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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1919
Page
12
In an examination at Vineyard Haven on October 27 the steamer Mayport Sabine bound for Portland was floated from Shovelful Shoal and found practically undamaged. It was recommended she proceed.
An advertisement from S. C. Wells & Co. of LeRoy New York markets Beggs Mustarine as the world’s fastest pain killer with real yellow mustard. It claims overnight relief for chest colds sore throat pleurisy and neuralgic pains and urges applying to sprains strains and stiff joints. Boxes must be used and prices are 30 and 60 cents with a money back claim.
With three days left, the Federated Jewish Charities of Boston aims to reach its $400,000 goal at the City Club final meeting Friday. Captains report pledges and cash totals of $27,000. planners estimate needing about $40,000 daily to finish. Messages of support from national Jewish leaders were read as teams report varied contributions across many trades and sectors.
Sixty eight bottles of sake and a Japanese whiskey were seized along with the Kerlew’s first mate and messboy as they arrived by motor boat in New York. They are said to be the port’s first liquor smuggling charges.
John Bursley of West Barnstable urges the Pilgrim Tercentenary Commission to include Provincetown and the Cape towns in the 300th anniversary events. He notes the Cape’s deep Pilgrim heritage, the Mayflower lineage of his family, and the need for a memorial plan that honors Plymouth while recognizing Provincetown and other Cape settlements.
Three army checks of the Treasury Department totaling many hundred dollars and 400 blank Treasury checks stolen in France have been traced to Massachusetts. Intelligence officers have arrived in Boston with the check numbers and are conducting a strict investigation.
Joicey Williams, a prominent actress at the Imperial Theatre in St. Louis, shares a cosmetic formula to darken gray hair. Mix a half pint of water with one ounce bay rum a small box Barbo Compound and 4% ounces glycerine to apply twice weekly. The remedy promises a natural glossy shade without scalp staining or residue.
Herbert A. Gidney a lieutenant colonel in the Ordnance Department during the war was yesterday granted a divorce from his wife Ida May Gidney. They married in 1904 and lived on Commonwealth Avenue and in Mald en. She is said to be in California.
Nellie Cunningham testified that Mrs Gidney met Harris two to three times weekly and sometimes daily. She said telegrams or phones brought Harris to Oak Grove station and that Mrs Gidney urged secrecy. Mr and Mrs Gidney traveled to Akron in late 1916, returned after Christmas, and the maid gave birth to a child claimed not to be his.
A man signed a confession at a hospital and then moved to California taking his daughter. The hospital birth child was adopted. While in the army, Mrs. Gidney wrote from California. letters failed to reach him and she wrote to his mother seeking counsel to block further correspondence in the divorce case.
London singer Miss Marie Empress vanished while crossing the Atlantic from Liverpool to New York aboard the Orduna. She was last seen at 6 30 PM when a steward delivered water to her cabin. a search of the ship yielded no clues. Her belongings were handed to the British consul general.
The Massachusetts delegation to the American Legion national convention in Minneapolis will depart Boston Friday evening November 7 aboard special Pullman cars on the Western Express. They travel via the Boston and Albany and New York Central to Chicago, arriving November 9, and plan a Niagara Falls visit on the return route, reaching Boston November 15.
Mrs. James H. Williams of the class of 1870 provides 180000 to build a faculty house at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie New York. Each instructor in the new residence will have a private suite with study bedroom bath and kitchenette.
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