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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1918
Page
4
The Massachusetts food administration orders a halt to all combination sales that require buying an extra item to obtain a specific price. Exceptions exist for grain deals designed to conserve cereals and flour and not for profiteering.
The passage describes an anti extortion rule for sugar pricing. Dealers may not require buying additional goods such as soap or ketchup at inflated prices to obtain sugar nor pair two pounds of leaf sugar with granulated sugar. If a dealer pressures for substitutes with sugar purchases, customers should report to the food administration.
Washington May 10 Wheat flour substitutes should sell 10 to 26 percent below wheat flour. Food Administrator Hoover told state administrators to urge wholesalers to cut from retailers who cannot justify price. Corn meal oats should be 20 percent below wheat and corn flour and barley flour 10 percent below wheat flour.
An advertisement promotes Adamson Cough Balsam claiming it will cure almost any cold with a single bottle, detailing its supposed effectiveness and usage.
New York May 10 Theodore N Vail chairman of the League for National Unity announced at an executive meeting the formation of a division consisting of fathers mothers and other relatives of men in the military and naval service to counter destructive criticism of administrative acts.
Mr Vail warns that reorganizing a peaceful nation requires informed debate and public understanding of goals. He stresses the president’s responsibility to ready the country for war and cites Lincoln’s Civil War era as a precedent. A committee will meet in Washington Monday to discuss coalition aims in disputed districts.
Edward A. McSweeney, longtime private secretary to Thomas W. Lawson, resigned and enlisted in the British army. He serves as a buck private at 41 cents a day after being recruited in New York and sent to Windsor, Nova Scotia for training with Canadian officers.
The mayor toured stations in the North End and South End inspecting baby weighings at 88 Parmenter street and Rutland street. He praised the organizers Miss Stella Worth Jones Mrs A Massa and others for their work and noted the week’s tally of 80 babies weighed at the North End station.
Fragmentary text speaks to enduring principles guiding future generations during a major conflict. It emphasizes care for children and the lasting impact of present actions on tomorrow. The incomplete snippet suggests a civic or educational focus amid wartime or societal strife.
A dispute over Henry H. Downing s will in Lynn arises as first cousins contest undue influence by his housekeeper Mrs. Lavinia Warren who has died. Downing who died Feb 11 left 100000 and legacies to cousins and employees with the remainder to Lynn charities. The Essex County Probate Court decision probate is appealed.
The piece reviews multiple titles by Mary Roberts Rinehart, E L Grant Watson, Ethel M Dell, John Buchan, H de Vere Stackpole, Richard Le Gallienne, and others. It highlights Sara Lee Kennedy’s moral courage, frontier tales, spy adventures, and romantic suspense set in wartime Europe and colonial frontiers, with notes on tone and readership.
About 80 Western Union messenger boys in Boston donned a forest green military cut uniform replacing the old blue. John O'Brien of 20 Fountain Street Somerville led the first delivery in the new attire and asked for more errands to resemble a soldier.
Amsterdam May 10 report says no German participation in the Finnish troops advance on Petrograd. General von Krisberg told the Reichstag committee that Germany will not take part in the operation.
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