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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1920
Page
11
T. W. A. Smith a 54 year old retired florist in Biddeford Maine killed himself tonight by inhaling gas at his home. He had been despondent.
An advertisement urges readers to prevent colds and catarrh by applying Ely's Cream Balm in the nostrils. It claims the antiseptic cream clears blocked air passages, relieves inflamed membranes, and reduces mucus. The product, in use for over 30 years, is sold at drug stores and marketed to promote better breathing day and night.
A mass meeting under the American Commission for Irish Independence will be at Mechan ics' building Sunday with speakers Frank P. Walsh Harry Boland and Rev Jonathan C Day. Doors open 6 pm program 8 pm with no tickets and a concert by the 101st Regiment Band.
The Brown University Glee and Mandolin Club will give a Ford Hall concert tomorrow night for the Girls' City Club benefit. Sans Souci Circle handles arrangements with Misses Helen Cullity Janet Schaffer and Helen Cullinan coordinating. The club plans a leap year tea Sunday and a colonial party Monday at Newbury Street with weeklong winter sports and dancing.
A Massachusetts special commission led by Henry A. Wyman proposes taxing all billboards and signs not exempt by law. The tax would be set by the highway division based on location, neighborhood, and foot traffic. The report also says owners would be liable for damages from highway accidents caused by signs and empowers public officers to destroy unsafe signs.
Washinton February 12 George H Whitcher of Concord was appointed today federal prohibition director for New Hampshire.
Floward C. Knotts, a second year law student from Springfield Illinois and one of 11 American flying aces, has been elected president of the Harvard Aeronautical Society. He flew in the 17th Squadron during the war and earned the British Distinguished Flying Cross, the General Service Medal, and the Belgian Croix de Guerre.
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