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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1915
Page
7
Henry A. Wise Wood proposes a national toll call to identify American citizens following a Cooper Union meeting in New York where defence proposals and patriotic sentiments were mocked. The statement seeks a nationwide census like roll call to determine who is American.
An advertisement by D. J. Lane a chemist at 400 Lane building St Marys Kansas offers a home asthma remedy. He promises a free $1 bottle by express to those who write for it and to be paid only if it cures. Recipients must judge effects within ten days and report back.
An incomplete fire drill is blamed for the loss of 19 girls at St. John’s Parochial School in Peabody on October 28. Acting Chief George C. Neal urges comprehensive drills and new safety measures including additional exits and better exit guidance.
The Spanish steamer Martin Saens of Pinillos line bound for Gulf ports was stopped five miles off the Puerto Rican coast by the French cruiser Descartes. No passengers were taken off the liner.
A farmer operates in a large cave with constant temperature, raising frogs and earning about $4009 yearly. The feature promises a photo and full story in the next Sunday Post Magazine.
Mrs Alice James of 30 Wilson street says her two oldest children Effie 11 and Vivian 9 were enticed Friday by a 72 year old Civil War veteran who boarded at the home. Police search Fitchburg Leominster and other cities as investigators pursue leads across the state. The mother, a worker at the United States Cartridge Munitions plant earning 7.50 weekly, took the man in as a roomer at 1.50 weekly hoping for help with rent. The man’s wife reportedly lives in Fitchburg.
Everett considers a special election after a tie between Dr G W Dickinson and Arthur Fennell in Ward 2 City Council. James A Lynch and R H Goddard also dispute results with Goddard demanding a recount after a narrow margin.
In Gene Carrs cheerful Sunday Post installment a wealthy benefactor helps a needy youngster enjoy a merry Christmas. The uplifting tale follows the generous act and the boy's grateful reaction in a warm holiday vignette.
Advertisement urges readers with swollen varicose veins to buy Moone's Emerald Oil from a druggist. A two ounce bottle is claimed to shrink bulging veins within days and stop suffering. Used by physicians and hospitals, with a mail sample offer of 10 cents from Moone Chemical Co Rochester NY.
Police search for Lena Meyers seven and her mother Lena Meyers of 69 Central avenue East Dedham reported missing since Saturday. The mother left to Boston for Christmas shopping with Lena to visit Santa, the husband noting no contact since.
Lafayette Battelle, an eight year old Civil War veteran living alone on the road to Monterey, was found bound gagged and murdered in his farmhouse. A club wound at the back of the head and missing pension payments totalling 130 dollars are listed as motives and clues. The medical examiner said he had been dead three or four days and last seen alive Saturday night.
Athens reports the Greek Socialist party issues a manifesto criticizing continued neutrality and urging intervention aligned with Venizelos in support of the Entente. The message, relayed by the Paris Temps correspondent, frames neutrality as untenable.
Paris dispatch reports Sa loniki authorities urge Austrians and Hungarians to leave the city under a December 12 order. The notice appears in a Temps despatch describing the evacuation amid ongoing war conditions.
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