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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1920
Page
10
Harry Theresa Doris and Harriet are invited to respond within 24 hours to an Announcement. Criteria require interest in movies and occasional theatre attendance and thrift, earning money on your own. Send name and address on a postcard to receive a book detailing the offer.
Readers are invited to send name and address to receive details of the Frohman Plan. The scheme claims to share film profits with paying customers and provides a list of Frohman Productions and 24 portraits of Frohman stars at no cost.
A young deer fled a crowd of pursuing boys into the General Dye Works courtyard in Medford. Employees chased and captured the exhausted fawn after it jumped a four foot fence. The deer fed briefly on oats and hay before awaiting placement in a zoo.
An advertisement urges readers to take Pepto Mangan to strengthen blood during flu season. It emphasizes thin blood as a risk, recommends the liquid or tablet form from druggists, and warns to ask for Gude's Pepto Mangan with the name on the package.
Old fashioned health ad touts CARTER'S Little Liver Pills for appetite and stomach relief. Claims benefit for man, woman and child, with Purely vegetable formula and small dose. Also promotes DR CARTER'S IRON PILLS as a nerve and blood tonic for anemia and related conditions.
Advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a blood purifier that quickly improves tiredness loss of appetite and anemia. It promises better digestion nourishment and nerve strength with a cheerful health bounce back and recommends Hood's Pills as a gentle laxative or active cathartic.
An advertisement asserts many women suffer kidney or bladder trouble and that Dr KilmerSwamp Root restores kidney health. It claims back pain headaches and low energy improve and offers a sample bottle for ten cents plus options to buy larger sizes at drug stores.
A fire at 197 North Common street Lynn claims four lives Mary Clara Walker 84 Lydia Wade 81 blind Martha Proctor 92 lame Ellen Goudy 70 and injures others as firefighters evacuate inmates. Janitor Ephraim Smith and matron Rose Brainard alerted the fire department and rescue efforts continued for hours. The blaze damaged adjacent Odd Fellows block and Pastime Theatre with an estimated loss of 20000 dollars, 17000 insured.
Ohio Republicans rallied in Columbus with Senator Warren G. Harding National Chairman Will H. Hays and leaders speaking. Harding faulted President Wilson over ratification of the peace treaty and urged a platform of perfected Americanism, strong defense, tax reform, end of wartime statutes, reduced bureaucracy, public merchant marine subsidy, and square dealing. He also outlined party principles stressing efficient administration, tax reform, better labor capital relations, law and order, and forward-looking but grounded policy.
King George and Queen Mary with royal family attend the christening of Commander Alexander Ramsay and Lady Ramsay's son at the Chapel Royal. The infant's water was drawn from the Jordan by the Duke of Connaught during the 1917 British advance.
Washington Feb 23. Rep Mondell proposes centralizing all veteran aid bills including extra pay loans and land grants in the Ways and Means Committee for immediate and continuous action. Rep Rayburn blocks quick action over war risk insurance jurisdiction. resolution postponed until tomorrow.
The Harvard endowment fund committee reported a total of 12,000,000 as the campaign enters its 22nd week. Alumni participation exceeds 50 percent while remains to raise 3,250.09. Current totals show Boston 4,698,458 New York 4,015,728 and outside 3,270,723.
In Skowhegan Maine on February 23, the trial of John A Burke for Nelson Bartley s murder heard handwriting expert J Vreeland Haring from New York declare Bartley s three signatures forged. Defence plans to present their case tomorrow with few witnesses while experts challenge State evidence.
A home made cough syrup claims to rapidly treat chest cold symptoms in 24 hours or less. It uses 2% ounces of Pinex pine extract in a pint of sugar or alternative syrups and is marketed as cheaper than commercial products.
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