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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1911
Page
9
Sealer of Weights Charles B. Woolley and inspectors surveyed downtown meat markets and found Boston merchants generally honest with Thanksgiving goods. A few using inaccurate scales were warned to test their scales immediately, while one Blackstone dealer trimmed birds before weighing.
Prominent Brookline and Back Bay social figures Julia H. Raymond and Emmons Raymond appear on the list for the Norfolk Superior Court divorce session opening Monday. The libel was filed by Mrs. Raymond’s lawyer Joseph K. Hayes Jr and kept in the county clerk’s safe, delaying public knowledge. The couple, married eight years, once lived at 1463 Beacon Street Brookline with a daughter. Mrs. Raymond has reportedly stayed at the Vendome after leaving the Beacon Street home.
Letters from readers praise Peruna for catarrh relief and weight gain after several months of use. Testimonies claim long-standing nasal catarrh disappeared after a Peruna course, with multiple individuals naming towns such as Bogalusa Louisiana Sherman South Dakota Detroit Michigan and dates in late February and February. The ads emphasize Peruna as a great medicine and urge trial to convince skeptics.
Two West End sisters aged three and 14 months have lived on bread and water for ten days in an attic at 29 Pitts Street. Their widowed mother Catherine Lena toils in a sweatshop for 40 cents daily and has struggled to feed and clothe them. Neighbors and a donor named Mrs. Rho of 8 Halestret provide aid as the family faces a bitter poverty crisis. Marienne the younger, despite hunger, has not cried, while Josephine acts as caretaker for her sister.
Salem New Hampshire expects an extremely large crowd for a gymkhana athletic meet and military field day at Rockingham Park on Thanksgiving Day. James F. Kerr directs events with officials including Chief Judge B J Woods and pace setters W T Richardson and F S Macalaster.
One hundred thirty five Melrose women began a course in athletic training and gymnasium work at the Melrose YMCA last night under instructor Mrs. B Abbott. Classes were formed and women may use the gymnasium one day a week and have access to the new swimming pool.
A November 28 fire leveled the Union railroad station in White River Junction Vermont causing about 80000 in loss mostly insured. The blaze started around 4 am damaging mail baggage and the telegraph office the latter later reopened in a temporary setup. The station owned by Boston and Maine and Central Vermont suffered major stock and furnishings losses with Dr L W Daly doubly affected by a 20000 restaurant loss.
The Fabre line steamship Santa Anna arrived from Marseilles and Naples with five dead sailors and two seriously injured after a wall of water washed the decks. Captain Pavey called the sea the most terrific he ever encountered as it swept seamen Durand Sarti Calisti Quarrelli overboard and left others unconscious.
Mr and Mrs Charles Kaufman of Roxbury announce the engagement of their daughter Edith M Strauss to Edward Wolf of Boston with a formal notice.
Supreme Judicial Court rules a passenger may not ride on a car platform after the conductor asks him to enter or disembark. Nora A Liverside sued Berkshire Street Railway for her husband Roger Liverside’s death, but claims of a platform riding custom failed. The court held the deceased was bound to follow the conductor’s directions after fare payment.
W E D Stokes the millionaire hotel man testifies in the trial of Ethel Graham and Lillian Graham accused of attempting his life by shooting. The session resumes after a juror change as letters are read showing affection gifts and favors allegedly offered by Stokes. The defendants and Miss Graham’s sisters cry during testimony.
Edward A. Filene, chairman of the Metropolitan Plan Commission, outlined a cooperative plan for 38 cities and towns in the metro district at the State House hearing. A five member tribunal would suggest improvements with veto power only on acts harming the scheme. The commission would report by January 1 and avoid altering local government.
The annual St Augustine's Church entertainment in South Boston will be held at St Augustine's Lyceum on Thanksgiving night. The main attraction will be Miss Alice Hagerty who will render a number. Hagerty is a soprano soloist at St William's Church and has performed at municipal concerts.
Mrs Ellen G Brooks widow of Patrick Brooks and mother of former Cambridge Mayor William F Brooks died at her Park Avenue home yesterday morning after a long illness aged 82 She had long been a resident of Cambridge and was active in local affairs.
A Cambridge resident dies leaving two daughters Miss Helen Brooks and Mrs. Thomas Lahey and a son ex Mayor Brooks. The notice appears in Cambridge advertisements.
Mrs Mae Martyn writes in the Denver Advocate that face powders cause pimples rough skin and wrinkles. A plain spur max lotion made with glycerine and spurmax removes pore obstructions and oiliness and restores a youthful tint.
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