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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1916
Page
13
In New Haven 2500 Yale students gathered for a mass meeting to remember Thomas L. Shevlin former Yale football captain and coach who died last winter. When his name was spoken the students rose and gave the university cheer with nine Shevlin’s at the end.
Advertisement claims thin people can gain five to eight pounds in fourteen days by taking Sargol tablets with meals. It asserts the product mixes with food to convert eaten nutrients into fat producing nourishment, stops waste, and yields lasting weight, with a money back guarantee at local druggists.
Granville A. Fuller of 15 Sparhawk Street Brighton died after a brief illness. He headed the Boston fire department Brighton district and led Ladder 11. Fuller served in the Massachusetts House 1893 94 and was State Senator in 1895. He was a bank trustee and church deacon for six decades.
Boston Latin defeated Mechanic Arts 3 to 0 in a tight match at Fenway Park. Kennedy misfired a 22 yard shot over the bar in the final minutes.
Colonel J Payson Bradley former commander of the Massachusetts Department withdrew as candidate for commander in chief of the Grand Army at a National Post Officers Association dinner in Boston Parker House. He said it is unfair to invite encampments from across the United States to Boston and then seek support for a native son.
Leo Myers a reamer at the Fore River shipyard in Quincy was found semi conscious and hysterical near a ship under construction around 6:30 last night. At Quincy City Hospital doctors said he fell and struck the back of his head suffering a concussion and confused wounds. He is listed on the dangerous list.
More than 50 people attended a banquet honoring the return of B Company Eighth Regiment from the Mexican border. Addresses were delivered by Lieutenant-Governor Coolidge Major Chambers General Sweetser and Herbert P Wasgratt among others.
E P Tuttle of Boston told the Boston Retail Credit Men's Association at the Thorndike Hotel last night that business morality has risen. He said a Christian era has arrived with live and let live as the motto and that competitors are no longer enemies. The golden rule guides dealings as public demands crystallize.
Boston hotel managers meeting at the Thorndike discussed New Year's Eve falling on a Sunday this year and voted to hold New Year celebrations in all hotels on Monday night January 1, instead of the night before.
In a loosely played match on a snow covered field at Durham New Hampshire College freshmen defeated the sophomores 12 to 0.
Dr. Elliott D. Robbins indicted yesterday by the grand jury for unlawfully prescribing and selling narcotic drugs was arrested in the courthouse corridor on a warrant by Sergeant Kneeland of Back Bay police. He pleaded not guilty at arraignment before Judge White and posted $1000 bail. Trial set to begin today in the Superior Criminal Court.
Police raid of Dr. Lemuel S. Noble's Boston offices at midnight found 25 people awaiting drugs. Dr. Robbins allegedly sold 86 grains of morphine sulphate to a habitual user. The sweep, led by Special Officers Flaherty and Harvey, targets illegal narcotics as District Attorney Pelletier urges prosecutions and potential professional sanctions.
Democratic leaders in San Francisco forecast the statewide electoral result, predicting the lowest Democrat elector will ball ahead of the highest Republican by about 600 votes as county clerks’ returns grow. Small counties show Wilson majorities, while large counties’ totals are still incomplete.
Representative Kenneth P. Hill Republican won in the third Middlesex district after a recount. Original tally listed Dr. John P. Good Democrat ahead by 2750 to 2748. final counts show Hill 278 and Good 2750.
Charles Edward Cheney bishop of the Chicago Sayod Reformed Episcopal Church died at his home in Chicago in his 81st year after founding the church and serving 56 years as rector of Christ Church Chicago.
The advert praises Mentho-Laxene, a concentrated home mix for cold and cough relief from Blackburn Products Co. It coats a full pint with granulated sugar syrup or taken as ten drops. claims rapid relief for head and chest colds in all ages. Guarantee money back, sold by well stocked druggists in Dayton, Ohio.
The funeral for Dr Percival Lowell founder and director of the Lowell Observatory and renowned astronomer will be held Sunday. The body will be placed in a mausoleum on Mars Hill before the 14 inch telescope where he made many planetary discoveries.
In Springfield four fires occurred in under two hours with two incendiary and two suspicious fires plus four false alarms. A man on a bicycle was seen fleeing one fire while police, lacking details, searched the city. The Trinity Methodist Church blaze was the most serious.
Damage estimated at 1000 dollars from the incident while the fire department answered other calls. False alarms were rung in during the response, delaying action and diverting resources.
Police Commissioner Stephen O Meara is confined to his home with a severe cold and has not been at headquarters for about a week. Anxious inquiries surround his condition as Acting Commissioner Superintendent Michael H. Crowley handles duties.
Benny Leonard of New York defeats Johnny Dundee in a six round match in Philadelphia by decision. Leonard showed superior ring generalship and won four of the six rounds, with weights 136 pounds for Leonard and 132 1/2 pounds for Dundee.
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