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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1913
Page
2
Abraham Alpert editor of the Jewish Boston American addressed the Maccabean Associates of Boston during the celebration of the last evening of Hanukkah. He spoke on Jewish history and the victory of the Maccabees honoring the Feast of Lights.
A statement asserts that the Jewish viewpoint is essential to balance intolerance and prejudice, offering a moral counter to vice and crime in society.
The Boston Five formerly Revere Town Five reorganizes for the upcoming season under Sam Ash and Dave Landers. They invite rapid rival teams from Franklin A C Walpole Foxboro Maynard Stoughton Hyde Park Mil to contact for competition.
A terse notice directs all correspondence to Sam Ash at 28 School Street Room 61 Boston Massachusetts with a contact telephone Matin 4672. The fragment hints at an organizational address instruction likely for a local group or society in South Boston.
The Ben Millers, a group of soccer players, beat the True Blues of Paterson in St Louis on Christmas Day. The piece notes that True Blues in St Louis reference Browns and Cardinals performances rather than local successors.
Denver Juvenile Court Judge Ben B Lindsey, a known suffrage advocate, wed unexpectedly last week and took his bride East for a honeymoon. An interview in New York said the bride is pretty and sympathetic and declined to reveal her suffrage stance, replying she is “only a girl.”
Philadelphia observers reported an apparatus that cleanses blood of impurities and returns it to the body as well as a device to distinguish hunger from appetite. A dog model illustrated the Johns Hopkins University project led by Drs. J. J. Abel I. G. Rowntree and B. B. Turner during the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology session.
Dr. A J Carlson of the University of Chicago demonstrated his hunger testing device by inflating a stomach balloon connected to sensitized paper to record hunger. Experiments with white rats showed rapid diffusion of injected dyes, turning their bodies green or red, illustrating blood flow changes.
Liquor seizing squad hires a professional safe-opener to access a hotel safe revealing a quart of whiskey. A protest by three major Massachusetts liquor trade divisions targets a License Board appointee and hints at future board placement.
Robert A. Woods of the South End House goes before the Governor's Council for confirmation to the Boston Licensing Board. Governor Foss supports Woods citing his long social settlement work, while liquor trade groups oppose him for ties to prohibition.
John Lind, Wilsons personal representative, departs Vera Cruz on the Chester bound for Pass Christian Mississippi where he will meet President Wilson to discuss Mexican Revolution issues. The voyage is expected to take about 26 hours with Lind aiming to reach Pass Christian within four to five days at latest.
John Hays Hammond urged restricting the Monroe Doctrine to Mexico and Central America during an AAAS sectional meeting in Atlanta. He warned risk to the nation if foreign policy damaged domestic markets and warned against letting rivals dump surplus goods here.
New York December 30 Dr G u Phelps a noted surgeon died in this city He was born Milford Mass December 12 1834 and served as contract surgeon during the Civil War aboard the transport steamer Arago He later practiced in New York four years at St. Vincent and Bellevue hospitals and served as president of the New York State Medical Association He wrote a text on brain injuries and retired as a practicing surgeon in 1900s.
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