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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1917
Page
10
A series of patient testimonials praise Osmo-Chemic treatment from Dr Walsh and Osmo-Chemic doctors. Claims include stomach trouble relief after four months, weight gain from 113 to 156 pounds, neuritis cure, ulcer of the bowels cure, and rupture improvement. Readers urged to seek Snow Pencil demonstrations of Osmo-Chemic therapy.
Mayor Curley outlined organizing about 10 000 municipal employees into a protective force for emergencies. The Boston Public Safety Committee, chaired by Admiral Bowles, will coordinate with Governor McCall's Public Safety groups. A week of flag raisings begins April 2 on the Common, with volunteers sought for state and national service.
Large fish landings reported at the pier with 116,800 pounds of scrod among the catches. The Josephine DeCosta earned crew shares after 36 hours of work, while newer vessels are being built on the North Shore to replace sold ships. The Gloucester Jubilee arrives for Newfoundland loading and the Maggie Todd remains stranded off Cape Cod as Coast Guard work continues. Prices for haddock and cod are listed, with several vessels noted in arrivals and totals across species.
President A F Timne of the Milwaukee Association baseball team announced plans to donate ten percent of this season’s profits to the Milwaukee Red Cross. The funds would help equip a 500 bed base hospital, contingent on actual warfare.
A springtime grasshopper bomb leaped from a pasteboard box in the Merrimack Post office creating a scene as staff shouted Bombs and the device exploded causing pandemonium in the city room. A second mailed bomb attack struck the Post editor separately.
An office in Merrimack is rocked by a dummy grasshopper bomb. Newton Newkirk finds the loaded device after an explosion, the note points to a spring time perpetrator, and the rogues gallery marks a peculiar case of prank violence with grasshoppers as the “bomb.”
Nineteen persons were indicted by a U S grand jury including John Munice a Charlestown boxing figure known as the Bearcat. Munice and five others face charges of civil service fraud at the Charlestown navy yard for allegedly submitting false statements about applicants experience to civil service authorities.
Frederick J. Donnelly charged with using his brother's papers. Louis P. Arbing and ward J. McMenamie implicated. O. Young of Somerville indicted for using the mails in a defraud scheme offering homework to necktie sellers. George Lynch indicted on a similar mail fraud charge tied to book purchases and sales. Patrick J. O'Donnell, tube room employee at South Station, indicted for embezzling from the mails.
John Pelas William Trapalis Pauline Latournesu and another resident of Haverhill were indicted on a charge of conspiracy to violate the Mann Act by inducing a married woman to travel from Exeter New Hampshire to Haverhill for immoral purposes.
The golf outlook looks dubious as atmosphere fills with war talk. A metropolitan tournament has been cancelled and the United States Golf Association executive committee may take action if war is declared.
The advisory meeting will consider canceling the national championships set for Brae-Burn club in June. The Massachusetts Golf Association dates will be announced soon, with action likely if war persists. the national women's championships are not expected to be affected by the war crisis.
Charlie Tierney Frank Horrigan and Bob Curley linemen from Boston College football report to Coach Fowler for weight work. Wolyniec and Kroboski also out for distance work with Wolyniec showing unusual promise.
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