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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1918
Page
2
The article urges Boston voters to back Walter J. Collins John A. Donoghue and Albert Hurwitz as the city faces peace era challenges. It describes their records, the association’s reasons, and urges turnout to sustain Mayor Peters and advance postwar governance.
Voters last year repudiated him after a year on the council. He is judged as failing in public service, contributing little to decisions, backing a one day off in three for firefighters, and opposing wartime postponement. The measure would hire about 19 workers. Storow called postponement a war measure to conserve manpower.
A crowd of armed soldiers forced entry to the interior minister Auer's residence in Munich demanding his resignation. He signed a resignation under threat, with revolutionists pressing for a voluntary statement. Erich Muehsan led the mob at the Bavarian Courier, while Eisner intervened with a guard. The Neueste Nachrichten was the only paper to publish.
A note that next week's Boston Post Sunday Magazine features a full page of humorous love related anecdotes and lighthearted instances as Cupid travels.
Chief William E. Hill of the Everett police department told a First Universalist Church audience last night that the present probation system has many fallacies and that training for boys and girls should occur in the home. He also suggested that painted dolls would receive a substantial scrubbing with soap.
Everett reported 169 boys in court for larceny in 1918. The chief argues for practical measures over theorists, condemns probation as too forgiving, and stresses home, church, and school as the proper remedy. He cites youths 10 and 12 charged with breaking and entering and warns reform schools fail to reform. The speaker urges parental restitution to hit wrongdoers financially.
President Masaryk of the Czecho Slovak republic made a short stay in Paris after arriving by courier and was summoned to Prague to convene Parliament. He planned to address the body on relations with neighboring states and grave national problems. President Poincare hosted Masaryk at the Elysee Palace with military honors.
William H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists, told a Faneuil Hall mass meeting that peace requires labor to adapt. He urged eight hours daily for five days a week before layoffs and said labor bears the burden of unemployment, vows to have a voice in reconstruction.
Brigadier General W. T. Wood says food served to American soldiers in camps and in the field has been universally satisfactory. One inspector reported no complaints during a trip visiting camps of 500,000 soldiers. Clothing equipment defects were noted but considered unavoidable and remedied where possible.
The Arlington Board of Trade asks Boston Elevated Railway to resume through service between Arlington Heights and Sullivan Square via Broadway. The line was cut, forcing passengers to change cars at Clarendon Hill with no shelter, and calls for improved rush hour service on Arlington Heights to Harvard Square.
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