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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1915
Page
9
New York reports Professor A. G. Webster of Clark University is in the center of a fog terror scare with officials investigating his role amid rising public concern during a stormy period.
Catarrh is a constitutional disease needing a constitutional treatment. Parmint Double Strength is recommended with hot water and sugar to relieve head noises and nasal blockage. The remedy is easy to prepare, tastes pleasant, costs little, and offers a potential tonic effect for weak blood.
Worcester Massachusetts scientist describes a perfected instrument to determine fog signal direction. Professor Webster reports progress on standardizing fog horn sounds and a receiver capable of catching signals, aiming to reduce sea travel dangers.
A proposed standard fog signal uses a tuning fork and resonator with current driven hum. Receivers employ paired conical horns to catch the signal, with a glass indicator showing signal direction. Previously mariners could not discern direction within 45 degrees. The article notes a disaster near the Can coast.
In a discussion from about two years ago, the speaker cited pilot error in fog as the cause of a deadly collision. Professor Webster argued that a steering instrument, such as a receiver, would have guided the pilots correctly, potentially preventing the loss of 1200 lives.
Professor Eleanor Wood of Wellesley told the New England Woman's Press Association at the Somerset Hotel that kings no longer rule nations the press does as the voice of the people. The talk marked the association's 30th anniversary with several hundred attendees and included speakers from Simmons Tufts Massachusetts Normal Art School and Boston University.
Silas Lapham and his wife Persis confront a web of romance and social ambition in Boston. Corey’s proposal to Penelope tests family loyalties as the Laphams seek guidance from minister Sewell on how to handle Irene, Penelope, and the looming new Beacon Street house.
A Dresden cable reports the death of famed piano teacher Theodore Leschetizky aged 85. He trained star pianists including Paderewski and notable pupils such as Mme Hassiport Hangbours Gabrilowitsch Mme Bloomfield Zeisig Ignaz Friedmann Arthur Senabel and Katherine Goodsoi.
The Poets' Club of Harvard will host its first meeting this afternoon at the Harvard Union. Robert Frost author of North of Boston and A Further Range will be the guest of the student poets. He will read selections from his own poems.
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