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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1913
Page
8
Mrs Malcom Sillars of 33A Bow Street Somerville returned home after a premonition and found her husband dead in the vestibule. He had left for work claiming illness. Dr Arthur A Gibson said death was due to heart failure. he was 34.
Gabe E. Parker a Choctaw Indian from Academy Oklahoma was sworn in as the first of his race to the register of the treasury. His signature will appear on all currency and he called the appointment a signal recognition of the redman.
A health ad touts Sargol as a gentle digestive aid to boost fat absorption, claiming rapid cheek fullness and weight gain. It urges taking a tablet with each meal, notes druggists stock Sargel, and offers a money back guarantee if expected gains aren’t met.
Three Chinese laundrymen in South Boston cut prices to attract customers. Shops close together in the Peninsula district sparked a race to lower costs, with collars now priced at one cent and shirts at six or seven cents. Competition intensified as each shop matched the others, improving district gains and keeping collars plentiful.
A $300,000 damage suit was filed in the Circuit Court of St. Louis against the Film Exchange Corporation of Virginia the Mutual Film Corporation of Delaware and Missouri and Frederick A Keller St Louis agent. The Swan son Crawford Film Company brings the action under the State anti trust law prohibiting combinations in restraint of trade and authorizing threefold damages.
Gaynor's body to be landed from the Lusitania in New York tomorrow. The Correction will transfer the casket to a catafalque aboard a private vessel. A City Hall rotunda presence and guard of honor precede a funeral to Old Trinity Church and Greenwood Cemetery.
Francis B. Sears of National Shawmut Bank told the American Association of Public Accountants at Copley Plaza that consumers pay more than ideal due to distribution costs. He cited a shoe case where $3 retail price includes all costs, revealing 60 percent of price to move goods to buyers. The convention ends with golf, tennis and other sports at Brae-Burn Country Club in Newton.
Arrangements for Norwood Hospital Day set for tomorrow include a carnival with outdoor and indoor attractions. The Norwood Grange and many town leaders assist with games, a closing league game between Norwood Press Club and Bird A A of Walpole, and the annual harvest fair with prize cattle poultry flowers and vegetables. The Norwood Band will play and the event is led by Hon J Sterns Cushing with officers Folan Ambrose Allen Morrill. Grounds are near Norwood central station with electric car access.
Dartmouth College in Hanover New Hampshire began its 146th year with the largest class and dormitory system in its history. Over the past decade scholastic and dormitory facilities expanded to accommodate about 1000 students, making the campus home to the largest dormitory system among American colleges.
Irving W. Robertson a Shawmut avenue liquor dealer chauffeur was fined $100 by Judge Ely in the police court for operating a car while intoxicated. He paid an extra $25 for failing to stop when directed by a police officer.
In Dublin the Catholic Cathedral school pupils joined transport strikers. At lesson time they refused to use books from a firm locked out by the Transport Workers' Union and attacked teachers. Two educators were seriously injured and hospitalized.
Republican Leader Mann introduced a resolution urging Speaker Clark to appoint a seven man committee to investigate solicitation of campaign funds among House members. The move follows a circular from Democratic Campaign Committee chairman Doremus asking Democrats to contribute 100 dollars to the 1914 campaign fund.
New York report links Dr. Ernest Muret to the Hans Schmidt murder case as investigators pursue a deeper web of aliases, possible blood relation to the killer, and Muret’s plea on a weapon charge while an insanity defence is prepared.
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