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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1919
Page
7
Palm Sunday palms are very scarce in the city. Supply was limited and unless the Clyde steamer Katadhin arrives in port this morning, some Greater Boston churches may have to do without palms or use substitutes.
Edward J. Callanan notes palm shortages hit Catholic and Episcopalian churches due to high labor costs and scarce cutters. The Katahdin liner may bring small and large palms from Florida and South Carolina, but arrivals are uncertain, forcing some churches to delay or use evergreens or pussy willows.
The 95 year old Rev Edward Stuart Best of Malden led the roll call at the 123d annual session of the New England Methodist conference in Athol. Since joining in 1851 he has attended 68 consecutive sessions and is the oldest clergyman in New England and the oldest member ever of the New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
Walter F. Gallagher and several associates face a lawsuit in Suffolk Superior Court filed by Stetson Press seeking 1143.29 for printing tags badges and posters used in the tobacco fund drive for New England boys in service. Gallagher through his brother’s attorney assumes responsibility for the suit outcome and the drive committee included notable figures such as Major-General Clarence R. Edwards and David I. Walsh.
Williamstown reports unprecedented matrimonial conditions with only two marriages since January and a lull in marriage licenses as high costs and wartime strains strain the market.
The Post begins a series of first person World War narratives by members of New England's division. Readers are invited to follow these true accounts as they are published daily in the Daily and Sunday Post.
The Yankee Division bases in Neufchateau with division HQ and the 101st Infantry. Officers occupy local houses, often warmly welcomed by landladies after initial frictions. Neufchateau earns the nickname Boston of France as Massachusetts troops billeted there and locals become liaisons for the war effort.
Bankers and railroad leaders meet with Director General Hines to arrange May 1 funding. The plan echoes April 1, using indebtedness certificates and extending security due dates. War Finance Corp and banks to supply about 60 million, with 40 million due as securities. A Maine jury finds Harmon P Mad Knight guilty on two counts for mail fraud in a timber deed scheme tied to Cassidy lands. Knight plans appeal to the Appellate Court.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Henri Rabaud performed Albéric Magnard's Hymn to Justice for its first local hearing yesterday afternoon. Also on the program were Beethoven's Sixth Pastoral Symphony, Four Character Pieces after the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and Dubois Overture to Frithjof.
The piece recalls Magnard’s death at the outbreak of World War I and contrasts his later direct, vigorous writing with earlier abstractions. It praises Hymn to Justice as a public-spirited work, notes Rabaud’s fiery Nancy performance, and commends Beethoven interpretation and Foote’s simple, honest music.
Monroe county Sheriff Joseph J. Bakley is cited to appear before Governor Sleeper on April 18 to answer charges of official misconduct regarding enforcing state prohibition. State official Fred I L Woodworth alleges he failed to provide deputies, sold 50 quarts of whiskey on March 29, and that other confiscated liquor disappeared from custody.
New developments in the Fokker plane, the leading model used by the German army, prompt American aviation authorities to send Colonel Earl Mc Farland and Major Robert Marsh Jr to The Hague for investigation.
In Central Hull the by election produced another Coalition loss as Commander J M Kenworthy, an Asquithian Liberal, defeated Lord Eustace Percy, Coalition Unionist, by 7699 to 616. Kenworthy rode a wartime popularity wave while Percy faced a strong challenge as the Coalition’s best rival.
The defeat is a heavy blow to the government and its policy direction challenged by Commander Kenworthy during the campaign.
A Shipping Board veteran has been named vice president in charge of construction at the Emergency Fleet Corporation, succeeding Charles Pier who resigns May 1. Howard Coonley also resigns from administration finance and contracts. a new vice president will be appointed soon to fill that post.
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