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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1918
Page
2
Mrs Hudson Marshbank describes relief from severe dyspepsia after two years of post- meal pains and bitter regurgitation. She credits Fruit-q-tives fruit juice pills for improvement, listing 50c a box six for 2.50 and 25c trial size, available from dealers or Fruit-A-Tives Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
Several hundred prominent women gathered at the Hotel Somerset to honor Lucy Stone on the centenary of her birth. Speeches by ex Governor Walsh and Alice Stone Blackwell praised Stone and her husband Henry B. Blackwell for advancing women’s emancipation. Attending were Antoinette Brown Blackwell and Judith W. Smith, with tributes from Maude Howe Elliott and messages from Wilsons secretary, Roosevelt, and others.
The St. John's Preparatory College Danvers Mass alumni reunion scheduled for the last Sunday in August is cancelled for patriotic reasons. The majority are serving in the armed forces, making the gathering infeasible during these pressing times.
In hot weather, the National Civic Federation Cottage on the Common offers a weekly demonstration of suitable baby foods to guide caregivers. The program emphasizes practical, nourishing options for infants during heat.
Miss Edna W Conway, Simmons College graduate, spoke at the Child Welfare Cottage on feeding children from 16 months to six years. She demonstrated a white sauce base with milk corn flour and salt, and offered menus including cream and milk toast creamed potatoes and scalloped carrots and peas.
Americans serving with the British army in Palestine plan to introduce baseball in the country. Four complete outfits were shipped from Washington at the request of the Zionist organization of America for games in Jerusalem between rival units.
Mrs Catherine I Blackwell wife of Henry M Blackwell a public school attendance officer and church sexton died at her Dorchester home after a year illness Born in Boston she lived in the South End Roxbury and was formerly Miss Sullivan Survivors include her husband two daughters Katherine and Theresa and son Francis X Blackwell Funeral at 9 am Friday with a solemn high mass at St Pauls Catholic Church
Lombard Williams former Port Directors member filed for the Republican nomination in the 14th district and Joseph William Martin Jr of North Attleboro former State senator filed for the Republican nomination in the 15th district with the Secretary of State yesterday.
Washington August 13 draft of an $8,000,000,000 revenue bill shows almost all business proprietors and professionals face a $10 annual federal license tax. Wholesale firms with annual sales of $200,000 or more would pay $25. Farmers mechanics ministers and teachers are exempt from the tax and those with less than $2,000 in annual business are also exempt.
Secretary McAdoo will appear before the committee tomorrow in support of the Treasury plan for excess profits and alternative war taxes. The bill aims to raise the full 8 billion dollars originally allotted by taxation and includes a 10 percent tax on platinum jewelry plus a 10 percent form of jewelry tax. Occupation taxes will bill proprietors of businesses, with exemptions for clerks and salaried workers.
Delegates from over 50 theological schools and their wives attended a reception in University Hall Harvard last night. They will open their conference with a first business session this morning. President Lowell welcomed the delegates and spoke on the social and religious problems raised by the war for ministers.
William H. Bannon an officer at the Concord Reformatory at Concord Junction collapsed and died in Maynard today from heart failure authorities said The incident occurred on Parker Street as he moved about his duties at the institution Located in Concord Massachusetts and Maynard Massachusetts the death ends a long service Record for Bannon concluding with this sudden demise.
A Peters Club gathering at 260 Dudley Street drew about 300 members. Elected for the year: President Charles J. Quirk, vice-president John T. Nolan, secretary James R. King, treasurer William H. Murphy. Endorsed for U S Senate David I Walsh, for Governor Colonel W A Gaston, for Lieutenant Governor Joseph H O Neil, for Congress James A Gallivan. Representatives endorsed Joseph A Oakham and Thomas Murphy. Full ward committee and state delegation approved.
The piece states the offensive plan would be broadly mapped by Marshal Foch while the actual field commander would be the American commander in chief directing American forces and allied mobile reserves from France.
Despatch confirms General Pershing will retain command over the newly created field army and the expeditionary force. The five full corps likely total about 1,250,000 men with fronts south of the Marne and a joint American French British command structure under Marshal Foch.
Stanley Russell Murray of 11 Kensington Street Roxbury has been promoted to sergeant in the 101st Ammunition Train for his heroic conduct in the current American drive. Murray, 21, previously served with the Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Strong.
Sergeant Sidney Alcide Morency of the 102d Machine Gun Battalion, a St. Johnsbury resident, was awarded the French Military Medal for bravery under fire. He became the first St. Johnsbury boy wounded and was cited by Lieutenant-Colonel Ducouge of the 8th Infantry.
Rich ard C. Stearns of New Haven, general chairman of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks for the New Haven system, and head of the National Advisory Council of Railroad Employes, stated last night that a walkout is not possible unless wage increases are granted immediately, countering intimations from another organization.
New York August 13 Fur lo ughs will be granted to Jews in the American army for the Jewish New Year holidays Sept 6 to 9 and the Day of Atonement Sept 14 to 17 unless military necessity prevents. The Jewish Welfare Board will arrange services for men unable to leave camp and will arrange entertainment of soldiers and sailors on leave.
The funeral for Edith E. Perry and her three daughters was held yesterday at the Perry home 83 Upham Street Maiden. The Rev Carl G Bader assisted at Centre Methodist Church ceremony with a small gathering present. Burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery Everett.
The article warns against soaps and prepared shampoos due to excess alkali that dries the scalp and makes hair brittle. It promotes using refined coconut oil as a mild cleanser, noting it lathers well, rinses clean, and leaves hair silky and easy to manage. The coconut oil is cheap and widely available at pharmacies.
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