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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1916
Page
5
Marie Morin 23 was found unconscious at 324 Washington Lynn. She revived and accused Will Carrom of assault and robbery after he returned home about 6 30. Police found $81 on him and gas on in two rooms. Morin expected to recover.
Metropolitan Opera Company presents Giordano Mme Sans Gene in Boston with Geraldine Farrar as the laundress, praised for star performance though the opera itself described as serviceable theater music. Amato as Napoleon and Martinelli cited for vocal brilliance. Farrar recalled after each act.
Miss Zenia Makletzova sues Sergei Diaghileff for 10000 alleging breach of contract in a cross suit Diaghileff files for the same amount. Testimony closed and judges set to charge the jury as Diaghileff ill in New York. Sergei Grigorieff testified about contract talks and substitutions like The Enchanted Princess for The Blue God.
Thomas A. B. Norse a former Peabody Mass resident and member of Company C Third Massachusetts Infantry died at the National Soldiers' Home hospital in Danville Illinois after a long illness. He was 76 and survived by his wife living in Peabody. The body will be buried with military honors in the home cemetery.
Delegates of the Allied Building Trades meeting at 30 Hanover Street adopt a resolution decrying school pupil labor as on a par with convict labor used in other states. Committees will seek the mayor and the school committee to halt further pupil involvement in schoolhouse construction.
An advertisement proclaims Adamson's Cough Balsam cures coughs colds and grippe and is sold at all druggists.
A World despatch from London reports a high chance of a cabinet crisis over compulsory military service. The risk is seen as internal rather than from Carsonites outside the cabinet, with tension mounting ahead of tomorrow's developments.
Britain faces a cabinet crisis as Lloyd George demands general conscription and threatens resignation. He cites support from the war council and is backed by the Northcliffe press. The Times war map and fears of a military dictatorship amplify tensions amid Asquith’s cautious stance.
The Wilbur runs the Lancashire comedy Hobson's Choice with Molly Pearson A G Andrews and Whitford Kane delivering capable performances. The following attraction features Louis Mann in The Bubble praised as his best comedy work yet.
Three gunmen held up and robbed proprietors of two small stores in Lynn yesterday. One robbery occurred in the afternoon and the other after 8 30 pm. Police are pursuing suspects described as the men terrorizing suburb storekeepers and linked to the recent Everett shooting of L Klickstein during a separate attempted robbery.
Shortly after 2 PM three men robbed Tony Sawho at 118 Blossom Street by locking him in a storeroom and taking $16 from the cash drawer. They matched a prior description of three suspects terrorizing local merchants. Last evening at Yee Sing’s Chinese laundry 212 South Common Street the same trio stole $10 at gunpoint, with witnesses describing the men as about 22 years old, 5 feet 10 inches, dark clothes.
Prizes announced for the Memorial Day Work Horse parade include the Ashton Lawrence gold medal for four horse teams awarded to drivers who care for their horses, a silver first prize for four and six horse driving, a silver medal in the runabout class for owners and foremen’s driving horses, and a silver cup from Dr. D L Bolger for city or town horse exhibitions in the metropolitan district. The Free Hospital for Horses reports an average of 18 or 19 patients over the past two weeks. admission is available at 75 Northampton Street, 651 Carver Street, or 15 Beacon Street, or through any veterinary surgeon.
Major General William A. Pew told Boston Institute of Banking members that American soldiers show a low grade of military efficiency in all wars. He argued patriotism could create armies overnight, while Judge Alden P. White and William J. Felton of Salem spoke. C. H. Bates of Merchants' National Bank entertained with violin solos as Josiah H. Gifford presided. About 200 attendees.
President A. Shuman said salary hikes at City Hospital came from trustees initiative not Mayor Curley. Nurses' wages rise across three steps from 50 to 200 dollars, with adjustments to align with private sector and union standards. Curley merely approved after trustees vote.
The text notes increases for workers in Boston with weekly raises and new clothing duties. Laundresses previously earned up to 25 dollars monthly but will get 20 dollars for six months then 30 dollars monthly. Cleaners move from five dollars per week to 30 dollars per month, with duties described as arduous.
James L. Meehan aged 24 pleaded guilty in Police Court to stealing 10 new brooms. Judge Murray sentenced Meehan to four months in the Charles Street jail.
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