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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1908
Page
5
An advertisement extols Maps Flake as a complete wheat product supplying all nutrients for brain and muscle. It claims standard wheat is insufficient, praising a 96 hour processed wheat cooked six hours and cured, then flaked thin to ensure full digestion and nutrient availability.
A nostalgic promotional pitch extols a cereal named Maps Flake claiming maple syrup cooking enhances flavor. It urges readers to compare with other foods and judge for themselves which is best, promising a single package reveals more than further arguments.
Brockton opens its sixth annual Agricultural Society fair with a record first day attendance on Children's Day. Exhibits fill the grounds from Holsteins to prize swine and rabbits, while a lineup of midway shows and acts including Diamond Lou, Boston Joe Smith, and Zan the gorilla girl draw thousands. The fair highlights livestock, poultry, and exotic acts alongside carnival attractions and local vendors offering pink lemonade and popcorn.
W G Jones driving a Studebaker Carris in a Franklin and A W Church Shawmut share a perfect score in the Bay State Automobile Association endurance test. After 70 hours on the road the trio held a 1162 mile total as of today with a 207 mile leg planned tomorrow from Intervale to Boston via Bretton Woods Mount Agassiz Freemont Notch and Nashua.
Amherst College Professor Frederic B Loomis after Western expeditions reports perfect skeletons of a new camel species embedded in sandstone near Luskeyo Nebraska. He believes the camel family originated in North America and notes multiple specimens and a growing collection for formal description.
Miss Leontine Brady of Brookline wed James F. McAuliffe, former Boston law department messenger, in Providence after eloping a week ago. The couple, both under 17, returned to Boston to take a room as relatives and Brookline police pursued them. The groom’s mother forgave them. the bride’s aunt waited for a similar pardon.
The R H White Company announces a large fur coat sale starting Thursday at 8 30 in the Boston store. Prices range from 10 to 750 with skins such as muskrat mink sable beaver and marmot on display. An attractive free booklet on fur styles for fall and winter will be available.
Mayor Hibbard wins after committee approves a 12 percent rent rise and a 10 year lease for the Ames Plow Company with 5000 dollars rent and no extra pay for area ways under sidewalks. The plan, reporting to the Board of Aldermen Monday, faces a City Council fight with three dissenters Cos tello McCormick and O'Brien.
Boston prepares for a large English mail on tomorrow as the Great Britain and Ireland rate drops to two cents an ounce. Post office officials report business houses delaying mail to exploit the lower rate, expecting a massive buildup by Oct 1's fall season and bill sending.
Miss Agnes Smith a 22 year old Roxbury resident awakened by her barking dog during a fire at the George and Magazine streets building. Despite six weeks of appendicitis illness she warned two families and the grocer below, aiding escape as flames started in J Lushman’s store.
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