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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1917
Page
2
Miss Margaret Wiggin demonstrated drying peaches and canning corn at the Timothy Smith Company store. She described using a cheese cloth rack and stove heat to dry fruit, and outlined tests for dryness. She also canned whole ears and prepared jars of corn with salt and water, plus other vegetables.
Captain Albert L. Key has been assigned to the office of chief of staff of the First Naval District as aide to Commandant Rush. He succeeds Captain A. H. Robertson, now in command of one of the German vessels. Commander E. L. Pollock named senior aide.
Edmund Jacob Becker 82 a former radio operator on the Kronprinzessin Cecilie is charged as an illegal entrant. Immigration Inspectors arrested him last night and he faces arraignment before the Special Inquiry Board at the immigration office with possible detention at Gallups Island.
Washington Aug 20 The Ways and Means Committee will discuss issuing short term bonds for domestic needs alongside long term war bonds. These three to five year notes aim to avert high interest costs during a potential cheap money period after the war.
Washington dispatch reports the second draft increment moved from September 15 to 19 and the third from September 30 to October 3. The first increment remains set for September 5.
Food Administrator Henry R Endicott of the Bay State today urged New England tradesmen to eliminate all unnecessary waste in bundling goods as a wartime conservation measure. The appeal covers every store description in the territory including grocers department stores druggists and other businesses handling over the counter goods.
The National Security League announces an effort to form a national organization from men rejected for military service. The group would aid families of men sent to the front and expand with branches in every state.
Five people were killed when a locomotive struck an automobile at the Saybrook ferry crossing in New London. A sixth death was reported as one of three others injured died on the way to a hospital.
Sixty-one horses were saved with difficulty during a four alarm fire that caused forty thousand dollars in damage at the old Boston Custom House on Custom House Street yesterday.
Washington Aug 20 wide spread sentiment in the Senate favors raising rates on war profits and income sur tax as the third week of debate opens.
Senators Johnson Hollis and Jones urge 80 percent of war profits and millionaires incomes as LaFollette plans address on taxing war revenues. Debate stalls with no Senate action today while leaders seek absentees and a final vote next week.
William L. Roberts Jr aged 17 of Dorchester will present his proposal for a junior police force to Mayor Curley praising Malden and Somerville models. He argues such a force could curb local mischief and support bicycle patrols amid a growing “boy problem” in Dorchester.
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