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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1918
Page
3
Prohibition and temperance groups in New Hampshire fear saloon keepers will operate freely during the final five days before statewide prohibition begins May 1. The discussion centers on possible all night openings as the deadline approaches.
Saloon keepers and liquor dealers may set own hours and keep an open bar until Wednesday May 1 as the current license law permits five day notices for violations. Hotels are exempt from this five day rule, while police chief Healy warns that dealers acting as nuisances by staying open late or 24 hours risk arrest. The liquor industry statewide aims to conform to the spirit of the new prohibition law.
Funeral services for Charles Francis Proctor president of the Morandi Proctor Company of Boston were held at his Watertown home with Masonic and other organization representatives. The Rev H Perry Bush chaplain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company officiated and burial was in Ridgelawn Cemetery. Also included is a wartime patriotic message urging bond purchases.
A Boston resident testimonies that after a decade of indigestion and dyspepsia Plant Juice eased her symptoms. She describes improved sleep appetite energy and ability to perform housework after using the remedy sourced from herbs and plants and sold at Houghton and Dutton’s storefront drug department.
Ivory and Joseph Inman, aged 17 and 18, left Bangor in 1914 to join the war. Letters show they are now serving with Canadian forces in France, parents relieved after years of searching. Father expresses pride and hope for their safe return. Also announced Lafayette Escadrille aviator will speak at Copley Theatre May 1 for War Service Shop benefiting army and navy men.
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