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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1919
Page
7
The Sunday Post highlights Guynemer the renowned French air knight with 338 combats, 36 aircraft shot down, and three drachen. It notes 36 more planes forced to land and teasers for next Sunday's installment.
Case of Mrs. Bell M. Allen from Brunswick Maine credits Dr Williams Pink Pills as a blood builder. After three boxes she could walk, with pains in limbs and shoulders gone and cheeks showing a blood increase. Pills marketed by Dr Williams Medicine Co. Schenectady priced 50 cents a box six for $2.50.
In Lansing, Mrs. Ora O. Bowers describes serious postnatal weakness and back pain that left her unable to stand or care for her baby. After using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Sanative Wash she improved rapidly and urges other young mothers to try the remedies, citing the company’s 40 years of experience for guidance.
Methuen townsfolk report Mrs. Sarah J. Seymour, a homemaker in Methuen, works part time selling dynamite from her backyard. She is believed to be the only woman dynamite agent in New England, storing about 300 pounds in a small outbuilding near her porch.
The Daily and Sunday Post begins printing a series of first person narratives from members of New England's division recounting actual World War I experiences. The narratives will be continued in forthcoming issues.
A I Company mortar team led by a wounded sergeant held a German barrage near the front line. Privates Alson Knutson Cole Howland and Corporal Mack died or were wounded, while the speaker earned the Croix de Guerre from General Passaga aboard a hospital.
Mrs. Seymour, described by Chief Morris as the district’s best dynamite agent, runs a home backed sales operation from 163 Howe Street. She says only permit holders can buy, with orders delivered from her yard across Salem to Newburyport and into New Hampshire.
A woman runs a sideline explosives business from her home outside a restricted district. She says customers bring their permits, pay for dynamite like milk, and the neighbors are not afraid. Chief Morris praises her handling of the material and notes authorities are unworried.
Spanish novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez famed for The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse and Blood and Sand plans Mare Nostrum about German submarine activity in the Mediterranean. His works include The Shadow of the Cathedral and The Cabin. Ibanez, born 1867, faced early government backlash and exile before rising as a leading war writer.
At the Berne Socialist Conference a manifesto reportedly from American sources questioned the conference as a deception and claimed the working class is not truly represented. Frank Bohn, called unofficial American delegate, was refused permission to speak as Irish representatives joined the 123-member delegation.
Sewell Ford’s Torchy tale “A Frame-Up for Stuffy” features amusing situations and entertaining characters blended with Torchy’s humor, foreshadowing next week's Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
Lectures by Dr E F Phillips of the U S Department of Agriculture will highlight the bee keepers session of Massachusetts agricultural unions in Horticultural Hall this week. Phillips will discuss Wintering at 2 30 pm tomorrow. Moving pictures show the bees activity and honey products along with a display of bee goods and other items. The event is free to the public and will be held in the lower hall.
Dennis F. Quinlan aged 73 of 39 Green Street collapsed at his door Saturday and died at Relief Hospital from a cerebral hemorrhage.
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