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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1917
Page
4
Crowded exhibition hall in Mechanics Building hosts annual festival to aid Home for Destitute Catholic Children on Farrison Avenue. May raise funds beyond the usual $25,000 to $30,000 needed. booths, entertainment by home children, and sales from popcorn to feather dusters.
Mrs Frances Vaughn of Utica New York leaped from an eastbound express train near Westboro and died from injuries. The 20 something prisoner, under police care, was being taken to the Woman's Reformatory at Sherborn after a vagrancy sentence. She gained exit by asking for water and slipping from the car door.
Allied patriotic groups in Quincy led by the Paul J. Revere Post G A R marched through city streets before patriotic exercises on the Adams Academy lawn.
Use three ounces of Orchard White with juice from two lemons to make a quarter pint skin softener. Strain, store, and apply daily to face neck arms and rough hands for a fragrant beautifier that lightens freckles sallowness and tan. Edward Wesley Co Cincinnati Ohio endorses this preparation.
Washington May 30 The war tax bill shaping the $1.8 billion House measure nears final draft after Senate finance committee revision. Treasury experts aided the panel as revenue estimates drop to about $1.46 billion, with a bill around $1.5 billion anticipated.
Postmaster General Burleson pressed Senator Simmons to back Hardwick’s plan keeping the one cent poundage on news portions while taxing advertising sections. The committee favors sharing the cost with publications at postage rates below cost but resists a heavy levy. If adopted, the 2 percent advertising tax may be altered, and liquor taxes likely remain nearly unchanged.
Textile Workers Union claims 2060 members are locked out in Chattanooga Tenn and calls a strike affecting all local plants. Officials say at least 1000 more workers will join the action.
More than 1300 draft horses paraded along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston for the 15th annual Work Horse Relief Association event. Judges praised humane treatment, with notable wins for Elm Farm Milk, Dorr’s Express, and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Donkeys were present in the Farmers and Market Gardeners class, and entries from the navy yard at Charlestown highlighted the fleet’s traditional ties.
A festive parade features trick horses with a gray mare owned by the Boston American driven by Harry Cantor and another gray mare from Moulton & Holmes driven by John J. Bergh. Nathaniel K. E. Smith’s bay gelding Nat wins red ribbon after a period of lameness and galls. Allan F. Coughlin appears in the pony and goat class with Edward T. Harrington Jr. of South Boston showing a fine pony.
A harness goat shown at the event claimed first prize in its class, with another exhibitor securing a first in the same division. The top finishes highlight strong showing by both animals and their handlers.
Théodore Winthrop Post, G A R, and Walter J. Chadbourne Camp 24, Spanish War Veterans of Chelsea joined in exercises yesterday. Mayor Edward F. Willard and Chelsea Board of Aldermen accompanied them to Garden cemetery. Graves were decorated and a volley fired by the Fifth Company C A, under Captain Fred Robinson at Signal.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on May 20 three hundred eighty naval recruits who had trained for a month aboard the U S 8 Topeka and Southern were detached and ordered onto a special train for another post.
A Japanese product named Ice-Mint for corn removal drives big demand at drug stores. It promises painless root and all removal, relieves soreness instantly, and does not irritate skin. Consumers are urged to stop cutting corns and to seek Ice-Mint in local drug stores.
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