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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1914
Page
3
Dr John Lovett Morse told a Harvard Medical School audience that manufactured baby foods cause many illnesses and deaths among infants. He argued breast feeding is essential and attacked proprietary foods as profit driven, citing high bottle feeding mortality and ill effects from commercial preparations.
Mrs. Sarah Lambdin aged 88 collapsed during worship at the Forty-third Street Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia. She had reportedly wished to die in church and was living with her married daughter Mrs. G. T. Bender.
Vassar College faculty in Poughkeepsie deny Dr Carolyn Geisel charges before the National Conference on Race Betterment that college women are poor homemakers or bad mothers. President James Monroe Taylor calls the accusations absurd and ridiculed, affirming VC women are competent housewives and good mothers due to their college training.
New York report recounts Rose Garbin 25 of 19 Second Street trailing husband and emptying carbolic acid from a vial into his face at Broome and Hildridge streets. The burning liquid blinded him as he screamed and fell to the pavement.
The Crest docked from a 10 day Georges Bank trip with four inches of ice on the forward half. The donkey engine and gear were frozen as the crew, led by Captain Jim Lyle, endured a two day gale that hobbled unloading of 30 000 pounds of haddock cod hake and pollock.
Ann Arbor reporting that tango shoes with rubber soles and no heels cause an outbreak of flat footedness among University of Michigan male students as of January 11.
Entry blanks for the Memorial Day parade and stable inspection are available at the Work Horse Relief Association office at 15 Beacon Street with no entry fee. Drivers earning a blue ribbon again with the same horse or horses receive a driver badge, and four consecutive blue ribbons earn a special silver badge. A gold badge goes to the most meritorious driver. The hospital at 78 Northampton Street remains open for patients and visitors.
Mobile Ala Jan 11 Mrs Ida Tillman the Geneva post mistress has refused to give up her office accusing political tricksters of forcing her removal. She has appealed to the Masonic fraternity for aid in her fight.
In Menominee Michigan on January 1 doctors removed 156 bits of skin from the leg of William Levature of T Anse and grafted it onto his arm after a leg injury three months earlier. Physicians called the operation a success and said he will recover.
Mrs Kate Waller Barrett founder of the Florence Crittenton League of Compassion told the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association that there is no class of women in the world who knows as much about politics as the so called bad woman She said most women are snobbish to these women who are unfortunate during their first Sunday afternoon musical tea of the year
She argues that women understand men and demand the ballot to aid other women. She cites her Florence Crittenton League work and ER clergy widow status, noting many women she met seek to guard children, close saloons, and support reforms. She warns against the narrow belief that one remedy solves all problems.
Joseph Allard attempted suicide in his barber shop at 170 Chestnut Street Lynn. An employee found him unconscious near a gas tube as the shop filled with escaping gas. A note said he was despondent over business and family troubles. He was taken to Lynn Hospital and is expected to recover.
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