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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1920
Page
2
Sewell Ford presents Icky Boy Comes Along detailing the latest bulletins on Torchy junior and previewing its appearance in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece mixes light humor with progress notes on Torchy’s adventures for readers awaiting the magazine feature.
Mrs Ford worries about Bettys sixth birthday party and finds a solution with Puddine a creamy mold dessert mix. The neighbor touts its ease and flavor saying one box serves 15 and only needs milk and sugar. Mrs Ford later reports a successful party with happy children and leftover dessert.
A testimonial style ad extols Formamint Tablets as highly antiseptic and safe for the mouth and throat. It claims they destroy germ life, prevent sore throats, and reach all areas better than gargles, with pleasant flavor and 60 cents at druggists.
Providence February report details a deadly Lorraine Hotel blaze that killed three and left 88 of 106 guests unaccounted for. Police seek a well known sports figure said to have started the fire in his fourth floor room. proprietor says the fire began in a closet. Proved loss near 200000 with bodies being recovered from the ruins.
Mrs. Park, elected leader of the national voters league, signals rising suffrage power as 31 states adopt the 19th amendment. Officers include Mrs. George Cellhorn as vice chair and Mrs. Richard Edwards treasurer, with Mrs. Solon Jacobs secretary. The group emphasizes women can pursue education and public work without losing femininity.
Mrs Maud Wood Park a Boston born Radcliffe alumna 1893 high honors founded Radcliffe Equal Suffrage League and led Boston and national suffrage efforts. She lectured widely on women’s rights, organized 50 college leagues, taught citizenship, and helped convert male voters to support suffrage.
A large turnout urged repeal of the espionage act and a return to prewar conditions at a Metropolitan Affairs Committee hearing led by Senator Finkel. Speakers labeled current times as hysteria over Bolshevism while John M. Maguire argued wartime measures were necessary then, not now, urging restraint and trust in the public.
The Boston Sunday Post will feature Plupy Shute's humorous piece Gorge Washington, touted as one of the funniest works of its kind. Readers are urged not to miss the upcoming publication.
Bayer emphasizes genuine Aspirin tablets in Bayer packaging with directions for colds pain headache neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The Bayer name denotes genuine aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy 12 tablet tins cost a few cents.
Miss Helen Hoar of 16 Sanford street Pawtucket Rhode Island was arrested on a secret indictment warrant charging manslaughter by Inspector James Dennessey. Prosecutors allege she prepared medicine given to five week old Edward Dazendelet at Children’s Hospital on July 16 1919 resulting in tenfold overdose after treatment for a dislocated shoulder. Hospital officials would not comment and are expected to support her.
Former pharmacist Miss Hear appeared for a preliminary hearing before Judge Aiken in Superior Criminal Court. Bail set at 1000 dollars. case continued to jury trial. A physician hired by the parents found death due to morphine overdose. The investigation is ongoing.
The Boston Firemen's Legion Post led by Fire Chief Peter Walsh held the first Americanization meeting as part of the Make Friends with an Alien Week campaign at Faneuil Hall. Attendees included members from North, South and West Ends posts. aim is to teach Americanness to immigrants to prevent associations with un American ideas and societies.
Walsh urged following the golden rule to curb agitators and Bolshevists and aid abolition of them. Michael J. Downey praised the State branch of the American Legion for an Americanism programme to be adopted by city committees to fight anti Americanism. John S. Fitzgerald and Jerome Petitte addressed the meeting.
Lawrence A. Lyon, a commercial artist, was saved when fellow artist Karl Rittman volunteered to donate blood at St. Joseph's Hospital in Providence. Lyon was in critical condition after an internal hemorrhage and hospital doctors reported he was not greatly improved. Lyon is vice-president of the Pratt Advertising Corporation and recently came from Boston. his family resides at 44 Pitman Street in Hubbardston, Massachusetts.
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