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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1919
Page
17
London reports that the British government has paid every discharged soldier and ex war worker a weekly allowance since the armistice. Payments continue for months after service ends or until a job is found. Many unemployed people rely on this money as England anticipates postwar adjustment and industry recovery.
A 1919 letter argues English workers push for shorter hours to create more jobs, notes unions and shop stewardism threaten traditional unions, and contrasts Bolshevik fears with government policies. It claims eight hour days altered routines for workers and wives, sparking domestic pushback.
An advertisement touts an at home internal medicine for catarrhal deafness and head noises. It recommends Parmint with hot water and sugar, taken four times daily, claiming to lessen Eustachian tube swelling and middle ear secretions and restore hearing in many cases.
Advice urges readers to conserve health through economical treatment for disease. Sulpherb Tablets blend sulphur cream of tartar and herb extracts in a sugar coated form, sold in sealed tubes by druggists. Mrs. J J Devlin of New York endorses Sulpheric Tablets and recommends them to friends.
A brief note describes delatone treatment for facial hair removal at low cost. Mixing water with powdered delatone to form a paste, applied 2 to 3 minutes, rubbed off, and washed to vanish hair. Warns of potential harm from impure substitutes and advises using real delatone.
Canvassers raised more than 1500 in the business district and over 1200 in checks to Allan Forbes treasurer at 33 State Street for the Fund for Devastated France. The local committee at 419 Boylston Street decided to extend the campaign at least another week, aiming to reach at least half of the 300000 goal within a week.
Washington March 6 Director General lines will convene a conference of leading bankers and railway officials in Washington next Tuesday to discuss funds for the railroad administration. Invitations not yet selected. A bankers pool of up to 100 million dollars is being discussed but not presented to the administration.
Cologne March 6 plan announced for a daily paper for the occupation forces. The Cologne Post will supply latest United Kingdom world news and unit activity, four pages, with editorial staff chosen and printing at Cologne Volks Zeitung plant.
New York reform hearing reveals hydraulic pistols loaded with gasoline used to disrupt cut rate milk dealers. Samuel Morosoff testifies he undercuts rivals by one cent per quart and recounts a gasoline attack on his milk wagon and a deliberate wagon sabotage. Magistrate McAdoo orders further investigation after Morosoff says police refused action.
Martin M. Lomasney will take the witness stand as the first witness for John F. Fitzgerald in the 10th congressional district investigation at the federal building. His expected appearance could draw a large crowd, as direct evidence by the Tague forces ended yesterday after the session, the longest since hearings began. Congressmen Tague was the last major witness.
The witness described investigations of 450 names certified by election commissioners as voted in primaries or election. He stated most were Ward 5 residents registered elsewhere, per Boston directories. Cross examiner Timothy Callahan tested memory without notes, then photos by Herbert M. Peak showed lodging house at 1 Caugeway street with double decker bunks, linked to alleged illegal voting.
The Fer ris type steamer Briarcliff the sixth and last ship from Russell Shipbuilding Company East Deering yards was launched today Mrs Albert Axman of Medford Mass niece of O M Hatch foreman of the plant served as sponsor
Three Boston schooners in the Tyne river disaster are reported. The four-master Madeline Shirley Lord lies ashore near Ponce Puerto Rico with a full rum cargo and likely total loss. Margaret Thomas is at St Thomas repairing after reef collision. Albert H Willis limps into Norfolk with damaged deckload after heavy seas.
Washington March 6 seventy thousand Swedish shoe workers will lose jobs April 15 as all Swedish shoe factories suspend operations. Despatches report manufacturers closed plants due to postwar overproduction and unsound speculation after hostilities ceased.
An advertisement touts Wincarnis as a four fold health tonic Restorative blood maker and nerve builder. It claims the tonic tones up vitalizes restores vitality surcharges veins with blood and strengthens nerves for renewed vigor and aliveness.
Proof from personal use claims Wincarnis boosts health for the weak anemic nervous rundown and old age. A coupon and 10 cents sends a liberal free sample by mail, with bottles priced at 1.00 and 1.75, available through leading druggists and dealers everywhere.
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