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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1918
Page
9
Sergeant at Arms Pedrick and assistants will search for summoned witnesses who failed to materialize before the Ballot Law Commission in the Tague Fitzgerald hearing.
An advertisement notes discolored and wrinkled complexions can be removed with mercorized wax which claims to peel away a thin surface layer revealing smoother skin. It also touts saxolite formula as public property to erase wrinkles using a wash lotion.
The pamphlet urges contacting a physician at onset of influenza symptoms and self care while awaiting help. It recommends taking bowel remedies, rubbing Mustarine on the throat and chest to ward off inflammation, noting it is safer than mustard plasters and valued by physicians for sore throat bronchitis and pleurisy.
Boston hearings examine alleged voter fraud on primary day as Peter F Tague seeks to keep former Mayor John F Fitzgerald off the Democratic ballot. Navy witnesses Grossman Clarke Queen Quinlan corroborate and recount use of an emergency ballot box and its disappearance.
James Allen of Brooklyn and George Collins of Middletown pose as military police to rob men in uniform. Allen jailed in Keene awaiting Tuesday afternoon trial. Collins held by U S Marshal in Brattleboro and likely sent to Camp Devens. The pair traveled from Hartford through Massachusetts Vermont and New Hampshire using fake passes and M P armbands to demand 5 or 10 dollars.
The Hun Within starring Dorothy Gish proves a highly attractive feature at the Fenway Theatre. Alice Brady appears in the Death Dance. The latter half of the week adds Mary Pickford in Johanna Enlists and Earle Williams in A Diplomatic Mission.
The Exeter Street Theatre opens the week with John Barrymore in On the Quiet and Norma Talmadge in Her Only Way for the first three days. Later the week showcases Mary Pickford in Johanna Enlists and Tom Moore in Just for Tonight with Topical Review, Strand, and Christie.
The Beacon Theatre features Bill Rogers, famed monologist and lariat artist, in Laughing Bill Hyde in a new phase. Marguerite Clark leads Out of a Clear Sky as the principal attraction.
The St James Theatre yesterday offered Mary Pickford in her new picture Johanna Enlists a charming story. Vaudeville included Tommy Hayden and Co in an original sketch Musical Montgomerys and The Kitties May Marion Pathe News and official war pictures. Flagg comedy Romance and Brass Tacks also on bill.
Prescott show headlined by a mind reader and mystic with partner Hope Eden. The bill included Wilkins & Wilkins in The Tango Lesson and a list of acts with Phil Davis, Brown & Barrows, Maxon & Morris, and the Hemings. Screen offerings featured Romance and Brass Tacks and He Comes Up Smiling with Douglas Fairbanks.
George Walsh proved very entertaining in On the Jump at Gordon's Olympia yesterday in one of the best efforts from the popular screen artist. A fine vaudeville bill, a Keystone comedy, a Matt and Jeff picture, and the Olympia News Weekly completed the program.
Distinctive burlesque production at the Gayety Theatre yesterday features Charlies Burns leading a talented cast including Ray Read Will Bovis Bert Hall Al Lawrence Florence Darley Babe De Palmer and Ruth Clark in a varied program.
Will Rogers proves equally amusing on screen as in stage at the Mod ern Theatre yesterday in Laughing Bill Hyde. Marguerite Clark stars beside him in Out of a Clear Sky as the companion piece, a Western tale full of life.
The State Board of Education via the department of university extension arranges math instruction for draftees to gain admission to officers training camps. Courses at Lowell Institute will serve Greater Boston residents with in person enrollments at room 109 State House and a new correspondence option. Over one hundred courses are available.
Richard H. Long the Democratic candidate for Governor opened his campaign with nine rallies. He spoke at noon in Woburn plus stops in Reading Andover Ipswich Georgetown and Groveland and concluding in Newburyport and Amesbury.
In speeches Mr. Long argues for progressive policies akin to Woodrow Wilson's national program. He claims six years of Democratic rule enacted more progressive laws than a generation of Republicans, but warns Beacon Hill lobby power remains, tied to GOP interests and obstructing public welfare.
A Massachusetts gubernatorial candidate denounces a powerful lobby influential in state politics. He claims the lobby thwarted protections for workers and pushed a Republican line of succession. He vows to fight the lobby and back Democratic candidates to restore liberty.
F DeWitt Lapham a prominent Odd Fellow and former Somerville alderman died at his home 3 Hathorn Street aged 73. Funeral services will be held Wednesday afternoon with Reverend R Perry Bush officiating. He had resided in Somerville since 1859.
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