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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1916
Page
9
Chelsea Mass man Albert Latue testifies Plant Juice eased three years of indigestion sciatic rheumatism and sleepless nights after three bottles, saying digestion improved and rheumatism vanished. Plant Juice agent promotes the remedy at Houghton & Dutton Drug Department.
Miss Ida E. Boyington of Glastonbury Conn reports severe scalp itching with scales and hair loss lasting two months. She improved immediately after using Cuticura Ointment and Cuticura Soap, with complete healing in two weeks. Free sample offer and worldwide sale noted.
An old advertorial warns against surgical skin restoration and promotes mercorized wax to remove devitalized cuticle. It claims gradual skin renewal after nightly application and a separate remedy with saxolite and witch hazel for wrinkle reduction.
Walter Wright, a noted newspaperman in Haverhill and Boston, died at his Main Street home at age 29 from heart disease. He was a nephew of General Charles H. Taylor of the Boston Globe and his wife survives him.
A vintage advertisement urges mothers to inspect a child's tongue for illness and to use California Syrup of Figs as a gentle bowel cleanser. It claims quick relief from feverishness, stomach upset, and constipation and promotes a 50 cent bottle with clear usage on the label.
Paul Stier sheriff of Queens County was shot dead and four police officers wounded when Frank Taft, a Whitestone squatter, opened fire during an arrest. Taft, later killed by Police Sergeant James Fitzgerald, had attacked after a court order found him in contempt. The siege lasted about ninety minutes as deputies and sailors from the torpedo boat Henley joined the stun gun stand.
Frank J. Silvia, five, of 28 Summer Street East Boston, fell on a cotton hook at Pier 4 of the New Haven road yesterday afternoon and suffered a wound to his left thigh. He was transported to Massachusetts General Hospital for treatment.
Yesterday in Medford Mr. and Mrs. Charles E B Boisvert welcomed the first male triplets. The babies weighed 5 pounds 4 1 2 ounces, 4 pounds 8 1 2 ounces, and the huskiest of the trio. Dr P F Gahan attended the birth stating all were normally perfect. Before marriage the mother was Miss Madeline Richard of Medford. The father serves as secretary of the William J McCarthy Construction Co of Somerville.
Arthur J. Jones, 19, died when his motorcycle struck the Boston and Maine train at Lake street crossing in West Peabody. No gates or flagman guard the crossing. Jones lost control and collided with the train’s combination car after the engine and tender passed. He was the son of Francis M. Jones of Forest street, Peabody.
Andrew P. Johnson, missing for five and a half days after an auto accident, was found in bushes behind a Campello barn and is now dying at Brockton City Hospital from exhaustion exposure and wounds. Police searched Campello woods last Saturday and neighbors heard groans near the barn today.
Dr I B Towne of Boston reports successful experiments locating the infantile paralysis germ in the tonsils of patients. He worked with Dr E C Rosenow of Rochester Minn and Dr G W Wheeler of New York. The trio describe their work in the Journal of the American Medical Society. They found the germ in tonsils of plague victims in New York and Rochester and have tested it on rabbits and monkeys with favorable results.
An advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a vegetarian liver and bowel aid, a calomel substitute with no dangerous after effects. It promises pink skin, bright eyes, buoyancy, and relief from constipation, selling in 10c and 25c boxes through druggists.
Funeral services were held yesterday for Mrs. Irena W. Wentworth killed in an auto accident in Somerville. The Rev. Hendrik Vossema officiated at Winter A ll Universalist Church and the Weber quartet sang. Burial followed at Woodlawn Cemetery.
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