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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1917
Page
3
A quirky note describes using rough lettuce outside leaves to create sand like sandwiches. The passage oddly blends food terms with sand style wording, yielding a playful if puzzling image rather than a standard report.
An advertisement extols Plant Juice a herbal stomach remedy claiming rapid relief for stomach liver and kidney troubles. It cites testimonials including Mrs Gertrude Hamilton of Boston who attributes renewed health and energy to the product. Listings name drugstores in Lynn Salem Lowell Brockton Fall River New Bedford Manchester NH selling Plant Juice.
Unsolicited testimonials praise Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for relief from female ailments such as displacements ulceration irregularities nervousness and stomach troubles. The company verifies writers consent and accuracy before publication hoping to restore health and happiness to suffering women.
Lawrence reports George H. Wrenn of Springfield, head of the Massachusetts State Branch, AFL, addressed City Hall warning that organized labor must prove its loyalty by actions for a better democracy and greater humanity beyond simple pledges.
President Wrenn warned delegates at the 32d annual Massachusetts State AF of L convention about wartime labor strains and postwar reconstruction. He urged unions to defend workers against exploitative employers and to back a state labor compact to counter injunctions. Proposals for 1918 legislative actions included proportional representation, a work fund, 8 hour day for women, child labor limits, old age pensions, and public ownership of street railways.
Charles Carver formerly of Pittsfield learned of the draft today in Peru after registering three months late. He had worked for Frank Groemer, Peru town treasurer and former postmaster, and only then learned America’s mobilization effort was underway.
Letter to the editor urges closing high schools or drafting 18 year olds to work on farms amid labor shortages in New England. Author cites wasted food and calls for school committees to recruit volunteers for weeks of harvest labor. Boston, Sept. 10, 1917.
Two auto thieves who stole a limousine owned by Harry L Davidson of Dorchester decided to kidnap his five year old son after finding him asleep in the back seat. An accident in West Roxbury caused the car to crash into a tree, disabling the self starter and forcing abandonment, saving the child.
The 56th annual American Chemical Society convention opens today at Technology. Over the next two days chemists will report on wartime contributions including securing a potash supply to support crops and efforts intended to hasten the defeat of the Kaiser’s government.
Emma L. Sparks a maid at the Copley Plaza Hotel was arrested by Inspector John H. Dorsey on a charge of stealing a mink cape and pendant from two guest rooms.
Mrs Bianca Errazuriz mother of Mrs Bianca de Saulles now jailed at Mineola N Y for the murder of her divorced husband John L de Saulles arrived in New York from Valparaiso Chile and went directly to her daughter. She was with another daughter Miss Amalia Errazuriz and a son Guillermo Errazuriz.
Judge Morton reopened naturalization proceedings after the summer recess. Several hundred aliens were admitted to U S citizenship, mostly English speaking, with many Italians and Russians. Germans are barred from citizenship during the war, though they may apply for first papers.
Boston aims to raise fifty thousand dollars as its share of the one million dollar library fund. The drive supports sending reading matter to American soldiers during the war. Trustees named the week of September 2 as campaign week.
At its 15th biennial convention in Providence the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees pledged its 80 000 members to unwavering wartime support. Dudley Field Malone was praised for resigning his collector ship over suffrage arrests and a letter endorsing woman suffrage was adopted. A parade preceded the meeting with 400 delegates and 200 women, led by Mrs P E Kerrigan.
The crew of the British schooner J. A. Holmes, abandoned off the Jersey coast, were landed by a steam collier at 5 30 PM Saturday after hours in a northeast gale. Captain Ralph Bradley, the mate, and two seamen survived a water-logged vessel. their rescue explained the mystery.
An advertisement from chemist Mr D J Lane of 532 Lane Building St Marys Kansas offers a simple home remedy for asthma and hay fever. He will send a free one bottle post paid to any applicant and asks the user to judge its effects within ten days. If it helps payment is expected.
The Finance Commission urged $18,000 for the Back Bay project but the City Council approved a first reading of Mayor Curley’s order to spend $20,000. The action follows discussions on funding and project scope for the area.
A solemn novena to Our Lady of Peace will begin at St. Marys Church in Thatcher Street North End next Sunday.
Ottawa dispatch lists Americans among overseas casualties including 8 Holt of Nashua New Hampshire who died from gas poisoning.
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