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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 03, 1914
Page
4
Editorial advocates that the Austria Serb conflict stems from fundamental Germanic and Slavic racial interests rather than a concerted war party political maneuvering. The piece frames the crisis as a natural clash of civilizations influencing European tensions.
The piece argues against pacifist critics led by Carnegie and Jordan, defending military inevitability in international disputes. It cites recent conflicts and asserts that nations must fight when destinies clash, comparing it to individual self defense and historical crises. The author dismisses the Hague as ineffective in urgent conflicts.
From James and Thomas Alexander of Dunfermline Scotland comes a yearly reduction sale of discontinued patterns and excess linen at popular prices. Damask cloths range from 68x68 to 72x108 inches with matched napkins priced per dozen, plus an August offer to hem linens and stamp with one initial free.
Advertisement lists various Bleached Sheets in multiple sizes priced from 49 to 89 cents and Bleached Pillow Cases priced from 17 to 75 cents. Also mentions Bleached Lockwood Sheeting 214 yards wide priced at 14 to 27 cents per yard.
The North and South Boston terminals, busy Saturday, became quiet Sunday with belated travelers taking early trains. By afternoon the main concourses were nearly deserted except for a few vacationers returning early. Baggage rooms remained crowded with trunks and suitcases bound for sunny resorts.
James J. Glennon, 20, was killed instantly when his steel rod hooked an electric wire under a bridge in Janesville Wisconsin. Two companions received shocks while trying to free him and were knocked into the river.
In Moorpark California on August 2 two girls Stella Foulkes and Lydia Backnold walked forty four miles to Hueneme Beach and back. They left at six in the morning ate lunch in Oxnard reached the beach an hour after arrival rested an hour then walked home refusing rides and arrived at eight thirty.
Refugees report business paralysis in Santo Domingo and severe food shortages at Puerto Plata. Eggs fetch 25 cents each, beans 20 cents per pound with four pounds limit, rice scarce, codfish vanishing, and meat stock exhausted long ago.
The Franklin Park Zoo welcomed a new elk named Mary amid a busy week of animal arrivals and summer fun. Keeper Crosby found the newborn lively and the zoo reported other recent additions including lions and monkeys as crowds watched.
Edward Gilson 25 of Brown's Avenue Waltham died at Waltham hospital from injuries after attempting to board a moving Boston and Maine freight train at Roberts station last night. He wore two companions, and fell to the tracks as the train passed. He sustained head and body injuries and was taken to hospital by police ambulance.
James Brooks of near Garrison told reporters in Manhattan he swam to shore after a giant catfish surfaced and grabbed his hand. He wrestled the fish free and showed a badly torn hand as proof of the attack on Blue River.
Jeffersonville Indiana August 2 Joe a white bulldog seven years old starved itself to death from grief at the loss of Mrs William A Payne of Corning New York according to Mr Payne son of Parady Payne of Blue Lick this county Mrs Payne was sick a long time and Joe was faithful in attendance on her The dog would accept food from no hand but hers and when she died it was disconsolate wandered from room to room about the grounds It refused food and finally died of starvation.
Shelbyville Indiana August 2 employees of the canning factory reported a mother cat carrying a garter snake to her kittens and feeding it to them The same cat later caught a weasel which the kittens also ate in a curious display of predation at the plant.
Mary Sobde aged two dropped her rag doll into an irrigation standpipe near Riverside Cal and slipped in herself and floated in an 18 inch main. James Kinge a rancher rescued the unconscious child at the third standpipe, about an eighth of a mile away, and revived her.
A small fire of unknown origin started in the cellar of the Plakias restaurant in Park Square early Sunday morning. It was quickly extinguished and caused light damage.
Morris Feinstein of 885 Adams Street Cambridge asked Malden police for help locating his daughter Mary who disappeared July 26 from 105 Suffolk Street Malden. He fears she may have been committed to an institution and notes she has stayed at Brooke line Psychopathic Hospital and Danvers. She is of medium complexion, brown hair, gray eyes, 105 pounds and wore a blue waist, light skirt, blue hat with light trimming and low cut black shoes.
New York report quotes Dr. Sohn claiming musicians and composers often have oddly shaped heads though artistic merit remains independent. He cites Beethoven as not beautifully formed yet notes no degenerative signs in many portraits examined.
The Rev. George F. Pratt, 10 years at the Christ Unitarian Church on Dorchester Avenue and Dix Street Dorchester, announced at a service he accepted a call from a Unitarian Church in Sanford Maine and will leave in a month to begin his new charge. Pratt, who resides at Elm Lawn Ashmont, is a well known Dorchester minister.
Neurasthenia is exhaustion of the nervous system caused by overwork, worry, or illness. Symptoms include hypersensitivity irritability and headache and treatment centers on nourishing the blood with non alcoholic tonics. Dr Williams Pink Pills are advertised as beneficial and free books offer.
Ten thousand rifles landed tonight at Ballyshannon and are being moved to Dublin from Ballyshannon County Donegan for the Ulster Nationalist volunteers.
Civil war veteran Dyer D. Cady of Raynham Centre Massachusetts recalls 25 years of crippling rheumatism with joints swelling and pain. He credits Var nesis with his recovery noting no further pain and inviting letters for confirmation. The ad promotes Var-nesis offerings and medical offices in Boston New York and Lynn along with druggists stockists.
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