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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 12, 1916
Page
7
For catarrhal deafness and head noises, purchase Parmint double strength from a druggist. Mix with one pint of hot water and four ounces of granulated sugar, take one tablespoon four times daily. Relief includes opened nostrils easier breathing and stopped mucus in the throat. Easy, cheap, and pleasant to take. give this prescription a trial.
An old advertisement touts Ma Stomach s Bes Friend as a ginger and brandy remedy to ease cramps colds chills weakness and insomnia. It warns buyers to seek the Owl Trade Mark on the wrapper to avoid inferior substitutes and touts forty years as the standard of purity flavor and strength sold by druggists and grocers.
Advice warns against alkali in soaps and shampoos and promotes pure cocoanut oil as a greaseless cleaner. Wet hair, rub in oil to produce rich lather, rinse easily, and leave hair smooth, manageable, and bright. Suggests buying malsified cocoanut oil at drug stores as a cheap family staple.
Springfield opening of the Massachusetts State AFL convention hears bills for child and women hours limits to eight and five, hotel six day week, state aid for home ownership, non-contributory pensions, and arbitration debates. President Hunt urges labor on commissions and eight-hour day, while Meade previews agriculture education and four ballot measures.
Milk producers in New England convene at Young's Hotel to decide on price hikes. If producers vote to raise prices to distributors, distributors may push costs to consumers by one or two cents. They seek higher prices starting Oct 1 due to higher production and grain costs. Nelson Davis of Hood & Sons Milk Co cites a slim margin of one sixth of a cent and inability to cut it further.
Funeral services were held for Winthrop Sargent at Emmanuel Church with Bishop Lawrence presiding, traveling from Bar Harbor. The rector Rev Elwood Worcester and curate Rev Donald K Johnston assisted, honorary pallbearers included Harvard's A Lawrence Lowell and others. body taken to Beacon Fishki Landing, N Y for summer home arrangements with a later service at St Luke's Mateawan N Y.
A large crowd gathers at the Blackwell estate on Boutwell Street Dorchester for a pilgrimage to honor Lucy Stone Blackwell's mother Miss Alice Stone Blackwell. Attendees include Agnes Ryan Dorchester residents Elizabeth Garrison from Baltimore and Fanny Garrison from the Garison family.
Rawlin J. Barber sues I Company of the Highth Regiment Cambridge unit seeking to enforce a lien on a company touring car. The car, owned jointly by the men, is in storage with Barber claiming $261.87 for repairs and storage from April 15, 1915 to May 28, 1916. The suit notes the car’s use during the 1915 summer season by militia members.
A lighted cigarette discarded in the Nantasket Park dance hall lavatory is believed to have caused a fire that destroyed amusement buildings worth 75000. Hull and Metropolitan park police chiefs led a probe with Boston underwriters, tracing the smolder from the dance hall to the engine room and sand berms. In Memphis the 5 cent loaf may be replaced by 7 or 10 cent loaves after talks with major bakers, potentially saving 25000000 yearly.
Albert Newton 38 of Savannah is stabbed to death at the Atlantic Works wharf East Boston after a dispute over a dollar with John Gilstrat 22 also of Savannah. Newton dies at the East Boston Relief Station. Gilstrat is arrested about an hour later at Orient Heights station on a murder charge.
Charles Wells Cook, 82, longtime real estate owner living at the United States Hotel, disappeared on August 12. He wrote a letter to Dr. Arthur P. Perry of Jamaica Plain stating he planned to kill himself by jumping from the steamer Belfast. The dated note lay on his desk until yesterday when mailed by the janitor.
Dr Derry called police to help locate the man who owned 158 Summer street and several other buildings in the district. Ernest Kenswil the Summer street building janitor said the last sighting was July 31 when he got his monthly pay. Officers and crew of the steamer are involved in the case.
Belfast police will question a man matching Cook's description about a possible month fled voyage. In a United States Hotel briefing, the missing bachelor was said to have few visitors. Cook kept to himself about kin but may have a city suburb cousin. He frequented the Boston Art Club. An all stations alert urged strict watch for the missing man as Dr. Perry suggested Cook may have taken his own life.
The fund of about 2300 raised by police department members supports Mrs. Carr and seven children after Patrolman Patrick J. Carr was killed on Castle Island bridge. Back Bay station led with 226.50, City Hall avenue second, Lagrange street third. Nearly 800 advanced to cover funeral and living costs, leaving 1500 to be placed in trust. The 1000 death benefit from the Boston Police Relief Association is already in trust, and Mrs. Carr also receives 25 monthly as part of a 300 annuity voted by the City Council.
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