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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 22, 1915
Page
6
In Chicago, Miss Blanche Rose discusses a home mix to darken gray hair. The formula uses bay rum, Barbo Compound, glycerine and water, applied twice weekly to soften hair, promote growth, relieve scalp itch, and reduce dandruff.
Geneva April 2l The Rhine from Basel to Mulhausen hosted an aerial clash yesterday afternoon lasting two hours. Four Allied planes two British and two French attacked a German group from French territory. Germans outnumbered, Allies retreated under Fort Istein bombardment then returned with reinforcements and drove the Germans away. Later two Zeppelin airships with several planes appeared near Hun inges two miles from Basel and engaged in two hours of firing.
Members of the Roxbury hold-up gang who assaulted and robbed a store proprietor on Blue Hill Avenue Roxbury last March pleaded guilty to robbery without being armed. Judge Callahan sentenced them in Superior Criminal Court after a reign of terror case.
Four youths appeared before Judge Callahan as mothers sat in court. Joseph E B McAuley 23 received four to five years in State prison Frank F Riley 19 got three to four years George H Gatt 20 faced two and one half to three and one half years in State prison Joseph M Leahy 22 was sent to the Concord re formatory Attorneys Vahey and Sheehan urged leniency due to youth as McAuley’s counsel did.
Rear Admiral Moore at Honolulu reported a strong wind yesterday halted the effort to replace a broken cable on the sunken submarine F-4. Diver Loughman, trapped by tangled lines, is recovering satisfactorily after a lengthy underwater stay.
Margaret Davis of Boston leaves $100 to the Little Sisters of the Poor on Dudley street and equal amounts to the Home for Destitute Catholic Children and the Purgatorian Society of the Mission Church Roxbury. The residue goes to Father Whalen and William J. Lyons to relieve distress among the poor of St John's parish Roxbury.
Mrs. Franklin P. Shumway regent of the Old State House Chapter Melrose Mass presented a Colonial mirror to the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. The inscribed mirror formerly belonged to one of Massachusetts oldest families and will hang in the Massachusetts room of the DAR memorial building in Washington.
Adjutant-General Charles H. Cole urged Massachusetts business leaders at the Boston City Club to press employees to enlist in the state militia. He argued current defenses are inadequate and proposed a mobile army of 600,000 as a remedy in his address on the unpreparedness of the nation.
The speaker criticizes the United States for lacking a sizable standing army and a coordinated militia. He calls for a 600000 strong mobile force with 30000 officers, notes current totals of 150000 with 7500 officers, and warns of shortages in weapons, armor, and logistics. He also warns of vulnerable coast defenses and the risk of European battleships threatening Boston.
Mrs John Simpson formerly Miss Margaret Ballantyne married yesterday at the immigration station two hours after arriving from Scotland.
Three Scottish women arriving on the Carthaginian joined their sweethearts in a surprise double wedding at Boston immigration station. Margaret Ballantyne, 26, married John Simpson of Millinocket, and Harriet Sheperd, 28, wed James P. Chaplin of Quincy. Commissioner Henry Skeffington acted as best man. The Rev. James Alexander officiated at the ceremony.
Somerville will start excavation immediately for a nine room school at the corner of Pearl and Florence streets in East Somerville. Mayor Cliff awarded the construction contract yesterday to D L Shepard and Co for 22300 dollars.
Mrs Elizabeth Cushman Best, 83, wife of Rev Edwin Stuart Best of 92 Lawrence Street Malden, died suddenly yesterday morning after a ten day illness from bronchial pneumonia.
Seumas O'Brien the Irish poet and playwright attracted many members of the New England Women's Press Association to the Hotel Somerset yesterday where he read from his works and offered a selection of Irish folk lore fables.
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