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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1916
Page
6
Final August clearance offers 50 imported suits in blue black tan gray priced 10 to 35 dollars. Silk suits once 35 to 10 now 45. Auto coats and novelties reduced to 27.50 from 65. Wraps in crepe and satin 8 to 15. Hats 3.50 to 3.
John S. Browning a renowned newspaper man died yesterday afternoon at his home 19 Trowbridge Cambridge from heart disease. He was 66 and had suffered eight years with the affliction, confined to his home since December. Browning worked with Boston papers Hyde Park Times Cambridge Gazette Cambridge Daily Boston Globe Practical Politics Boston Commercial Christian Science Monitor and Cambridge Standard.
Paris August 9 Justin Godart opened a large program to train mutilated soldiers at Neuilly sur Marne part of Maison Blanche Hospital. American aid led by Edward T Stotesbury funded 75000 dollars as 600 maimed troops began courses in carpentry tailoring electricity stenography and typing.
A servant girls union of 150 members was organized at Central Labor Union Hall and will affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. Members demand an eight hour day and a fixed daytime role, returning for evening meal duties, challenging the old long hours and variable wages. Scarcity of domestics is seen as strengthening the effort.
Boston and Cambridge police arrest Andrew P Carroll of 82 Webster Avenue Somerville in a case involving a car theft ring. The group allegedly hired cars from Greater Boston garages claiming to be Cambridge City Council members.
The State Department of Health reported 46 additional infantile paralysis cases in various sections of the state excluding New York City, bringing total deaths to 74 and total cases to 798 since the outbreak. One death was noted in the 24 hours ending at 5 p.m. today.
Officials at the Long Wharf immigration station report no healthy man should be unemployed as applications flood the Federal Employment Bureau. Skilled workers are sought after and unskilled jobs with good pay are plentiful across the country.
Eleven year old Malcolm Bates of East Weymouth was seriously hurt when he stepped from the sidewalk on Broad Street into the path of a car owned by Mrs Edwin Clark and driven by Harry Speare. He suffered a deep head wound and multiple bruises.
Henry Church longtime superintendent at the South Weymouth plant of the Boston Ice Company died at his Randolph street home in South Weymouth. He was 71 and survived by his wife a son and a daughter.
William B. Fitzgerald, head organizer of the Amalgamated Association, said about half of subway and elevated line workers in Greater New York have joined. He said they will demand no later than August 20 that they be allowed to organize without interference as arbitration on wages nears for other lines.
The final South Carolina guardsmen mobilized by President Wilson's June 18 order left for El Paso today from Columbia. The unit group includes the Second Regiment of Infantry Charleston Light Dragoons Johnson Engineers and a field hospital corps.
Pa Van Loon creates comic chaos as he dodges visitors, yielding a screamingly funny page in the upcoming Sunday Post. The humorous scene promises lighthearted relief and a playful peek at household disputes.
Mayor Curley approved orders to widen Washington Dover and Kneeland streets. Washington Street gains three feet near the Grand Dime Theatre site and five feet at the Dover corner with a two foot triangular cut along Dover. Kneeland Street widens two feet on the south side from Harrison Avenue to Tyler Street to match Washington.
Mayor Curley will ask property owners on Morton street North End to sell their holdings at assessed valuations to fund cleanup and widening. City Planning Board estimates improvements on the dirtiest street will cost about 200000 dollars.
Advice for stomach sufferers on avoiding acidic foods and using bisulated magnesia after meals to neutralize acid. Explains acid as the cause of irritation and promotes plain bisulated magnesia as a food corrective over drugs.
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