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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1911
Page
11
A North Cambridge man skipped polling to vote in 11 minutes before returning by 4 pm. An East Indian in Harvard Square drew curiosity with a vibrant silk handkerchief, described as aristocratic and colorful.
Teaches morning and night use to clean teeth and rinse mouth to keep breath delightfully fresh and mouth free from impurities. Sold by Geo. Borgfeldt & Co. in Chicago New York and San Francisco through druggists and department stores.
Poem extols a hearty appetite and cheerful labor as true wealth. A speaker contrasts dining vigor with wealth and fame, celebrating digestion and rustic toil over predigested meals. The piece is a 1911 copyright notice by George Matthew Adams.
A terse scene shows a man calmly tucking away an item in his pocket as onlookers react with mild curiosity, suggesting restrained tension and underlying public interest in the act.
The Knights of Columbus Brookline charity event awarded the most charming lady prize to Miss Lilian Fay by unanimous judge choice. Judges were William H. McManus John Horgan and Frank H. Power, with a basket of American Beauty roses as the prize.
A Pennsylvania penitentiary inmate named Jaeger allegedly tutored fellow convicts in safe breaking. After release they used his methods, giving rise to the term yeggmen as a coined nickname for professional safe crackers.
An elderly woman, avoiding Boston for 40 years, accepts a trip after pressure from her niece. She initially refuses elevated trains and electrics, but on Dudley street is led to an upper level waiting room that moves, prompting her exclamation about the moving room.
A late night Arlington car tale ends with a broke rider offering three two cent stamps as fare. Fire officials receive a 106 check for the relief fund. The Sullivan Square terminal gains new girders and loops soon increasing efficiency. A Wakefield football prospect, and a variety of local stories including a rubber coated Daniel Webster statue and a humorous restaurant fire prank are noted. A French relics collector in Boston owns Marie Antoinette table and Napoleon letters. A domestic scene shows a mother secretly returning a child after resolving family strain with reconciliation.
Attorney General George W. Wickersham replies to Secretary J. Frank Chase of the New England Watch and Ward Society about complaints that cigarette packs from American Tobacco Company included poker cards without revenue stamps. Chase notes a Massachusetts gambling law violation by a local dealer. Wickersham’s letter says the company discussed the packing with the internal revenue service and that the commissioner approved the practice.
Roads will escort the battleship Florida to Pensacola where the ship will receive a state silver gift. Visitors may board the Utah during its Charlestown yard stay. Revere Beach plans a new winter swimming pool near Eliot Circle, with opening expected around Christmas.
A short Italian woman balanced over 100 pounds of timber, more than 30 pieces, on her head as crowds paused in yesterday morning’s heavy rain. She pushed through the throng with remarkable strength, paying little heed to the burden.
In Police Court Judge Wentworth questions how to prove intoxication. An officer from West Pind station says the man smelled of alcohol so strong two officers needed to escort him from the patrol wagon to the station house. The judge remanded him to the House of Correction.
An old promotional note touts a quick rheumatism and back ache cure using Toris compound and rose saparilla in whiskey. It promises results on the first day and urges buyers to demand the original sealed yellow package from Globe Pharmaceutical of Chicago.
Charles A Mitchell aged 46 a newspaper man in Milwaukee committed death by own action at a hotel by drinking carbolic acid. The reason is not known. Mitchell had worked on several newspapers in the East and was in the city for several months.
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