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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1919
Page
10
Edward Schramm, on the Chicago police force only a few days, faced keen anxiety as his wife repeatedly checked his safety after each shift. She accompanied him home early today while carrying their baby, ensuring his return.
Officer Schramm confronted five men fighting in a saloon. After firing into the air failed to deter them, his wife rushed in from the doorway, grabbed the revolver from the floor, and pointed it at the men until they surrendered. She recalled feeling brave when danger neared.
North Adams contends with halted trolley service and scarce trains due to Berkshire Street Railway and B M railroad strikes. Gas supplies are said to be under two days, with no immediate restock expected, forcing residents to walk as schedules falter and service threats loom.
The city opens 126 stations today to sell army food bought by the city as part of a drive to curb living costs. The Suffolk grand jury ice inquiry is postponed until a state commission report arrives. An 10 o'clock hearing at the State House Room 436 will hear ice dealers and consumers, aiming for swift action.
Directory of aid stations across Boston areas listing locations such as Back Bay Brighton Charlestown Dorchester East Boston Hyde Park Jamaica Plain Roxbury South Boston South End West End North End West Roxbury and contacts including Mrs Lavinia Mason Mrs W J McDonald Mrs Charles Sullivan Mrs Horace H Jacobs Mrs H B Hewett Mrs Fred J Moffatt Mrs A Mahoney Miss Hilda A Hedstrom Miss Mae Driscoll and others with street addresses and district notes for the Special Aid Society program.
General Sherburne says basic work to lower living costs hinges on compiling statistics on essential commodities. Questionnaires will be sent to grocery retailers to gather price data over several months, as a possible federal grand jury session is considered.
Advert asks buyers to verify Bayer tablets by the Bayer Cross and unbroken package containing directions for relief from headache toothache earache neuralgia colds and pain. It notes aspirin is Bayer trade mark and mentions handy tins of 12 tablets selling cheaply at drug stores and larger packages also available.
Federal authorities consider a grand jury inquiry into food hoarding and profiteering in Massachusetts. U S Attorney Boynton, traveling, will return to press the case with Warehouses in Boston area asked to produce records. War Department sales rules expand parcel post and municipal charity shipments, while officials await Washington guidance.
Mines are set aside as headquarters for the men handling the food. The Boston postal district covers 23 cities and towns. By order of the postmaster general the weight of parcel post is increased to 125 pounds. Big department stores are asked to assist in distribution and one has promised cooperation.
The touring quartet includes Thomas Edison Henry Ford and John Burroughs along with Firestone. Crowds gather at the Ideal Hotel in Tilton to meet the notable visitors who are traveling by automobile through New England. Ford shows interest in a local optical workers strike at Tilton Optical Company.
In Fitchburg Aug 11 a secret vote of about 400 Boston and New Haven Railway strikers on orders from national officers for quitting without sanction was held at an open air mass meeting. A further mass meeting is planned tomorrow to reveal the vote’s result. The Federation of Railway Shopmen will announce outcomes after that gathering. The strike, with both union and non union members, continues until wage increases are secured. Boston and Maine carshops in Fitchburg are closed as foremen have largely quit.
The Senate document shows the final League covenant mirrors the American draft on Article 10 and key provisions. It notes strong alignment on arbitration, council and assembly roles, economic measures, and navy and trade rules, with some differences in withdrawal and Monroe doctrine references.
President Wilson transmits the American draft of the League of Nations covenant and the commission report to Senator Lodge. He notes no stenographic debates were recorded and much of the debate material remains confidential.
The president explains that the data and papers from the Paris peace conference are too extensive to reproduce. He notes it would require the entire file of Paris and commission memoranda, which it would be unwise to release publicly.
Worcester, Aug. 11 There is an oasis in Massachusetts Spencer. Beer is being sold in Spencer and drinks of a popular variety. Twenty three arrests were made here in the last two days for intoxication. Most claimed they procured the joy drinks in Spencer. Spencer authorities say they cannot find anyone selling it and suspects refuse to provide information. It is known Marlboro Sterling and other towns supply the thirst.
Nearly 5000 workers from the Pennsylvania Norfolk and Western and Toledo and Ohio Central railroads in Columbus ended a strike and resumed duties. The action involved shop men across the lines and marked a return to work after a stoppage.
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