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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
10
Boston coal consumers heed New England Fuel Administrator Storrow's advice to stockpile coal for next winter while supplies are ample. Dealers across the city report steady responses to coal questionnaires and plans to publish coal question blanks to enlist all users in averting another shortage.
United States Marshal Power announced that a Brooklyn confectionery store owned by Edward Waller and his clerk Henry Willems, both German natives, sold candy analyzed as contaminated with ground glass at 2-10ths of 1 percent. The sailor’s complaint led to arrests and the candy traced to a Tren ton, New Jersey manufacturer. The goods supplied to Brooklyn retailers will be confiscated as a public health menace.
Washington April 4 Will Clements a Negro janitor at George Creel's Committee on Public Information confessed tonight that he shot James King watchman at the committee headquarte rs found dead at his post early this morning He said an argument arose when he reported for work and he shot in self defense after King drew a pistol King's cartridges failed to explode.
The big British tank Britannia with Captain Richard Haigh and seven veteran crew members arrives in Boston to aid British and Canadian recruitment. It will be reviewed by Lt Gov Coolidge at the State House, later at Bunker Hill, then Lynn for an all night Liberty Loan drive before returning for the parade. A supporting auto truck will carry officers ready to sign up volunteers along the route.
The resignation of Election Commissioner Frank Seiberlich was presented to Mayor Peters yesterday after weeks of requests. It is understood Herman Hormell is slated to succeed Seiberlich in the post.
Three lieutenants died in aviation accidents at Ellington Field Houston today. R F Ives of Chicago Carl E Ekstrand of Brooklyn New York and Russell H Wiggins of Waynetown Indiana were killed in separate incidents on the field.
Announcement says ice clears on Penobscot and bangor line traffic to resume. First Boston to Rockland and Camden trip Friday April 5 at 5 pm from India Wharf. connects to Bar Harbor and intervening landings except North Haven. Regular trips set for Tuesdays and Sundays from Boston and Mondays and Thursdays at 3 pm from Camden. full service beyond Camden to follow within a week. Bangor steamship renovated for service. Within a month passenger service on the Metropolitan line Boston to New York to resume. Camden and Belfast will run daily between New York and Boston, including Sundays, as before.
Paris authorities order all matinees halted until further notice to avoid crowds during the hours when the German long-range bombardment of the city continues. The ban affects theatre vaudeville moving pictures and concerts.
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