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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1912
Page
10
Nearly 300 sole leather workers from eight Lynn shoe factories walked out to demand higher pay. They seek a flat weekly scale of 22 for cutters 21 for sorters and 16 50 for stripers plus a nine hour day five days a week with a half holiday Saturday replacing the current ten hour day and half Saturday.
A 19th or early 20th century home remedy prescribes mixing glycerine virgin oil of pine and whiskey to treat coughs. The instruction says give a teaspoonful every four hours with instant relief and rapid expulsion of the cold. It notes keeping a supply in the medicine cabinet and warns to insist on sealed half-ounce vials labeled The Leach Chemical Co. Cincinnati.
Berlin Nov 21 A St Petersburg correspondent reports the Russian imperial crown prince suffers from tuberculosis of the hip joint and hemophilia, excluding any hope of complete restoration to health, citing an authentic source.
A bridge from Cambridge over the Charles River at Western avenue to the Harvard stadium, funded by Larz Anderson, is slated for completion by the start of the next football season. Construction begins immediately.
Captain Frank Neal of the Fortuna battles a porpoise that leaps aboard while he eats pie in the South Channel. The animal is killed when Neal leaps onto it, drawing attention at the wharf as residents hear the tale of the unlikely capture.
The National Grange voted down a 10 million dollar Brauer plan for direct cooperative marketing of farm products. It endorsed state and national bureaus of information to inform subordinate granges on marketing conditions and supported a Senate bill for a bureau of markets in the Department of Agriculture.
The advertisement asserts that after the first dose of Pape's Cold Compound the cold begins to break within hours and that taking three doses every two hours will cure Grippe. It promises rapid relief from headache nasal congestion feverishness sneezing sore throat and rheumatic pains with a 25 cent package available from any druggist.
John H. Trainor pleaded guilty to assault with intent to kill for the Sept. 3 shooting of Gertrude M. Jordan in Albion. He received a prison term of five to seven years at Charles Town, amid details of a troubled relationship and prior drug and alcohol use.
Miss Alice Grady told Burdett College students life insurance through savings banks saves Massachusetts workers about 44 percent on old industrial insurance. In five years, savings bank insurance saved the working man over four million dollars. Massachusetts has four savings banks issuing policies with 18 state agents, holdings totaling two million for seven thousand policy holders. New York Rhode Island California and Pennsylvania plan similar programs.
Mrs. Aime Givins once of Detroit and ex wife of Robert S. Givins wed a man in Crown Point Indiana believing him to be a Kirkman son. The groom claimed the name Edward E Kirkman but no such Kirkmans exist. servants say he is William Boehm, the Kirkman chauffeur. Detectives hunt Boehm who fled to Danville Illinois
Mrs. Kitty S. Newell of North Weymouth sues Frank A. Newell for divorce and alimony on desertion and non-support. She says he left April 2, 1908, and has not contacted her since. A letter to the editor criticizes Boston and Maine rail service amid fare delays and mismanagement.
The body of 50 year old Mrs Maria J Fleming of 681 Greenwood St New York was identified by Nellie Donahue of Revere as the woman who died by walking into the ocean at Revere Beach last Tuesday. Fleming had been staying with Donahue and recently discharged from Bellevue Hospital. She left the house without explanation.
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