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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1916
Page
5
John Toner, who drove for Governor David I. Walsh, was arrested by Traffic Officer Valentine P. Cormier in Fitchburg for driving a brewery owned car without a license. The incident occurred on Main Street as Toner faced the allegation.
Esther Greenberg, a small child, fell thirty feet from the rear veranda of her home at 179 Chelsea street East Boston yesterday as the railing gave way. She escaped unhurt.
An advertisement touts Plant Juice as a proven herbal stomach remedy through user testimonials. It features Anthony Saccoccio of Boston praising relief from indigestion, bloating, headaches, and kidney stress after taking the product at Houghton & Dutton Co. Drug Department. The piece also shifts to political rhetoric about naval target practice and Admiral Dewey’s reported views.
Emergency advice urges prompt action when bilious attack or illness strikes. A dose or two of the time-tested remedy aims to stimulate the bowels and liver, putting the entire digestive system in better shape.
Beecham's Pills are described as carefully compounded from vegetable products, mild and not habit forming. The ad urges readers to buy a box now for quick relief and to ward off severe illness, presenting it as a reliable family remedy.
In Hallowell Maine Congressman A P Gardner charged the Navy with poor conduct. He cited Atlantic fleet gunnery scores showing the battleships Michigan and Nebraska failing to hit on 42 and 83 shots, figures he based on a Daniels letter to the Senate president dated August 18.
Katherine A. Morey of Brookline travels from Boston to Kansas to join the National Woman's party effort aimed at defeating the Democratic party in the November election. She says opposition stems from the federal suffrage amendment standoff in Congress, and she will vote for president and national lawmakers for the first time this November.
Washington Aug 29 with a quorum of representatives back in Washington the administration shipping bill was again taken up in the House today and all but two of the Senate amendments were concurred in by 44 to 29. The remaining amendments would admit foreign built ships to the coast wise trade and require refusal of clearance to any vessel declining an American cargo for any reason other than lack of capacity. Republicans led by Representative Green of Massachusetts opposed the bill.
Joseph A. Keenan of South Boston was found guilty of larceny in the amount of 1500 from Abraham Sheff a West End fruit dealer. Judge Creed gave until Friday to decide on restitution noting it could affect the sentence and spoke of the defendant’s respectable family.
Dr. E Winfield Egan of Boston and Wareham writes to the Post defending Wareham Board of Health actions lifting the infantile paralysis quarantine at Onset. He denies being a member of the board and praises the board’s prompt measures during the crisis.
Judge Johnson in Woburn district court ruled that drivers must read English and road signs to be competent. The remark came as Walter Benkowski of Chelsea tried to excuse driving on an excluded Middlesex Fells road due to his inability to read English.
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