turkish gunboats and a transport.
The Goliath was a pre dreadnought British battleship built in 1898 with a crew of 750. It measured 400 feet on the waterline, 74 feet beam, and displaced 12,950 tons. Armament included four 12 inch and twelve 6 inch guns, twelve 12 pounders, six 8 pounders, two machine guns, and four torpedo tubes.
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