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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1914
Page
12
President Rowley disclosed at the monthly SPC A directors meeting that 4631 animals were examined in the past month. Of these 515 were horses owned by fish dealers and bankers. There were 26 prosecutions with 25 convictions, 134 horses were taken from work, and 98 horses were humanely destroyed.
The Massachusetts S P C A recorded 21 475 animals examined at stockyards and abattoirs with 49 cattle swine and sheep humanely destroyed. Twenty two months saw 122 animals treated at its free dispensary. Bequests totaled hundreds in cash from multiple donors. interest income reached 816 07. Bands of Mercy increased by 591 new lands in March.
Harvard Universitys forestry department announced a beautification project for the yard. Guy Lowell will plant red oaks in straight lines in the northern part while Professor R T Fisher will oversee future tree management. Further plans proposed near Memorial Hall involve planting varied trees around the John Harvard statue.
An advertisement claims liquid argon dissolves dandruff after nightly applications. It promises quick relief from itching and a shiny, soft hair appearance within days and suggests buying liquid arvon from drug stores as an inexpensive, failproof remedy.
Harvard economist Professor Charles J. Bullock warned at the Hotel Vendome that Massachusetts could lose at least 100 million dollars in capital within a year unless the state constitution is amended to allow changes in taxation. He cited a law firm moving over 10 million dollars abroad and said intangible property taxes are fueling the exodus while government costs rise.
Walter Clark of the Middlesex and Boston Carmen's Union said Boston Elevated workers do not work harder yet earn more pay. The Newton court heard all day from conductors and motormen. Witnesses include Roy D. Jones and manager General Manager Cox, with Eastman questioning.
A mid day fire at the Brighton stockyards of the Boston & Albany Railroad caused about $5000 in damage. Firemen from Boston and Newton battled flames fed by a gale, confining the blaze to one end of a corrugated iron stock barn. no cattle were burned, but a Ladder 31 firefighter, Benjamin Benson, was knocked unconscious by a falling ladder but quickly recovered.
A conference hosted by the Massachusetts State Federation of Woman's Clubs at the Twentieth Century Club agreed to wage a state-wide drive for state controlled milk inspection. Justher M. Andrews opened the meeting. Mrs. Alfred Lustig described Providence gains in pure milk advocacy. Mrs. William Lowell Putnam spoke on the pending bill.
Prohibition advocates presented to the House judiciary committee arguments in support of a constitutional amendment to enforce prohibition nationwide. They urged the committee to report the resolution of Representatives to the House.
Delegates from states across the nation urged a definitive referendum on the liquor question. Led by Representative Hobson they pressed for action through state legislatures to seek national submission, arguing 55 percent live in prohibition territory and time calls for broad national consideration. Adamson's Cough Balsam ad appears.
A report states that Tive Hobson of Alabama introduced a proposal urging submission to the states for ratification of a constitutional amendment aimed at prohibiting the sale or manufacture for beverage purposes of all alcoholic liquors.
Nearly 200 Civil War veterans from the Massachusetts Association of Minute Men of '61 gathered at the Revere House for a noon banquet marking Lincoln's April 15 1861 call for volunteers. Commander George H. Brown presided as John E. Gilman, John M. Wood, Mrs. Laura I. Smith and Captain James H. Griggs spoke. Captain James T. Stevens was elected commander with Morris Meade and Major John H. Norton in key posts. Griggs was reelected adjutant for the seventh time.
The spring session of the Suffolk South Association of Congregational Churches met at Harvard Congregational Church in Porchester. Rev. Charles F Weeden moderated the event with a conference on Types of Evangelism led by Rev. Charles F. Eaton and Rev. Edward M. Noyes.
An advertisement promotes a home mix to darken gray hair using 7 oz water, a small box Barbo Compound, 1 oz bay rum, and 1-4 oz glycerine. It claims to darken gray hair, remove dandruff, and act as a hair tonic without stickiness or scalp coloring. The treatment is inexpensive and to be used every other day until the desired shade, then biweekly.
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