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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1912
Page
8
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston told the Senate campaign contributions committee that the alleged plot to control the presidential election is a sinister system and a joke.
The testimony centers on a general, non-specific claim that Wall Street influenced Republican nominating strategy. Lawson cites a $1,000,000 fund to deadlock Baltimore and a plan involving Roosevelt and Taft, with figures for Roosevelt preconvention costs and Standard Oil links. The committee presses for concrete sources while Lawson defends his statements as general knowledge.
An advertisement offers information on permanently removing facial, neck, and arm hair. Send name, address, and 2 cent stamp to Elinor Chapple, Private Secretary, 280 C. BE. Pine Street, Providence, R. I., to obtain full details.
Nimrod White, a colored driver for Interstate Lumber Co of Malden, swerved his lumber truck to strike a building and sidewalk to avert a child named Esther Burns, ten years old, who stood in the path. His action wrecked the front of his vehicle and undermined cellar walls as the house settled.
The ad touts Knowlton's Danderine a 25 cent bottle claimed to dissolve dandruff and double hair beauty. It urges use for soft lustrous heavy hair and cites quick results. The text also reports a church merger meeting among First Baptist Warren Avenue Bowdoin Square with pastors debating future union and worship site changes.
The proposed union of the First Baptist Church Commonwealth Avenue and Warren Avenue Baptist dissolves amid disagreement over Sunday night services in a theatre. Leaders Heath and Johnson clash on worship venue, while talks continue for a Fenway relocation and new church construction.
The Boston Newsboy Club held its third annual election last night electing William W. Saxe as president Mike Davis as vice president Max Kramer as secretary N Binder as treasurer and Morris Miller as financial secretary.
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