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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 28, 1919
Page
15
An advertisement touts Bon-Opto tablets as a prescription to cure eye strain and strengthen eyesight. Dr. Lewis and other physicians endorse it, claiming many users discard glasses after 1 week to 15 days of use, with guaranteed results or money back. Purchase through local druggists, including Hougerton & Dutton.
A large gray house at 88 Cedar Street in Roxbury becomes a scene of a lavish Thanksgiving. Colonel and Mrs. Fred A. Lindsay, leading the Volunteers of America, host 20 children with help from daughters, serving turkey, mashed potatoes, squash, and cranberry sauce. The gathering includes a prayer and shared gratitude as 3800 city children and 150 couples benefited from VOA efforts, with plans to extend help after Christmas.
The Chicago Daily News questions wealth rankings by profiling E. E. Meyers of Pierce Nebraska who writes he is richer in health family and simple pleasures than Rockefeller or Russia's Czar. The piece notes Meyers values honest work and contentment over material wealth and mocks class-based revolutions.
The freshman class of the College of Secretarial Science at Boston University announces its first formal dance of the season will be held December 11. Miss Lillian McCarthy of Roxbury, a Girls' High School graduate and freshman class president, is general chairman. Sub-chairmen include Agnes Sands of Winthrop on finance and Evelyn Freeman of Dorchester on social.
Three prisoners, the smallest number on record, spent Thanksgiving at City prison. All were charged with intoxication.
About 150 boys at the Working Boys Home Newton Highlands enjoyed a complete Thanksgiving dinner donated by James J. Phelan. The event marked the home’s second annual feast with afternoon interclass football games and an evening moving picture show by Phelan Jr. The donor’s father offered to supply weekly reels for future showings.
One hundred men of the Seavey Settlement of the Morgan Memorial Shaw mut avenue South End and more than 100 men and women without homes ate their Thanksgiving dinner in Hope Chapel of the Memorial building yesterday.
Advertising claim promotes Danderine as a quick remedy to eliminate dandruff and prevent hair loss. It urges readers to apply a small amount to the scalp, asserting dandruff vanishes and hair regrows with increased vigor brightness and color.
Dr. William Harmon van Allen urged Thanksgiving focus on appreciation, acknowledgment, gratitude, and return. He noted people magnify discomforts while missing joys and praised American freedoms amid high living costs, plentiful food, and low unemployment at the Church of the Advent.
A brief item notes a Thanksgiving Day meal at St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, reporting a feast organized for residents and guests. The notice highlights charitable acts and community participation associated with the asylum during the holiday.
At St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum on Camden street South End the children were served a real New England Thanksgiving dinner at noon yesterday. The dining room was decorated with blue and white streamers in honor of the Miraculous Medal Feast.
The West End Rescue Mission hosted 80 men for a Thanksgiving dinner in the mission hall at 42 Green Street yesterday. Clive F. Dorman, president, led the event assisted by Mr and Mrs Clarence S. Farnum, who helped serve sandwiches and coffee.
United States Senator David I. Walsh sent a letter to Cambridge Mayor Edward W. Quinn expressing strong support for his re election. The message praises Quinns public career and leadership under trying times and wishes him a handsome electoral majority on Tuesday.
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