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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1910
Page
6
Navy officials in Washington test the possibility of airships landing on warships. Ely’s flight from the Birmingham deck convinces officials the airship may play a role in future naval warfare.
Officers of the navy see airship use mainly for scout duty in war. Debates cover landing methods with nets to protect the craft from turrets, or equipping machines with pontoons to descend beside the vessel in the water.
An offer promotes a new asthma cure tested at the sender's expense. It targets long standing and recent cases and promises relief at home with no costs. The notice urges recipients to write or mail in immediately and emphasizes no payment required.
Lillian M Eddington an English girl was arraigned in the Superior Criminal Court on forgery charges involving two $15 checks forged in May. She had been released last May to return to England but reportedly came back later and faced trial again with Julian de Czysxkowski awaiting similar charges for uttering forged checks.
In the Superior Civil Court, East Cambridge, jurors returned verdicts totaling 6400, 700 and 500 for plaintiffs John Burke, John Donee and Luigi Perone, all of Waltham, against McArthur Brothers and Hodge Kerr and Company. Burke won 2700 from each defendant, Donee 350 from each, and Perone 250 from each for injuries when a cellar under construction collapsed on May 26, 1909.
Mrs. W. E. Mellen and her son Wils of Brookline missed the Zeeland sailing to Liverpool yesterday morning after a rapid cab ride to the pier. The ship had already cleared the channel just after 9 o'clock. trunks were aboard in stateroom No. 10. With no tug fast enough to overtake, they switched to the slower Bohemian departing today for Liverpool.
The will of Miss Carrie P. Underwood filed in St Johnsbury VT directs over 100000 in gifts to Universalist groups and institutions. Twenty thousand goes to the Universalist General Convention, 10000 to the State convention for church work, 10000 to the publishing house, 5000 to Brightlock Hospital for a nurses home, and 10000 to Vermont state aid for libraries. residuary bequest to Home for Destitute Children in Burlington.
Henry Hunt’s fish trap at Duxbury flipped as four fishermen examined their catch. A 170 pound porpoise surfaced, fought the crew, and bit Peter Hudd saying finger. Harry Hunt, John Halligan and Edward Connors captured it. The porpoise to be sold to a North Cambridge market and its hide used for shoe strings.
Mrs. Jennie Bonavita, attacked by Michael Romeo, remains alive though wounded after being shot twice in the back and once in the neck. Romeo, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot at Mercy Hospital, was an acquaintance of her family and reportedly acted after she refused to elope.
Grace Willa Patterson, a Rockland girl missing since September 6, was seen in Boston yesterday by a Rockland woman near Scollay Square on Tremont Street. Patterson, reportedly engaged to Pelham farmer George Worth, was bareheaded and accompanied by a young woman. the observer called out to her and asked her purpose, but Patterson replied she was all right.
Ralph W. Roseman of Roxbury, indicted this month for forging letters to clergymen seeking charitable aid, was yesterday sentenced to one year in the House of Correction.
An old newspaper note touts a home cold remedy credited to Dr. W. A. Leach. It mixes glycerine, virgin pine oil, and whiskey to fight colds and coughs, claiming overnight relief and easy home preparation.
An old article extolls Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as a safe, simple cure for catarrh of the stomach and indigestion. It describes symptoms such as bloating sour tastes and headaches, and cites a Chicago reader praising the remedy after years of other treatments. The text endorses Dia stase Aseptic Pepsin Nux Golden Seal and fruit acids in tablet form.
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