Baby Week Lectures Across Boston Stores
The city marked the start of Baby Week with lectures and meetings at Filene’s Jordan Marsh Houghton & Dutton and other venues. Doctors and nurses offered free infant care advice as communities rally to lower infant mortality, now about 14 per 100 births. Meetings target mothers, fathers, and caregivers with talks on health, nursing, and feeding.
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Filene Tore
Arthur H. Merritt
Arther Farmons
Merritt
Richard M. Smith
Jordan Marsh
Greta Mabry
Francis X. Mahoney
Parmenter Street
Dennison
Tyler Street
Roxbury
Albany Street
Dorchester House
Gordon Place
Greater
Boston
United States
Baby Week Movement Opens Across Greater Boston
The real aim is to reduce busy mortality nationwide and Boston joins with great enthusiasm. Meetings begin this morning in downtown department stores with lectures and mass gatherings in churches and schools. A second round of events is planned for tomorrow under the banner Mothers Day, stemming from Chicago physicians who sparked the drive.
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Boston
Chicago
Boston baby praised by Indian mother Gold Wing
Mrs. Joe Little Bear calls Wan a tus ah Edith Norma the most perfect baby in Boston. In an interview she shares radical views on childrearing, opposing tight clothing and go carts, preferring cradle baskets and tribal remedies from a medicine cabinet of roots and tonics.
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Gold Wing
Edith Norma
Austrian M P Backs Bryan Nobel Peace Prize
Dr. Alois Leilinger of the Austrian Parliament writes to the Nobel committee in Stockholm urging William J. Bryan receive the 1916 peace prize for efforts to halt American munitions exports. Heisinger argues such action would end the war and spur peace talks under American leadership.
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Zurich
London
Alois Leilinger
Nobel Committee
Stockholm
William J. Bryan
Heisinger
America
Looks Like Mary Pickford in Hotel Lobby Says Miss Boyne
Miss Mildred Boyne a news stand girl at Copley Plaza notes many hotel lobby types resemble Mary Pickford. She told a Post reporter lobby crowd offers ideas for roving picture scenarios and acting, from dowagers to newlyweds and society girls.
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Mildred Boyne
Copley Plaza
Mary Pickford
Accused U. S. Sailor Turned Over to Police
Richmond I. May a crew member of the U S S Bushnell at Charlestown navy yard was turned over to Station 3 police by order of Secretary of the Navy Daniels. He is charged with manslaughter in the death of Martin J. Nelson 28 of 13 Atherton Roxbury and will be arraigned in Central police court today.
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Richmond I. May
U. S. S. Bushnell
Charlestown Navy Yard
Boston
Secretary of the Navy
Daniels
May
Martin J. Nelson
Atherton Street
Roxbury
Central Police Court
Parish Reunion to Aid Chelsea Poor
The annual reunion of St. Rose's Church parishioners in St. Rose's Hall Chelsea will be held this evening. Proceeds go to the parish poor.
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St. Rose's Church
Chelsea
St. Rose's Hall
Broadway
Oxford basketball players found dead in hotel
Russell Foster and Clarence Stanley of the Oxford team were found dead in bed at the City Hotel with gas escaping from a slightly opened jet. The deaths were ruled accidental and the two young men were prominent in Oxford and Webster.
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Webster
Russell Foster
Clarence Stanley
Oxford
City
Harvard Doctor Praises Fat as a Food Source
Dr. Walter R. Bloor of Harvard Medical School spoke on obesity at a lecture titled Fat. Though some expected a new theory on reducing obesity, he spent most of his talk praising fat as a human food.
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Walter R. Bloor
Department of Biological Chemistry
Harvard Medical School
Obesity Causes And Diet Advice From A Scholar
A speaker attributes obesity to over feeding and reduced exercise. He notes middle aged individuals often overeat and suggests less food with more exercise. He cites a scientist claim that a daily diet of milk butter meat and bread could add 22 pounds per year.
Short cuts to thinness warned as unsafe
Health guidance warns against quick weight loss methods and advises reversing the original weight gain. It notes some cases require special medical attention.
East Loop at Dudley Street Reconstruction Starts
Boston Elevated Railway Company begins work on the east loop at the Dudley Street terminal. The project tests a return to the old system letting cars entering the east loop load and unload at the same berth to ease congestion.
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Dudley Street
Boston Elevated Railway Company
East Loop
New Haven Road Names Claim Agent
The New Haven railroad announced G. S. Hamlin as claim agent for Massachusetts with D. M. Goodridge named as assistant to Mr Hamlin.
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New Haven
New Haven Railroad
G. S. Hamlin
State of
Massachusetts
D. M. Goodridge
Hamlin
Poslam Skin Remedy Promoted by Electrical-Style Claim
Advertisement touts Poslam as a modern wonder for skin ailments including eczema and pimples. It markets Poslam Soap for antiseptic hygiene and urges readers to request samples with 4 cent stamps to Emergency Laboratories in New York City. Sold by all druggists.
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Emergency Laboratories
West 25Th St
New York City
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