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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1920
Page
13
Vintage ad copy touts Mother as the reliable laxative for children with California Syrup of Figs. It presents the product as a trusted remedy and uses a maternal tone to reassure parents about gentle relief.
An advertisement touts California Syrup of Figs as a safe laxative for children. It highlights the fruity taste and claims full directions on each bottle to reassure parents about stomach liver and bowels relief.
An old health column warns that common soaps and shampoos use excess alkali drying the scalp and damaging hair. It recommends Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as pure and greaseless, suitable for regular use, and notes it lathers well and leaves hair soft, bright, and easy to manage.
The Boston Post's Memorial Day Fund will decorate graves of New Englanders who died in France. Donors include Mrs. Eva Cleveland of Amherst and Mrs. C J Saunders of Lynn, with contributions from the Women's Auxiliary to Leon E Abbott Post and Exchange Trust Company staff. The effort honors soldiers buried in France and seeks further gifts to Boston Post readers.
Paris reports the Graves Registration Service estimates two years to exhume and repatriate 45 000 American soldiers from the European battle zone. The second shipment leaves today, and remains will be moved from German soil despite family requests. Exhumations will run along battle lines and rear areas, with transports to Brest by canal, rail, and motor truck.
Sir Edward Carson writes in the Morning Post that anti British activity in the United States is fed by a large organized propaganda network centered in New York. He criticizes Britain's taciturn policy as unhelpful and calls for counter measures to curb ill will toward Britain in America India and Egypt.
The Rev Hr S Sherrill chaplain of the post asks relatives to send the name rank organization and grave location of veterans buried in Walnut Hills Brookline and Holyhood cemeteries. Notices go to the Rev Mr Sherrill at legion headquarters 5 Harvard Street Brookline before May 17. Graves decorate Memorial Day with Civil and Spanish American War veterans.
Washington May 10 The government withdrew financial aid for exporters. At Secretary Houston's request the War Finance Corporation suspended further advances for shipments abroad except already authorized. Houston warned that new loans would pull the government back into borrowing, which is not advisable under current circumstances.
Mr. D. J. Lane of 532 Lane Building St. Marys Kansas claims a simple home remedy cures asthma after testing on voluntary sufferers. He offers a $1.25 postpaid bottle with payment only if it cures and asks recipients to report results within ten days without sending money, just name and address.
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