08 Dec 1916
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1916
Page
1
Five hundred members of the Boston fire department voted to join the American Federation of Labor and form a union. Leaders say strikes will not be required to protect service, seeking only moral support and improved working conditions. The men say membership changes nothing about their duties.
Germany acknowledges sinking the passenger liner Arabia without warning. Washington views the action as a clear breach of a German promise, and the President assumes control of the escalating crisis.
Washington officials say investigations into the coal price spike show no warrant for $12 coal in Boston and New York beyond alleged combinations. It remains under review whether those who profited most can be punished under federal law.
Baltimore report: Kid Williams, claimant of the world bantamweight championship, outclassed Billy Fitzsimmons of New York in a 1 round no decision bout here tonight.
The premier awaits Parliament Tuesday with details to finalize his new national ministry. Reported to include a cross party lineup with a strong business element and possibly exclude the Nationalists.
Police hunted last night for an autoist who plowed a heavy car into a small touring vehicle at Broadway and Wisconsin Avenue, Somerville, hurling it across the sidewalk and into a grocery store window. William Walcott, the other driver, was only slightly hurt.
The tally compares trail-hitters on the 13th day across cities with Sunday campaigns to the count in Boston for the same period. It notes how many individuals participated in each location during the 13 day sequence.
About thirty thousand men from Bible classes across Greater Boston joined the Massachusetts Anti-Saloon League after a Billy Sunday meeting at the Tabernacle to rally for the upcoming December 19 election.
Nashua police and Hollis posse located Mrs Samuel Iayden aged 80 at a relative's home after she disappeared last night from Hollis. She had spent the bitterly cold night in an abandoned farmhouse and walked five miles to the relative's house where she was found.
Washington dispatch reports Major General Hugh L. Scott declares the volunteer militia system a failure and should be relegated to the past in his annual army chief of staff review. He cites poor performance of the National Guard mobilized for border duty and weak recruiting for both regulars and guardsmen.
The speaker argues that defense requires universal peacetime service like Germany and France. He says one son should not defend another’s family and urges youth training to ensure readiness. General Scott criticizes 75 days of training as inadequate and calls for at least six more months in wartime.
Paris notes that the official journal will publish a decree tomorrow proclaiming a blockade of Greek ports.
Boston housewives led by Mrs Ida M Hebbard plan a famine parade to protest high food prices. The event aims to show rich and poor in ragged clothing marching through wholesale and grocery districts, part of a national wave by women against price manipulation by packers and speculators.
A meeting of league and club women will rally one thousand volunteers to register for a two week parade. They will march from Boston markets to the State House during a governor appointed commission's session. A line of bare dressed protesters will stand outside the State House as a Coxey style display.
Delegations from the Hingham Cohasset Weymouth Milton Quincy and Boston fire departments attended the Hull fire department banquet at Smith Tavern Hull Mont Packard captain of Engine 1 served as toastmaster Principal speakers were James Walsh captain of Engine 3 and George Hadard assistant chief of Hull fire department
Harry H. Frazee and Hugh J. Ward, successors to Joe Lannin, arrive in town as final papers await approval. With only a few formalities remaining, the new owners near complete possession of the team within days.
The new owners, aiming to revive the club’s past glory, sever ties with theater work and commit fully to Boston. They arrived to meet baseball writers and discuss the Hub’s situation, signaling a long stay and full dedication to the Boston club.
A fire sparked by a locomotive near Weymouth New Haven road power house off Rockland Street burned over two acres of woodland and a salt marsh, spreading into a grove housing 50 bungalows. The Hingham fire department controlled the blaze after Dr. Charles Whalen’s bungalow was destroyed.
William Todd Meek a 68 year old musician and Youth's Companion employee is sued by Sarah Marsden for 50000 breach of promise. The case filed yesterday c a murky background includes long acquaintance dating back over 40 years with undisclosed ties to England.
A public hearing will be held at the Dorchester Board of Trade rooms in Fields Corner to discuss proposed fare increases for the Boston Elevated Street Railway. Citizens and officials will review grounds and seek community consensus on the change.
Advertisement notes sixty years of success for Father John's Medicine with claims of no alcohol and no dangerous drugs.
Germany's note on the P. and O. steamer Arabia, released by the State Department, admits responsibility for the sinking and says the submarine commander mistook the vessel for an auxiliary warship. The exchange signals no breakthrough in U S German tensions after the Sussex and Arabia incidents.
Berlin cites a U boat probe into the Arabia sinking. The German reply to the US notes states a large steamer was sighted near Corigo straits on November 6, 100 nautical miles west of Corigo island, with the investigation finding results consistent with their position.
The Chamber of Deputies approved the government’s wartime conduct by a 344 to 160 vote, expressing confidence in its leadership.
A brief item notes heavy thunder storms and morning snow in Boston in 1913. It recalls one year earlier T S demanded satisfaction from Germany and Austria for the sinking of the Ancona.
The forecast from Washington predicts increasing clouds in Southern New England on Friday with warmer temperatures and likely rain by night and Saturday. Northern areas expect partly cloudy Friday followed by rain Saturday, with easterly to southerly winds and cooler conditions.
Incomplete record shows numbers and phrases about a spa reading. Mentions average temperature yesterday at 40 and a range 18 to 24. Includes stray codes and unreadable text with no clear event or names.
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