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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1917
Page
9
The ad urges readers to renew energy and blood health in spring. It promotes Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and a vegetable laxative from May-apple and aloe for liver cleansing. It claims pure blood prevents illness and cites the tonic as nerve nourishment. A mail order option and drugstore availability are noted.
Dr. Orville R. Chadwell unveiled the baby week campaign at the Jordan Marsh baby welfare exhibit. He criticized older grandmother advice as outdated, stating progress in twenty five years should guide modern infant care and stressing that outcomes matter more than experience.
A Boston programme offered 25 lectures across five department stores with exhibits in most districts. Doctors warned bottle feeding harms, urged wet nurses in some cases, and advised on water intake, waking for feeds, nursing after ten months to prevent rickets, and cautious use of oils, soaps, and antiseptics for skin and scalp.
Mrs. Jennie Moyer of Lima Ohio reports severe displacement left her bedridden but she recovered after taking Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash. She credits the remedy for restoring her health and urges other women to try the products and write for advice.
Vintage ad touts Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer promising to restore natural color to gray or faded hair without dye. Claims safe, permanent results and money back guarantees. Available at Liggett's stores and other druggists with free booklet on hair culture and related products.
An ad touts Phelactine as a new hair removal method claiming it removes hairs at the roots instantly without electrolysis or depilatories. It promises a smooth skin result and notes the product is non odorous non irritating and safe for use by children with a money back guarantee.
Dr. Isabelle D Kerr outlines how enlarged tonsils adenoids trigger mouth breathing and poor development in children. She warns about thumb sucking, teething, and ear infections linked to adenoids, and cites overheat rooms as a cause of head colds. Dr Agnes C Vietor discusses a federation led campaign on child conservation tied to wartime birth declines. Dr John B Swift Jr planned talk on Pre Natal Care at Houghton Dutton. Dr Martin J English to speak on Infantile Paralysis early recognition. Dr Mabel A Southard to give women only talk at Gilchrist Company.
Governor McCall calls for mass cultivation of all land to boost food production. Citizens young and old rally to protect and tend gardens amid threats of pillage, with Boy Scouts and juvenile courts in Brookline urged to lead protection efforts. Authority: state proclamation. community response urged by Ernest B Dane.
Walton A. Green publisher of the Boston Journal writes to Frederick T. Fuller secretary of the Union for a Progressive Convention accusing the group of political blackjacking in its campaign for the initiative and referendum.
Judge Aldrich refused to set aside the appointment of Thomas J. Boynton as receiver for the Supreme Council of the Royal Arcanum. The appointment followed a Saturday petition by Arthur L. Hobart of Braintree, a death benefit certificate holder, as counsel for the society sought time to hear both sides and decide on the merits.
Mr. Green, running in the 11th congressional district, attacks the Union for a Progressive Convention as diverted from its purpose and reduced to a tri partisan political club. He accuses the group of political blackjacking candidates to push for initiative and referendum against the Massachusetts constitution.
A 34 year old man calling himself Oliver Wirick formerly of Germantown Penn now homeless was arrested near Back Bay station for vagrancy and insulting the flag and the President on two soldiers charge.
Senator Pomerene of Ohio wins Senate approval for a resolution directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate American flag manufacture. The probe seeks to determine if recent price increases result from manipulation or unfair trade practices and was adopted unanimously without debate in Washington on April 16.
After long argument Judge Aldrich advised counsel to agree on a decree making the receiver permanent and an appeal by the organization. The meeting followed claims of dire financial risk if the receivership continued, with about 170000 members and $254 million in death benefit claims cited. Attorneys for both sides prepared to present a proposed decree as the court weighs the next steps.
The W. & A. Bacon Company Employees Benefit Association hosts its third annual ball at Paul Revere Hall Mechanics' Building tomorrow evening. I. T. Wright and officers aim for a premier event with music by a popular orchestra from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. A intermission collage and favors for attendees are planned. Floor management is by W. B. Kay with assistants McCahey Buchert Koenig and a large aid staff.
The Kronprinzessin Cecilie case reaches the U S Supreme Court and New York banks seek 2 240 000 in damages from the North German Lloyd liner now held by federal authorities in Boston.
Banks allege breach of contract over an $11,000,000 gold bullion shipment to England and France just before the war. The Cecilie turned back in mid Atlantic after a wireless warning from her German owners and the German admiralty that war was imminent. Her German crew was removed recently after $1.
Attorneys for the German owners argued that returning the vessel would prevent British seizure, while the bank contends deviation from the voyage was unjustified until war is declared. The court was asked to decide as if war had not occurred and the U S remained at peace. In a separate action the court refused to disturb a dismissal of passenger suits from the Cecilic case, without addressing merits.
Springfield April 16 Governor McCall will be asked to approve an $8000 appropriation for the State Committee on Public Safety to employ experts advising amateur agriculturists. A. R. Jenks secretary of Hampden county committee on food production and conservation announced the plan. The Hampden County Improvement League will establish the program.
Dr F M Edwards for 17 years treated many women with liver and bowel ailments using a small set of vegetable ingredients in olive oil, sold as Dr Edwards Olive Tablets. The pills, olive colored, claimed to purify the liver and bowels and improve complexion. Priced 10c and 25c per box.
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