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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1918
Page
10
Mrs Pauline Townsend 39 of 265 Webster Street East Boston was taken to Relief Hospital with leg injuries after being struck on Tremont Street by an automobile driven by Chris P Thompson of Massachusetts Avenue.
An advertising notice claims worms threaten child's health and urges buying Dr True’s Filixir. It cites signs such as stomach issues, foul breath, pale face, rash tongue spots, nocturnal tooth grinding, and cough. Testimonial from Mrs Norrat of Houston supports the product from Dr J F True & Co Auburn Maine.
New Haven June 20 Professor Ernst Isaac Werber a Yale Seesel research fellow was arrested at his home by federal officers and jailed on grounds that as an enemy alien Austrian he could freely use university laboratories making him dangerous at large.
Sergeant John F. Hayes asks Mayor Peters to shelter a pet described as part dog and part wolf until after the war. The Franklin Park zoo was proposed as a temporary home but James B. Shea warns Eskimo dogs at the zoo could attack the animal, making refuge unlikely.
Sheriff Keliher is reported at Fenway Hospital recovering from throat surgery. After the operation yesterday physicians report his condition as excellent.
Judge A K Cohen of Division No 4 Boston draft board urges the public to report men with deferred classifications who may not be entitled. He notes confidential handling of informants and says the alert was sent to 25 local draft boards.
Chairman Cohen announces Boston registrants will be reclassified starting Monday June 24 under Crowder orders. The process involves government appeal agents and state legal advisers reexamining questionnaires, with confidential handling of information and possible local board decisions after independent fact gathering.
Dr. Frank C. Richardson professor of nervous diseases at Boston University School of Medicine died yesterday at 4:30 PM at the summer home in Duxbury of Dr. Nathaniel Emerson. Survived by mother Mrs. William S. Pratt, wife, and son Conrad P. Richardson. funeral arrangements to be set, likely from 1070 Beacon Street Brookline.
Guy D. Gold of the United States Department of Labor will discuss American Labor Behind the War at a patriotic forum rally at the Dorchester School Centre Codman Square tonight. An audience Q A session will follow the address.
New York June 20 The commandant Third Naval District offers a thousand dollar reward to any person who furnishes authentic information leading to the discovery of an actual German submarine base. The reward is payable to the informer at 280 Broadway and the district reserves the right to decide entitlement and share.
A dinner in honor of District Attorney Henry G. Wells of Haverhill, longtime Massachusetts Senate president, was hosted by Louis B. Mayer of Boston at the Georgian last evening. Mayer and Wells were lauded as worthy sons of one of the best cities as guests from Haverhill’s Senate, House, and business circles attended.
Thomas Brennan, former night cleaner at South Terminal, is jailed for trespassing after claiming right to money owed him. In Central Court he sobered briefly, then refused to leave, insisting he must return to the site to collect the funds. The judge ordered him to stay away and dismissed the claim as delusive.
A funeral service for Ed ward Parker Howe was held at King's Chapel with Rev. Howard K. Brown officiating. Many business interests educational institutions and clubs connected with him sent representatives. Burial is planned for Westboro.
Dr Warren R Sisson of Massachusetts General Hospital outlines summer care for infants at the Child Welfare Cottage on Boston Common. Key points include nursing whenever possible, boiling milk two to three minutes and cooling on ice, giving daily orange juice after three months, and using cane sugar to sweeten milk.
Instructions advise a well ventilated daytime room and preventing older siblings from handling the baby. Milk with sugar is recommended as a substitute, while bread and cake are discouraged. The text also warns against giving a pacifier to the infant.
Twenty expert watchmakers from the Waltham Watch Company were enrolled in the naval reserve yesterday. They are to be used on aviation instruments at the Charlestown navy yard, indicating a shift of company work to military aviation support.
A historical ad touts Fruit-a-tives and Fruit Liver Tablets as unique fruit juice medicines for constipation liver and bile issues headaches neuralgia and skin affections. The ad cites apples oranges figs and prunes as sources with nerve tonics and antiseptics and lists prices 50c per box six for 2.50 and 25c trial size, available at dealers or from TIVES Limited Ogdensburg New York.
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