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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1913
Page
4
David I. Walsh spoke in Springfield and nearby cities on the Democratic platform plank to build trolley lines in western Massachusetts. He cited state rail aid as a precedent and urged government support for western trolley development.
The fragment hints at evaluating why state authorities should set proper safeguards for metering policy. It suggests a discussion of why state action is needed and how safeguards protect interests. No concrete names or dates are present.
Seven candidates for governor open betting in the financial district. Walsh is the favorite at 10 to 8, with Bird Foss and Gardner also facing varied odds. A $1000 to $500 wager claims Gardner will collect twice Foss’s votes.
A statement urges appropriating nine million dollars for Boston harbor projects and calls for state intervention in western trolley and rail markets. It argues for public safeguards and state control until lines are self supporting, plus immediate highway construction to connect rural towns to state markets, claiming long term prosperity.
Congressman Gardner Republican candidate for Governor spoke on labor legislation immigration a minimum wage for women and social welfare praised the last Legislature for controlling corporations. The Fall River rallies featured Guild Swift Burrill Sullivan Ham Withington Barnes and others. Gardner begins a Cape Cod trip the next morning.
An affordable home remedy blends Barbo Compound with water bay rum and glycerine to darken gray hair and treat scalp conditions. Apply weekly until desired darkness, then biweekly to maintain softness and health. Can also darken facial hair with similar effectiveness.
Governor Foss in a Lynn address urged the middle class of Massachusetts to bear the burdens of capital and labor monopolies. He attacked external labor agitators and alleged New England’s commercial drains to New York, claiming independent steamship and railroad access were blocked to protect entrenched interests. He stated many workers suffer under purported union machinery that controls employment.
Orange New Jersey Oct 22 Elaborate preparations are under way for the wedding of Madeline Edison daughter of Thomas A Edison to John Eyre Sloan of Orange. Sloan is son of the South Orange mayor and a cousin of Lady Donoughmore and Lady Granville. Both have worked in the Edison laboratory and share success in invention. The ceremony will take place next week in Orange.
Miss Ethel Scraggs aged 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs Thomas Scraggs of 33 Clare Street Lowell was seized by two men on the City Hall steps and hustled into a waiting automobile before being driven away in a reported thrill story she told her mother.
Ethel Scraggs recounts being abducted and roughed, losing consciousness, later waking in a country house near Lowell. She was driven to Waltham and released in the business district, then contacted her mother and the police. Police held her overnight. parents retrieved her without further statements.
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