What One Week of Dieting Did for Women Tired of Doctors
Mrs. Keith Trask shed six pounds, Miss Ann Townsend lost two and a half pounds, and Miss Marion McKellar dropped one and a half pounds. They returned near their former weights and began a personal dietary plan. The trio received a mental boost and an outline for their own diet system, drawing interest from an English investigator and challenging medical opinion.
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Keith Trask
Miss Ann Townsend
Miss Townsend
Mrs. Trask
Fasting Women Endure Soup Breaks Fast in Garden City
Mrs Keith Trask Miss Ann Townsend and Miss Marion McKellar of Garden City undergo a self imposed fast to test diet effects. They report weight changes, improved health and a new understanding of food, noting milk diet fatigue and seeking a root reason in nutrition. They describe their regimen from no food to orange juice milk and plan to continue.
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Garden City, &. I
Keith Trask
Ann Townsend
Marion McKellar
Garden City
Miss McKellar
East Boston Men Sentenced to Eighteen Months Each
Judge Dodge in the United States District Court yesterday sentenced Louis Canner alias Benjamin Canner and Jacob Freedman to 18 months each in the Middlesex county House of Correction at East Cambridge for conspiracy to conceal the assets of the Marshall Hay and Grain Company of East Boston. The prosecution of the case has extended over nearly two years.
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Dodge
United States District Court
Louis Canner
Benjamin 8. Canner
Jacob Freedman
Middlesex County House of Correction
East Cambridge
Marshall Hay & Grain Company
Boston
Griscom paints gift to Queen of Italy delights Helena
Rome May 16 Robert Hale of Chicago presented Queen Helena with a painting by Lloyd C. Sage, depicting the village built under the queen’s patronage after the Messina earthquake. The queen expressed delight and sent her thanks through Mr. Sage.
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Rome
Robert Hale
Chicago
Helena
Lloyd C. Sdge
Italy
Messina
Chelsea shoe strike ends in factory shut two weeks
The Bartels and Thelen Chelsea shoe factory halted operations for two weeks after a wage dispute led to 300 workers leaving. A 15 year old girl led pickets outside, others joined the union, and two assaults were reported among workers. Owners Threaten to move factory if demands persist. Chelsea police expect arrests as talks fail to resolve wage and foreman disputes.
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Bartels & Thelen
Chelsea
Chelsea Shoe
United State Workers of América
Matilda Richie
Gueseppi Colnio
Chelsea Polies
R. E. Bartels
Post
Flynn
Boston Republicans press for patronage as finance panel flips
A secret five member patronage committee of the Boston Republican executive circle seeks jobs from Governor Draper and Senators Lodge and Crane. Led by James W. H. Myrick, they push for a Republican majority on the Boston Finance Commission, eyeing Charles H. Innis to replace Geoffrey Lehy when his term ends. The group faces friction after Myrick’s rejection by Draper for a Factory Inspection post.
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Republican City Committee
Boston
Draper
Lodge
Crane
James W. H. Myrick
Edward G. Graves
Herman Hermel
William Squires
Charles E. Heintz
Myrick
Boston Finance Commission
Finance Commission
Geoffrey Lehy
Charles’h. Innis
Lehy
Cadets Sail On Ranger Tomorrow Amid Naval Cruise Plans
The Massachusetts Nautical Training School will take 102 cadets aboard the Ranger this morning. Tomorrow at 9 o'clock the ship departs for a preliminary bay cruise with Provincetown as headquarters, returning to Boston May 26. A reception for Governor Draper will be held aboard, and the foreign cruise starts June 2.
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Ranger
Massachusetts Nautical Training School
Bay
Provincetown
Boston
Sapper Watson Kills Himself in Royal Engineers Barracks
In Halifax on May 16 a Royal Engineers sapper named Watson, aggrieved by demotion from sergeant, used a string attached to a rifle trigger to self-inflict a fatal head wound in the guard room of the engineers' barracks.
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Halifax
Royal Engineers
Watson
Engineers
Piano Recital Highlighted Dorchester Students
A successful piano recital and concert took place in Whiten Hall Dorchester last evening performed by about four pupils of Catherine M Madison showcasing skill and progress in a community music program.
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Whiten Hall
Dorchester
Catherine M. Madison
Hills self by gas while wife is away
Lynn May 16 A Lynn candy shop proprietor Ernest S Derrin 39 turned on the gas in his room at 456 Western avenue while his wife was away on a pleasure trip Investigators found his lifeless body It is understood Derrin had suffered business reverses.
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Lynn
Yarmouth
N. S
Ernest S. Derrin
Western Avenue
Derrin
$1,000,000 Found Intact After Fire at Livermore Falls Bank
Securities and bonds valued at $1,000,000 were found undamaged when the Livermore Falls Trust and Banking Company vault was opened. The Sharaf block bank rooms burned Friday. A cracking girder allowed water to enter and rust some fittings, but no major damage occurred.
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Livermore Falls
Livermore Falls Trust & Banking Company
Sharaf Block
Prof Butler Dead at Hancock Maine
Ellsworth Me May 16 Professor Wilson R Butler noted author of several educational works and known across New England is dead at his summer home at Butler's Point Hancock Maine authorities report the death occurred at the residence with no immediate details released about the cause or circumstances
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Ellsworth
Wilson R. Butler
New England
Butler's Point
Hane
World Sunday School Convention Opens Washington May 1924
Philadelphia report notes the cosmopolitan gathering will bring 8000 delegates from more than 50 nations to Washington for the World’s Sunday School Convention. Dr George W Bailey says the movement has over 26 million members worldwide with strong Protestant, Catholic, Hebrew and Buddhist presence. Events include a Bible class demonstration, a monster noon song service on the Capitol steps, a living tableau and a Congress of Nations involving Washington children in foreign dress and flags.
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Philadelphia
Penn
Washington
George W. Bailey
Chrristian Church
Thibet
North America
Waton
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
Vention
Vention Hall
Congress of Nations
Pr Tatt
Ambassador Bryce
John ¥Maker
J. Wilbur Chapman
M. Alexander
Wome
America
Sherman
Pioneer Brockton Shoemakers Die in City
In Brockton on May 16 two of the citys pioneer shoe manufacturers, Derick Packard and Howard T May, died today in the local community.
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Brockton
City
Derick Packard
Howard T. May
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