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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1920
Page
5
The Maryland superdreadnought will be launched March 20 in Newport News. It weighs 32 000 tons with a 600 by 97 feet profile and carries eight 16 inch rifles, the heaviest guns on a naval ship. It leads a class of four with plans for six more 43 000 ton ships, each armed with 12 16 inch guns and higher speed.
Washington March 2 Maine was authorized by the War Department to increase its National Guard quota by one company of coast artillery. The move boosts Maine's military capacity with additional troops and equipment.
An advertisement offers a free 50-cent bottle of Flagworth Discs (60 discs) to prove relief from indigestion, dyspepsia, sour stomach, and related stomach ailments. It claims improved digestion strengthens the body and heart, urging readers to mail to The Francis Co. in Temple Court, New York City.
Final arguments heard in a long running suit involving Woodbridge heirs, the Columbian Life Insurance Co and the American Investment Security Co. The heirs allege conspiracy by Arthur E. Childs and others to dissolve the holding company and wipe out the Woodbridge estate, with an estate once valued at $500,000. The case concerns over $1,000,000 and a decision was awaited.
Company G of the 18th Infantry ordered from Hoboken to Camp Devens to join the regiment. Two battalions of the 18th Infantry have been at Devens since early February.
Ed C Lassiter of Texas told the House agriculture committee that virtual elimination of big packers is needed and replacement by small local and cooperative yards and slaughterhouses. He cited railroad favors and opposed Packers ownership of refrigerator cars and cattle loan companies. He called for cooperative loan groups and smaller facilities to curb packer power.
Mr Lassiter says the packing business is uneconomical harming livestock producers and consumers. He calls for legislation to reduce big packer dominance and promote small cooperative agencies, separation of large stockyards from packers, and ownership by railroads as transport adjuncts. He cautions against transferring yards stock to railroad-free interests and notes independent yards and plants cannot develop while large packers hold sway.
Fitchburg Post American Legion protests to Senator David T. Vaish and Congressmen Calvin D. Paige and Allen Treadway against the government revoking an installation order at the Industrial machine plant. A vocational school for 700 disabled World War I veterans was to be opened by William B. Hunter, but the machinery order was countermanded.
Senator Reed of Missouri introduced a resolution urging the Senate Manufactures Committee to investigate the United States Grain Corporation and the alleged wheat pool. The measure follows a federal grand jury report from Spokane and was sent to the auditing committee for action.
Norbert J Reilly Boston leather merchant and president of N J Reilly & Co has returned from a nationwide tour to study industrial conditions. He will speak on his observations to the Massachusetts Realty Association at the Copley Plaza Hotel on March 10.
Sewell Ford recounts Torchy's adventures on a new assignment given by his chief in this humorous tale set to appear in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
Mrs. Louis I. Rickert of 16 Curtis street North Weymouth owns a White Rock pullet that lays extra large eggs in pairs. One egg weighed four ounces, another five ounces, from a nest of 20 hens. Last month she gathered 261 eggs, a notable record for pullets hatched last May.
The Rev. Daniel Nicholson announces a revival week at Scotch Presbyterian Church with Rev. Chester T. Birch to preach both afternoon and evening services on War renton Street starting next Sunday. The Rev. Lucius R. Paige begins as pastor of Third Universalist Church at Porter Square with his first Sunday sermon. The Rev. William M. Gilbert outlines four Sunday morning sermons for March including Holy Communion Man Sin and Salvation. The Rev. Ernest Graham Guthrie says People’s Hour Friday at 7 45 p m will discuss Messages of Modern Prophets and Saints Dare We Be Christians. Dean Rousmaniere stages an Americanization meeting at Cathedral Church of St Paul next Sunday at 4 p m. Sanford Bates and Edward C R Bagley will speak on The Modern Treatment of Prisoners.
On the eve of the burial of William App Jr four month old son of Mr and Mrs William App of 16 Elm Street Lynn medical examiner Nathaniel P Breed and Lynn police planned an autopsy to establish the death cause beyond doubt. The baby died suddenly at a home 31 Lawton Avenue Lynn where it had been boarded out. The child was abnormally large and well developed for its age.
Washington March 2 Acting on the new Secretary of Agriculture recommendation the Senate agriculture committee voted to remove from the annual agriculture bill the 240000 dollars the House had allotted to continue the long standing practice of free seed distribution to constituents by members of Congress The move ends the practice in line with administration aims.
An advertisement for N S R P a non secret rheumatism remedy claims rapid relief from rheumatic pains and uric acid removal. It touts no narcotics costs 50 cents per bottle and lists Philadelphia and Boston area druggists as sellers.
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