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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1920
Page
15
An advertisement promotes California Syrup of Figs as the best harmless laxative for children with a fruity taste. It emphasizes full directions on each bottle and cites safety for stomach liver and bowel relief.
After nearly two hours of wrangling the City Council deadlocked 5 to 4 on the Milk and Sears streets site for Police Station 2. Mayor Peters’s bid to fund the purchase failed as a two thirds vote was not reached. The council also rejected a $400,000 loan order to build at Arch and Hawley streets.
Four council members vote to kill the Milk street site, four vote to kill McLaughlin’s loan order, and an amendment to strike the Arch and Hawley street site fails. Moriarty blasts the handling as political, while Ford and Hagan push for the old Revere House site inquiry and Station 2 planning.
Henry Gagnon a United States Navy seaman will take the stand in Suffolk Divorce Court over charges of neglect infidelity and cruel treatment by his wife Ida Gagnon. Ida testified about her husband's habit of keeping photographs and calling cards of young women she had not met and the couple’s troubled marriage began after their 1916 marriage in Laconia New Hampshire.
Baron Camillo Avezzana Italian ambassador to the United States told Boston Chamber of Commerce diners last night that Italy is emerging from war chaos and speeding up production. He denied Bolshevik threat and urged America to view Italy as a major European economic factor.
Delegation from Clarksburg West Virginia moves to San Francisco to establish headquarters for John W Davis bid for the Democratic nomination for President Davis served as United States ambassador to Great Britain and leads the campaign team travel and strategy details outlined in the dispatch.
Letters discuss city aquarium visiting hours at City Point in South Boston and the origin of the Republican elephant and Democratic donkey as created by Thomas Nast. Other queries cover The Birth of a Nation, cold pack canning, Wilson cabinet members, English grammar, and straw hat straw processing.
An advertisement touts Bitro-Phosphate with claims of restoring nerve calm and steady weight gain. It cites Rosa Harris from 101 to 134 pounds and promises a 300 dollar guarantee, urging readers to obtain the product via Arrow Chemical Company with a free booklet on health benefits.
Tokio reports Tokyo has sent a second note to Beijing arguing that China must negotiate directly with Japan to restore Shantung. The note recalls China’s prewar promise to honor arrangements Japan reached with Germany and urges China to speed police force for the Shantung railroad to allow Japanese troop withdrawal.
Carl H. Chandler a former Boston newspaper man tied to the United States Treasury Department was found dead in his 2 Hemenway Street apartment. The caretaker Fred H. Stafford discovered the body after calling and not receiving a response. Police say death was due to natural causes. Chandler born in Lawrence graduated Dartmouth College in 1898 then joined the Herald in Boston and later moved to the customs service.
More than 16 000 men over 20 in Boston paid their 1920 poll taxes by 2 p m yesterday closing time of the city collector's office. About 11 338 had paid in anticipation of warrants for delinquents due June 2 and thousands more paid at ward stations. Many bills remain unpaid as a week remains to avoid extra costs. Ex servicemen are exempt from the tax.
Horace Greeley Lodge No 163 Knights of Pythias will install five officers and confer esquire rank on two candidates this afternoon at 3 o'clock in William Parkman Hall Boston. One candidate comes from Marathon Lodge and members are invited. Smokes will be furnished. Market prices for Swift Co carcass beef in Boston for week ending Saturday June 12 ranged 16.00 to 24.50 cents per pound, average 20.89 cents.
Washington June 14 An embargo on sugar exports is included in the Justice Department plan to relieve a nation-wide shortage A W Riley special assistant to the attorney general announced. Sugar exports during 1919 already exceed those for the whole of last year with 211000 tons of American owned sugar exported and 220000 tons exported from Jan 1 to May 27 1919.
Washington June 14 Norman H. Davis of Tennessee was appointed by President Wilson to be Under-Secretary of State. He will assume his duties tomorrow succeeding Frank L. Incomplete sentence ends.
A Mass housing notice markets Dr J F True Elixir as a long standing family laxative claiming to clean poisons from the system. It describes worm symptoms and urges purchase at all dealers with physician recommendations and Auburn Maine contact.
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