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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1916
Page
2
In Washington on December 6 Secretary Baker urges establishing government run preparatory schools for military admissions. Graduates showing fitness would be trained at West Point or Annapolis, broadening selection beyond presidential and congressional appointments.
Joseph F. Fittingoff is charged with violations of election laws in Ward 2 at the Nov 21 city primaries after losing to Charles M. Little for councilman. A petition for a hearing has been filed in Chelsea District Court and a hearing is set for Friday at 10 in the morning.
The 1917 class nominating committee announced nominees including five major sport captains and two other football players for three marshalships. The senior election is set for next Wednesday.
Captain Cadman Cabot Teschner and Morgan head list for marshals with Harte Meeker and Mor gan among athletic candidates. Norman Burbridge Baldwin and Westmore Willcox vie for treasurer and poet while Ivy Orator nominees include Blaine Paine and Welch. Odist Hillyer Horton Parson among recipients. Chorister Brown Cook Sears are listed.
The Avon Club of Cambridge will hold its 26th annual fair at Miss Gertrude M. Beard's residence at 12 Linnaean Street Cambridge. The event runs Saturday from 2 to 6 pm with sales of fancy work candy cake and other useful articles suitable for Christmas gifts or home use at moderate prices.
Tickets for the National Allied Bazaar open at Mechanics' building next Saturday night and go on sale in Boston today and tomorrow at half price. Five hundred college students and many workers will sell tickets across business districts and at major theatres and department stores to raise funds for entente war sufferers.
The Rev Edmund T Schofield longtime St John’s Church Chelmsford dies in September bequeathing his entire estate to Cardinal O Connell as per his deathbed instructions filed in Middlesex County Probate Court No petition or appraisal recorded The priest’s mother Mrs Ellen Schofield of Hopkinton filed a separate will naming him executor and leaving her property to him dated August 16 1909 and his will dated August 1916
Charles W. Twombly, one of Chelsea's oldest citizens and Civil War veteran, died at his home 82 Suffolk Street after a long illness. He served in the 48th Massachusetts Infantry and was a member of Post 8 G A R and Chelsea's old hook and ladder company. Survived by his wife and two sons Charles H. and John F. Twombly, both Chelsea patrolmen.
Police arrest three well dressed women suspected of leading a fur theft ring in the city. All face larceny charges for stealing furs and coats from downtown stores. One coat valued at $500 was seized at police headquarters with two suspects charged in the case.
Police say three women from New York are part of a fur theft gang active in multiple cities. Two suspects, Ella Nealon and Margaret Rogers, were arrested in the South End with a physician in custody as a suspicious person. A third woman, Catherine Carroll, was jailed after a department store hat and fur neck piece valued at 100 dollars were stolen. bail for Nealon and Rogers was set at 500 dollars each. A man named Harry Dultz, charged with larceny of furs worth about 1000 dollars, was arraigned in Central Court and held for a December 13 hearing.
In Suffolk Superior Court Mrs Marguerite Paul Carpenter seeks to reduce a $250000 attachment on her father in law George A Carpenter of Wolfboro NH to $15000. The case follows her divorce fight and a NH revocation action by Judge Kivel who visited Magnolia to inspect alleged indiscretions at Ralph G Carpenter’s hotel. A custody dispute over their son Ralph G Jr near age 10 is also in progress. Attorneys Henry F. Hurlburt and Walter I Badger represent the parties.
President Wilson hosted a two hour period in which nearly a hundred Senators and Representatives who sought appointments called to congratulate him on his re election at the White House in Washington.
The improvement associations of Boston will host a banquet and convention at Ford Hall tonight under the United Improvement Association. Speakers will include Robert Luce and John R. Murphy.
David T. Remington of Springfield Massachusetts, longtime state official, praises Hood's Sarsaparilla and Peptiron Pills after heart and digestive symptoms improve. He reports walking a mile and a half each way and urges others to start the treatment. Sold by druggists, 200 doses for $2.
William F. Donovan, clerk of the Municipal Civil Court, was nominated for a five year second term by Governor McGall and confirmed by the executive council yesterday. Bar members praised Donovan's administration and said the reappointment would be generally acceptable and well received.
An advertising blurb extols GETS-IT as a miracle corn remover. A customer claims he lifted a corn with his fingernail and praises the product as wonderful and reliable.
Henry A. Voehl of Plainfield New Jersey recounts aiding a injured friend with Sloan's Liniment. The man’s sprained ankle improved from blackened skin to near full strength in four days after daily applications. Sloan's Liniment available at drug stores in 25c 50c and 1.00.
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