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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1919
Page
18
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a safe cleansing remedy for blood, bowels, and liver. It claims a pimply face and bad breath improve after nightly use, presents the product as a vegetable tablet with olive oil, and lists prices 10c and 25c.
Leading churchmen from most Protestant denominations and from across the country meet in Baltimore for the opening session of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America executive committee meeting. Rev. James I. Vance of Nashville presides as reports from commissions are presented.
The commission on Christian education stresses the central role of Christian schooling in tackling social problems and argues education must be enacted by church linked agencies. Rev Worth M Tippy reports from extensive European observations showing extreme Socialists as a minority and Russia’s Soviet system evolving toward a German model.
The Bay State bazaar at Copley Plaza next week will stage a Children’s Theatre featuring thrift themed playlets led by Amateur child actors. Thornton W Burgess will present Happy Jack's Thrift Club, with Burgess also visiting to speak on thrifty animal habits.
In Medway on December 10 employees of the Fabyan Woolen Company received a voluntary wage increase of twelve and a half percent. The raise came as a complete surprise to the workers and was not anticipated.
Train No. 282 on the Lehigh Valley Railroad Auburn division wrecked near Hartford Mills when a locomotive tender gear broke and derailed cars. All went into the ditch at 30 miles an hour. Many were wounded and taken to Packer Hospital Sayre. Officials fear one fatality.
The advice recommends starting each morning with a glass of hot water and a teaspoon of limestone phosphate to flush poisons from the stomach liver kidneys and bowels. It claims this “inside bathing” cleanses the alimentary tract and restores vitality by morning. It urges readers to obtain limestone phosphate from a pharmacist and take a quarter pound.
A Cambridge subway purchase bill and a bond purchase plan for the Boston Elevated Railway dominate a Republican legislative push. The Cambridge bill sits on the House calendar, while a new form of the bond plan creates a Metropolitan Transportation District and authorizes up to 16 million dollars in bonds to aid the Elevated. Party leaders weigh which path best funds rehabilitation, amid protests over secret meetings between trustees and lawmakers and ongoing calls for decisive action on the street railway crisis.
The General Convention at Detroit created an executive and a 24 member council to govern the church. Bishop Gailor of Tennessee is president with bishops and lay leaders named from Chicago Newark and New York among others. The council coordinates departments and begins duties Jan 1 with headquarters location to be decided.
Frederic K. Bullard of Beachmont Harvard varsity pitcher was chosen first marshal with 234 votes as 410 seniors set a Cambridge record. Frederic C. Church was elected second marshal with 189 votes and Robert W. Emmons the third marshal with 84 votes.
John A. Bush, president of Brown Shoe Company, told a large Boot and Shoe Club gathering at the Copley Plaza Hotel that persistent capital labor strife will continue until business reverts to the pat your employee on the back method of management. The event marked the 103d dinner of the club.
Speakers address wage prices and labor relations in St. Louis and Boston. Odell and Scates emphasize restoring personal contact with workers while noting high prices and middle class pressures. The column also covers Captain Ross Smith’s London to Australia flight, prize money, and growing air travel contests plus daredevil air antics and new aircraft tech and regulations.
Lord Dunsany of Meath Irish poet and dramatist attended the Pi Eta Club house at Harvard to witness the Harvard Dramatic Club production Fame and the Poet. He flew from New York and bowed to applause after the performance and avoided questions on Irish politics or Lady Astor.
Seven year old Thomas Donahue died when an auto owned and driven by Leon EB Bishop of South Natick struck him on Walnut street in Wellesley Hills. Witnesses say the boy darted from behind a wagon into the path of the car, and Bishop could not stop in time. The boy was the son of Fireman James Donahue.
In Worcester Senator Robert M. Washburn assailed Edwin T. McKnight president of the Massachusetts State Senate at a G A R Hall gathering in Woburn honoring Company D, 12th Regiment. Washburn threatened to oppose McKnight for re election if McKnight only sought to collect a salary and said he had never voted Democratic, but would if it defeated McKnight.
A. J. Kr. explains streamlined wire as a device to increase airplane speed by eight or more miles per hour. The invention uses a wooden shingle to slow landings and is essential for planes designed for use where airfields are scarce and large landing fields are unavailable.
A jury in Judge Dubuque's Superior Civil Court found for defendant Miss Eleonora Sears of Boston in the $5000 personal injury case brought by Miss Mary Walsh of Beverly. The accident occurred September 22, 1918, when Walsh said she was knocked down by Sears's horse between Bevers Farms and Manchester.
By authority of the Navy Depart ment Rear Admiral Dunn authorized to sell the Halcyon 2d to D. W. Flint of Providence for $12,800 and the barge W F Babcock to Reinhard Hall of Brooklyn for $18,000. Mr Flint was owner at war outbreak and the sale price includes radio apparatus.
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