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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
17
A war veteran and dealer in near currency and luxury Uncle Sam notes drew attention for admitting lavish wealth from phony money schemes. Texans who became oil millionaires pale beside Hermans and his extravagant proposals amid high living costs.
Reader asks whether Genuine Aspirin references Bayer and if Bayer is the true maker of aspirin. The note clarifies brand origin and manufacturer history without marketing or promotional claims.
Bayer tablets of aspirin are sold in a Bayer package with directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. Bayer is the genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents. Aspirin is a trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacet ic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
A Federal building scene describes a steel magnate who allegedly called someone and slipped a few notes to ensure he remained remembered by those he knew. The fragment hints at payments but provides no concrete names, dates, or places.
A Belgian engraver fell into a Secret Service dragnet after notes reached agents. Harry Barker and John McGrath led the pursuit in New England. The man pled guilty to possessing and passing counterfeit money, held on $10,000 bail with $12,000 in bids. He claimed no involvement in making the bills and retained William H. Lewis as counsel.
Charlotte N C May 26 The general assembly of the Southern Presbyterian Church after all day debate votes 137 to 103 to remain in the Interchurch World Movement, rejecting withdrawal.
The trial of Mrs. Anna Tomaszkiewicz of South Hadley neared the end of its defense as she testified for herself. Three witnesses said she was not of sound mind, with psychiatrists detailing possible dementia and mental instability amid their assessments. The jury will hear further arguments as both sides rest their case.
Mrs Tomaszkiewicz cried while recounting multiple husbands as an interpreter aided her English account. When asked if she poisoned Andrew Tomaszkiewicz, she firmly replied Never in my life, the defendant stated.
Samuel Siden of Winthrop and Barnett H. Burley of 975 Tremont Street Roxbury were fined $20 each in Roxbury court yesterday by Judge Hayden for gambling at a Fenway Park baseball game Tuesday. They appealed and were held in $400 bonds.
Guy E. Whippie 26 died at his home 17 Indiana Avenue Somerville three days after marrying Marion H Janvrin also of Somerville Funeral services are set for tomorrow afternoon at the First Congregational Church with Rev S C Lang officiating Whippie served two years overseas in the Quartermaster Department and after returning to private life worked in a brokerage office His mother lives on Gilman Street Somerville
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