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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 11, 1917
Page
5
The column offers remedies for kidney and bladder distress and pleurisy. Balmwort tablets are recommended for kidney symptoms, mentholaxene deemed effective for bronchitis and weight loss, five grain arbolone for obesity, Pine-olatum for neuralgia and rheumatic pains, and three grain sul phoric tablets for constipation and blood cleansing.
Many city retail stores will close 2 to 3 pm as a tribute to Ralph H. White head of the R. H. White Company. His funeral is at 2 pm at Old South Church. Honorary pallbearers include General Charles H. Taylor and Edward W. Hutchins. Mayor Curley ordered half staff flags citywide.
A special recess commission on building laws reports school safety at risk as cities fail to enforce fire laws. It says Springfield Holyoke and Waltham schools were omitted from police inspections and no school in Cambridge Chicopee Gloucester Lowell Medford Melrose Newburyport or Newton is certified safe. The committee filed a bill to require fire stops and other prevention devices in schools.
Funeral services for Mrs Ellen L Leary a longtime North End resident were held yesterday from her home 419 Hanover Street A requiem mass followed at St Stephen s Church with Rev John H Powers as celebrant The burial took place at Holy Cross cemetery She is survived by husband Michael H Leary and sisters Elizabeth Barrett Norah Griffin and Katherine McCarthy
The Boston wholesale fish trade veteran Captain Albert F. Rich died at his home 53 School Street Charlestown yesterday. His career began in 1867 at Commercial wharf and he later moved to T wharf before relocating the business to South Boston in 1914. At death he served as treasurer of the New England Fish Company.
The Greater Boston branch of the National Equal Rights League will mark the centenary of Frederick Douglass with a day long observance at Faneuil Hall on Wednesday Feb 14 The league will form a citizens auxiliary committee E T Morris is chairman William Monroe Trotter secretary and W H Anderson treasurer Names of those who knew Douglass are welcomed at 84 Cornhill for inclusion.
City officials including Clerk Stever and Clerk Cummings consulted the board of public works and City Treasurer Fred M. Platt before Mayor Moulton signed a one cent check to the Hartford Railroad Company. The payment was sent by mail to New Haven and carried no interest despite a 10 day overdue status.
Lloyds reports the British steamer Bayness of 82 percent gross tonnage sunk. Also reported sunk is the British steamer Lynfield, registered at 3023 tons. The notices come from London dated January 10.
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