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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
5
Shane Leslie, Redmond's representative in the United States, argues that Lloyd George has reversed on home rule, creating tragedy and farce in Ireland. The article condemns the shift as comic turpitude and outlines urgent calls from Redmondites for sustained pressure.
A vintage advertisement promotes Musterole a white external ointment made with oil of mustard. It relieves headache and the misery from colds or congestion without blistering and does not affect stomach or heart unlike internal medicines. It eases sore throat bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia and rheumatic pains.
A Boston promotional piece extols Plant Juice as a remedy for stomach trouble and related symptoms. It cites Mrs Ruth DeChene of 637 Tremont Street praising the product after long gastric ulcers and indigestion, claiming relief and restored sleep. The passage shifts to political commentary on Ireland and England, mentioning John Redmond and Lloyd George amid discussions of Ulster, Ireland, and American relations.
Finance Commission urged abolishing free lunches for police and cabbies and cutting clerks meals to 50 cents in a report to the City Council budget committee. Chairman John Minton opposed removing meals for policemen and cab drivers, arguing humanitarian tradition and early start at City Hall.
More than 500 members of the Harvard freshman class convened at the Harvard Union for their first smoker. The class was photographed in a group shot, heard speeches by President Frederic C. Church F K Bullard and R G Stone, and viewed a series of moving pictures.
Mayor Curley reacts to a giant potato parcel described as a mystery tuber from Henry McMichael of East Tilton New Hampshire. The prize spud is sent by messenger to a Boston jewel house while a local harpist Miss Virginia Walker accompanies Grace Emerson Gutterson’s Browning reading of Saul. The harp, valued at about $1000 and presented to Walker by her father J. L. Walker, garners interest in Boston musical circles.
A breezy column notes Lady Bountiful's cheerful uncle causing mischief as he joins the boys, reflecting playful community humor. Gene Carr contributes a full page of lighthearted antics in the Sun day Post, highlighting social scenes and friendly mischief.
Dr Charles W Eliot and attorney Charles Grill told the Unitarian Club at the Hotel Somerset that the church is well positioned to meet world needs after the present European conflict. They argued humanity is improving and society is trustworthy, praising socialized religion and the Unitarian faith's openness to science while noting work with the working classes remains important.
About eight Boy Scouts will search the outskirts of Lowell for William Fleming a 28 year old man missing from 158 New York street Dracut since early last Monday morning Police have been notified and will assist in the effort.
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