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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1919
Page
3
A Cambridge and Roxbury Crossing retailer promotes Howard's Buttermilk Cream promising a soft clear pliable skin with no shine or grease. The ad guarantees satisfaction or a refund and notes availability at W. B. Hunt Co. or drug and toiletry counters.
Winchedon reports a large collection of coon skins from seven nights of hunting by John Sibley and his dog Monte. Twenty one raccoons were shot with five in a single night the top catch. Skins valued at about 200 dollars and Sibley says he can craft a 500 dollar coat. The heaviest coon weighed 28 pounds and the lightest 14 pounds.
Calvin C. Brackett, clerk, clarifies that Rev. Herbert S. Johnson remains pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist Church despite reports of his resignation. The minister has been in Europe for Red Cross work for over a year and has returned to speak publicly ahead of November drives.
In New York on October 16 authorities report Argentina has decreed a prohibition on hunting nutria nationwide to protect ecosystems. The move aims to curb fur poaching and control invasive rodent populations harming wetlands.
Among recent imports on display are lamp shades in new varieties, men's pongee shirts and pajamas, willow and rattan shopping bags, various cooking moulds, cotton blouses and lingerie, black navy taupe and brown silks, printed linen silk handkerchiefs, satin gowns, satin quilted shoes, silk and cotton velvet ribbons, and tulle in gold, turquoise and silver.
The Aipunting-Aneeri can Chamber of Commerce announces a drive to preserve nutria amid disappearing skin trade. Nutria fur has populated American garments but overhunting risked extinction during the last drought, prompting government action to ban hunting and protect the species.
Arsenic detected in the stomach and organs of Andrew Tomaschewka of South Hadley who died last August after a Holyoke hospital stay following a picnic. Boston report prompted autopsy and officials, including State Detective J W Daly, to confer with South Hadley police. Tomaschewicz left a wife married less than a year.
About 1000 longshoremen halted unloading for three days before returning to work following a settlement. Two hundred Boston & Albany piers freight handlers stayed out in sympathy, and after talks with Leyland Line superintendent BE Booth the strikers agreed to resume work. Fashion notes highlight brocaded fabrics and wrapped needles as fall wrap features.
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