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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 11, 1918
Page
11
Night preliminary to the Maine Methodist conference at Green Street Methodist Church. Ministers and laymen arrived. Bishop Edward Hughes of Boston will preside over conference sessions.
Grafton D. Cushing former Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts and Liberty Loan committee member arrived at an Atlantic port aboard a French steamer after visiting England and France. He said England and France had reached the maximum of their effort and that the war’s outcome now rests heavily on the United States.
Mr. Cushing described the war as extremely serious and urged US action in supplying men munitions and ships. He led a 10 man Liberty Loan delegation to England and France to gather first hand battlefield insights and urge Americans to fund the war effort. He met British and French authorities including Bonar Law and Premier Clemenceau and reported on American troops, hospitals, and the grand fleet in Fingland.
Two Mexicans were killed eight miles southeast of El Paso when an American cavalry patrol returning fire from armed Mexicans across the Rio Grande engaged a party of fifteen. No American casualties. Initial reports placed the clash near Collingsworth, four miles farther into Texas.
In Superior Criminal Court Selvie Melchiorre pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the March 7 Boylston Street killing of Lavario Merola. He received a prison term of not less than five nor more than eight years, after claiming Merola had threatened to kill him over Melchiorre’s alleged romance with Merola’s former girlfriend while Merola was in Sing Sing.
Washington April 10 The Senate approved a War Department bill to reimburse French and other nationals for damages from American military operations. The measure, passed by the House Monday, now goes to the President for signature.
Liberty bonds are described as the protector of the home, the insurance of national ideals, and the sure road to victory. The item emphasizes bond usefulness and patriotism in wartime finance.
An advertisement touts Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron as an effective spring medicine combination. It claims enhanced iron tonic benefits, blood purification, and nerve support with Hood's before meals and Peptiron after meals, noting Hood's Pills for biliousness or constipation and stressing the need to prevent blood depletion.
Four trainmen were killed and three injured in a rear end collision between two freight trains on the New York New Slaven and Hartford line east of Pomfret station. The dead include F B Johnson of Boston head brakeman John O Flaherty of New Haven flagman W Rockwood conductor and M S Saute fireman. Injured are Herbert N Cook East Hartford engineer David Crossier engineer and Joseph Falter head brakeman of the leading engine.
Guiomar Novaes the Brazilian pianist will be the soloist at this week’s Symphony concerts, tomorrow afternoon and Saturday evening. She will perform Chopin’s Second Concerto in F minor with Dittersdorf’s Symphony in C Grieg’s Suite for Strings From Holberg’s Time and Smetana’s The Moldau.
Springfield April 10 Sally Rappoport and Herman G Kinsler faced federal grand jury after a hearing on a conspiracy to defraud the United States. The plan alleged to obtain an inspector post at the U S armory and divert notification for work to Rappoport, an Austrian subject, with Kinsler as suspect.
City admits four year period with no supervision of a street lighting contract costing nearly 1 million dollars. Hearing on termination reveals 17,893 lamps unlit since December strike and about 15,000 dark since January. 104 lamp lighters led petition backed by labor groups and civic representatives.
Two fires in Chelsea last night taxed the fire department with a stubborn fight. One blaze started on the second floor of a dwelling at 218 Webster Avenue, likely from children playing with matches. A second fire broke out in a two story wooden building at 158 Maverick Street used by Fred A. Furbush for making patent medicines where a kettle of chemicals overheated and exploded.
An old style advert urges readers to buy Liberty bonds as a pledge of conviction. It proposes the bond is a louder statement than words and promotes Adamson's Cough Balsam as a remedy for cold or cough.
The National Woman's Party state convention will convene Saturday afternoon at 8:30 in Kingsley Hall Ford building. A 6:30 supper, open to the public, will follow with speakers Walter P. Eaton Herbert Parsons and Mrs Louise R Sykes.
Maine hotel and restaurant owners voted to serve no wheat on their tables from April 14 until the new crop arrives. State Food Administrator Leon I. Merrill and Arthur D. Race of Boston addressed the convention.
A wartime appeal declares that a single clear pledge exists for victory the message is inscribed on Liberty bonds praising the fight against Berlin and urging public financial support to sustain the war effort.
Lux suds claim to clean and refresh sheer fabrics without damage. The ad describes dissolving Lux flakes in hot water to create thick lather, washing gently without rubbing, rinsing thrice, squeezing not wringing, and air drying in shade. It emphasizes long lasting color, soft silks, and supple woolens, with simple steps and a warm iron finish.
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