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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1916
Page
10
Members of the Methodist Church of Concord plan a farewell feast for Rev. Andrew Berggreen the three year pastor. The event will be held in the church this evening at 8 o clock.
A vintage insurance ad warns that poor kidney health risks death. It advises limiting meat salt alcohol and tea while drinking water and taking Anuric tablets from Dr. Pierce to flush uric acid, promising life prolongation. Trial packs cost ten cents. full treatment is one dollar.
At the annual meeting of the Boston Advertising Agents Association Albert W. Ellis of A E Ellis Company was named president, Franklin P. Shumway of Franklin P Shumway Company vice president, and Harold F. Barber of J W Barber Advertising Agency secretary treasurer. The executive committee includes Ellis Shumway Barber and Guy Bancroft of the Boston News Bureau. The group marks its fourth successful year representing top Boston agency leaders.
Buffalo was chosen as the convention site for the Grain Dealers National Association for 1917. E C Eickenberry of Camden Ohio was elected president at the closing session in Baltimore.
More than 1500 Elks and guests from Greater Boston attended the Somerville Lodge No. 917 field day at Lexington Park. Events included a fat mens race a tug of war between Somerville police and firemen and a Cambridge Somerville lodge baseball game won by Cambridge Elks 8 to 5.
St Joseph's Alumni Association in Roxbury to hold fall meeting at St Joseph's School hall with officer elections and social planning. Confraternity of the Holy Cross meets at 3 pm in the Cathedral with Rev William Finigan to conduct. St John’s Ecclesiastical Seminary in Brighton opens with 165 students for the archdiocese, eight day retreat. Forty hours devotion to begin tomorrow morning at listed churches.
The Boston milk supply will face doubled transport costs next Monday when a new milk receiving station of the Boston and Maine railroad opens between Cambridge Street tenement district and East Somerville sidings. Contractors must truck milk from sidings to plants, raising costs. Hood Company officials say the change will require dedicated trucks and teams, effectively doubling transportation expenses.
In Lyndonville Bellows Falls and Rutland Vermont farmers unanimously affirm a plan to charge 50 cents for an 8 1 2 quart can of milk starting October 1. Richard Pattee secretary of the New England Milk Producers Association reports the decision.
After two nights of prep the Plymouth Theatre presented for the first time in the city The Silent Witness by Otto Hauerbach. The author, known for musical comedies, delivers a serious melodrama with many surprises and a pleasing if conventional ending.
A scene centered on Helen Hastings preparing for marriage to Richard Mor in a drama constructed in three acts and a prologue. The presenting company delivers the requisite touches to the plot’s dramatic points.
An article promotes Sargol as a fattening aid for thin people. It explains malnutrition keeps fats from entering blood and claims Sargol tablets convert dietary sugars and starches into tissue nourishment, with reported gains of ten to twenty five pounds per month and a money back guarantee.
A lover is lost in a university fire, a woman bears a child and flees as Mrs. Morgan. Eighteen years later the son discovers his father, now a district attorney, must prosecute against his own child. Henry Kolker excels as the DA and Emilie Polini handles emotional scenes with taste in a brisk, dialogue rich plot.
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