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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1917
Page
2
The City Council voted to ask Elevated railway officials to extend service on Washington street to 11 a.m. and resume at 6 p.m. on business days, with a 30 day trial starting April 27. Protests by South Boston and Dorchester residents were aired at City Hall.
The Farmers' Milk Company of Boston filed a bill in equity alleging its milk selling license was improperly revoked by officials James O. Jordan Francis X. Mahoney and Allen J. McLaughlin. The 1914 corporation seeks remedy against the Boston Board of Health for action against its license.
Boston readers are urged to visit the Vitalitas demonstration at Woodward’s Drug Store 102 Tremont St to sample the non alcoholic drugless remedy. Mr E H Green of 46 Parrish Street testifies it relieves mornings fatigue indigestion and distress, urging verification by callers. The ad touts Vitalitas for chronic indigestion rheumatism nervous debility and kidney and liver ills with a one twelve ounce bottle lasting a month.
Frank V. Thompson, assistant superintendent of schools in Boston, mobilizes 5000 schoolboys to work on farms in Middlesex and Essex counties this summer. Three thousand come from Boston high schools, two thousand from Lowell Lawrence Haverhill and nearby towns. Only boys aged 16 to 18 may join. younger boys will tend home gardens.
Dr. Franklin B. Dyer directs Mr. Thompson to mobilize youths across Middlesex and Essex counties with mayors, boards, and superintendents, training sturdy boys for farm labor by May 1. Only top students will volunteer, receiving diplomas without exams and a bronze button reading United States of America Farm Service.
In Middlesex and Essex counties representatives will meet at the State House at 9 30 this morning to perfect plans for an army of schoolboy farm hands. The Committee on Public Safety will hear the plans at that time.
Cambridge transforms Brattle Street lawns into potato plots as part of national food effort. A corner plot at Brattle and Channing streets prepared for a potato crop to feed families through winter, with plans to cultivate a nearby lot.
President Abbott Lawrence Lowell of Harvard College urges convention candidates to keep an open mind and rejects pre lining up delegates on initiative and referendum. He cautions that reforms like budgeting and appropriations should be discussed anew at the convention.
Allegations of fraud against Simon Swig vice-president of the Tremont Trust Company and a General Court representative are made in a bill in equity filed in Suffolk Superior Court yesterday by Hyman Slessinger against Swig and others.
Glessinger files equity bill alleging Swig originated and promoted a real estate trust to lure stock buyers into National Realty Company. He allegedly used a former Lieutenant-Governor and ex Superior Court justice as trustees, who later resigned. Swig installed German and Watts. The suit claims theft of property at 275 and 277 Dudley Street and a 1915 transfer to Israel Goldstein without proper consideration.
To meet new law demands for dependents of National Guardsmen and widows of Spanish War veterans, the City Council authorized transferring 90,000 from the reserve fund to the soldiers relief department.
Maine's first issue of war loan bonds over subscribed by more than $1,100,000. Subscriptions for half a million dollar issue opened today total $1,671,900. State Treasurer Joseph W. Simpson said small subscribers will be taken care of first. Bonds are tax exempt at 4 percent, dated May 1, 1917, due May 1, 1987.
Major Cole, head of MIT military science, told undergraduates that those who skip upcoming military courses will be slackers. He advised freshmen not to enlist now, noting a large future war would grant everyone a chance to serve and train as needed.
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