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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1913
Page
10
Two stone tablets were unveiled at Simmanel-Walnut Avenue Church Roxbury after morning services led by Rev. Dr. Clarence A. Vincent. One honors Rev Albert H. Plumb early Immanuel pastor. the other memorializes Joseph Means a noted Congregationalist figure.
Paris, Oct. 19. The French Academy will honor the tango at its annual meeting on Oct. 25 with a tango oration by Jean Richem pin and a dance by Eva Lavellieres for the benefit of visiting luminaries.
A Crawford advertisement urges readers to try Cascarets for sour stomach belching and biliousness. It claims Cascarets sweeten the stomach remove fermenting foods and foul gases take bile from the liver and flush constipation, promising relief by morning.
Hon. Daniel A. Poling of Columbus told the Dudley Street Baptist Church class that victory over liquor lies in voting against liquor interests. He argued a saloonless nation by 1920 and predicted no bars by the Pilgrims’ 300th anniversary.
Dakota Dan and Fresno Dan await Master Gil bert A. A. Pevey's ruling on the rightful co heir to the Daniel Russell estate of Melrose.
Funeral services for Rev Dr George G Hamilton longtime Everett Universalist Church pastor were held yesterday afternoon at Glenwood Cemetery with officiants Rev I J Mead of Everett and Rev Charles Hayden of Oakland Maine.
Indignant women ashore from the Cincinnati face officers at the Hamburg American pier as customs inspectors under Inspector Sleep seize aigrettes. One officer allegedly tried to cut feathers from a hat worn by Mrs Ida Wiedrecht and promised to return it after feather removal. A trunk hat of Mrs Pauline Finn proves so solidly feathered it could not be cut without destruction. Aigrette samples are sent to the appraiser as Washington weighs enforcement steps.
Spokane dispatch reports Henry Lane Wilson publicly releasing his Aug 28 1913 resignation letter as US ambassador to Mexico. In Indianapolis written outline he rebukes Secretary Bryan over unofficial acts and cites British recognition pressures and errors in State Department diplomacy.
Ten aigrettes were taken from five women Freida Glauser Elise Co man Ida Wiedrecht Flora Hall and Pauline Flinn. The seizures followed Congress enactment banning importation of aigrettes made from mother bird feathers, obtainable only during certain seasons.
At Longfellow Hall a large crowd heard President John A. McMahon report from the national convention in Cleveland. Resolutions for postal service improvements were adopted, the Hammil retirement bill endorsed, and condolences sent to Congressman Mitchell.
President Wilson returns a note noting receipt of a State Department telegram to the American ambassador in London. He quotes the dispatch saying a diplomatic official was guilty of an impropriety and that the President does not go farther at this time.
Gloucester reports the body of Spencer Abell aged 36, one of three men drowned when the Abbie was struck by the Rhodora in Gloucester Harbor, found near the disaster site. Scituate records the recovery of W. A. Cross, another victim of the Sept. 28 Gloucester harbor boat crash, found offshore by fisherman Thomas L. Dwyer.
Connersville Indiana October 19. Loma Rays friends search by river for his body while he was making love to a girl at Brazil Indiana. After leaving a note tied to his bicycle handlebar near the river he disappeared a wild goose chase spreads through the city. The note says I am in the hale a letter to father tells all. The hole near which the note was found is one of the deepest and most treacherous along the White River.
A then popular parenting pitch touts California Syrup of Figs as a gentle laxative for children. It describes symptoms of constipation and feverish illness, claims quick waste passage, and warns to buy the genuine product from the California Fig Syrup Company with directions for all ages.
A 1913 New York notice tells how Miss Celia Kleinman suffered months of itchy skin before using Resinol Ointment and Soap. One night of treatment ended the problem, with the claim the cure never returned. The ad urges free samples from Resinol, Baltimore, and notes drugstore availability.
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