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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1909
Page
7
A fabric supplier invites customers to choose the material and quantity they need at a preferred price, promising an expert tailor will explain details and assist with selections. The ad emphasizes personalized service and direct guidance from tailoring professionals.
Glenn H. Curtiss plans a victory flight from Governor's Island across the lower bay around the Statue of Liberty as part of the Hudson Fulton celebration. Wilbur Wright meets Curtiss after his European triumphs amid ongoing patent suit tensions. Curtiss recalls the 1908 Fort Myer design, plans modest wind limits, and accepts a gold Aero Club of America medal for the Rheims Bennett Cup victory.
A child suffered months of a sore facial condition despite doctors’ prescriptions and salves. Her brother also endured tetter, highlighting the family’s ongoing skin ailments and the ineffective remedies they tried.
Mrs Blanche Rishel of Clintondale Pa describes using Cuticura Soap and Ointment to treat her daughter Kathryn four with eczema since infancy. She notes the remedy eased pain, stopped crying during treatment, and led to a complete cure by age four. A son nearly two was also treated with similar success. Oct 22 1908.
For over thirty years the Cuticura Remedies have been favored in thousands of households for eczema rashes itching irritations and other disfiguring skin and scalp conditions. The line includes Cuticura Soap Cuticura Ointment Cuticura Resolvent and chocolate coated pills sold worldwide by Potter Drug & Chem Corp sole proprietors 185 Columbus Ave Boston Mass. A Cuticura booklet on diseases of skin scalp and hair is mailed free.
Autumn arrived with cloudy skies and unsettled week ahead. The summer just closed was ideal with even temperatures and normal rainfall, 8.97 inches total. July's heat peaked at 95 degrees, while July drought noted and yearly rainfall slightly below normal.
Convict No. 4187 known as Lewisland, a trusty at Maine State Prison, was captured by a sheriff at Damariscotta after an all night pursuit by blood hounds through woods and fields. He had been jailed Oct 1 1908 for breaking and entering and larceny in Androscoggin County and was serving a three year sentence.
Many people plan trips to Nova Scotia and the Provinces via the Dominion Atlantic railway steamship line. The Prince George and Prince Arthur sail from Long Wharf on Sundays Tuesdays Thursdays and Fridays at 1 p m. Excursion rates are low from 10 to Halifax Kentville and back and 6 to Yarmouth with reduced rates to other points. For details rates staterooms and information contact the city office 22 Washington Street or Long Wharf foot of State Street or write to J F Masters New England superintendent Long Wharf Boston.
The Russian submarine Kambala, sunk near Sebastopol last June with 20 men lost, was raised to the surface today after nearly three months of salvage efforts.
Special low rates to the West via Central Vermont and Grand Trunk railways from Boston to California and North Pacific points. Tickets on sale daily to Oct. 14, 1909. Personally conducted Pullman tourist cars available Monday, Wednesday and Friday at $9.75 for a double berth. For full information contact E. H. Boynton, N. E. PP. A., 360 Washington Street, Boston.
Sophronia C. Downs sues Rev. W. W. Downs former Bowdoin Square Tabernacle pastor for cruelty. Papers served weeks ago he plans to fight to clear his name. Married in 1907 in Medford where he runs a real estate business and is a church leader.
The couple's romance began in a Boston restaurant where the wife worked as a cornetist. They married but separation came after about a year when she left for New Hampshire. The Rev. Mr. Downs, a former Bowdoin square pastor, faces another divorce case as co respondent to clear his name, echoing a 30 year old church resignation controversy.
Delia Mullaney, 20, of Pearl street, was struck by the Boston express on the Boston & Albany line while crossing tracks between two freight cars. She was hurled 30 feet, taken to Framingham Hospital, conscious but in dying condition as her mother and brother visited.
Mrs Mary Baker G Eddy sent a five thousand dollar check to the New York Museum of Safety and Sanitation in appreciation of the museum work introducing safety devices to reduce railway and machinery accidents.
Reports from Paw Paw Michigan and Chicago Illinois recount women using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to overcome long standing female ailments. Emma Draper and Mrs Alvena Sperling credit the remedy with avoiding surgery and restoring health after chronic inflammation and pain. The advertisement promotes the product as a root and herb based cure for displacements fibroid tumors irregularities and nervous prostration.
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