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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1916
Page
3
Boston hotels and chefs showcase true strawberry shortcake recipes and insist on the old fashioned crisp flaky base with crushed and whole berries. Reporters tour the city revealing methods from the Press Club to the Lenox Touraine Quincy House and Copley Plaza.
An advertisement claims Adamson’s Balsam cures a cough within a day, urging relief from throat irritation and chest discomfort through the remedy.
Seven Harvard Crimson editors staged a mock naval battle as part of an initiation stunt. About 500 students watched as the imagined clash between an ocean liner, a battleship, and three submarines ended with a symbolic sinking and a sea gull perched on an iceberg.
The Crimson editors from Worcester, Salem, New York, Bay City, and Brookline took roles in a playful naval skirmish. Participants included Chester W. Cook as a submarine and W. Fleming as an ocean liner, with others portraying a warship and an iceberg during the staged clash.
A surreal scene unfolds as a man o war and ink bottles send a cruiser to the deep blue sea represented by asphalt on Auburn street. A Seagull sits on an iceberg and gloats for Mars as Neptune and a polemic ticket loom.
The Interstate Commerce Commission moves to dismiss the appeal by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the National Dock & Storage Warehouse Company of East Boston v Boston & Maine case. The ICC says B M RR has granted relief via a new tariff absorbing switching charges at East Boston, removing the basis for the order. The U S District Court proceedings in Boston are expected to be dropped.
Indicted arson and fraud cases were arraigned in Suffolk Superior Court with pleas of not guilty. The Tarzein murder trial opened in Chelsea as jurors were sworn. The Boston Chamber of Commerce held its annual meeting with election of directors and remarks by Louis Liggett and other officers.
Commandant William R. Bush received a telegram from Admiral Dewey as president of the Naval Relief Society board of managers. The message offered heartfelt congratulations for the splendid work and the successful results of Navy Day.
A brief remedy promising rapid relief from catarrh with nasal opening, easier breathing, and less mucus. The text claims easy preparation, pleasant taste, low cost, and suitability for all sufferers to try the treatment.
New Haven May 15 Professor Walter Wheeler Cook of the University of Chicago and president of the Association of American Law Schools was elected a professor at Yale Law School at a Yale corporation meeting. It was announced that former President William H Taft will teach a constitutional law course next year in addition to his international law class.
The British steamer Sachem arrived last night after passing a vast field of mines that stretched in every direction as far as the eye could see during its crossing.
A vessel carrying 38 young Boston men navigated a mine infested stretch of water near La Fallice France, returning home without damage after careful piloting.
Advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a safe tonic for cleansing and enriching blood during spring. It promises improved appetite sleep and energy and urges readers to ask for the product at drugstores noting its unique formula and forty years of use.
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