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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 10, 1918
Page
8
Advertisement touts Dr True's Elixir as the family laxative and worm expeller with a long world wide reputation. It cites worm symptoms in children and a customer letter from Mrs Georgia Philpot of Houston Texas. Available at dealers 40c 60c and 1.00 with mail inquiries to Dr J F True & Co Auburn Maine.
At a Boston Metropolitan Chapter Red Cross meeting, Hugh Nawn resigned as treasurer due to travel demands. Francis Gray was elected to replace him, with Nawn becoming second vice-chairman. Home service head Russell Fessenden noted 3500 dependent families of soldiers aided by the chapter.
Resolutions adopted at the closing session of the Congregational Conference and Missionary Society of Maine pledge support to winning the war with lives and substance to President Wilson and to soldiers welfare work. They urge prohibition for the war period, adoption of the federal amendment and continued enforcement of Maine’s prohibitory law.
A fragment from a mid month listing notes Prince's Orchestra item A6035 priced at $1.25. The sparse text hints at a catalog or auction entry with an identifiable orchestra and price. No further details are readable.
The South Bay Union at 640 Harrison Avenue in the South End runs a well baby clinic with a trained nurse and a physician. It serves 16 nationalities, teaches modern infant care, and tracks child health with dietitians and visiting nurses when needed. The program aligns with government aims to expand well baby clinics nationwide.
Howard Coonley of Boston is named vice-president of the Emergency Fleet Corporation to manage legal financial and other divisions allowing Charles Pier to focus on shipbuilding. He resigns from the War Emergency Industrial Commission of Massachusetts. Naval Constructor J L Ackerson is named assistant to Director General Schwab.
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said he would respond to Postmaster General Burleson's request by presenting tomorrow a statement supporting his accusation that favoritism existed in newspaper treatment under the espionage act. He affirmed his forthcoming remarks would bear out his prior editorial claims.
Washington May 9 The House adopted the conference report on a bill to base draft quotas on the number of men in Class 1 and approved removing an amendment that allowed credits for volunteers. The report now goes to the Senate for action.
The House rejected a Senate amendment exempting ministerial and medical students from the draft and sent the conference report back. The vote was 182 to 118 amid debate on whether the President has authority to exempt such students. Supporters argued the issue is driven by theological seminary investments. opponents urged credits for voluntary enlistments and noted the executive offices opposed the plan.
A cablegram from Colonel William S. Barker directing Salvation Army hutment troops to decorate U S graves reaches national headquarters. The message outlines the decoration effort to honor fallen soldiers and boost memorial tributes nationwide.
France reports full arrangements by Salvation Army for hundreds of women to place fresh flowers and an American flag on every grave of an American fighter buried in France since the war began on Decoration Day. They will also fulfill family requests regarding graves if headquarters in America are notified and feasible.
At the annual Eastern conference of the Primitive Methodist church held in Fall River the opening session occurred at the First...
In this city today the Primitive Methodist Church elected officers including President Rev J Proude of Providence and Vice President Rev F Kendall of Fall River. Secretary Rev C H Kershaw of New Bedford and Assistant Secretary Rev J Singleton of Lowell were chosen.
An official statement notes two successful raids in the past week with a few prisoners taken and several destructive artillery bombardments. British aviators have destroyed 17 hostile aircraft since the last report, with no losses, and important targets behind enemy lines were bombed effectively.
Advertises a 25 cent box of Tiz as a foot remedy to relieve corns callouses bunions and pain. Claims feet feel joyful and shoes fit smaller after use. Appeals to tired weary feet with vivid sensory language and promises immediate relief.
Abraham Siskind and Abraham Federman were arrested on Shawmut avenue by Lt. Irwin after detectives found $2000 worth of silk in Siskind’s wagon. Siskind, 23, junk dealer, and Federman, 20, live in East Boston and East Dedham Street areas respectively.
An article explains how to self test for flat feet using a wet footprint to gauge arch strength. It notes that a complete imprint indicates a fallen arch and that flat feet have caused many army rejections, linking the condition to hard pavements and repeated pounding.
The Rev. Francis Hill of the Redemptorist order will be ordained to the priesthood at the Redemptorist House of Studies Aesopus New York on Friday May 17 and will celebrate his first solemn high mass at SS Peter and Paul Church South Boston on Pentecost May 19. He was a resident of that parish attended the parochial school and was an altar boy there.
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