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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1915
Page
4
Edward Atchison aged 52 lodges at 282 Cambridge street was sent to the Relief Station yesterday after a fall down stairs caused an injured spine.
A travelling salesman touts Plant Juice as a cure for stomach and related organ troubles. He cites local testimonials, including J La voie of Lexington Street, who credits two weeks of use with restored appetite and relief from indigestion. The remedy is sold at Liggett Drug Co. Store at Washington and Avon streets.
Charles Ash Milliken known as Jacob Ash in Malden Faulkner area is believed drowned when the Norwegian steamer Magda was torpedoed by a German submarine Friday. Milliken was an athlete under the name Jacob Ash in several meets.
Milliken, a 29 year old Malden resident and former Lincoln Athletic Association athlete, traveled to Europe as a fireman aboard the Magda. His name is not on the survivors list from the doomed ship, prompting fear he is lost. He sent a Manchester postcard promising to return on the same ship.
Secretary of the Navy Josephus C Daniels praised naval readiness at Charlestown yard saying the fleet has 50 more ships and 6000 more personnel than two years ago. He urged Congress to fund 1 million dollars for submarines and aircraft and promised faster ships and expanded target practice and maneuvers.
Admiral Frank F. Fletcher the Atlantic fleet commander visited Charlestown shipyard aboard the Wyoming, the largest vessel to dock there. The yard fired 17 guns in his honor and seven in return for Captain Rush as five private tugs plus a navy yard tug helped berth the ship.
Charles W. Richards a 15 year old from 23 Dale street Newtonville nearly drowned at Crystal Lake Newton Highlands yesterday. He cramped while swimming at the city bathing beach and would have perished if not for Thomas Delaney a 17 year old who dived in to pull him from the water. Richards was unconscious when pulled to shore.
Post Staff Correspondent From Plattsburg New York reports the camp trains for the ten day hike with Company A and other units practicing advance guard and outpost maneuvers. General Wood reviews parade as Drinker lectures on preparedness. Roosevelt arrives with a 21 gun salute and delivers an address before the hike begins Friday morning.
An advertising notice touts a ginger and French brandy remedy with aromatics for cramps pains colds chills weakness and nervousness and insomnia. Warns to buy only products with the Owl Trade Mark to ensure purity and strength, claim forty years of standard quality, sold by all druggists and grocers.
The company marches in heavy order at a 120 step pace over hills and plains. Captain lectures on advance guard and outposts then redeploys to positions with several hours of field movement. The drill ends with an inspection and the list of sharpshooter qualifiers includes Channing Clark Griswold Sleeper Atwood Pitkin Draper Wigglesworth Schlesinger Grant Brooks Carroll Cabot Hallowell Bennett Sanborn King Newton and others.
Owing to the success of students and businessmen training camps a third camp will be held at Plattsburg N Y from September to October 6 Boston hopes strong representation and enrolment blanks and details are available from G S Connolly at Room 2 Shawmut Bank Building Boston Applications should be made immediately.
The Democratic city committee of Somerville will stage a field day at Lincoln Park next Saturday with a program of athletic events and speeches by Governor Walsh Hon Edward P Barry Governor Oakley Curtis of Maine and various state and local candidates including former Mayor Fitzgerald. Prizes will be awarded to athletic winners.
Arrangements finalize for a mass meeting at Faneuil Hall on Tuesday August 31 at 7 PM to protest the lynching of Leo M Frank. Dr J Coughlin of the Frank delegation who urged commutation assists with planning. Asa P French former US district attorney to preside.
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