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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

May 30, 1917

Page

12

Minerals in foods nourish health says lecture

A demonstration by the Women's Municipal League at Gilchrist Company stressed minerals in foods including iron calcium phosphorus and other minerals. Miss Alice Bradley urged a daily pint of fresh fruit and vegetables or a compact alternative of dried fruits and vegetables when budgeting. Milk and whole grain cereals also supply minerals.

Women’s Municipal League Gilchrist Company’s Alice Bradley

Vegetable milk soup and other low cost meals proposed

The article lists a vegetable milk soup recipe costing 420 ties for five cents and a thick vegetable soup at 12 cents per 900 calories. It details ingredients such as but terine with flour, milk, vegetables, and optional cheese, plus a bean and pea based soup with dried peas and beans, potatoes, turnips, onions, and parsley. It also notes leaves like beet tops and chard can be steamed and provides calorie counts for various produce including peas, beans, carrots, cabbage, and bananas.

Alice Wiggin Simmons Wiggin

Farm Gardens for Tenement Children

Seventy five children from the tenement districts of the city will receive gardens during the summer at the Volunteer Fresh Air Camp in Reading. The camp acreage is plowed into individual plots and Colonel Lind, local commander, seeks an additional large plot in the country to serve about 100 more children with a summer camp and garden plots.

Volunteers of America Fresh Air Reading Lindsay

Mystic Channel Blocked After Bridge Section Falls

Boston and Maine officials inspected drawbridge No. 7 over the Mystic river between Somerville and Everett. A section fell into the stream Monday afternoon and navigation will be blocked for at least a week, with minor impact since few barges or schooners serve Somerville and Medford for coal cargoes.

Boston & Maine Railroad Mystic River Somerville Everett Medford

Harvard appoints 23 new lecturers and accepts resignation

Harvard announces 23 new instructors to join the faculty. The institution also reports the resignation of Walle Merritt from his lecturer post in commercial law.

Harvard Walle Merritt

Harvard appoints new instructors across German economics and more

The university announced new teaching staff including German instructors Asbury H. Herrick Friedrich Schoene mann and Ray W. Pettengill in German and Arthur Monroe Edmund E. Lincoln Oscar B. Ryder in economics. Additional appointees include Thomas P. Martin archivist to the Harvard Commission on Western History Oscar Teague tropical medicine William B. Cox and others in economics marketing drawing and publishing and various lectures and management roles.

Asbury H. Herrick Friedrich Schoenemann Ray W. Pettengill Arthur Monroe Edmund E. Lincoln Oscar B. Ryder Thomas P. Martin Harvard Commission On Western History Oscar Teague William B. Cox Zénas Co. Dickinson Robert Louis Masson Howard B. Gill George FH. Plaisted, Jr Walter Moreland Stone Graduate School of Business Management Henry H. Farquhar William H. Blood, Jr Frederick ©. Coburn Herbert B. Dow Charles C. Lane Harvard University Press Harry ©. McCarthy John F. Moors James Willing Edgar J. Rich

Boston Woman Seeks Divorce After Cruelty Tales

Mrs Tekla Maliski of Boston testifies in Suffolk Superior Court that her husband Emil Maliski of Hyde Park threatened to kill her with a revolver and a knife during their marriage begun August 8 1908 in Rochester New Hampshire They lived in Lawrence Hyde Park and Boston and she seeks divorce and to resume her maiden name Tekla Schetka alleging cruel and abusive treatment.

Tekla Maliski Boston Emil Hyde Park Suffolk Superior Court Lawton Rochester N. H Lawrence

Miss Eliot Is Married

Formerly Miss Elizabeth Eliot of Cambridge she was married yesterday by her father the Rev Samuel J A Eliot of Cambridge to his son.

Elizabeth Eliot Cambridge Samuel JA. Eliot

Miss Elizabeth Eliot Weds Arthur Cushman McGiffert Jr in Cambridge

Miss Elizabeth Eliot daughter of Rev and Mrs Samuel A Eliot of Cambridge married Arthur Cushman McGiffert Jr son of Professor Arthur Cushman McGiffert of New York. The ceremony at 4 pm in First Parish Church Harvard Square Cambridge was conducted by the bride’s father with the bride escorted by her grandfather Dr Eliot. Rosamund Eliot sister of the bride was maid of honor and Carey T Chamberlain was best man. Ushers were fellow Harvard College or Union Theological Seminary students.

Elizabeth Eliot Samuel A. Eliot Cambridge Charlies W. Eliot Arthur Cushman MccGiffert, Jr Arthur Cushman McGiffert New York Harvard Square Dr. Eliot Rosamund Eliot Carey T. Chamberlain Harvard College Union Theological Seminary

Mayor Approves Scrub Women's Pay Increase

Mayor Curley approved a City Council order raising scrub women's weekly pay at Suffolk County Court House from 8 to 10 dollars. Fourteen scrub women work there and the council previously accepted the act authorizing the raise.

Curley Suffolk County

Kansas Naval Recruit Dies at Navy Yard Camp

The third apprentice seaman death since the training camp opened at the navy yard occurred today in Portsmouth New Hampshire. James H Douglas 20 of Caney Kansas died from pneumonia after several weeks illness with measles. The Navy Department sent the body to his parents.

Portsmouth N. H Navy Yard James H. Douglas Caney Kansas Navy Department

Senate Finance Committee Revamps War Tax Bill to 1.5 Billion

Washington May 29 The Senate finance committee completed major revisions to the $1.8 billion war tax bill before Decoration Day suspending work. The panel kept liquor and stamp taxes from the House measure and aimed to reduce the total to about $1.5 billion as a guiding principle for revision.

Washington Senate Finance Committee

Senate committee weighs new excises to replace tariff hikes

The panel debates replacing a 16 percent general tariff with sugar cocoa coffee and tea excises, lowers tobacco taxes, preserves telegraph charges, and considers $1.5 to $1.8 billion revenue, targeting a short term bond option for excess needs. Senator Hardwick leads a push for a postal tax on second class papers.

House Hardwick Georgia Post Office Department Senate

Sullivan visits U. S. Marshal in wartime remarks

John L. Sullivan, famed prizefighter, stopped by the Federal building to see U S Marshal John J. Mitchell and view a crowd of German aliens seeking residence work and travel permits in Massachusetts. He held an informal reception and commented on the Kaiser and Colonel Roosevelt.

John L. Sullivan U. S Federal Building United States John J. Mitchell Marshal’s Massachusetts John Kaiser Roosevelt France

Flower Show Nears Opening at Wentworth Grounds

Professor Sargent of Arnold Arboretum has transplanted nearly 200 azaleas to the Wentworth Institute grounds on Huntington Avenue for an outdoor flower show opening this Saturday. Exhibits include rhododendrons, orchids, wistaria, calcuraria and a Japanese rose garden with admission $5 on Friday. the show runs about three weeks.

Sargent Arnold Arboretum Holm Lea Brookline Wentworth Institute Huntington Avenue Art Museum Thomas Allen Boston Art Board Massachusetts the Red Cross Massachusetts Horticultural Society

Lippman Offered War Department Aide to Baker

Walter Lippman editor of The New Republic, of New York, has been offered a post in the War Department as an aide to Secretary Baker. Dr. F. P. Keppel, dean of Columbia University, already serves there, with many others volunteering. It was understood today the offer would be accepted and he would join Baker’s confidential staff.

Washington Walter Lippman New York The New Republic War Department Baker F. P. Keppel Columbia University Lippman

Clerk Nelson Resigns Federal Court Job

William Nelson, clerk of the United States District Court, resigns to join the law firm of Ropes Gray Boyden Perkins. James S. Allen Jr. of Winchester is named successor. transition awaits Allen’s current duties at the district attorney’s office finishing.

William Nelson United States District Court Ropes, Gray, Boyden & Perkins James S. Allen, Jr Winchester United States District Attorney Allen

Russian ambassador hails regime as Russia advances

Professor Boris Bakhmetieff, newly arrived Russian ambassador to the United States, said in Toro that he is immensely satisfied with conditions in Russia including Siberia. He asserted the new regime is organizing effectively and will soon launch an offensive against the enemy.

Torio Russia Siberia Boris Bakhmetieff United States

Russian commission heads to United States with Bakhmetieff

Professor Bakhmetieff leads a four member Russian commission traveling to the United States to discuss munitions supplies finance and war aims. He rejects a separate peace and says the provisional government seeks to strengthen the army and national life while cooperating with America. The mission includes General Ropp railroad expert Lemonpoffwn finance ministry rep Noritzky agriculture rep Borodin and artillery expert Oranovsky.

Bakhmetieff United States Russia Petrograd America General Ropp M. Lemonpoffwn M. Noritzky Finance Ministry M. Borodin Minister of Agriculture M. Oranovsky

Boston Lawyers Send Ambulance to France

The preparedness committee ships an ambulance for the American field service in France and will maintain it at the front for one year. A complete fund to cover all expenses was reported, and the group will also offer free legal services to wives children and dependents of sailors and soldiers via the Boston Legal Aid Society located at 39 Court Street open weekdays 9 am to 5 pm.

France Lawyers’ Preparedness Committee Boston Legal Aid Society United States The Court Street

Mounted Artillery Band Seeks Players for Second Massachusetts Field Artillery

The Second Massachusetts Field Artillery Mounted Band seeks men of suitable age who play clarinet cornet and alto horn. Enlisted men avoid trench fighting guard duty and receive good pay. Sergeant R H Russell will interview applicants at the Commonwealth armory Brighton tomorrow night 7 to 9.

Second Massachusetts Field Artillery Mounted Band R. H. Russell Commonwealth Armory Brighton

Pleasant View home of Mrs Mary Eddy to be destroyed

In Concord New Hampshire Pleasant View the longtime home of Mary Baker Eddy founder of the Christian Science Church is being dismantled under her will. Principal timbers will form a memorial to Eddy while the remainder is burned. Authorities halted fires without permits then granted regulated burn permits.

Concord N. H Pleasant View Mary G. Eddy Christian Science Church Eiddy Josiah BE. Fernald Fernald

Lexington Man Loses Brother in France

Charles Callahan drum major of the Lexington Drum Corps received a telegram from the Canadian war department announcing the death of his brother Matthew J. Callahan in France. The latter, a three year veteran of the Canadian Volunteers Fourth Battalion, died May 14 in an ambulance while en route to a base hospital after being wounded four times since the war began. He had also served in the Spanish American War and belonged to the Fourteenth United States Infantry.

Charles Callahan Lexington France Matthew J. Callahan Canadian War Department Callahan Fourteenth United States Infantry

Former Boston police lieutenant dies at 87

Edward M. Johnson, formerly a Roxbury Station 9 lieutenant and longtime pensioner, died yesterday at his East Dedham home at 18 Cedar Street in his 87th year. Funeral services will be held Thursday at 1 PM at his home.

Edward M. Johnson Boston Roxbury Cedar Street East Dedham

Do Not Fear New Dishes in Wartime Kitchens

Miss Helen Green urged the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association committee to try new and cheaper dishes. She called for experimental home kitchens, careful prep of untried meals, cooperative buying of wholesale staples, and stronger women’s cooperation to maximize food efficiency during the war.

Helen Green Conservation Committee Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association Boylston Street

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