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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1910
Page
2
Cars on the Twentieth Century Limited between Boston Albany and Chicago will offer luxury features. A library stocked with current publications, barbers, manicurists and masseurs, ladies' maids and valets, stenographers and typewriters will be available. A buffet and smoker car will accompany these services.
A locally advertised sale features small women’s suits in sizes 32 to 36 and misses’ sizes 14 to 18. The assortment includes new suits in mixtures, mannish worsteds and serges offered at 25.00.
Many novelties in chiffon over silk waists. combinations with contrasting color trims. new styles feature bead trimming for stylish evening wear.
The item listing describes women's suits in dark navy and black diagonal or serge fabrics with satin lined skins and plain skirts. Prices range from 25.00 to 195.00 with coats from 43.00 to 100.00 and 65.00 in a midweight, semi fitting style.
Smart styles in rough materials for street and auto wear. Many imported mixtures, including the Vienna Rug Coats. Prices ranging from 47.90 to 105.00.
Obituary notices list Eliza McElroy of Roxbury and William S Messinger of Boston, both with funeral details. Other notices include Charles E Newhall of Melrose, William H Roome of Jamaica Plain, Ann M Tracy of Weymouth, and Mary A Whight of Newton Highlands with service times and burial plans.
In Whitinsville a bright young girl named Irene Redmond asks for her photo to show her sick mother in the hospital that she is as pretty as other babies in Massachusetts. She is the daughter of Mr and Mrs John Redmond.
Word from Charlestown navy yard says no cut in local work following Secretary Meyer visit. Although $300000 in naval expenditures was cut in other yards, Charlestown and Portsmouth yards will remain fully operational.
Work on the Panama Canal in October showed substantial advance in excavation concrete laying and filling over the prior month despite one fewer working day and two inches more rainfall that hindered operations.
A large crowd mobbed the Meyer and Simon stock at the Washington and Franklin corner sale. Police guarded the entrance as shoppers entered one by one. Everything offered sold at a 33 1-3 percent markdown, including coats and suits.
Atlanta hosts an aviation meet at the speedway grounds starting December 15 and continuing through December 17. The event draws pilots from the area to showcase aircraft and aerial displays.
Ira Aldrich of Holyoke Massachusetts testifies that Dr Kilmer Swamp Root relieved five years of rheumatism in limbs back and feet and constipation after trying many remedies. He says he has taken over a dozen bottles and calls it a God send and recommends it to friends. Justice of the Peace D J Hartnett verifies oath.
Letter requests a sample bottle from Dr Kilmer Co Binghamton NY to prove Swamp Root’s benefits for kidneys and bladder. Mentions Boston Daily Post and booklet of information. Indicates sale at drug stores for fifty cents to one dollar.
The Mutual Relief Association of the Houghton and Dutton Company will meet at Copley Hall next Thursday evening for a grand whist party and dance. Officers include E. Percy Davis president and Erving P. Morse vice president. Membership about 1600 with Waverly Orchestra providing music. Special features include serpentine and cyclone dances with electrical effects loaned by a firm.
Andrei Ipsen and Wassili Ivankowski, along with a third suspect, were arraigned in the Superior Criminal Court of Essex County at Salem for the June 25 Lynn killings of shoe manufacturer Thomas A. Landregan and policeman James H. Carroll. Chief Justice John Adams Aiken will preside. District Attorney Winfield Scott Peters leads the government’s case. J. P. S. Mahoney and William D. Chapple were appointed as Ipsen and Ivankowski’s attorneys.
Jury selection begins with 110 summonsed. 39 excused for opinions 7 for illness 22 challenged for Lynn residency 3 by the government. Ipsen aged 24 bears a scar from a fight. Ivankowski 18 arrived from Russia with a background in a technical school. The June 25 1910 murder at Landregan and Carroll, pursued by citizens, ended with one killer dead and Ipsen wounded captured Ivankowski imprisoned.
A council motion approved a loan of 40000 for laying out and extending Highland avenue in Ward 24. The street connects Neponset to Highland street, amid development after Hallet & Davis Piano Co factory was built there, attracting regional industrial growth.
Readers urged to identify the pictured trolley worker from Greater Boston. The editor offers a five dollar gold piece for the correct name and proof of identity at the Post office, with a full page of streetcar photos and $5 awards to be printed next Sunday.
Vinson McLean son of Edward McLean will have a large playroom on the third floor of a $14,000 expansion to The Briars in Bar Harbor Maine. The ground floor will house the dining room and a living room sits above.
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