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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1910
Page
4
S. D. Rogers shipped two enormous potatoes for the Post harvest festival claiming they are among the largest vegetables received by the editor. One spud reportedly weighs about four pounds and could mash for twenty people, roughly five times the size of an average potato.
In a statement from the Mayor's office, Mayor Fitz Gerald charges Governor Draper with deliberate misrepresentation about Boston. He dares Draper to answer questions on state finance, payrolls, treatment of inmates, savings banks, and state debt trends over 15 years.
In a pointed statement the Boston mayor accuses Governor Draper of diverting the campaign from state matters and argues the city’s finances were worse than claimed. He asserts his own administration sought a finance commission and cites the inadequacy of the Boston Finance Commission compared with a state body. He questions Draper about the governor’s stance on a state finance commission and urges public focus on undisclosed "skeletons" in Draper’s closet.
Judge Alfred Coit of Connecticut sparked a heated discussion at the Twentieth Century Club as he accused church leaders of training for heaven while neglecting present needs and failing to care for urban people. He said cities were rotten and ministers must investigate why they are not clean.
Judge Coit and Rev. W T McElween clash over whether churches can shape civic life. McElween cites reform leaders Parkhurst and Gladden as models while Berle mocks churches' aloofness, urging ministers to study both spiritual and civic life to improve cities.
Miss Ella C. Jordan, born in Newton, rises from Newton public schools to head the Horace Mann School for the Deaf on Newbury Street. She trained in Froebel kindergarten methods under Madame Kreeger, studied speech with Dr Alexander Graham Bell, and has served as assistant principal since 1900s, residing in Newton.
No man or woman with kidney trouble can ignore Pape's Diuretic. It targets kidneys and urinary system to cleanse and regulate, claiming relief from backache and bladder misery within days. Sold by Pape, Thompson & Pape of Cincinnati. 50 cent treatments at druggists worldwide.
An advertisement extols Gold Dust as a superior cleaner that thoroughly cleans without abrasive damage. It warns about common cleaners that wear brass tiling porcelain and polished surfaces and promotes Gold Dust Twins as effective and safe.
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