Farms in City Aid Families Raise Hens and Pigs
Dr. Austin Peters former Massachusetts cattle chief spoke at Harvard Medical School on home animal raising as a response to rising living costs. He urged incubators for space limited settings, sanitary coops, green feed, and careful egg purchase while noting eggs may be more profitable than meat. pigs thrive on farm byproducts but avoid contaminated dishwater and soap in feed. He outlined common pig and poultry diseases and emphasized vermin control and clean housing.
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Austin Peters
Cattle Bureau of
Massachusetts
Harvard Medical School
Birds suffer disease claims and cures discussed
Pigs, turkeys, chickens and other birds and animals are mentioned as suffering diseases that could be treated in many cases and entirely cured according to the speaker.
Fights Vicious Rat in Bed at Pennsburg Home
In Pennsburg, Russel Kemmerer fought a monster rat that entered through an open window and attacked him in bed. After thirty minutes he smothered the rodent under a sheet, though he sustained numerous wounds and doctors fear blood poisoning.
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Pennsburg
Penn
Russel Kemmerer
Kemmerers
Cigarette Smoking Deemed Worse Evil by Cleric
The Rev Wentworth F Stewart told the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Jamaica Plain yesterday that cigarette smoking is the worst evil facing the country, arguing the two vices drink and cigarettes feed each other and both will follow.
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Wentworth F. Stewart
First Methodist Episcopal Church of
Jamaica Plain
Eva Booth to Transfer as Salvation Army Head in England
At Carnegie Hall a crowd welcomed General Bramwell Booth and Eva Booth, long administrative head in America, amid reports she will head the army’s top international bureau in England. American officers reportedly oppose the move. District Attorney Whitman praised the Salvation Army’s work with the unfor untates and criminals as General Booth lauded his son and the founder’s legacy.
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New York
Carnegie Hall
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Eva Booth
America
England
Charles S. Whitman
Falk
Catholic Church Notes of Boston Diocese Events
A pageant costume ball at Hotel Somerset on Thanksgiving Eve promotes the Guild of the Infant Saviour in all parishes. The St. Lazarus church at Orient Heights hosts renovations and a priest’s influence noted by Rev Luigi Toma. A 40 hours devotion spans multiple churches with St Zepherins Cochituate and others. The Carmelite Convent marks St John of the Cross with sermon and relic veneration. Erin Court funds a Boston College scholarship honoring Fr. Gasson. South Boston parish reunions and dances set for Bethesda Bernice halls and St Augustine School.
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Somerset
Guild of the Infant Saviour
Suito
Mary A. Corcoran
St. Zepherin’s Church
Cochituate
St. Mark's Church
Dorchester
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Cambridge
St. Margaret's Church
Lowell
Church of St. John the Baptist
Salem
Mt. Pleasant Avenue
Roxbury
Erin Court of
Boston
New
Boston College
Thomas I. Gasson
South Boston
Gate of Heaven Club
Bethesda
Bernice
St. Monica's Parish
St. Augustine’s School Hall
Dedication of Jamaica Plain Baptist Parish House Delayed
The dedication of the First Baptist Church Jamaica Plain parish house, announced for yesterday, was postponed to November 2 awaiting completion and readiness for occupancy by that date.
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First Baptist Church of
Jamaica Plain
Four Men Rescued After Hour Cling to Capsized Boat
Norwood police racing to New Pond Walpole in an automobile with ropes saved four men clinging to the bottom of a capsized sailboat after nearly an hour. Rescuers John Smith Emil Gustafson John Lind and Carl Parson were exhausted and fainting but pulled to shore with aid from a swimmer and shore supporters.
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Norwood
New Pond
Walpole
John Smith
Highland Street
Hyde Park
Emil Gustafson
Savin Avenue
John Lind
Carl Parson
Quincy Avenue
Rescue at pond ends in men pulled from water
A shore party hauled several men from a leaky rowboat after a wind squall tipped the craft during an all afternoon sail on the pond. Walter A Readel and Alfred Deviealt of the Norwood police assisted as doctors treated the half drowned boaters.
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Readel
Norwood
Mdevicalt
Walter A. Readel
Alfred Deviealt
Norwood Police
Tokio Bishop on Missions
At the Church of the Advent Father Daito bishop of Tokyo preached a history of Christian missions in Japan. He urged more missionaries are needed as Japanese requests prompt expansion to distant provinces. He argued that over 50 years China Japan and Korea saw more converts than in the early Apostles era.
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Father Daito
Tokio
Japan
China
Corea
Freak Potato Resembles Prize Fighter
Joel N. Davis of Ashby Massachusetts found a potato in his field that he believes resembles a prize fighter. He sent it to W H Moody of Roxbury who presented it at the Post office where the unusual tuber drew notice.
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Joel N. Davis
Ashby
Mass
W. H. Moody
Warren Street
Roxbury
The
Post
Veteran Pastor Dies in Bennington Vermont
The Rev. Andrew J. Barron pastor of St Francis de Sales Church in Bennington dies of Bright's disease. Born in Burlington in 1859 he was ordained in 1834 and appointed pastor of St Francis De Sales eight years later.
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Bennington
Andrew J. Barron
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