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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1916
Page
6
An advertisement touts Creme L'Ame as the only beauty cream in America guaranteed free of petroleum and glycerine. It claims to prevent hair growth and wrinkles, promote a velvety complexion, and offer a $1000 reward to anyone proving it contains harmful ingredients. Sold by Liggett-Riker- Jaynes and others for 25c.
Jeremiah S. Mahoney of 8 Bremen Street East Boston shouted oaths at Sgt. Charles J. Wallace on leaving the courthouse. In East Boston Court Judge Joseph H. Barnes fined him $20. Mahoney paid.
W R Balch of the Boston Transcript addressed the Traffic Club of New England at Copley Plaza last night. He dismissed Munsterberg and others as banking on a Russia Germany peace and asserted Russia would fight to the finish with the Allies. He claimed Germany planned to fight every nation and cited prewar war preparations and documents predicting the 1914 declaration.
An advertisement urges avoidance of excess and promotes Johann Hoff's Malt Extract with meals as a remedy for stressed nerves insomnia and digestive upset. It claims benefits for dyspeptics and anaemic women and markets the product as a builder of the body.
A truck driven by John Fisher ran wild on Main Street Charlestown injuring two men, William Sullivan and William Butler, and smashing a plate glass window near 180 Main Street. The vehicle, owned by Morry & Co of Boston, damaged a car and wheel before hitting the window and injuring the pedestrians. They were taken to Haymarket Relief Hospital.
Twelve year old Warren Campbell of 1% Shirley street Roxbury was struck by a car while playing on the street in front of his home. He suffered a probable skull fracture and is listed in danger at City Hospital. The vehicle owner driver Howard Hayward of 24 Potosi street Dorchester rushed him to the hospital.
Reports from Charlestown navy yard say Captain F. L. Beach will become commandant after Captain William B. Rush retires after 41 years. Rumors tied other captains to the post though Rush will stay on until a successor is chosen. Beach, nearing end of sea duty, previously headed the yard's steam engineering department.
William Herbert Cummings died in this city on November 15, beloved husband of Matilda Summings nee Jones. Funeral from his residence 1518 Washington Street Thursday November 16 with time to be announced. Late member of Boston Lodge BPOE No. 10 and Charitable Irish Society.
Boston Work Horse Relief Association directors vote to create a drivers school and a horse shoers school with farmer cooperation. Summer report shows 129,239 horses watered and 36,20 showered at five water stations. Ashton Lawrence Free Hospital treated 92 horses, average daily load 11, with no charges to owners. The hospital serves horses owned by poor men and needs funds.
The Eighth Regiment National Guard of Massachusetts will begin mustering out this Friday and expect about a week to complete. Officers from the Department of the East may be sent if needed, with the Ninth Regiment to be mustered out after the Eighth. Mustering for the Dandy Fifth started last Thursday and will finish tomorrow, as Companies C F I and the machine gun company complete the return to civilian life.
Mayor Curley sent a notice to the Finance Commission stating no change will be made to the specifications for the $800 000 strandway and Old Harbor improvements in South Boston. The commission had recommended splitting the work into two contracts for dredging and strandway construction. The Mayor says he will push to award the contract as planned.
Indications point to the Deutschland leaving for Bremen after 25 tons of fuel oil were added bringing total supply to 1% tons. The submarine, partly provisioned, awaits dusk to depart and will reportedly not take a pilot aboard. Captain Koenig visited the base while James L. McGovern discussed with Eastern Forwarding officials.
An unidentified woman about 26 died at City Hospital from injuries after being hit by a car near 612 Commonwealth avenue. Operator Charles C. Moore of 38 Maitland Street was arrested on a technical charge of manslaughter. The victim was described as 4 feet 0 inches tall, 110 pounds, with dark features and a brown outfit.
Frederick Whitney of Boston at the Hotel Arlington rushed to aid his wife after alighting a surface car at Twenty third Street and Sixth Avenue. The 29 year old woman fell into his arms but the foot was crushed beneath the car, doctors at New York Hospital report the toes amputated and the rest of the foot badly injured requiring further amputation.
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