Germans Fear Edison’s Skill Alarm Boston Club Talk
Professor Montraville Wood told the Boston Rotary Club at the Lenox that Germany fears what Thomas A. Edison might produce as a war weapon. He cited Edison headed Naval Advisory Board actions and warned against assumed German naval threats to Boston Harbor, calling such notions exaggerated and implausible.
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Montraville Wood
Boston Rotary Club
Hotel Lenox
Germany
United States
Thomas A. Edison
Edison
Naval Advisory Board
Boston
Navy Yard
Mayor Fenderson Renominated in Saco Republican Caucus
Saco Missouri mayor James H. Fenderson was renominated for the third time at a Republican caucus tonight.
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Saco
James H. Fenderson
Inside Bathing with Hot Water and Limestone Phosphate
A health column extols morning hot water with limestone phosphate to cleanse the alimentary canal. It claims this “inside bathing” prevents toxins entering the blood, improves digestion, and freshens appearance, with advice for daily use and a modest cost.
Commission on High Cost of Living Proposes Remedies
The group appointed by Governor McCall recently submitted a detailed report outlining causes of rising prices and recommended steps. Tactics include eating more fish, milk use, wartime planning, reducing government costs, adopting a state budget, reducing waste, reclaiming lands, boosting milk farming, and revising obstructive laws.
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McCall
Commission
Minority report urges embargo on exporting foodstuffs
Francis X. Tyrrell and a commission critique rising living costs blamed on war and waste. They urge legislative action to curb prices, conserve resources, and substitute milk for pricier foods, while recommending government savings and a big public-spirited committee to promote conservation.
Coastwise trade cut by coal prices
Coal shortages and high prices threaten coastwise steamship services. The Boston has halted service to Yarmouth Nova Scotia and remains out of commission. New York steamers on long term contracts are shielded, but other lines may cut schedules until conditions improve.
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Navy League of the United States, Inc
Massachusetts Department of the Navy League of the United States, Inc
Washington
Navy Department
League
Navy
Commonwealth
First National Bank
Boston
Boston Papers
Harry K. White
State St
Mass
Yarmouth
N.S
New York
Market Prices in Downtown Grains and Fish
Downtown market prices showed sugar at nine cents in some groceries and sales of five pounds per person. Potatoes reached $1 per peck with a two-bushel limit. Fish remained plentiful and overall prices remained steady from the prior two weeks.
Spring market prices list meats and produce
Veal tops at 23c a lb with fores 16 and chops 30. Rhubarb 18c lb, cod 12c, haddock 12–16, bluefish 36, fillets 16, finnan haddie 16–20, flounders 8–16, halibut 30–50, lemon sole 20, salmon 32–36, smelts 4 to 24. Lobsters 5d green and 7 boiled, no mackerel. Scallops 1–1.25 quart, blue points 1, Cotuits 90c, crab meat 1.25 lb. Onions 15–18c lb, spinach 50 a peck, few tomatoes. Celery 20–30, carrots 8, parsnips 8, turnips 5, beets 7, cabbage 12. Oranges, grapefruit plentiful, lemons 23 doz, apples still available. Hamburg steak 22c lb, sliced bacon 30, fowl 30, chicken scarce. Lamb legs 25, rump 34, pork chops 25, liver 12. Best eggs 66, 62c, print butter 45, Vermont creamery 41, butterine 28.
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Bermuda
Hamburg
Vermont Creamery
Banished Desire for Tobacco Says John Miller
Waverly Kansas resident John Miller claims a home mix of water muriate of ammonia Varlex Compound and pepsin banished his tobacco craving after 20 years. He says a teaspoonful three times daily works and is easy to disguise in tea coffee milk or food with little cost.
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John Miller
Waverly
Kas
Miller
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills Endorsed by Authorities
The ad cites U S Pharmacopoeia Dispensatory and American Dispensatory backing for Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills noting ingredients such as roots barks herbs berries pepsin wax iron celery gentian and listing diseases like scrofula rheumatism dyspepsia neuraglia nervousness and debility. It promotes 200 doses for $2 and availability at all druggists.
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U. S
Hood
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