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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Dec 16, 1918

Page

11

Boy lifts from roof fall breaks arm in 11 foot drop

Alfonsi Derant nine years old fell from the five story roof at %% North Margin street North End landing in the yard. He suffered a compound fracture of the left forearm and a minor scalp wound. Michael Rossi of 181 Endicott street grabbed him and carried him to the Relief Hospital in Haymarket square. His condition is not serious.

Alfonsi Derant North Margin Street North End Michael Rossi Endicott Street Haymarket Square

Pershing Roosevelt Meeting Recalls 1898 Cuban Campaign

A noted event in H. F. Wheeler's Real Life of General Pershing in the forthcoming Boston Sunday Post is the account of General Pershing meeting Theodore Roosevelt during the Cuban campaign of 1898.

General Pershing H. F. Wheeler Boston Sunday Post Roosevelt

Sonny Boy’s Return To Manhood On the Sea

A speaker recalls Sonny Boy returning from sea changed by the voyage. Laughter fades to iron resolve as his boyish features harden and strength grows. The poem contrasts the radiant youth with a matured, steeled man returning to the pier to find life and love altered.

Sonny Boy

Miss Meehan Attacks Boston School System

Miss Mary Meehan, sole woman on the Massachusetts War Emergency Industry Commission and a Boston School Committee candidate, spoke at St. Francis de Sales Parish Hall in Charlestown. She condemned the Boston schools for overloading with subjects and weak overall education, accusing officials of using pupils and teachers as test subjects and promoting fictitious records for personal gain.

St. Francis de Sales Parish Charlestown Mary Meehan Massachusetts War Emergency Industry Commission Boston School Committee Boston School

Musterole the mustard plaster substitute advertised

An advertisement promotes Musterole as a white ointment made from oil of mustard and other ingredients. It claims relief from sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia headache congestion rheumatism lumbago and other pains without blistering, available in 30c 60c and hospital size 2.50.

Jews Hold Congress Opens Key Jewish Rights Drive

Five thousand attendees at Philadelphia's Metropolitan Opera House hear a call for full rights for Jews worldwide and a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Nathan Straus is acclaimed honorary president as Judge Julian Mack is elected president of the American Jewish congress. The gathering vows to support democracy and oppose intolerance, with sessions slated to continue through Wednesday.

Philadelphia Palestine Metropolitan Opera House United States Canada Zion Nathan Straus Ing Julian W. Mack Chicago Zionist Organization of America American Jewish Congress Mr. Straus Congress America Europe American Congress Strauss Opera House Judge Mack Louis Marshall American Jewish Committee Louis Lipsky Zionist Organization Committee Colonel Cutler Congress of American Jewry

Bishop Lawrence Confined at Home with Cold

Bishop Lawrence is at home with a heavy cold and not seriously ill. To avoid complications he will remain indoors for three to four days. His confirmations planned for Water Town at the Church of the Good Shepherd and an evensong at the Church of St John the Evangelist were canceled yesterday.

Lawrence Church of the Good Shepherd Watertown

Collins speaks at ten meetings in Dorchester

Walter I. Collins, president of the City Council and re election candidate, spoke at ten meetings in the city yesterday. He delivered his closing remarks to neighbors in the Harvard Improvement Association rooms in Dorchester, stressing cleaner streets and the numerous improvements achieved during his council tenure.

Walter I. Collins Harvard Improvement Association Dorchester

Bolshevik Leaders Split Over Regime Abandonment

In Petrograd heated talks split Bolshevik leaders on whether to quit the regime. Lenine and Kameneff favor abandonment while Trotsky Tehitcherin and Radek push to hold out. Lenine reportedly defeated 12 to 2 by the Central Council of Workmen and Soldiers' Delegates. Starvation deaths rise in Petrograd among children and elderly.

Petrograd Nikolai Lenine Leo Kameneff Trotsky Tehitcherin M. Radek Central Council of Workmen's and Lenine

Man charged with wife murder in Lawrence

Victor Verrier a 50 year old construction laborer faced arraignment in the District Court after police found his wife Elizabeth L. dead at their 169 Winthrop avenue home with throat cut from ear to ear and part of her head crushed. He appeared at a hospital seeking help claiming she had been assaulted and was unconscious. Police say he was intoxicated at the time and investigators believe he killed her during a dispute after returning home late.

Lawrence Elizabeth L Victor Verrier Charles H. Vose Lawrence Department Verrier Winthrop Avenue Manor

Deer and bear season totals in Maine at Bangor

In the hunting season closed at sunset Saturday, 149% deer were inspected at Bangor, compared with 2526 last year and 2466 the year before. A few carcasses remain to arrive. Bears totaled 12 at Bangor this year, versus 43 in 1917.

Bangor. Me Bangor Maine

Relief With Paper Cold Compound Addresses Grippe

Relief comes instantly with a two hour dosing schedule to end grippe misery and severe colds. It clears nasal passages, stops discharge, relieves headache feverishness and sore throat. Don’t stay stuffed up quit blowing and snuffling. The genuine Paper Cold Compound costs only a few cents at any drug store.

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