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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1921
Page
25
Attorney General Daugherty announced a probe into price fixing and other practices aimed at maintaining high building material costs in Boston and other cities. He said steps would be taken to end the intolerable condition under the Sherman anti trust law.
The Francis G. Kane Post of the American Legion received a silk flag with its name and insignia from the Auxiliary at a joint meeting last night. Mrs. William Gilbert, auxiliary president, made the presentation at Meeting House Hill Dorchester headquarters.
Buffalo New York reader cites testimonial from Mrs. F E Root about healing a leg with Peterson's Ointment after 11 years of running sores. Advertisement urges readers to buy a 60 cent box with money back guarantee for eczema burns cuts and other skin conditions.
Physicians and eye specialists prescribe Bon-Opto as a safe home remedy for eye troubles and to improve eyesight. Sold under money back guarantee by all druggists.
Dealers at the Massachusetts Ice Dealers Association annual convention say there will be no rise in consumer ice prices this year in Boston and vicinity and likely not elsewhere. They spoke as individuals since price discussions are barred at the meetings.
Mayor Peters welcomed 300 ice workers and city officials for a two day convention. James Scott of New York and Leslie Smith of Chicago discussed the national ice industries association and wartime service. George H. Vater urged no wage cuts for ice wagon drivers and pressed inspectors to ensure fair weights amid concerns over new freight rates and local ice shortages.
Washington April 7 The Department of Justice recommendations to President Harding in the Eugene V Debs case may not be ready for a month Attorney General Daugherty said Debs was summoned from the Atlanta Penitentiary for a personal conference and the case is under thorough study, requiring time.
Mrs Daily of Cambridge Massachusetts reports dramatic improvement after weeks on Glandex Compound, saying her energy, nerves, and appetite recovered and weight stabilized. The ad claims gland extracts from animals plus iron renew vitality, with a money back guarantee and wide store availability.
Augustus P. McDuffie, 86, hailed as the last Yankee tin pedlar, spends his final years in Salem New Hampshire life. He recalls wagon days and battles with modern five and ten stores while maintaining his health and daily walks. He shares life with his second wife and visits G A R rooms daily.
Warren P. Bristol, manager of the Hartford division of the Connecticut Company's trolley lines, was found with a bullet wound to the head in Keney Park Hartford. Police and Medical Examiner Contell ruled it a death by own action.
After forty years of wagon driving, Daddy McDuffie enjoys life at his big white Salem home on Symonds Street. He tends his hens, prepares flower beds, and tends potato and tomato patches. The veteran G A R member recalls his old red wagon, now stored in the barn, its drawers emptied and its broom holes unused. He believes, if given his prime again, he could restart peddling and outwit the New England housewives as he once did.
Amherst April 7 Professor H L Garrigus of Connecticut Agricultural College urged clear labeling of shoddy as a substitute for wool during Sheep Day at Massachusetts Agricultural College. He warned unfair competition with virgin wool and demonstrated an all wool suit from a Boys' Sheep Club project to prove durability.
Walter L. McMennimen, a Massachusetts labor leader from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, is under consideration for the Railroad Wage Board by President Harding. He is said to have the endorsements of Senator Lodge and Vice-President Coolidge.
Mrs Ralph B Jones a former nutrition worker at Teachers College Columbia University urged a diet of carrots and whole ground cereals to calm tension. She spoke yesterday at 400 Beacon Street under the Massachusetts League of Women Voters on what to buy for the well fed family.
A nutrition guidance excerpt advises matching meat with two vegetables and one fruit per quarter pound to balance acids. It promotes milk, whole cereals, and vegetables, with high raisin iron tips, sugar limits, and a weekly family menu including milk, bread, cereals, vegetables, fruit, meat, butter, sugar, cheese, eggs, tea, and coffee.
Alfred J. Ferritti of Lexington street Charlestown was identified in Roxbury District Court as the man who lured wounded World War II veteran George Murphy of Roxbury to a party with two women accomplices and robbed him of 275 dollars of government compensation. Murphy identified Ferritti, who was sentenced to the Massachusetts Reformatory for an indeterminate period. He appealed and was held in 5000 dollars bail for the Superior Court.
The Per kins Institute pupils presented music and reading at Chauncey Hall 585 Boylston Street for a Massachusetts-Maine Daughters meeting yesterday afternoon. Miss Mabel Starbird directed the entertainment while Mrs Channing Tox wife of the Governor greeted in the receiving line with presidents of Daughters of Maine New Hampshire Vermont and Massachusetts. Mrs Augustus Fales and Mrs Frederick B Merrill presided.
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