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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1910
Page
7
An advertisement touts Birt's Head Wash made from neutral soap coconut oil glycerin egg white and salicylic acid. It promises remarkable dirt removal with two wash steps and discolored basin water proof of effectiveness and sells in tubes for 25 cents at drug and department stores.
The advertisement touts Cadum as a remedy that dries up pimples within a week or sooner. It claims Cadum soothes itching and heals skin blemishes including rash eczema sores and psoriasis with direct application. Prices listed are 10c and 25c.
The Boston & Maine railroad and Boston milk shippers reached an agreement to file a tariff on statutory notice that will set lower rates than proposed, aiming to equalize terms for all milk shippers. The Interstate Commerce Commission proceedings were discontinued, with an informal conference held and Massachusetts Attorney General Dana Malone opposing the move.
Chicago notices the death of actress Josephine Bartlett at Baptist Hospital after a year-long recovery from a New York automobile accident. A Chicago Ideal Opera Company founder, she sang with the Bostonians and performed until injuring herself in Mlle. Modiste. Funeral at Oak Woods Cemetery Sunday at 3 PM.
Thomas J. Riggs Jr and party, surveying near the Porcupine River north of latitude 67, report a peak north of the Arctic Circle that exceeds Mt McKinley by about 2000 feet. The unnamed mountain sits east of the 141st meridian with McKinley at 20,480 feet.
A man’s body washed up at Sunset Point Hull with a wire looped around the neck and quilt bound tight. Medical examiner believes murder. Cosanona family connected, autopsy planned. Roosevelt campaigns tour noted in same report.
Fully 600 attendees joined the Shepard Norwell Company's Employees Mutual Aid Association at Intercolonial Hall Roxbury for an evening of music and dancing from 8 to 1 with a supper break. Guests included Mayor Fitz gerald and family along with company leaders John Shepard E E Cole and John Shepard Jr. The grand march led by Matthew King and his daughter May opened the event which also featured other department store representatives as invited guests.
Daily fire record lists calls including 8:04 a m at Central street for M Warren Leach with slight damage 8:10 a m rubbish fire at Williams Street Jamaica Plain 11:35 p m at Grove street for M Goldstein with loss slight 1:58 p m Bear 135 Norfolk avenue Dorchester brush fire 4:40 p m Spring street for J Michael slight.
In Elmira New York on October 14 Theodore Roosevelt launched his campaign for the Republican State ticket. He delivered ten speeches attacking Wall Street and Tammany Hall with the line Wall Street and Tammany Hall Have Struck Hands. His slogan You are wanted in Room 212 Are you going? referenced the Rochester hotel room used by Charles F Murphy, Tammany Hall leader, during the Democratic State convention.
An advertisement urges good health through right living and timely remedies. It promotes Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna as the one perfect laxative, claiming broad satisfaction and urging buyers to obtain the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Co. through leading druggists.
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