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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 15, 1911
Page
9
A fragmentary verse mood exults a playful onomatopoeic performance with gleeful invocations and a humorous mixed dialect refrain. The reader is drawn into a spirited, rhythmic chant style that suggests a domestic or social gathering moment.
Advertisement touts Cascarets as a cure for headache, biliousness, indigestion, and upset stomach. It claims the product cleanses the stomach, removes sour undigested food and gas, and carries out waste while you sleep, with a 10 cent box bringing a clear head and cheerfulness.
The Port of Boston Docks and Warehouse Company is incorporated in Massachusetts with 10 million capital to build factory and warehouse facilities for freight transfer to rail and steamship terminals. It has 30 acres on the South Boston waterfront and plans 10 eight story factories 10 ten story warehouses and an office building for about 16.5 million dollars to rise of steel and reinforced concrete within two years.
The inventory of the late Arthur J. C. Sowdon of 66 Beacon Street shows an estate valued at $114,931.54 with all but $1,501 in real estate. Sowdon was a real estate operator and civic figure.
Report notes strict fashion law against straw hats on city streets with public shaming and possible confiscation by mischievous youths. The piece compares straw headgear to small offenses like wearing a blue Harvard tie at a football victory and a Norfolk jacket at a dress ball. The stock exchange practice of removing straw hats and stamping them is described.
An open air meeting organized by the Democratic city committee of Somerville and Ward 5 clubs will be held tonight at 8 at Magoun Square. David I. Walsh, candidate for Lieutenant Governor, will speak along with other speakers.
Mrs. Alden E. Wood of 50 Hudson Street North Cambridge rushed into her burning home to rescue her five year old son Alexander and one year old daughter Leonnia after a match and ball sparked a fire. The damage totaled about 500 dollars.
Westfield reports a frost damage estimate of 150000 dollars to standing tobacco in the Connecticut valley. About 25000 dollars worth burned in Westfield and at least 15000 dollars in Southwick, with cloth-covered fields the only ones spared full loss.
Arrangements to make New York New Haven Hartford railroad mileage tickets good on the Boston and Albany system and vice versa are being perfected. The agreement excludes the Boston and Maine and Maine Central systems.
The Schwarzchild & Sulzberger Company of America meat packers filed a certificate with the Secretary of State in Trenton New Jersey changing its corporate name to Sulzberger & Sons Company of America.
Michael J. Crowley was found guilty of deriving support from the earnings of his young wife Heithel cam ley. He received one year at the House of Section and five months for no support. The wife testified as the chief witness and Crowley pleaded guilty to the latter charge.
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