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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1910
Page
11
New York reports Health Officer Chester H. Wells has ordered that powder puffs may no longer be used in Montclair barber shops as unsanitary. Barbers must apply talcum by other means and sponges are also barred.
The Lord Mayor and London corporation plan a luncheon at Guild Hall for American officers and men during the American fleet visit to the Thames. The city approved a $10,000 expenditure for the event, with the date to be set. A Mississippi battleship contingent arrived in London and toured the city by carriage and taxi.
The Rev. A. R. Williams pastor of Maverick Church in East Boston told a Park Street Church audience how he dressed as a laboring man to study the city. He described visiting the Boston Industrial Home and observing the facility without the superintendent’s knowledge, finding it commendable.
The Rev. Mr Williams described a field study of a local home for the needy, disguised as laborers to gauge its operations. He called the expedition a sociological spree and praised the home as well run, urging public support. City officials and other leaders lauded the home, while Governor elect Eugene N Foss arrived late unable to publicly endorse it.
Captain R. M. Faulkner, skipper of the Nova Scotia schooner Virginian, was lost overboard in Vineyard Sound near West Chop during a gale. The boom struck him as the crew jibed, he sank immediately, and his body was not recovered despite searches. He was 60, from Noel, Nova Scotia, leaving a wife and several children.
The Italian composer Giacomo Puccini arrived on the steamship George Washington with Henry Arthur Jones and Mme. Lilian Nordica. Puccini has been 18 months on The Girl of the Golden West and will assist in its initial production in New York and Chicago. Tito Ricordi accompanied him. Jones plans lectures at Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago.
Washington reports that ICC proceedings aim to reform sleeping car tolls with higher charges for upper berths than lower ones. A first federal move has already been ordered for routes including Chicago St Paul and St Paul Seattle, but sleeping car companies block enforcement by Judge Grosscup.
A whist party in aid of St. Anthony's Church of Revere was held last evening at the Putnam House on Revere Street. The event raised funds for parish needs and drew local residents as festive players and patrons.
Babbling Bess and By Harry Palmer Revere hosted a whist party with 150 residents enjoying prizes, a collation, singing and dancing. Proceeds support St Anthony’s Church expansion as Father Rivon urged financial success and discussed the current edifice and need for a larger church.
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