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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1913
Page
7
John E. Wilkie chief of customs agents will become assistant to Henry A. Blair chairman of the Board of the Chicago Railways Company. He will start duties next month after Secretary McAdoo accepted his resignation.
The upcoming Sunday Post previews an article set with a Rose Luncheon planning guide and illustrations. It also promises tips on Mother’s Flower Garden and cleaning lace, plus additional features.
An article touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a mild alternative to harsh laxatives for aging adults. It claims the tablets ease constipation without pain or griping and advises mixing with olive oil for bowel comfort.
David E. Gelin the shoe salesman seeking a divorce from Grace Gelin due to cruel and abusive treatment was recalled in Divorce Court yesterday. He testified his commissions on sales totaled only 40 to 50 dollars a year in addition to a twenty dollar weekly salary.
Mrs Eller Carlisle Ripley assistant superintendent of Boston schools praised local teachers during the final session of the National Congress of Mothers and Parent Teachers Associations at the Copley Plaza. She called Boston teachers superior to those in other cities and lauded women teachers nationwide as self sacrificing efficient conscientious and underpaid.
The dying Pauline de Beaumont is described as the most pathetic figure in the French Revolution era romance. Chateaubriand, aged 32 and famed as The Enchanter, fell for her before her death from consumption. Delphine de Custine’s beauty drew his attention, yet he urged her to Rome and abandoned Pauline, who died in desolation. His farewell letter vows silence and spiritual focus. Next in this series Keats Love Letters.
Mrs. Orville T. Bright of Chicago urged teachers to take a strong stand against immodest dress and to promote simpler styles. The final congress meeting drew over 1000 women, with Boston Teachers Glee Club music. President Mrs. Frederic Schoff warned about the Wardrobe Child in School and the criminalization risk.
Mrs A Biggam of Kansas City Missouri shares a home hair treatment that darkens gray hair and stimulates growth. Mix one half pint water with one ounce bay rum one box Barbo Compound and one ounce glycerine. Apply every other day then every two weeks for best effect. It reportedly relieves scalp troubles and dandruff without staining or greasiness.
Mrs Walter Leroy Smith of Malden credits the Parent Teachers' Association movement for laws aiding widows pensions and notes only New Hampshire and Maine lack a National Congress branch. An auto party will depart Boston for Laconia to urge Granite State branches with national and Massachusetts officers aboard.
Tokio professor Masaharu Anesaki of the College of Literature at Imperial University was named Harvard's first lecturer on Japanese life and literature in a May announcement from Tokyo.
Newport Rhode Island May 21 Arrangements were made at a large Progressive mass meeting for a two day party gathering on July 2 and 3 8 Former President Theodore Roosevelt former Senator Albert Beveridge Jane Addams Joseph Walker and other party figures were expected to speak Roosevelt likely to discuss naval matters.
The Concord Civic League asks visitors to keep the town tidy by using barrels for lunch trash or taking it home. They urge residents to curb littering in streets and parks to maintain a pleasant town for visitors, dated May 21 1913.
The American House crowd of over 1200 packed the venue for a Lincoln Club smoker. Speeches by Speaker Grafton Cushing and his delegation fired up the audience with cheer and encouragement.
A large crowd filled the American House as Republicans celebrated renewed victories with Speaker Cush ing inviting ex President Taft who declined due to engagements. Channing Cox outlined legislative aims including investigations into white slave traffic and reclaiming wet lands by convict labor. Calvin Coolidge spoke on railroad control. Attorney General Swift received a warm welcome. Charles Groves to retire as executive secretary received a silver chest from the committee.
Pilgrim Publicity Association prepares for the ninth annual convention of the Associated Advertising Clubs of America in Baltimore June 8 to 18. The group will use a Merchants and Miners steamer sailing from Boston June 4 to Newport News and Baltimore.
Charles M Schwab testified at a government hearing on dissolving the United States Steel Corporation. He argued that due to its 75 percent of US ore reserves in 1901 no equal competitor could be formed, supporting the claim that the Steel Corporation was a monopoly.
Mr Schwab testified that ores might be imported from abroad and that a United States Steel organization could form if located in the East. He named J P Morgan Co Rockefeller Standard Oil Carnegie interests and the Moore group as dominant financial forces. He defended the corporation against claims it formed to curb competition and discussed Bethlehem Steel’s role in rail production and transportation advantages.
Albert Freeman, convicted with Julian Hawthor and others of using the mails to defraud investors, was released on $150,000 bail this afternoon pending appeal. He faces a five year sentence and has been in jail since his conviction on March 14.
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