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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1916
Page
2
An old newspaper ad promotes Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets as a mild laxative and liver aid. It claims they replace calomel without harming teeth, gums, or causing after effects. The copy links headaches and dullness to constipation and a sluggish liver, urging use at 10c or 25a.
More than 200 members of the New England Methodist Historical Society gathered in Mt. Auburn Cemetery to memorialize Dr. James E. Latimer former BU dean James A. Woolson and Borden P. Bowne. Clergy and BU officials eulogized the three leaders before the group visited their graves.
H. L. Simpson, sales manager of the United Drug Company, will speak at the Pilgrim Publicity Association retail forum tonight on How to Boost Sales. Free floor discussion follows. The public forum meets Tuesdays at 7 30 in the Publicity building on Bromfield street.
Prayers for the success of the Billy Sunday campaign were offered at a Baptist conference in Chipman Hall Tremont Temple yesterday morning.
Forty two dead game sports were arraigned in Central Court with Sing Lee fined 50 dollars for promoting a Chinese lottery. Others paid 3 or 5 dollars for merely being present as police interrupted games of chance. Prisoners included 17 white men 11 Chinese and seven colored participants from a crap shooting event on Central wharf.
Edward J. Dunn reports from El Paso Texas that the Ninth Massachusetts is set to depart for home tomorrow. Baggage and remaining equipment are loaded onto trains, with subsistence and forage for the trip to the Bay State to be loaded early tomorrow. The first train section is expected to leave by noon, with the other two sections following in short order.
The men of the Ninth finish camp cleaning and fires on their last night at Camp Cotton. Tomorrow three train sections depart with Major Donovan’s Clinton Worcester Lawrence Lowell battalion, Major Casey’s Natick Boston Brookline units, and Major Barry’s Boston companies with headquarters staff and a Pullman carrying General Sweetser, staff, and Boston newspaper correspondents.
Charles E. Hughes addressed a crowd in Columbus on October 30 reacting to Wilson's Shadow Lawn speech. He called the event a festival of self-glorification by opponents and criticized the Vera Cruz and Carrizal incidents. He denounced the Underwood and Adamson bills as whimsical and praised as guardians of enterprise and labor.
Mr Hughes said opponents were wrong to claim relief from court fears and warned of vague legislation and two faced laws. He spoke after a long torch light parade and a two hour delay as crowds filled Capitol Square and overflow meetings heard other speakers.
Building Commissioner O Hearn blamed his department yesterday for the five story apartment house at 497 Huntington Avenue which has been deemed unsafe and ordered vacated until its foundations are fixed. He cited lack of proper supervision during pile driving as the cause of the building's settling.
Jacob I. Nelson claims lax city inspection caused foundation problems at his apartment building two years after construction. He disputes the owner Israel Nesson designation and says the city inspector was on site daily while noting his own supervision and costs from vacating tenants. Israel Nesson also criticizes city inspectors while his nephew defends the building’s safety.
Attorney Joseph Lundy will deliver an address of appreciation for Senator Henry Cabot Lodge at Faneuil Hall tonight. The public meeting is open to all. Lundy is expected to reference former Boston Mayor Fitzgerald as Lodge's opponent without naming him.
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