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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1917
Page
7
Gloucester boasts Uncle Sam instructing local hounds of the sea in sailing and seamanship. A 12 by 18 room above a Main Street drug store hosts a professor with glasses who enforces six weeks of book learning and strict exams before dogs can join merchant ships.
Gloucester fishermen await Uncle Sam as 16 in a class study deck officer line. Professor Frederick Slocumb leads the course at 9 each morning, training skippers like Captain Peter Grant who defend sea craft and port skills while awaiting exams.
Baron Lowen the Swedish minister departed Buenos Aires without the usual farewell visits. The Swedish Legation relayed cipher messages from Count von Luxburg advising sinking Argentine vessels. The Swedish foreign ministry said Lowen bore no responsibility for the German messages, while Hjalmar Branting claimed in September that the Baron had been removed.
Peter O'Reilly of 69 Elm Street Charlestown was pickpocketed of $995 yesterday while waiting at the South station elevated for a Sullivan Square train. Police believe the theft occurred in the crowd gathered for the elevated trains.
An Everett advertisement touts Plant Juice as a health restore for women in Boston’s hub. It features Mrs. Jessie Goss of Everett praising relief from stomach trouble indigestion and nerves after using three bottles. The Plant Juice agent promotes merits at Houghton & Dutton Co. store.
Registered men may enlist in the regular service at any time before 12 noon on December 15, Washington announces. After that date voluntary enlistment by registrants ends. The ruling gives draft age men choice of branch. Between now and Dec 15 registrants may enlist in army or navy with a local board certificate stating they are not needed to fill any deferred quota.
Jitneys force two Middlesex and Boston street railway lines to quit. G M Cox, vice president and manager, says cars between Newton Needham Town and Wellesley Square Needham will be discontinued after December 15 due to cheaper six cent jitney fares.
Soldiers discipline duties shift to coal piles as prisoners work shoveling coal for heating plants. A grand review of New England and Eastern New York troops is planned for tomorrow with Assistant Secretary of War Benedict Crowell inspecting, while 200 new arrivals join the Depot Brigade for drills.
Bishop William Lawrence urged about 8000 soldiers at the Devens Y M C A auditorium to pray daily while serving in uniform. He urged keeping childhood prayers, defending Christian faith, self respect, and self discipline, and called for churches to unite during the war as Brigadier General Weigel and Major General Chamberlain attended. The Groton School boys choir and Worcester Symphony Orchestra provided music.
A mandate issued today lists cabinet appointments in Phkin with Lu Cheng Hsiang as foreign affairs minister Chin Nun Hsun as interior Wang Ko Ming as finance Admiral Liu Kuang Hsun as navy Tien Wen Lieh as agriculture Tsao Yu Lin as communications Yin Tchang as chief of the general staff and Wang Chin Chen as acting premier and war minister.
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