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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1922
Page
7
An old advertisement touts Pape's Cold Compound as instant relief for colds. It claims doses every two hours to break a cold within hours, relieving headaches sneezing runny nose and dullness, with no quinine and a pleasant taste, available for a few cents at drug stores.
F P OConnor Company president and treasurer F P OConnor hosted about one hundred employees at a Valentine themed banquet at the Hotel Vendome. Katharine ODonnell became the first woman president of the employees club and took office. Notables included Howard A McLaughlin N R OHara and Henry VY Cunningham with musical selections by William H OBrien. A silver vase was presented to Josephine Looby upon retirement as treasurer of the Get Together Club.
The Post notes Hindy the Post cat was absent while Loyal Pat a 45 pound husky bull show dog owned by Mrs. James W. Munn of Essex visited the newsroom. Loyal Pat just returned from Canada after winning beach shows in Winnipeg and targets the New England circuit this week. The dog is registered in Canadian and American kennels and has sired about 400 puppies.
Clergymen in Lowell Massachusetts push for arbitration to settle the extended textile strike centered at Saylesville Rhode Island. Union leader James Starr and Bishop George Guertin attend ministerial meetings to present arguments while wage disputes spark pay and hour changes across Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts mills.
Belmont lawyer and war veteran J Watson Flett defeated Boston lawyer Thomas R Gibb in a special state primary to fill the Belmont Lexington 28th Middlesex district vacancy caused by Guy L Weymouth resignation. Flett won 990 votes to 454 with the Feb 28 election date noted.
Lewis McGrath 16 of Pleasant Street Bradford was captured after a sensational attempt to flee. Police say he tried to redeem 23 Street Railway tickets stolen from Greenleaf School during the night of February 9. He fled through an open window but was chased by a passerby and handed to Haverhill police.
The North Weymouth Yacht Club held its 10th annual dinner last night with Commodore William Welsh and officers John F Hurley William Cook James Urquhart and Paul F Brown directing the committee.
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