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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
1
Greece refuses allied demands and orders French troops to leave post offices and telegraph lines. Allies prepare to land troops to seize Athens and enforce terms. Government actions heighten crisis as international pressure mounts.
A fire engulfed a New Bedford convent as investigators pursue a arson suspect. A nun was found fatally suffocated in her bed and others were evacuated. Fire officials report a deliberate blaze by an unknown assailant.
A basement fire at the four story Convent of the Sacred Heart in New Bedford killed Sister St Seraphin and sent 20 women and staff fleeing in smoke. Police hunt a man who had been refused food at a basement door, with a description available. No fires or heating equipment existed in the basement.
London reports Greece has definitively refused to surrender artillery as allied troops land likely to trigger hostilities. A Reuters dispatch from Athens confirms the Greek government response to Vice Admiral Du Fournet.
Brown suffered a 28 to 0 defeat at Providence as Colgate dominated with Bankart’s squad. The Brunonians were outplayed from start to finish, leaving players bruised and their championship hopes washed away in the mud.
More than eight thousand football fans braved rain to watch Brown falter. The day turned somber as tears fell with a downpour that worsened from misty to torrential, shaping a sorrowful afternoon on the gridiron.
In 1911 the McNamara brothers confessed to involvement in a dynamite plot. Police records indicate their linkage to the case and subsequent inquiries as authorities pursued charges. The confession marked a turning point in a broader investigation of violent acts attributed to the group.
Reported by Thompson's Spa with fragments noting a range from 30 to 50 in the afternoon and evening hours. It lists average temperatures yesterday at 15.9 and minus 24, and from a year ago at 40.5 and minus 24, indicating mixed values amid unreadable OCR bits.
Shipping circles reported that radio messages warned Allied ships to avoid regular steam lanes due to suspected German submarines off this side of the Atlantic, with warnings sent at least once every four hours throughout yesterday.
Warnings signed in code, believed from allied cruisers patrolling the coast and British stations at Bermuda and Halifax, mirror messages broadcast for weeks. Foreign shipping again yesterday avoided the regular lane off Nantucket Shoals lightship, where the U-53 operated Oct. 8, according to reports in Boston.
A donor gave 40 percent of a $40,000 endowment for two perpetual scholarships at Boston College in memory of Curtis Guild. The gift was presented to Rev. Charles W. Lyons by former Governor David J. Walsh, who declined to reveal the donor’s identity. The scholarships assist boys unable to pay tuition.
The tabernacle event logged a seven day tally of trail hit numbers across cities. Boston shows lower figures versus Philadelphia Detroit Baltimore and others with counts ranging from around 2 900 to 9 173 in nearby campaigns.
John D. Archbold president of the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was reported tonight dying in his palatial home in Tarrytown New York.
Paul Waitt reports a dramatic scene at the Sunday Tabernacle where 8000 filled the storm night crowd. An inebriated man knelt in the sawdust trail and sobbed as evangelist lit his conversion, while 1720 penitents passed to the benches in a frenzied procession.
Dr. George E. Brewer led four blood transfusions today for Archbold after severe appendicitis and extended illness. Five surgeons and five nurses were at the bedside as the operation occurred, with Archbold’s survival described as an even chance before rapid decline.
Wilbur E Andrews, a long serving usher on the revival, spoke with the man that night and then visited his suburban home the following day.
John Hays Hammond mining engineer of New York and Gloucester was reported seriously ill in Baltimore from intestinal trouble after a cold. An operation was said to be probable.
Arthur A. Rose of 70 Gaston Street Medford was injured when his car skidded down a steep hill on the Metropolitan parkway near the Medford Stoneham line. He suffered facial and head cuts bruises on his right arm and the car was towed to a nearby garage.
A convent on Robeson Street suffered a fast moving blaze that killed Sister St Seraphin, who had been bedridden after an operation. Beecher Burns rescued her but she died from smoke inhalation. many sisters fled through thick smoke. A man seeking food at the kitchen door warned by a nurse, then left after threats.
Delegates at the Allied Textile Workers of Maine convention claim to represent 50 000 cotton mill workers and vote to present a 10 per cent wage increase demand to mill owners. The request will be delivered tomorrow in Augusta Brunswick Lewiston and Waterville after Biddeford and Saco delegates acted yesterday.
Berlin reports that Chancellor von Bethmann-Hollweg announced in the Reichstag a manpower bill and Germany’s readiness to end the war with a peace that guarantees the nation’s existence and future. The address coincided with his 60th birthday and featured chrysanthemums on his desk.
The chancellor frames the war as continued destruction by enemies who celebrated summer as victory. He asserts Romania’s unbroken lines, moral resolve, and the troops’ heroism, claiming readiness to end the war with a peace that guarantees national existence and future.
A Athens dispatch reports Vice Admiral du Fournet pledging strict execution of demands with landing of French British and Italian detachments. Greece reportedly chooses to fight the allies and has expelled French post office and telegraph personnel, signaling imminent hostilities and possible debarkation of allied troops in Athens.
The Athens despatch reports that entente powers plan troop debarkation at Piraeus while Greece reasserts control of post offices and telegraphs. Greece resists surrender of artillery and munitions, signaling a likely break with the allies amid German successes against Romania.
Mrs Owen Johnson wife of the author of Stover at Yale and The Salamander is in Reno to establish a legal residence to obtain a divorce. News says the couple have been estranged but this comes as a surprise to many.
Teutons push within 16 miles of Buchar as Falkenhayn continues to advance, keeping pressure on enemy lines. Units report steady progress and coordinate movements for a broader encirclement.
Forces under Field Marshal von Mackensen near Bucharest advance along the Giurgiu line. Tromana, 16 miles south of Bucharest, has fallen as shells threaten the southern forts guarding Romania's capital.
General von Falkenhayn’s army presses Rumanians west and northwest of Bucharest forcing a retreat to Glavatzidzu, 37 miles from the capital. North of Bucharest, Campulung is captured, clearing the route for more central power troops through Torzburg pass into Wallachia.
W. H. Moore a 65 year old resident of 54 Banard Road Brighton fell ill on an inward bound trolley near the opera house last evening. He collapsed, was taken to City Hospital where he was pronounced dead. Identity papers identified him and Funeral arrangements were handled by the Southern Mortuary.
Miss Mabel Phillips of 18 Second street Medford was knocked down and slightly injured by an automobile while walking along the parkway between Second and Third streets last night. Her companion Loring Munro of 69 George street was uninjured.
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