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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 15, 1920
Page
19
An advertising poem from Los Angeles extols Tablets Arbolone as a cure for appetite and weight gain. It urges readers to buy at a drug store and claims the product reduces cravings and waist size, praising the maker and noting the testimonial credibility.
Advertises cocoanut oil shampoo as pure greaseless and cheap. Claims common soaps dry scalp brittle hair. Says a small amount creates rich lather and thorough cleansing, leaving hair soft bright and easy to handle, removes dust dirt and dandruff.
The Boston Post prints another instalment of the Czarina's letters to Nicholas the content urges a tougher ruler stance and cites Rasputin. It notes tensions over Constantinople and Przemysl and includes Rasputin’s cautions to the Czar. The correspondence, dated April 1915, follows Rasputin’s growing influence at court and ends with a tease of continuation tomorrow.
Bertha M Smith 26 of 118 George Street Roxbury was arrested by Inspector William Pelton on three counts of larceny in a downtown department store. Detectives say she stole 90 dollars from three handbags while posing as a shopper. Arraignment in Central Court planned. police review for prior record as several stores report pickpocketing activity.
Senator Miles Poindexter at the Roosevelt Club dinner derides US emissaries to the peace conference and warns America may need to police Turkey at heavy cost. He favors shielding settlers from Mexican bandits, decries union influence, endorses arbitration for economic disputes, and calls for Americanizing government to serve the American people.
The Friends of Irish Freedom conference at Quincy House denounced alleged brutal and inhuman treatment of Irish prisoners in Mountjoy and other English prisons. Congressmen Peter F. Tague of Massachusetts urged abolition of abuse, and a New England committee was named to organize a prisoner's aid conference.
Providence April 14 Former Boston mayor John F Fitzgerald sang Sweet Adeline and delivered a speech that highlighted Americanism at the annual dinner of the State House Press Club in the Crown Hotel over 200 General Assembly members and officials attended.
Former Boston mayor lauded Rhode Island efforts to secure a Supreme Court ruling on the 18th amendment. He warned prohibition drains national manpower and urged defense of New England industrial and commercial interests. Fitz of Providence served as toastmaster.
A speaker urged New England to act together with Boston to shape the future of the American merchant marine and improve the regional railroad situation. He forecast that at the 400th Pilgrim landing anniversary New England would regain industrial and maritime supremacy.
Bryn Mawr announced a 2 million dollar endowment drive at a banquet held at the Copley Plaza. Mrs. Charles Tiffany of New York announced the plan. Mayor and Mrs. Peters attended, with graduates seated beside prominent guests including Mrs. Barrett Wendell and Mrs. H H Longfellow.
Herbert Fleischman aged 13 of 87 Schuyler Street Roxbury sustained a compound fracture of the right leg after being struck by an automobile while crossing Blue Hill Avenue at Intervale Street. He was taken to City Hospital. The car owner and operator was FE W Shear of Brighten.
Patrick Fitzgerald, an overseas veteran and twice wounded with the 101st Regiment, was arraigned in Roxbury Municipal Court for assault and battery against his wife Mrs May Fitzgerald. With their two weeks old infant, she asked Judge Hayden for leniency citing his gas exposure and drinking. He was found guilty and placed on probation for one year.
John Dacey a 14 year old boy of North Cambridge died at Cambridge Relief Hospital after being struck by an automobile in Harvard Square. The driver Charles Gadsby of Cambridge said the accident was unavoidable and was not held.
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