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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 08, 1916
Page
16
Dr. Roger I. Lee of Cambridge told Harvard Medical School listeners that a thorough physical examination is as vital as servicing a machine. He cited 600 Harvard freshmen showing gaps in health, vision, vaccination, and heart or lung conditions, urging early advice and preventive care.
Tremont Temple reports 30 607 75 pledged at two services for the Billy Sunday campaign bringing campaign fund total above 100 000. Pledges from committee and 43 smaller Boston churches plus future events outline several mass meetings across Greater Boston May 14 to May 22 with ministers and church members attending in multiple districts.
Greater Boston church leaders push a revival as pledges surge toward a quarter million dollars amid a zoning dispute. Seven Cambridge council members weighing building code changes could enable a wooden tabernacle on the Charles riverbank, affecting Sunday plans to preach in Cambridge if approved. The Bible class campaign led by Rev. George G. Dewey nears 50,000 members as Christmas targets loom.
The fragmentary notice mentions Father John and an advertisement likely linked to a run or event. The readable text is limited, with incomplete context and no clear dates, places, or organizations to fix a full card.
A Milford Massachusetts note from Miss Lena Pessatty dated 8 May praises Father John’s Medicine as a superior tonic and tissue builder. The letter claims two doctors did not help and credits the remedy with improving health without alcohol or dangerous drugs.
Boston Central Labor Union officials accuse police of uncalled for activity during the Leather Goods' Union strike. The executive board orders a committee to file complaints with Police Superintendent Crowley and to seek changes in city ordinance to align with statute law.
At a special executive board meeting the new wage schedule was completed and a report to 100 local firms planned. General Chairman Thomas Donovan spoke to Bunker Hill Lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Union 559 Engineers and Firemen will petition the Ways and Means Committee at the State House today. Canal Tremsters Union 68 will meet with coal trade reps this week over a new Maesaml working agreement. Waitresses Union business agent Miss Bessie Irving probes cases of young women posing as union members. evidence will be pursued. Governor McCall urged to appoint a trained labor member to the State Board of Education. A Boston Central Labor Union meeting endorsed Sheriff John Quinn for helping establish a 6 hour workday at Charles Street jail.
Four passengers on a northbound trolley car escaped serious harm when the vehicle jumped the rails and teetered over a four foot trench on Boylston street. Laborers in the trench and bystanders panicked as the car halted by its emergency brakes with Nicholas Vedda of East Boston narrowly saved from injury by throwing himself facedown as the rear of the car hovered over him.
Four riders fled a streetcar on Boylston Street bound for Marine Park as the vehicle tilted toward a trench after striking an obstruction. Motorman Michael Hogan and Conductor I Leggett halted the car with emergency brakes. One worker narrowly missed injury. others were shaken. Wrecking crew moved the car after more than two hours. traffic rerouted via Eliot and Tremont streets.
Mrs Lucy P Hartwell of Elm Street Bedford one of the town s oldest residents died at Deaconess Hospital yesterday following injuries from a fall she sustained April 27 while visiting a neighbor. Born November 21 1825 she lived all her life in Bedford. Funeral will be held Wednesday afternoon at the Unitarian Church in Redford.
In the second naval district from Chatham Cape Cod to Gardiner’s Bay Long Island Sound the coast guard today staged a wartime readiness demonstration as part of the Navy Department’s preparedness features.
Watch towers at every life saving Station in the district were manned and reports on vessels viewed through powerful glasses were sent to Rear Admiral Austin M. Knight. Direct wires forwarded the data to Washington where orders arrived rapidly, requiring six typewriters. The destroyer Blakely aided scout duties between Narragansett Bay and Block Island.
Dr. Andrew Bast of Copenhagen described the relief and missionary work conducted by the Methodist Episcopal mission there in the Service in People's Temple last night. The lecture was illustrated by stereopticon views, several of which showed scenes of destruction in the European war.
John Quigley of 40 Bedford Street is dying at Choate Memorial Hospital Woburn from burns received in a fire at his blacksmith shop early yesterday. Fire started in the shop office. Passersby raised alarm and firemen subdued the blaze. Quigley was found unconscious in the adjoining carriage factory office with burned clothing.
Advertisement invites interested readers to help an injuried by drink case and learn how the Neal Treatment can eliminate liquor desire in three days. It claims letters from grateful users, no charge for consultation, and confidential dealings.
Dublin figures show 160 civilians killed in revolts with many unregistered. Fifty buried in Glasnevin, 21 in Mount Jerome. Death certificates show 150 gunshot cases. Kansas City crowds total 50,000 as Billy Sunday preaches amid calls for dogma and criticism of science and Unitarianism.
Reports describe burials without coffins due to labor shortages and fires. Bodies may remain under debris as missing persons are tallied across districts. Dublin Chamber of Commerce calls for imperial treasury funds to restore destroyed buildings and property and questions government liability for losses.
The Boston Wholesale Millinery Company hosts its annual dance at St James Hall Huntington Avenue this evening. Miss Rose Kaddy and Billy Evans perform a fancy fox trot and a one step while the committee led by Regan, Kaddy, Feeney, Brophy and Gibbens runs the event.
Gerard describes his opposition to war and efforts to maintain peace between Germany and the United States. He rejects false accusations of pro war influence, affirms his loyalty to his government, and explains his limited role as a servant who reports back without steering policy.
Berlin reports at Warsaw convention Surgeon General Huenermann cites vast vaccination figures with few complications and no deaths. He notes a rapid decline in typhoid cases since vaccination began, comparing 1914 to 1870 war levels.
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