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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1911
Page
5
A notice advertises shirts discounted to 69 cents for a one day sale, with prices normally at 1 dollar and 1.50 dollars. The listing emphasizes Saturday timing and the casual bargain nature of the event.
Lieutenant-Governor Frothingham, Republican candidate for Governor, rushed to aid suffragists in Middleboro during a State campaign. He intervened to stop a marching band from interrupting a suffragette meeting at the Grand Army Hall where the party was lunching.
Miss Alice L. Carpenter spoke in Grand Army Hall while a local band played ragtime. Lieutenant-Governor ordered the band to stop. Miss Edna Cliff joined the suffragist effort and Miss Foley explained the suffragist and suffragette distinction.
Governor Foss and Lieutenant-Governor candidate David I Walsh held rallies in Franklin Worcester and Hampshire counties after rains ceased. Amherst and Northampton drew crowds over 1000 voters each while Walsh drew especially strong enthusiasm from attendees applauding his remarks.
The text describes Mr Walsh clashing with Republican candidate Robert Luce on primary party enrolment and vows to allow voting without disclosing party affiliations. It notes the governor’s campaign speeches duplicating earlier remarks and cites stops at Northampton Northfield Erving with a 250-person turnout, plus a rough road delaying auto travel.
Governor Foss and colleagues addressed crowds in Orange Athol North Dana and Amherst during a campaign swing. Speeches by Walsh Thorndike Strecker and O'Brien drew hundreds to Putnam House Pequoig House and Amherst Hall as operatives from Henry W Goodman factory joined the turnout.
Sussex New Brunswick October 2 a man named William Ryder found dead in woods near White's Mountain buried as self harm but police now suspect foul play after three bullet wounds and coat holes found away from the body exhumation ordered and an inquest will be held.
A newspaper blurb touts Pape's Cold Compound as a fast cure for colds and grippe pain. It claims relief from headache fever sneezing nasal congestion and sore throat with doses every two hours, priced at 25 cents and made without quinine after extensive research.
The big New England show in Mechanics Building and the second New England Fruit Show open next week in Horticultural Hall with a single ticket admitting to both. The events, managed by the Boston Chamber of Commerce, expect record attendance as manufacturing and fruit growing highlight New England's upbuilding. School groups from Abraham Lincoln, F W Lincoln, Mechanics High, Runkle School, and Thompson Island Trade School attend free. Harry W Kimball will lecture on the saving bank. A voting machine will test voters’ choices for November state elections.
In Pittsburgh on October 20, a divorce trial cites 1906 events when John Welfar, a wealthy grocer of Morewood avenue, Shadyside, allegedly pressed his cold feet on his wife to warm them, charging cruel and barbarous treatment and indignities.
Reuben O Colburn told Judge Hardy that Abbey B Colburn played solitaire constantly causing marital strife. The judge ordered a divorce after the husband complained of neglect and meals left unsupplied.
Governor Foss plans two major rallies in Tremont Temple and Faneuil Hall Boston. The Faneuil Hall event is organized by the Italian American Citizens Progressive League of Massachusetts with Carmine Garafalo presiding. A torchlight parade precedes the meetings. Sherman L. Whipple is slated to speak at both events alongside the full State ticket.
The Sunday talk by Very Rev Thomas I Gasson president of Boston College at the Church of the Immaculate Conception will be omitted due to the 40 hours devotion service starting tomorrow. Father Gasson is unlikely to resume before December as Father Bernard Vaughan of England is expected to occupy the pulpit each Sunday in November.
The ad warns against patent medicines and their stimulants and dangerous drugs. It promotes Father John’s Medicine as alcohol free and narcotic free, claiming 50 years of success as a tonic and lung healer. It asserts the product is doctor’s prescription pure and wholesome with a guaranteed quality.
Cardinal James Gibbons walked unescorted with an eight year old boy from Sacred Heart cathedral to Mount Calvary Cemetery for Bishop Van De Vyver's burial. He left the requiem mass in a frock coat and silk hat, saying his heart is heavy and that the child would lead him.
The Loyal Order of Moose advertises weekly benefits including $7 for sickness or accident, $100 funeral, and free medical for members and families. It promotes a $5 charter fee for Boston Lodge 34, $25 total with $2 down on application, and a $1 medical exam. Initiation Sunday morning and regular meeting Friday are announced by National Organizer N Waldo Kennedy.
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