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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1911
Page
9
Mayor Fitzgerald urged launching a campaign to build a freight tube under the harbor to speed freight between the two Boston terminals. He cited city traffic delays and said New Haven officials, despite a harbor tunnel rejection, hope to start such a tube soon.
Dr Vicente Santoni of Paris medical faculty in Ponce Puerto Rico endorses Peruna for catarrhal diseases noting excellent results. Testimonials from Dr Rafael Laurez Bruno and Dr Esteba Vidal y Rios credit Peruna with curing coughs lung congestion and catarrh. Patient Armando J Perez of Galiano 75 Cuba and Sylvester E Smith St Louis recount rapid recovery after Peruna use.
The schooner Annie Ainslie, once lost, reached port from the Potomac River after 36 days at sea. She faced gales and hurricanes, logging over 1800 miles though the voyage was only about 600 miles by air. The crew endured 50 hours awake as a violent hurricane struck near Sandy Hook on October 7.
About midnight on the hurricane second day a large wave ripped 400 railroad ties from the deck and scattered them overboard. Crew rushed to lashings as more ties belted down injuring two men, the captain narrowly avoiding being swept overboard. Three weeks at Delaware breakwater and final voyage to New York with 7100 ties bound for Quincy.
In New Orleans on October 31 farmers across the South agreed to withhold the remaining season’s cotton and to reduce next year’s acreage by at least 25 percent. They backed state controlled warehouses and regular statistics on world demand, while a 2,000,000 bale holding proposal by foreign bankers was sent to a special committee.
A fleet of 26 sail arrived at T wharf with 220,800 pounds haddock 107,000 cod 186,200 hake 46,000 pollock 24,300 cask 500 lemonsole. The Foam brought the lemonsole and several vessels carried cash cargo. Mettacomet brought fresh mackerel. Dealers posted prices for haddock cod hake pollock.
United States Marshal Jack Abernathy of Oklahoma welcomes his two sons Temple and Louis aged seven and eleven on their coast to coast horseback journey from New York to San Francisco in sixty two days. They ride from Vallejo and enter Golden Gate Park before riding into the Pacific. A misstep at Kelton Utah cost them a ten thousand dollar prize bid.
A Boston Post reader notice promotes Radizene as a claim filled remedy for baldness, premature gray hair, and scalp issues. It touts rapid hair growth, color restoration, and easy use with no oil or coloring. Readers are urged to request free particulars and a $100,000 reward guarantee from the Radizene Laboratory in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
At a Boston Art Club reception the Massachusetts Society of Examining Physicians and others denounced the Workingmen's Compensation Act. Leaders from law, insurance, and business warned the law would raise taxes, favor unions, and drive business from the state, with one contractor offering cautious praise.
The final meeting of the Men and Religion Movement gathered about 900 church representatives at First Presbyterian Church. Speakers J Campbell White, W T Stackhouse, and Colonel E W Halford outlined a simultaneous mission drive to fund thousands of missionaries abroad, with January kickoff and church committees to organize locally. Advertising was urged as a key strategy.
Randolph Baptist Church calls Rev Alexander Blackburn of South Boston to become pastor, replacing Elmer E Williams of West Roxbury. Blackburn, famed Baptist leader and G A R member, has led Cambridge Lowell and Salem First Churches. Parishioners note his statewide prominence.
An old unoccupied house on the Haley estate at Kenrick street Newton burned to the ground last night. The loss is estimated over 2006. Locals report the haunted house drew thousands from Boston and Newton as flames lit the hilltop near the Brighton line.
Brewer-Macaulay Company cloaks and suits at 158 Tremont Street was petitioned into bankruptcy by creditors on September 2. Schedules filed in the U S District Court show total debts of 27 174 dollars, with 25 603 unsecured. Assets total 3 038 dollars, including 2 438 cash.
Residents of Reservoir court at 1862-1870 Beavey Street protest ash and garbage pickup policy. The building sits partly in Brookline and partly in Brighton, causing the Brookline crew to refuse ash collection while Brighton crews pick up only weekly. Garbage service faces similar cross boundary tensions as management plans an incinerator.
John J. Conroy, 27, of 192 Falcon Street East Boston was instantly killed in an elevator near Crawford House. The upper portion of his head was severed as the car descended to the third floor and the body was crushed against the wall before the car could be stopped.
An old advertisement promises relief for bilious headaches and stomach liver and intestinal disorders with Cascarets. It claims a 10 cent box keeps the family feeling well for months and that children like the taste and it never gripes.
A fragmented item lists steamers including British Monarch Br Patterson Sourabiya Samarang and routes via Colombo Delaware Breakwater Eastport Portland Ontario Hatch Norfolk Penobscot New Port News Everett Giles Baltimore Belfast Otis Bangor Bay State Strout Portland City of Gloucester Linneken Gloucester tugs and related navigational points.
Coupon offers free information on Radizene a hair growth discovery including restoring color and solving scalp issues. Mail this Boston Post offer to Radizene Laboratory Dept 109 Scranton Pa for one free information packet valid for one week.
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