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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1915
Page
6
A new electric tabulator installed in the Board of Health offices will record births and deaths. The device handles dates, color, sex, age of parents, and ward residence, and can process twins or multiples as easily as single births. The New York Board of Health uses a similar machine.
Peking reports Japanese minister M Hioki delivered a note to Chinese foreign minister Lu Cheng Hsiang asserting force if the March 12 deadline is not met. China declines an immediate agreement, aims to expeditiously discuss only feasible concessions while resuming thrice-weekly talks.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to relieve headaches from nervous exhaustion caused by overwork and worry. It claims the pills build blood, strengthen nerves, and dispenses a free booklet when the paper is mentioned. The tonic is promoted as a practical remedy when rest is not possible.
The Lynorta, a British relief ship from Boston, sails for Rotterdam with 5400 tons of food and clothing for Belgian war sufferers. Captain Willis Waring commands the vessel with Belgian consul H Sumner Mansfield aboard. The ship will stop at Falmouth for cargo inspection and travel to Holland in about 15 days.
The vessel departs Charlestown with about 200 onlookers and is decorated with international flags and two long banners reading Commission Belgian Relief Rotterdam. Captain Waring leads the voyage aboard the Lynorta with Arthur Jones serving as chief officer. cargo includes 800 tons of flour 6000 bushels of corn 3400 bushels of wheat and 3000 clothing pieces valued at 400000. Attendees include Belgian consul E Sumner Mansfield and relief officials Redington Fiske B Rantoul and John S Cusick.
Treasurer Joseph H. O Neil at Federal Trust Company records Belgian Relief Fund gifts from Boston and nearby towns. Donors include Miss S Goodwin Rosamond A Gay M W Boston and M F Biggins with amounts from 4 to 109 dollars plus anonymous and group gifts totaling 54065 to 22792990 dollars.
Worcester March 9 Mrs Benjamin McVaugh of 201 Pleasant Street is reported dying in City Hospital after leaning from an open window to feed a canary. She lost her balance and fell from the window, plunging to the street below. The incident occurred at dawn as she reached for the cage.
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