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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1919
Page
4
Advertisement for Gets-It corn and callus remover claims painless removal in one piece like a banana peel. Says it leaves skin smooth, eliminates plasters and blades, and is guaranteed with money back. Manufactured by BH. Lawrence & Co in Chicago Illinois.
Federal Court bankruptcy schedules reveal that more than 60 women are unsecured creditors of the State Street brokerage firm F. G. Roberts & Co. with claims totaling about $31,000. The filing shows liabilities of $784,030, unsecured debts of $578,322, and assets of $401,939.
The principal claimant is Mary Mc Dowell with unknown address. Other claimants include Julia McHugh of 87 Temple Place Boston with 1678 dollars and Carrie L Spaulding of 44 Tutts Street Somerville with 1841 dollars.
The schedule lists individual creditors and amounts from F G Roberts & Co bankruptcy. Names include BE Nugent, Florence P Donelson, Effie J Durrell, Emile A Harwood, Mrs R M Jordan, Emma E Bulzer, Charlotte Burton, Miss Mary F Vaughn, Daisy W Nay, Sarah Ellis, Miss Harriet Wheeler with varied sums. Assets show a seat on the Consolidated Stock Exchange of New York valued at 2500, stocks 291,485, insurance 104,290, cash 887, bank deposits 481. John W Cawley of Brookline conducted the business and signed the schedule, while asserting the proceedings target him alone but considering George A Pettibone as a partner. Secured creditors include Metropolitan Trust, Hanover Trust, Liberty Trust, and Wrenn Brothers, with the latter owed 51,000.
Mrs. Nellie Thompson and Mrs. Bertha Higsby of Winthrop Street Newtonville were fined 25 and 85 dollars respectively by Judge Hannon of West Newton court for assaulting neighbors Henry and Mrs. Jordan. They appealed and were held on 300 dollar bonds. Judge Hannon urged both families to move from Newton at once.
A monoplane piloted by Lieutenant-Commander Edwin McDonnell with Lieutenant-Commander Harold Bartlett aboard developed engine trouble and crashed into a swamp at Hog Island at 1000 feet. Both men were rushed to Hog Island Hospital. McDonnell is badly cut but expected to recover. They had served in France and had left Mineola, Long Island, to attempt a record flight to Washington.
Brown University in Providence Rhode Island expects one of its largest entering classes with hundreds of returning veterans. Over 400 freshman applications have been filed and 230 admitted chiefly by certificate, while 70 percent of Brown men who served in the military are returning this year.
A 210 centimeter howitzer captured in battle sits on Boston Common. The 26th Division reportedly seized it, while B Company of the 102d Infantry from New Haven claimed the capture and Massachusetts men credited the 104th Infantry. The investigation suggests the gun may stay there indefinitely.
A wartime inquiry details a contested howitzer claim and a near theft on Boston Common by Connecticut troops. Captain Strickland pressed to reclaim the gun for New Haven, but police intervened and halted the transfer. The episode sits beside the official note that the capture was a divisional action with no single outfit credited.
A dynamite charge under a rail exploded as an interurban car passed the city limits injuring the conductor and bruising 85 passengers. Police say this is the third attempt in two days to wreck cars by the same method, linked to the ongoing platform workers strike at Louisville Street Railway Company.
A long list records marriage intentions for couples including Frederick M. Osgood and Florence Rushlow in Roslindale, John H. Costello and Alice Hagerty in Dorchester, and Stephen Cleary with Marguerite Sweeney in Roxbury, among many others. The notices name ages occupations and residential addresses, spanning Dorchester Hyde Park Mattapan Roxbury and nearby communities with varied trades from machinist to nurse and teacher.
Uncertainty surrounds the Munson line steamship Munisla which sailed from Mobile to Havana September 7 and is now overdue by over a week. Marine circles suspect a Gulf tropical hurricane caused loss with a crew of about 30 aboard the lumber and general cargo steamer. The only clue is a report that a disabled vessel answering the Muniala’s description was observed four hours near 130 miles southeast of the Mississippi mouth by the steamer H. F. Dimock.
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