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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1914
Page
6
A detailed sale list offers discounts on Black Silks, Chiffon, Taffeta, Crepe, Pongee, Voile, and Velvet fabrics. Prices drop from high Was figures to Now yard or piece rates with numerous yardage amounts and assorted colors like Black, Blue, Brown, Purple, and Beige.
A long OCR laden sale notice lists dozens of fabric trims gowns and garments with former prices and deep discounts. Items include gold and silver edge spangles appliques veiled net gowns crepe wraps and silk blouses from Driscoll Nash and assorted fabrics with prices ranging down from hundreds to tens of dollars. Many pieces are damaged by smoke and sold as is with warnings to examine before buying.
A New York report notes a chiffon Grecian style dancing frock for school and college girls. The blouse is confined by crossed gilt braid, the neck is exposed along the shoulder line, sleeves cover only the under part of the arm, and the chest sits fairly high.
Mr and Mrs Leighton of Winslow Street Everett celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary yesterday. Mr Leighton chairs the Board of Aldermen and is in his third term. He served on the Common Council 1903 to 1909 with one year off. They wed in Ellsworth Maine by Rev Frank Healey. Mrs Leighton was Sarah Frances Jordan. They have a son John Robert Leighton.
The L Street beach drew a lively crowd with the water at 62 degrees and a strong tide. After 5 o'clock the men’s pavilion turnstile registered over 400, the remaining season’s open venue, hailed by Superintendent Henry Griffin as very successful. Marine Park attracted about 20,000 visitors yesterday.
A four to five foot sunflower sprouts atop the old Christian Church tower on North West street in Tipton Indiana. Seeds likely carried by birds nesting in the tower.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce appeals to the State Department to use diplomatic and consular channels to secure shipment of dyestuffs and chemicals from foreign sources, especially Germany, to aid New England textile leather and paper manufacturers cut off by wartime disruption.
The Rev G L Morrill pastor of the Peoples Church preached his own funeral sermon on Sunday morning at the Unique Theatre the home of the church. He had prepared phonograph records of the service and details of the event. The records will be placed in a safe deposit vault and Morse family members will operate the machine to reproduce the scene in fulfilment of his wishes.
Due to large fall enrollment the Alonzo Evans estate mansion on Broadway will house Everett primary grades temporarily. The Hamilton school, under construction, will replace it when finished.
About 100000 Jews in Greater Boston marked 5675 with services across synagogues and halls. Orthodox and Reform worshipers filled venues as cantors led hymns, shofars sounded, and prayers focused on self examination and atonement. Rabbis Levi Hichier Israeli and others led services at Temple Israel Temple Adath Jeshurun Mishkan Tefila and West End YMH in Cambridge Street.
At the Edmonton industrial exposition and race meeting an exhibit shows four generations of the horse family led by Old Fly, a 27 year old Arabian mare. The line includes her 16 year old daughter, 12 year old grandson, and four year old great grandson. Old Fly was broken by John Carmichael 24 years ago and now carries royal mail from Edmonton to Calder twice daily.
Charles Barnes, a Black man, was shot to death in Georgetown, Me. Samuel Hinckeley, a White marine engineer, was arrested as the alleged killer and taken to Bath for an inquest set for tomorrow. Authorities say the men quarreled over Barnes wife, a white woman.
A four weeks mission for adult members of Mission Church Roxbury begins next Sunday with a solemn high mass at 10 30 am. A parallel week for parish children started yesterday at 3 30 pm with instruction by Rev Father Conway. Daily masses for children at 7 am and 4 30 pm prayers and a short sermon. Evening services 7 30 pm with rosary sermon and benediction. Subsequent weeks address single women, married women and single men with papal blessing at each close.
John Diassy a 35 year old Vermont State prison employee drowned in Kennedy's mill pond while attempting a photograph from a canoe. The craft toppled and Diassy did not resurface. a friend reached shore. Diassy left a wife and two children in Fall River and his death was reported last evening with his body recovered later.
Fred Studley a South Boston deckhand was found dead in a blood pool in the engine room of the Lauretta gasoline launch tied off City Point. Police favor accidental death while Medical Examiner Magrath orders further examination to determine the cause.
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