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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1919
Page
8
Mr. D. J. Lane of 32 Lane Building St Marys Kansas announces a simple home remedy for asthma and hay fever. He offers a postpaid $1.25 bottle to anyone who writes for it. recipients report relief within ten days and judge its effectiveness. Send name and address, no money required.
The 2005 Smiths in the directory illustrate how common surnames like Sullivan Murphy Brown Cohen and their variants dominate the listings. The text notes hundreds to thousands of entries for each surname reflecting naming density and spelling variations in Boston areas.
Prominent Jews of Boston and many from across the country will meet in New York next Sunday at the invitation of Felix M. Warburg to consider the European crisis outlined by investigators. They will determine a unified program for American Jewry to join in aiding Jews in Europe. The conference will run two to three days with multiple sessions daily.
Corporation Counsel Alexander Whiteside mounted a new bid to prevent Boston paying its share of a 4 million deficit to the Boston Elevated. Judge Pierce denied an injunction against the State’s payment. Whiteside argues the 1918 act is unconstitutional and seeks rents and profits from subway assets without state interference, contending just compensation is due. The Supreme Court had earlier found the act constitutional in a prior opinion signed by all judges.
A settlement ends a three week idle period for coal carrying barges. The Philadelphia and Reading, Ontario and Western, and Lehigh Valley railroad lines employees settle their dispute. Barges between Philadelphia Jersey ports and Boston begin moving again.
Mayor Peters granted higher wages averting a strike by stationary and mining engineers firemen and oilers employed by the city. The union scale will be paid, adding about $15,000 yearly to the municipal payroll.
Private George Higham of Huntington Avenue Boston returns home after 18 months overseas service with the United States Ambulance Corps Section 544. He earned two bravery citations one from General Puyperoux of the French army near Rheims and a second from General Petain on June 11 1918 for ambulance work under heavy fire. His overseas career includes actions at Aisne the Marne and Champagne where he was wounded and gassed on May 29 1918.
In Lawrence on August 6 a reported sighting of a child's body in the Merrimack River near South Union street caused police to scramble. Detectives and patrols arrived with grappling hooks and ladders, but the object turned out to be a dead cat.
Miss Delia M. Mangan, longtime companion and housekeeper to Mrs. Martha J. Brett, seeks to recover $40,000 in gilt edged securities claimed as a gift. She asks the Plymouth County Superior Court clerk for an injunction to prevent the executors Fred B. Howard of Home National Bank and David G. Swain from distributing the bonds.
An advertisement urges travelers to take Sloan's Liniment on vacations. It promises fast relief from muscle strains sprains and exterior pains without rubbing and recommends prices of 30c 60c and 1.20.
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