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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1916
Page
22
A general order from Fire Commissioner John Grady announces a new ladder company in Allston. Ten new men join the department, 31 transfers occur, and Captain Fitzgerald M. O Lalor of Engine 18 is named acting district chief of fire district No 10 during the absence of District Chief Walter McLean. The changes take effect at 10:00 this morning.
The city adds Ladder 14 at Harvard Avenue Allston with an 85 foot aerial ladder truck overseen by Lieutenant Thomas H. Andreoli. A large transfer list assigns personnel to new ladders engines chemicals and repair shop and updates several lieutenant postings.
Mrs. Alice Park of Palo Alto spoke to the Boston Equal Suffrage Association for Good Government about legislative gains after women won the ballot. She noted California’s red light injunction act of 1911 faced enforcement delays due to “tricks of the law.”
A comic feature titled Colonel Corn Unmasked at a Masked Ball headlines the upcoming Sunday Post. The piece promises sharp satire and playful circus-style costumes in a lighthearted page centerpiece.
Samuel Abrahams aged 21 of Randolph North Street arrived in Liverpool after eight months of service with Company D Sixth Gloucester Eng Regiment on the French frontier. He trained with British troops in Liverpool then fought in the first trenches, saying they expect to fight to crush German power and trust the British navy to win the war.
ST. JOHNSBURY Vermont April 4 Peter MacDuff 55 of Fairbanks scale shop had a close call when a south bound Boston and Maine freight struck the horse he drove at the crossing in St Johnsbury Centre The horse was killed the carriage demolished and MacDuff was hurled into the air with injuries to his arm shoulder and sharp nervous shock.
Irene Thomas age 28 living at 203 Camden street attempted suicide by ingesting carbolic acid in the Mattapan station waiting room. Her sister Blanche Truie of Bridgewater knocked the bottle from her grasp and she was treated at City Hospital where only lip burns were found.
City representatives led by Mayor Malone and officials from Boston Elevated and Bay State Street Railway meet the Public Service Commission to discuss running the Washington avenue Chelsea line through the East Boston tunnel.
Former President Taft requests delegates to represent Massachusetts at the first annual assembly of the League to Enforce Peace in Washington on May 26 and 27. He wrote to Richard L. Gay of the State Board of Trade and James A. McKibben of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
Adjutant General Cole was presented by Congressman P F Tague to Secretary Baker as a candidate for the job of Assistant Secretary of War aiming to fill the vacant post at the War Office.
Congressman Peter F. Tague presented Charles H. Cole Jr. as a candidate for Assistant Secretary of War to Secretary of War and urged President Wilson to back the nomination. The post was vacated by Henry Breckinridge.
Edward H. Harris, 28, of Dillaway Street Roxbury, was arrested in the South End by Inspectors Conway and Hart. Police say he is a fugitive wanted in Manchester New Hampshire for larceny of 234 dollars from J B Hart hotel manager.
A humorous comic page follows a well meaning yet clumsy Lady Bountiful as she tries to aid a street gang and ends up alienating them through comical misunderstandings. The scene pairs lighthearted social satire with cartoon antics.
The strike of 300 longshoremen at Merchants & Miners Transportation Company shifts the freight bottleneck into a new phase. Officials warn that unresolved issues may worsen local congestion if a prompt settlement is not reached.
Strikers who walked off at noon stopped two steamers from discharging and threaten more walkouts. Freight worth thousands is tied up as 70 longshoremen continue to work while 100 at Mystic docks fail to join. Police dispersed crowds as Dorchester arrived and more ships await today.
Elmer R. Getchell will relate his three months in the Hinglish trenches in a free public lecture at 10 30 this morning. The talk will be at the exhibition rooms of the Special Aid Society located at 61 Boylstone Street.
Quincy officials and residents testified before the legislative committee on railroads urging adoption of a plan to lower the railroad tracks causing the grade crossings in the city to be removed.
City officials and industry representatives spoke for and against the proposed grade milk bill at the third joint public health and agriculture hearing at the State House. Sullivan Pierce McLaughlin Sedgwick Wheelwright Edsall Withington Sterling voiced support and opposition noted by participants.
Renowned American painter John Singer Sargent arrives in New York from Rotterdam and heads to Boston to supervise the final murals in The Triumph of Religion at the Boston Public Library. Boston artists and library trustees prepare events, with Sargent likely lodging at the St Botolph Club.
George Leary and John Gusick spoke for a new state bill to regulate milk quality and ensure fair pay to producers. Opponents A W Butler and L Collins argued local boards can regulate the industry and warned the bill would harm small producers. Leary said western Massachusetts producers fear state power. the proposed plan would create a regulatory board including health officials and farm leaders and allow state action only when local boards fail to act.
The paintings for the series are in Boston under bond and will be opened when Mr. Sargent arrives. He brings moldings bas-relief molds and paneling for the library corridor. The Boston Public Library commissioned the work, paying $15,000 as part of its value. Augustus Hemenway led the fundraising. This is Sargent’s first U.S. visit in years, and he plans to stay about six months at age 62. He was born in Florence, son of Dr. FitzHugh Sargent, educated in Italy and Germany, and has painted portraits of Theodore Roosevelt Henry Cabot Lodge Joseph Jefferson Edwin Booth among others.
A girl identified as Mary Wilkins and three Cambridge men were held for Superior Court on robbery charges after an early morning assault in a Beacon street doorway. Alexander Land testified he was beaten while resisting the theft, with Lang aiding police. Bail set at 2000 dollars for the four and 200 for the girl.
Dr Solomon C Fuller pathologist and clinical director at Westboro State Hospital for the Insane gave an illustrated talk on the brain last evening before nurses doctors and others at Evans Memorial on East Concord Street.
Comic poet Walt Mason praises Sewell Ford author of Torchy and Shorty McCabe in the upcoming Sunday Post Magazine.
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