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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 26, 1917
Page
6
A humorous ad notes couples accept matrimony for love and feature a Cross wedding gift. It includes a powder jar in white satin with a 14th Century hoop skirt and veil, standing 834 inches high, priced at $10.00. A version without the veil in pink, rose, lavender, or blue satin costs $9.00.
Eng lish Script engravings for invitations plates and cards with per line and per hundred pricing. Samples of styles available on request. Furniture items include foot stool and a variety of wooden stands and trays in mahogany or enamel finishes.
Black grained patent leather travelling bag for women with moire silk lining and 13 white celluloid fittings plus an extra pocket. 14 inches long, priced at $39.00 with free gilt initials. Engraving 15 cents per letter. monograms from 85 cents.
Advices to New England recruiting stations announced a broad call for war service across all branches. At the navy station in Tremont street enlistments have been steady and officers on the naval department active list are to stand by for orders for active sea duty.
Army and navy recruiting details show officers training camps enrolling non residents to fill quotas by May 8. Enlistments surge at Tremont Row and the Old South Meeting House while Plattsburg camps open branches across New England. A new Lynn sub station launches to boost recruiting.
Boston Federated Jewish Charities reaches 218851.15 in gifts and 7484 members as campaign nears end. Kingsley Hall luncheon boosted totals with 49870 and 1033 new members. Judge A K Cohen lauded teams. West End led subscriptions. YWHA team topped women in membership. A Sunday Ford Hall dinner honors 400 workers.
Prominent Catholic society members attended the funeral for Mrs. Blanche Bahan O'Riordan wife of Michael S O'Riordan. Rev John T Creagh of St Aidan s Brookline officiated assisted by Rev John Kelleher. A mass and grave service were sung by a quartet. Pallbearers included James J Phelan P A O Connell Richard Sheridan Walter Drummond William J McGaffee John O Day and Joseph A Denil son.
Fragmentary note mentions Bromo Quinine and a signature in a box marked by E W Grooge. The text is distorted and provides no clear event, date, or outcome to report.
New York April 25 The highest wage scale ever seen for merchant seamen was approved for crew aboard an American vessel to sail the submarine zone. The first mate earns 300 a month, chief engineer 250, second mate 200, with other ranks down to 60 75 for firemen and coal passers. A 100 percent war bonus doubles wages until arrival back at port. In disaster, 250 for officers and 100 for men paid for lost belongings.
Members of the Children of Mary Society at Our Lady of Grace Chelsea Will stage a novelty entertainment in Murdock Trail Everett tomorrow at 8 o clock to raise funds for the church. Committee heads include Dorothea Kerr Catherine McShane Helen Howard Elizabeth Lynch and Mary Lynch.
Authority to modify the Tremont Street subway at Adams Square to serve as a terminal for the Bay State Street Railway Company is granted by the Transit Commission in a favorable committee report.
Brookline Country Club members plow and harrow grounds to supply the club and local Boy Scouts with home grown food. An acre in front is set for potatoes, while 15 acres will grow corn onions and beans, four more acres for potatoes, and additional plots for vegetables.
The Boston Symphony Orchestra wraps its season with a Sanders Theatre performance tonight at 8. Soloist Mies Claire Forbes will perform Tschaikowsky in B flat minor. The program features Wagner Goldmark and Schubert.
Dr. Robert W. Guiler of Newton Highlands was ordered by the Superior Court in East Cambridge to pay $8 a week to his wife Mrs. Susan K. B. Guiler and $100 within 50 days. The decree prohibits interference with her personal liberty and grants custody of their 13-year-old son Donald with the plan that he stay with his father until school ends, then transfer to his mother and increase the weekly allowance to $13.
Under suspension of the rules the House advanced the bill to authorize Sunday truck gardening. It was expected to pass all readings yesterday but time remains to place the measure on the statute books before next Sunday as planned by supporters.
The House rejected a bill to raise the maximum cooperative bank loan from $5000 to $8000. In the Senate, a motor vehicle commissioner bill passed to a third reading after an unsuccessful bid to create a separate commission. The lobster fishing licensing bill and a $3.5 million Merrimack River improvement appropriation bill also moved to a third reading.
Attorney William N. Barnard aboard the K S Dupont and serving in the Naval Militia spoke during shore leave to advance a 10 day drive for a $200,000 building fund. The canvass reported $6,191.50 that day, bringing the total to $30,225 in two and a half days. Team No. 38 led with $648 under Miss Mary BE Wood.
Washington April 24 The National Defence and Shipping Board decided that coal steamers from the New England trade will not be commandeered for war service. The ruling follows protests by Massachusetts Congressman Tague on behalf of local coal merchants. The decision covers coal barges and other craft used to move coal to and from New England shipping ports.
Steve Walton testified in Central Court that he would not steal from a ill friend. Detective Leonard said Walton visited Charles McGarty and left with $3 to make purchases then did not return.
A Cincinnati inventor touts freezone a small drugstore bottle that calms tender corns instantly. Apply drops to the corn and pain vanishes while the corn loosens and lifts out with no skin irritation. Hard and soft corns and calluses shrink and fall away.
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