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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1912
Page
5
An advertisement promotes Dr Burkhart's Vegetable Compound as a cure for numerous ailments. It claims guaranteed relief and outlines a 80 day treatment for 25 cents with a money back guarantee if not effective. Sold by Riker Jaynes Drug Co Boston.
State authorities probed the discovery of unexploded dynamite charges under Bay State street railway car tracks and the public roadbed between Middleton and Lawrence. Workmen uncovered the first charge during road repairs, then six more were found.
A dynamite cache found near a rail line caused alarm among residents and officials in multiple towns. Trains were stopped for about a quarter mile while searches for hidden charges continued amid danger of further blasts. The dynamite likely dates back 12 years to a road and track repair. an explosion then killed one man and injured 30.
Preliminary exams to nominate candidates for a congressional district appointment will be held December 4. District Secretary E E Stebbins will oversee in Boston. applications due by November 25. One principal and three alternates will advance to Naval Academy tests next February and April. Candidates must be 16 to 20 and reside in the 11th district including Boston wards listed. Appointment entry at Annapolis in June 1912.
Harvard students tip their hats to President Lowell and to notable faculty members including Dean LeBaron Russell Briggs and Dean Byron S. Hurlbutt as a growing campus custom. The gesture is common among the 5000 students and extends to instructors, though not to assistants.
The schooner Mercedes of Weymouth went ashore in West Quoddy Bay yesterday and was floated today by the revenue cutter Woodbury and the tug Dolphin. She was towed to Lubec for caulking and will then proceed to Boston with a cargo of lumber.
A fragmentary retail catalog lists household medicines and chemicals with prices. Items include ibuprofen like powders and tonics, salts, syrups, extracts and liniments, with small-ounce to pound quantities and prices ranging from a few cents to about fifty cents.
A dense price list displays numerous medicines and tonics with varied prices such as 9c, 19c, 33c, and 66c, including Brand names like Bromo Seltzer Beecham's Pills Carter's Little Liver Pills and Listerine, covering tonics, tonics, cough syrups, salves, and health tonics.
A catalog of toiletry items lists Colgate shaving cream and various creams powders soaps and tooth powders from multiple brands with unit prices noted such as 33 cents 29 cents and 98 cents. The ad enumerates products including Hinds AmeriCol brands and assorted powders and talcs from vendors like Hood Hovey Kolynos Lanoline and Cuticura with minor pricing references.
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