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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 27, 1920
Page
19
Advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as spring medicine to purify enrich and revitalize blood addressing pimples boils tiredness and other ailments. It notes physicians use the ingredients for blood stomach liver and kidney diseases and suggests Hood's Pills as a laxative.
New York May 26 The Pope has set aside a day in early September to receive a Knights of Columbus delegation and the American people. Edward L L Hearn European commissioner reports the Pope will personally conduct visitors through the Vatican, a historic first.
Henry M. Wing urges readers to fund Austrian relief noting starvation in Vienna and Budapest. He recalls Congress delay on a $50 million aid plea and reports sending checks to the Old Colony Trust Company for Austrian relief from 6 State Street.
An advertisement urges aging women to use Black and White Soap and Ointment to restore youthful bloom. It claims safe, pleasant home use and offers a 50 cent package by mail from BLACK and WHITE Box 913 Memphis Tenn with samples and literature.
In a 1916 letter dated September 22 (October 6 by English reckoning) the Caurina calls herself the wall in the rear of the Czar's throne. The piece shows the depth of Russia's tragedy before the revolution as the author could not foresee her husband’s throne would soon be shattered beyond repair.
A parsing of the letter shows the Czarina acting as head of state and dictating policy with Rasputin's backing. She boasts of fearlessness before ministers, calls for strict discipline, and notes communications with Brusilov and Protopopov while warning against mischief by Poli vanov and others. The missive frames a tense power dynamic and urgent political maneuvering.
A grandmother in Roxbury recalls giving Dr True’s Elixir to a dying child, who recovered and later had a child using the remedy. The advertisement touts Dr True’s Elixir as a long established family laxative and worm expeller sold by Dr J F True & Co in Auburn Maine.
The correspondence discusses pushing south to ease pressure on Siberian fronts, Rasputin proposing use of Methodists as sanitary workers and Tartars massing in Siberia, and a call to free Sukhomlinov. It notes grim prison conditions, suggested leadership changes, and reflections on faith and redemption.
The diary of George Washington reveals a lifelong passion for horticulture. He notes plant choices such as crab apples magnolias and lilacs and describes grafting and transplanting trees. The entry cites gifts from colleagues and his建立 conservatory indicating the era's garden culture.
The narrator recalls a 1792 letter about mulberry trees and Bartram shrubs and grape care on an estate. The piece shifts to spring reflections and floral tribute, invoking Walt Whitman and his lilac lines as memories of the dead are honored nationwide.
Five students from the Boston University School of Religious Education and Social Service will receive diplomas at 10 30 in Wesleyan Hall for completing a special two year course. Named are Gladys Nute Viola Wilson Florence Hill Amy Ralston and Robert Hermansen.
At Atlantic Shipbuilding Corporation Freemans Point yards Mrs James Hale of Springfield Massachusetts broke a bottle of champagne over the bow as the ship named in her honor entered the water Mayor Arthur Adams and an official Springfield delegation attended the ceremony
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