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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1909
Page
3
Worcester the largest dry city plans the biggest cider mill in the world. FE A Stearns will build on the Stone lot Main street. Cider will run from tanks into barrels by teams and Worcester county trade will be served with export of cider.
The annual meeting and installation of officers occurred yesterday at Paine Hall. National Treasurer John J. O'Brien installed the officers and offered guidance on organization. Professor FE M Colton discussed tuberculosis prevention as a keynote talk.
Rev. Herbert S. Johnson told Warren Avenue Baptist Church that tuberculosis is a contagious, insidious menace with no early signs. He urged early physician care, comparing its progression to sin and noting scientists say early treatment can cure the disease.
Thomas Wentworth Higginson lends strong support to the Boston 1915 plan, likening it to civic patriotism of the anti slavery era. He urges inclusive representation of Irish Italian Hebrew and African American communities to fuse all groups into a unified effort for city reform. He notes the need for careful inclusion and compares past political obstacles to present ones.
Radcliffe students buzz over President Eliot of Harvard lecturing on manners on May 5 in Agassiz House auditorium. Freshmen urged to attend as seniors weigh whether the talk will endorse or condemn women’s sports and attire.
The Concord Farmers Association issued a pamphlet urging repeal of the milk sale statute. It reproduces Herbert Parker’s March 29 House address arguing the law makes a criminal without a crime and should be repealed.
Miss Julia Richman urged mothers and teachers at Ford Hall to pursue education with greater individuality. She argued pupils should be led to interesting subjects and steered away from uninteresting ones during the ongoing Campaign for Boys and Girls.
Social forecasts point to a forthcoming engagement for Miss Gwendolyn Burden after the death of her brother Billy. The wealthy heiress has lived in retirement but has joined Newport society and European travel, fueling speculation of an international marriage to a nobleman.
The graduating exercises of the Technology senior class will be held June 6 and 7. Elected marshals are Maurice Roos Scharff of Natchez Mississippi Carl William Gram of Wollaston Massachusetts and Harry Emerson Whitaker of Newton Massachusetts.
Smith College girls in Northampton mourn the blocking of a proposed women’s suffrage league by non-departmental club policy. They protest the faculty resolution restricting open meetings and outside speakers, vowing to form a suffrage organization despite the ban.
On Old Man Island near East Machias Maine the Audubon Society runs a 4% novel experiment to raise eider ducks. Captain Fred K E Small of the life saving station acts as warden. 80 birds inhabited the colony at year start with 75 young raised last summer. The effort saves puffins laughing gulls and eiders from extinction.
At a Boston Union meeting presided by President Frank S. Locke yesterday, James M. Head former Nashville mayor delivered an address on Prohibition by Constitutional Amendment during the Mutual Consideration of Problems That Face 1s.
Dr. Richard Cabot of Harvard Medical School criticized Boston diphtheria methods in a Citizenship Class address at South Congregational Church. He urged school-based screening, hospital planning for chronic diseases, and warned against building facilities only for acute cases.
A Magnolia bungalow owned by Alex Troy burned last night destroying tools used by gipsy moth workmen. The fire hampers the ongoing moth extermination in the Gloucester area.
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