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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1912
Page
4
Harvard students at the square complain as late night food options vanish. Open lunch rooms charge up to 1.60 for Welsh rarebit, with cheese at 40 cents a pound and eggs at 10 cents. After dark, breakfast-like ingredients are costly and Cambridge beer requires travel to Boston.
The store expands its fur department with expert furriers and fitters to offer custom coats. Each coat includes at least two fittings, skin and lining choices, with options such as 52 or 54 inch mink seahs and sable or brown dyed accents priced from 100 to 300 dollars depending on style and materials.
The article extols remodeling old furs into current styles with coats reshaped, scarcfs, ties, and monster muffs. It notes making over furs into child coats when needed, offers estimates with no obligation, and promises careful consideration before undertaking any work.
S H Harrison Co offers boys suits in cheviots with two pants sets at 1.90 and 3.50 value, plus all wool Norfolk suits at 3.00 from 5.50, all wool cheviots and worsteds at 4.00 from 7.50, and Russian blouse sailor suits at 5.50, located at 662 672 Washington Street near Beach.
Theodore Roosevelt returns to Oyster Bay Sagamore Hill after a Western and Southern tour. He plans a quiet evening with family then a New York campaign conference tomorrow night before testifying in Washington on campaign contributions. Attendees include Comptroller William A. Prendergast and others. a Middle West trip is planned next.
The Executive Council confirmed the nomination of Edward F. Hanify, formerly Fall River city solicitor, to be judge of the Second District Court of Bristol County.
An advertisement touts strictly hand tailored Harko suits at 12.50 instead of 25, urging customers to compare before paying more. S. H. Harrison Co. lists the address 662 667 Washington Street.
English actress Miss Constance Collier visiting Lexington admired the Minute Man statue and Clarke Hancock house while praising American preservation of historic sites. Marie Doro joined the party and both posed by the battle line boulder, underscoring friendly Anglo American ties.
Peter MacQueen of Charlestown argues against U S intervention in Mexico. He cites Mexican patriotism and American influence, warns intervention risks, cites economic stakes and potential costs, and urges conciliation over force.
Mayor Fitzgerald told a crowd of 75 plus collecting department workers that merit and efficiency will govern retention, not political influence or length of service. He spoke in the old aldermanic chamber on discipline, blaming the department's troubles on poor discipline rather than praise.
The Mayor sternly warns that no one is indispensable, urges the Collecting Department to operate on merit rather than length of service, and criticizes political influence. He urges any employee unable to meet standards to resign, calling for discipline and high standards under Finance Commission oversight. The remarks, given behind closed doors, frame a blunt, candid address to staff.
Fifteen women from abroad smoked cigarettes at a Chicago Medical Society banquet at the La Salle Hotel honoring visiting German physicians and their wives. Miss Jane Addams and Mrs. Ella Flagg Young attended but did not smoke.
Thomas A. Niland of Ward 1 East Boston filed nomination papers with the Election Commissioners for the House. His papers were the first received as an independent Democratic candidate.
Lord Claude Hamilton M P president of Britain’s largest railroad system spoke on his Mauretania voyage about American railroads politics women education and suffrage. He praised American railroading for comfort yet condemned Pullman cars as noisy and immodest offering more privacy in British sleeping cars by contrast.
An old fashioned advertisement touts Syrup of Figs as a safe remedy for biliousness gas headache and constipation. It claims a torpid liver and sluggish bowels cause illness and promises a gentle natural cleanse by morning without griping or nausea. The ad warns against castor oil calomel or salts and urges buying the genuine product The California Fig Syrup Company.
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