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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1911
Page
5
Boston’s board of health seeks an anti germ order to enforce immediately. The proposal would revolutionize current methods of exposing foodstuffs for sale and also alter how foodstuffs are handled and transported across the city.
An old order now enforced requires meats fish nuts berries cut fruits and baked goods to be kept under cover away from dust flies and contamination. Dealers in the market district may sell unshaded goods for two Saturdays and two nights to prepare, then enforcement begins. The rule covers pedlers carts waste receptacles and clean outer clothing for handlers with no infectious diseases.
A 19th to early 20th century style advertisement outlines inexpensive skin and health tonics. It promotes a lotion from spurmax and glycerine for red hands and sallow complexions, a blood tonic with kaurdene, a delatone hair remover, and a plum fat-reduction remedy using parnotis.
The 174th annual meeting of the Charitable Irish Society will be held Friday at Young's Hotel at 11 am. Reports, election of new members, and final anniversary committee report are on the agenda. John B. Dore will preside, John J. Sheenan to be secretary, and new officers expected for ensuing year. Patrick O Loughlin may be elected president with Thomas F. Taff and John J Keenan as treasurer and secretary re elected.
Three firms bid for four submarine torpedo boats at the Navy Department. Electric Boat Company of Quincy Mass recorded the lowest bid at 454000 dollars per boat, with 11 bids varying by design and construction site and a spread of about 36000 dollars against Pacific coast yards.
Cambridge shifts to Democratic control in municipal elections with Barry elected Mayor and a Democratic majority on both council and executive posts. Final tallies show Mayor Barry winning across wards, while remaining council seats split between Democrats and Non-Partisans. Total votes cast reached 12,709 with Barry achieving 92 percent plurality.
Mrs Kate Thecla Conley presented phases of Wagner at Hotel Somerset with a clear account of Richard Wagner his career home life and last years The Boston Opera Company performed musical selections including Elsas Dream and the Wedding March and received praise from a fashionable audience with many notable Boston figures in attendance.
An investigation into lax handling of a fire at the Converse Rubber Shoe Company storehouse and a reported coal shortage for steamers will be held at Malden City Hall next Friday evening. Fire commissioner Thomas W. Hough leads the inquiry as Malden officials and aldermen participate, with calls for his resignation discussed.
Full directions for making a knitted under jacket and new patterns in embroidered belts appear on the embroidery page of next Sunday's Post.
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