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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1915
Page
9
H L Scates of Tilene's challenges shoe ads at Pilgrim Publicity Association. He argues retailers overemphasize value and leaves customers believing they get nothing for something. He calls for education on price, style, and construction, and urges a joint campaign with big and small merchants.
Seven year old Joseph Arsenault of 20 Spencer Avenue Chelsea was knocked down and run over on Broadway yesterday. He was taken to Frost Hospital with injuries. The car was operated by Frank E Yeomans of Medford. witnesses say the boy darted from the sidewalk and the driver was not to blame.
A mass meeting is planned by Malden Melrose Everett Revere Saugus and Mel ford to resist a new fare schedule for Bay State railway lines. The gathering aims to present organized opposition at Public Service Commission hearings. date and venue to be announced.
The 1918 Harvard class presents a pedestal sundial this afternoon at 2 o'clock. Sophomore leaders led by president William J. Murray assemble on the green between Standish and Smith halls with Harvard faculty representatives to formally deliver the sundial to the university.
In Waterbury Connecticut the Democrats won the biennial election sweeping all key offices except town clerk Mayor Martin Scully defeated Republican J F McGrath by a 2159 plurality and secured re election.
The Nautilus crew deserts on a dugong hunt as Ned Land harpoons the sleeping sea creature. The beast attacks the pinnace, overturning it and injuring the barge, but the dugong is finally killed and hoisted aboard. Captain Nemo readies to enter the Arabian tunnel between Suez and the open sea.
The Nautilus dives into a deep Red Sea funnel and races toward the Mediterranean. A roaring surrounds the ship as reversed screws push against the torrent. Electric light reveals blazing lines on the walls while Captain Nemo announces the Mediterranean after thirty-five minutes past ten. The vessel then blasts through the Isthmus of Suez in under twenty minutes.
Construction begins on a $250,000 gothic dormitory at Wellesley College to house 95 students and 12 faculty members. The first of three campus buildings, funded by an anonymous gift, will be named the west dormitory.
Miss Rachael Tuttle of Arlington has been elected president of the senior class at Radcliffe College. She previously served as class president as a junior and was secretary in her sophomore year. Bernice Brown of Providence Rhode Island was named vice president of the senior class.
Charles S. Mellen former president of the New York New Haven and Hartford and Boston and Maine railroads explains in a letter why he could not attend the Public Service Commission hearing on Boston and Maine expenditures. He is detained by counsel in New York over a federal criminal suit against former New Haven directors. He notes lack of control over movements and memory of the questioned $12 659 payment to Concord and Montreal. The commission had concluded its hearing aimed at probing expenditures to influence legislation.
Mrs Grace Butler a 29 year old of 61 Kimball Avenue Revere collapsed at home after declaring she had shot herself She was taken to Frost Hospital Chelsea where she died an hour after arrival The incident occurred yesterday morning and involved her husband Edward Butler
A general alarm is issued for Marciano Farrigetti aged 10 of 22 Foster Place North End. He has not been home since Sept 29. Described as dark complexioned in a dark coat and trousers, last seen playing near the waterfront.
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