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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1912
Page
3
Washington May 13 Senator Penrose of Pennsylvania Republican Senate leader was thrown from his horse when it stumbled in Rock Creek Park. His arm and shoulders were bruised with no serious injuries reported.
Notice posted in the George K. Baird division of the American Writing Paper mills in Lee today announced a ten percent advance in wages. About one hundred workers will benefit.
A tank wagon carrying oil ran away yesterday afternoon in Winchester. It spilled flaming liquid and exploded, driving horses through Swanton Street as the fire department pursued the dangerous runaway vehicle.
Agostino Levanzin a Maltese Italian lawyer yesterday ended a 31 day fast kept under scientific observation at the Carnegie Institute nutrition laboratory Vila street Roxbury. From April 13 until yesterday morning he abstained from all food with only water allowed then he took small portions of carbohydrates in his first nourishment.
Amos Parsons, driver of a tank wagon carrying street oil, was badly burned when an explosion blew him from the seat. The runaway horses, covered in burning oil, dashed through Swanton streets as the fire department pursued. The wagon collapsed after a pole broke and the team fled, but firefighters kept the blaze from spreading.
Levanzin completed a prolonged fast under Harvard Medical School supervision with no physical or mental decline. He maintained activity including walking and reading while readings tracked heart action and respiration as doctors monitored his state. The subject reported initial hunger but soon lost appetite and felt exhilarated with sharper thinking.
A White Star line message from the Oceanic says a collapsible boat from the Titanic was found May 13 about 200 miles from the wreck. It contains three bodies, a Thompson Beatty passenger, a sailor, a fireman, with a coat inscribed for Richard Williams, a ring engraved Edward and Gerda, and other items.
Emily Colson writes in Home Queen about a wash lotion and mercorized wax that allegedly absorb withered skin. nightly application reportedly smooths lines and restores youthful color in time for her chum's wedding. The anecdote highlights a homemade treatment involving saxolite and hazel in a half pint solution.
The Massachusetts Universalist Sunday School Association opened its sixth annual convention at Beacon Universalist Church Brookline with 00 delegates. The 53rd annual Massachusetts Universalist churches convention followed with morning devotional by Rev F W Perkins Brockton and multiple addresses by notable ministers and officers.
Bertram D. Blaisdell of Brookline was elected president of the Bank Officers' Association of the City of Boston at Ford Hall in an annual meeting attended by nearly a thousand. The retiring president L. D. Seaver declined another year. Unanimous selections followed for vice presidents Edwin A. Stone, Robert E. Hill, and others. Secretary Stone read the roll of honor listing 11 members who died in the past year, including Arthur W. Newell, president of the Fourth National Bank, who perished with the Titanic.
Otis W. Pierce a longtime Greater Boston club man died at his Melrose home. He served as secretary of the Massachusetts Inter-Club league and earned bowling championships in 1900 with the Melrose Athletic Club. He worked in wholesale boot and shoe business and leaves a wife and three children.
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