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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1917
Page
10
A brief literary line on courage and fate compares cowards and the valiant, noting that cowards die many times before their death while the valiant experience death only once. The quote is attributed to Shakespeare, though garbled in source.
Readers note a sudden reform ending sugar trading futures on the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange. The move appears prompted by Food Administrator Hoover, as part of a broader cleanup of gambling on markets, following wheat and cotton actions.
The piece argues that wasting milk due to price conflicts with buyers could trigger action by officials under the food law. It calls such waste an economic and legal crime and urges stronger or better enforcement using President Hoover's authority.
The Washington suffragettes, now in the Occoquan workhouse, end a temporary protest aimed at disturbing the President during wartime. Officials call the disorder treasonous and dangerous and say the law will end it, noting the nuisance caused before the President's home.
A fragment notes that a potential cause of a disorder could lead to dire outcomes and that removing the cause is prudent to avert tragedy the civilized world would deplore.
The Boston Post urges funds for Provincetown widows and orphans after the sea toll. Exchange Trust Co. president John J. Martin volunteers as treasurer and the Red Cross joins to aid immediate needs. Contributions may be sent to the Boston Post or Martin and will be acknowledged.
Boston witnessed a grand parade of Union veterans yesterday, hailed as living symbols of American principles. The crowd cheered as these Grand Army survivors, who stood by the nation in its darkest hours, reflected the loyal spirit that established and sustains the United States as a world power.
The Boston welcome and official attentions to Russian representatives reflect admiration for a democratic government. The piece notes Russia’s alignment with Europe’s shift from autocratic rule to popular sovereignty, highlighting the American example as influential. Russian ambassadors expressed that this transformation holds momentous importance.
Providence Rhode Island August 21 The libel suit against the German merchant submarine Deutschland over the sinking of the tug T A Scott Jr in New London harbor last November has been settled out of court Captain Allen Gurney of this city announced He represented the widow of Captain John Gurney and four crewmen who perished in the accident.
In old days the Boarding Lady served hash from meat scraps with onion and potatoes, a thrift dish amid cheap beef. Now onions and potatoes are scarce and costly, experts urge rice and macaroni, but you cannot hash those. The poem laments rising prices and the shift from traditional hash to rationed meals.
A dry season led to a police raid on a local garden owned by a Sioux City man. Officers dug up vegetables and found 84 half pint bottles of whiskey and four jugs of rum. The man was jailed and charged as keeper of a disorderly garden after the chief of police changed the note from disorderly house to garden.
A humorous columnist muses on a newspaper headline about a motor truck hitting a pedestrian. He riffs on the idea of required licenses for drivers and the fantasy of pedestrians carrying knock down licenses. He recalls a near miss on Atlantic Avenue and Nantasket and imagines drivers roaming sidewalks if licenses existed.
A reader reports campaign cards for John L Saltonstall Wilfred W Lufkin and Rufus D Adams with claims of marriage and children. The note covers Donnell Carmen Mudge leather firm staff losses, Rev William E Barton in Foxboro, a turnip with an iron corkscrew, Fort Logan aviators, tax talk, Newington shipbuilding, and a Fly paper kindness tale with a restaurant scene.
Peter Eltin buys a handcrafted lace centerpiece from a street seller for 12 dollars claiming it local refugees made. He resells to neighbor Mrs. Perkins for 20 dollars, sparking a comedic reveal when Perkins praises the piece as a genuine antique worth 300 dollars.
The observer cites official figures for August 22 with highs of 91 in 1880 and 90 in 1883 and 1905. Coolest readings for the date were 50 in 1876, 1886, and 1895. Rain fell in Boston on this date in 1908 and 1915.
The Wedham town tax rate will increase from 18 to 20 this year, adding two dollars per property and affecting local residents and budgets.
Fifty automobiles depart Uphams Corner Dorchester at 1 pm carrying Dorchester and Roxbury Boards of Trade members for a joint day in Pemberton. Events include baseball races a tug of war dinner at Paragon Park and a park tour led by committee head John J. Dailey.
Stuart Franz of the Sig-Franz vaudeville troupe, now at B. F. Keith's, has joined the conscript ranks. He was examined by Dr. A. Green of the West End late yesterday afternoon and passed.
Albert Cook formerly of Pe First Field Hospital Company M. N. has been ordered to Ayer to serve as a scion in the commissary department practice.
In a recent speech Elihu Root warns that German propaganda funds press networks in America and Russia to undermine democracy. He cites sentimentalists and conscience as aiding treason and urges vigilance against internal enemies.
The piece explores kangaroos as remarkable leap artists from seven to about thirty feet in flight. It notes their tiny newborns, pouch life, upright stance, strong tails, and fighting claws. It also covers historical European awareness, vegetarian pacifism, and pressures from hunting and farming.
A young girl writes about flirting with a married man and seeks guidance. The response urges telling a mother or relative, warns against trusting the man, and emphasizes remaining at home and confiding in a parent for protection and to end the inappropriate relationship.
John Gough, famed temperance lecturer, born in Kent August 22 1917, arrived in America at twelve as an apprentice. He worked as a farmer and bookbinder, lost work for drunkenness, then lectured nationwide after reform aided by a Quaker. He died suddenly while speaking in Ford, Penn.
Readers inquire about keeping mice from clothing while away on vacation proposing camphor as a solution. A letter discusses whether cooking apple peels improves flavor when apples are scarce and asks how to tell the difference in a related culinary query.
In a 1917 Walt Mason verse the poet scorns Kaiser Wilhelm II as arrogant and vain. He predicts downfall for the Hohenzollerns and warns of punishment for Germany as the war grinds on.
A reader exchanges questions and answers on topics from botany to geography and music. Topics include huckleberry versus blue berry seeds size British Empire land area about a fourth Boston to Washington train time via Hell Gate bridge Katahdin height 6200 feet and origins of God Save the King and Deutschland ueber alles with notes on Hoffman von Fallersleben and Haydn.
The noon rally of the Knights of Columbus to raise 3 000 000 for a war camp fund will feature Arthur W. Dolan Register of Probate John J. Martin president of the Exchange Trust Co and Captain J L Molloy US Army as speakers. Yesterday’s list included Congressman Tague Representative Charles S O Connor William H Barter John E Riley and Judge William J Day with two Filene Co operative singers providing entertainment. Checks payable to the UK of C War Camp Fund may be sent to Daniel J Gallagher 100 Boylston Street Boston.
Washington reports President Wilson appointed John W. Garrett as minister to the Netherlands and Luxembourg. The move places Garrett in a key diplomatic post, as the United States expands its diplomatic representation in Europe.
A. Paul Keith and Edward F. Albee plan tearing down the old Boston Theatre on Washington Street to build a $1,000,000 complex. The theatre will seat over 4000, have the largest city stage, and feature opera house like interiors with a Tremont street entrance redeveloped from the Arcade at 162 Tremont Street. No start date is set.
Middle Brewster the last of Boston harbor outer islands to be taken for war purposes joins Outer Brewster Little Brewster and Calf Island. The area includes Boston Light and is connected to Melvin Adams and Benjamin P Cheney, noted summer residents and investors.
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