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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1916
Page
14
Second Regiment soldiers faced sharp criticism for profanity in camp during morning services. Chaplain Danker and Rev Connor urged obedience to the third commandment and promised officer support. Soldiers held tent meetings and adopted resolutions to reform speech.
In camp life the clergy joined to curb profanity with Father Connor and Chaplain Danker leading a joint effort after a heavy rainstorm. Private Max B. Holmes seeks a commission as National Guard men move toward regular service while two Holyoke soldiers go missing and a baseball title is decided in the Third Battalion. Lieutenant Safford, Adams, Hosmer, and MacKenzie from Springfield and North Adams, plus others, move toward border postings as guards switch to outpost duty.
Seven year old Willie Ward of 11 Ramsey street Dorchester who disappeared from the fourth floor ward room of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary in the West End yesterday morning was found last night in Needham square Needham. The boy was taken to his home.
A young patient who vanished from the Eye and Ear Infirmary overnight reappeared exhausted in Needham square. Police traced him to Boston where his sister met him and took him home. The boy gave only fragments of his journey, stating he was starved and had no money.
Miss Grace Tyler Pratt, teacher and author of The Bainbridge Mystery, drowned at Bailey's Island near Portland. Funeral likely at West Deerfield, her former home, with Cambridge friends awaiting family notice. Pratt taught English at Girls High School and had a new book accepted by a New York publisher.
Acting Chief Thomas J. Lannery of the East Boston fire district and driver Michael A. Laurano escaped serious injury when the chiefs automobile collided with an inbound Central avenue electric car at Paris and Meridian streets while responding to an alarm. Both firefighters suffered only facial cuts. the chief car was demolished, the electric car sustained no damage.
More than 100 Pureoxia Company employees enjoyed an outing at Rehms Grove in six company autos. A 16 inning ball game pitting married and single men ended 14 to 12 for the singles with DeCourcey and Magee as pitchers. Mulrean’s one handed stab in the 15th saved the day for the singles. Dinner followed and Harry A. Edgerly plus the company received thanks. Activities continued with races and various sports supervised by James E. Mountain James Murphy Fred Rehm Charles Stanwood Miah Sullivan Connie Walsh and Fred Wilson attended as firm representative declaring the day a great success.
Taunton Massachusetts resident Mrs. K J Jaques endorses Father John’s Medicine after nine months of throat illness and weight loss. She cites four doctors who failed to save her son before the medicine revived his health and photos show improved vitality. The ad claims the product builds tissue and strength for all ages and contains no alcohol or dangerous drugs.
Many lucrative federal roles await applicants including cooks bakers chemists engineers and oilers with examinations planned to identify the fittest. Post office civil service exams to be held Oct 1 at several New England cities were postponed to October 1917 with blanks available Aug 1 1917 unless a special exam is called.
The Metropolitan Park police shifted the ball throwing crackdown from Revere Beach to Nantasket Beach. About 12 men and boys will be arraigned in Hingham District Court this morning for violating Park Commission regulations. Chelsea District Court had acquitted the earlier Revere offenders.
On August 20 at Fort Bliss El Paso Texas the funeral of Private Thomas J Fox Attleboro Massachusetts soldier who died after two operations for appendicitis was held in a rainstorm with lightning and thunder. The ceremony marked the first Massachusetts border funeral and a breach in Bay State citizen troops. The storm disrupted transport and a ball game between Ninth Regiment and Field Artillery, drawing 500 Bay State troops and officers. Discharges and transfers followed among cavalry units and Ninth Regiment personnel.
Funeral rites for a Massachusetts soldier from I Company led by Captain Thomas J. Williams faced a heavy storm at El Paso. Chaplain Rollins conducted the Episcopal service as the black casket was viewed, the march to the station followed by the Fifth Regiment Band, and rain soaked the procession and mourners.
William A. Mullen aged 68 of 20 Washington Place Roxbury attempted to take his life by inhaling gas yesterday noon. He was found by his housekeeper Mary Cleary with a gas tube in his mouth and was removed to City Hospital where his name was placed on the dangerous list. He has no near relatives in the city.
Ding Dong to be freed in Chinatown this morning with hundreds of locals joining a trip to Canobie Lake Park New Hampshire for the annual Chinese picnic. The dragon costume was built at 23 Oxford Street by Su Wing to participate in the Great Lion hunt game.
Resolutions adopted by the Roger Casement branch in Franklin Hall denounce the new order in council empowering Britain to deny admission to Ireland to people from abroad. The ruling was read Friday night at the Faneuil Hall meeting of the Friends of Irish Freedom.
In Pittsfield and surrounding towns, 200 textile spinners vote to strike tomorrow. Union president John C. Clancy says two hundred workers seek a $15 weekly minimum wage and union recognition.
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