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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1917
Page
2
Smith County Kansas reports a three day drive removing roosters from farms to boost poultry output. Thousands of birds were taken to market as the campaign for more and better food products continues.
San Francisco reports Christian I. Bayer, who lived as a cave man on a Santa Barbara isle for ten years, has enlisted as a Soldier of the United States after regions of ancient diet and stone tool life. Despite tuberculosis feared by Burlington, Iowa, doctors, he passed a physical and was accepted, with cave life cited as the cure.
Dr. Robert E. Spear, secretary of the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, has accepted the chairmanship of the war commission formed by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America. The commission, authorized in May in Washington, unites churches nationwide under 18 million members and will include 100 clergy and lay representatives.
The Russian war mission led by Boris A. Bakhmetieff arrives in Boston tomorrow. Mayor Curley invites 10 000 residents to a Tremont Street event at 8 pm with speeches by Rabbi Stephen Wise and officials including M Spokine Borodin and General Roop. over 150 covers prepared for the luncheon hosted by the Sernwood Club and committees appointed by Governor McCall and Mayor Curley.
Washington announces new wartime rules requiring vessels sailing to war zones and with war risk insurance to arm as per navy guidance or face an extra one percent premium per voyage. Ships must prove armament availability and install smoke emission controls with smokeless fuel for two daylight periods and twelve smoke screen boxes on deck under low visibility plans.
In Pittsfield on August 19 a police patrol responding to an auto motorcycle crash hit cyclist Val Clotier at Tyler street. Clotier sustained a fractured arm and scalp injuries and was taken to Boylan Memorial Hospital. The patrol then assisted at the other crash where George W. Stack was arrested for reckless driving after his car collided with a side-car motorcycle, injuring Mrs. Frank Sheridan.
Reno Nev August 19 Reno is the first West city to lose its mayor to the army draft. Alder man Roy Brisch who is acting mayor qualified yesterday before the exemption board. He said he would not seek civil officer exemption noting Uncle Sam needs soldiers.
Mrs. William J. Pike of 21 Furnace street East Boston was knocked down yesterday by an automobile driven by Thomas J. Sullivan of 56 Gladstone street East Boston as she crossed behind a street car. She was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital with a broken leg and a severe head gash.
Private War ren K Daley of Auburndale a member of B Battery was killed when the automobile they rode in crashed into a telephone pole on Wayland road in South Lincoln. Cornelius P Lacey of Somerville was injured and two others were seriously shaken up. Arthur J Ward of Brookline driven the car and was arrested on manslaughter charges but released on bail. Ward said he was unfamiliar with the highway and misjudged the bend. Daley died at the house of Daniel E Sherman.
Private Daley, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin W. Daley of 138 Central street Auburndale, died after a shooting incident near his ward. Dr. H A Wood of Waltham arrived too late to aid Daley but treated Lacey who required several stitches in his lip. Daley was on 24 hours leave from Battery B First Regiment Field Artillery stationed at Camp Curtis Guild Boxford. Lacey lives at 38 Bond street Somerville.
John J. Koen, 18, of 66 Marion Street Somerville, threw himself in front of a car on the Tewksbury road yesterday declaring he did not want to live. Not badly hurt, he was taken to Tewksbury Infirmary and later returned home by his father. He had left home Saturday planning visits to church and to his physician Dr M W White. he did not reach either place and police were alerted yesterday afternoon.
The Rev. H. Clinton Hay in a Church of the New Jerusalem sermon said it is not the churchs duty to urge peace if peace means surrendering what is right and just. He urged that evil must be fought valiantly until conquered subdued and controlled.
Santeri Nuorteva Fitchburg editor and former Finnish Parliament member told the Workmen's Council that Stockholm will start a world revolution and that belligerent governments cannot peaceably end a war torn, capitalist world. He urged action beyond administration aligned publications. Mrs. Marion Sproule of Lowell attacked food speculators predicting hardship this winter including possible heatless and milkless weeks for babies.
Theodore Roosevelt was called an archist by a critic who praised Cleveland Moffatt for breaking up an antiwar meeting and accused the colonel of cowardice and brute force. A crowd hissed the name of the president as James Oneal led a Socialist resolution condemning Frank Little’s lynching and miner deportations.
The Massachusetts Credit Union Association launches a food conservation and Liberty Loan prep campaign. It asks 15,000 union members to save six cents a day to raise about 27 000 dollars a month for purchases like vegetables for canning and coal while cheap.
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