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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1916
Page
6
Health department circulates guidance for mothers with nursing infants. Advice covers feeding with mother's milk, avoiding bottle feeding, proper water, clean milk from stations, and avoiding hot weather hazards. Emphasizes consulting doctors for serious decisions and using clean bottles, cool storage, and open windows.
A guidance snippet urges nursing the baby at regular times and not more than every two hours. It recommends the infant sleep six hours or more at night without waking unless feeding time arrives. The fragment ends with a directive to give the...
The Spanish navy submarine at Fore River shipyard Quincy is nearly finished and likely to enter the water in two weeks. Twelve Spanish navy officers will arrive from New York to assume control, with the Spanish ambassador expected at the launching ceremony.
Army beans have become scarce and costly abroad and at home. Flour jumped 25 cents a barrel this week due to wheat speculation, reaching 7.75 dollars. Beans rose from 14 cents a quart a year ago to 14 cents a pound, or about 26 cents a quart, with a quart still two ounces short of two pounds.
Frogs legs at 20 cents a pair as sea son delicacy. clams 80 cents quart. lobsters 42 cents. Eggs 88 cents a dozen. watermelons 40 to 69 cents. peas 10 cents a peck. Asparagus near end of season. grapefruit scarce at 13 cents. berries in season with various prices. Fruits show mixed levels with melons 85 and 45 cents. limes 1 cent a dozen. lemons 30. oranges 83 to 50. peaches 55 cents five pound basket. pears 30 cents a dozen. Vegetables vary with corn 40 a dozen. cabbage 6 a pound. beans 10 a quart. cucumbers 8 cents. potatoes 85 a peck. Seafood prices: cod and haddock 8 cents. mackerel 15-40 cents. halibut 28-35. bluefish 80 cents. swordfish 25. crabs 4 cents. Print butter 88 cents. meats generally high with various roasts and fowl listed. All dry groceries rising.
The Chelsea Jewish War Relief committee releases a memorial booklet the first of its kind in New England depicting persecutions of Jews in Russia. It serves as an extra fund raising effort for Jewish sufferers in wartime Europe with subscriptions surpassing $1000.
Police sought William Flanagan aged 22 of 1794 Columbia Road South Boston missing since Wednesday night after leaving home in swimwear and overcoat for a swim. Last seen heading toward the L Street bathhouse.
Nearly 100 members of the Carney Hospital Alumnae Association held the first annual outing at Nan tasket Beach with a basket lunch and a day of sports for children led by Miss Hannah O Regan. Prizes included a gold medal from Sister Raphael. A shore dinner followed and the event may become annual. Miss Abbie Leahy presides.
The late B M Jones of Beacon street donated a solid silver sanctuary lamp an ablution cup and a ciborium to St Josephs Church Belmont He was not Catholic The feast of St Ignatius Loyola will be observed at the Church of the Immaculate Conception Harrison avenue and East Concord street on Sunday Aug 6 A high mass will be held at 1030 and a panegyric will be delivered by a Boston College priest The Rev Robert E Lee is organizing a parish field day at Spring Grove Wellesley on July 29 A whist party and dance by the Holy Name Society raised funds for its table The Forty Hours devotion begins this morning at the Sacred Heart Watertown Blessed Sacrament Houghs Neck and St Bridgets Framingham with a closing mass Sunday morning
Several thousand parishioners are expected to attend the Cathedral’s annual field day at the old National league grounds on Walpole street and Columbus avenue. The event runs from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. with booths, sports directed by Thomas Callahan, and a Gaelic football match between County Kerry and County Tipperary teams.
Official figures show 235 aid applications with 184 on automatic payroll and 17 moved to payroll after work found. Six were given one week’s relief, 28 rejected after review. Total payroll $1,447 weekly, $537 for emergency relief. 150 applications pending. Multiple cities report fundraising and volunteer drives as relief networks mobilize for soldiers and families amid shortages and demand.
Advertises Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder to comfort feet in the arid border climate. Encourages sending a 25 cent box by mail with a 2 cent stamp to reach loved ones serving in camps or at the border.
The finance committee reports ongoing need for contributions to support soldiers' dependents. Over 1000 was added yesterday to the list of acknowledgments. Donors include Mrs. Arthur T. Cabot, Mrs. A. T. Reynolds, George F. Smithsone, Harold S. Davis, Mary P. Winsor, Mrs. Robert O. Winthrop, Eliza Orne White, and George C. Lee as treasurer at 50 State Street, Boston.
Washington July 13. Postmaster General Burleson and a party of department officials capsized in the Potomac rapids last Sunday while fishing from a canoe. They were swept downstream a short distance and later rescued by counselors and others in the party.
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