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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1921
Page
6
Advertisement claims yeast combined with iron as a powerful tonic for weakness anemia and run-down health. It promotes ironized yeast tablets, asserts rapid improvements in three to ten days, and lists a 10-day package for $1.00 with child directions, sold by Ironized Yeast Company in Atlanta Georgia.
Advertisement asserts Nerve Force from Nuxated Iron strengthens nerves and raises vigor within two weeks. It explains organic iron enriches blood to support nerve force and offers money back if effects aren’t felt. Sold by all druggists.
A patient who was refused life insurance due to heart symptoms credits Mayr's Wonderful Remedy with rapid relief. The claim asserts the product clears catarrhal mucus and soothes digestive inflammation, including appendicitis. One dose supposedly proves money back. Sold at Houghton & Dutton and Epstein Drug Co. and by druggists.
Boston physicians surgeons alienists and hospital executives clash over the ethics of philanthropic lies in medicine. Some say doctors may deceive patients while others oppose the practice.
Dr Richard Cabot argued physicians must be truthful to patients, a stance met with opposition from Back Bay doctors who support withholding full truth for nervous or distressed patients. Some concede selective truth can aid courage, while all agree a close relative or protector should know the patient s condition. Dr Hugh Cabot of Ann Arbor is cited as supportive of deception if in the patient s best interest.
10 year old Edward Madeson Jr of Everett street Dorchester is held at City Hospital for observation after being struck and knocked down by a motorcycle while crossing Adams street near Gibson yesterday afternoon.
The Felix Kornfeld employees will host their 11th annual entertainment and dance Friday evening at the Strand Ballroom on Huntington Avenue. The organizing committee includes Frances Berns as chairman Faith Devener of the Summer Street store and Anna Silver of the Temple Place store.
An old advertisement touts Cereal Meal as the ideal health food that relieves constipation without drugs. It claims the product supplies missing elements for natural bowel action, guarantees relief, and offers refunds if expectations are not met. It cites indigestion headaches and other ailments as secondary to constipation and notes availability through grocers and druggists.
The article notes the 314th anniversary of John Harvard’s birth marked by a service at Appleton Chapel at 8.45 and a John Harvard exhibition in the Widener Library Treasure Room through the week. It recounts Marie Corelli’s role in saving the Harvard House at Stratford on Avon and connects John Harvard to Shakespeare through family and church links.
Genial Charlie Henshaw hosted the Boston newspaper automobile editors at a luncheon at Cop ley Plaza marking the seventh anniversary of Henshaw Motor Company, Dodge Brothers distributors. A public reception at his salesrooms is set for Tuesday November 29 and will run all week.
Cambridge Lodge of Elks finalizes arrangements for a public charity ball this evening at the Cambridge Armory near the Harvard bridge. Proceeds go to the Christmas Cheer Fund which organizers say must be larger this year.
Patrons of dance halls will save money on taxes of women's admission tickets by a ruling announced yesterday by Internal Collector Nichols. A pro rata tax replaces the former one-price five cents. If a man pays 50 cents and a woman 25, the woman's tax drops to three cents and the man's remains five. Previously the treasury claimed a 60 cent tax in such cases. now half price women tickets receive a proportional tax decrease.
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