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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1916
Page
5
Edith M. Mitchell of Boston tells the Suffolk Superior Court she fears her husband Frank V. Mitchell due to assaults and asks for restraint on her personal liberty pending the hearing of her divorce libel. She cites cruel and abusive treatment since their 1916 marriage.
An advertisement claims excess stomach acidity from sour fermented foods causes discomfort and headaches. It promotes ordinary bisulated magnesia as an absolutely pure antacid that neutralizes stomach acid, with dosage guidance and availability at drug stores.
A fragmented OCR style list enumerates multiple retailers and cities from New England and Vermont, naming firms such as Goodnow Co, Goodnow Hunt Pearson Co, Littleton firms, King McLeod Co, Chandler's, FeCORIG, and others, with scattered place references like Fall River Fitchburg Gardner Haverhill Holyoke Taunton Marlboro Milford Natick Newburyport Peabody Salem Waltham Westfield Littleton and more. The item reads like a merchants directory excerpt rather than a narrative.
More than 15,000 relatives and friends of the Boston letter carriers attended the annual ball at Mechanics' Building last night. Guests included Postmaster Murray and former Postmaster Edward Mansfield. Charles H. Norton, secretary of the Boston Letter Carriers' Mutual Benefit Association, announced the event.
Guests were escorted into the main hall by 100 uniformed letter carriers led by a marching band. A grand march followed as the procession proceeded into the venue.
President John J. Dwyer and Vice-President Joseph T. O Reilly lead a ball with fifty couples. Vari colored lights enhanced gowns as Mme Paporello staged a dance program. The event featured a Dance of the Hour with a letter carrier and a policeman, plus toe and flirtation dances. Concerts preceded the grand march and dancing continued in Mechanics Hall until 1 AM.
The Authors League of America led by Winston Churchill as president and Theodore Roosevelt as vice president is weighing affiliation with the American Federation of Labor. A luncheon will be held tomorrow with Hugh Freyne to discuss submitting the proposition to a vote of the league’s full membership.
Eric Schuler says 10 members including Rex Beach and Mary E Wilkins Freeman approved the plan. He credits AFL backing for 2,500,000 members and aims to make author publisher and manager relations two sided while citing past reforms and needed corrections.
President Wilson replies to Pope Benedict through Mgr Bonzano stating the United States aims to stay out of war while protecting national honor and rights. Officials will not publish either message, and aides say the exchange concerns not a peace plan but the submarine issue context.
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