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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1917
Page
3
Regulating electric display advertising failed to conserve fuel hoped for by the fuel ration and a plan to stop all outdoor light from street lights for two to three weeks is under consideration. It would darken signs on shops, hotels and theaters and end window lights at night.
Deputy U S Marshal Shinners arrested Walter Bach, an employee of a German firm on Atlantic Avenue, under the Pres enemy alien proclamation. Letters and articles were seized and turned over to prosecutors. Bach, said to be a German army officer, was confined in East LeHigh jail after inquiry at the Attorney General's office in Washington.
S Baxter director of Soldiers Iron Bureau reports Adjutant General's office says packages for soldiers in France have been delivered at Hoboken pier at the rate of 00 a day despite public notice that deliveries would stop after Dec 5. The effort to press the public to mail is impractical and friends are urged to continue mailing packages to the pier.
The Public Commission plans a Thursday decision on hotel telephone fees. Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Employers' Association join concerns over rate structures. The dispute centers on hotel chains subletting telephone services and resulting impacts on hotels.
Advertisement for native bromq quinine tablets promising a one day cure for a cold. Refund offered if it fails. Signature initials E. W. on each box. Price listed as 30 cents.
New England Conservatory of Music students pledge 560 yearly to the Fatherless Children of France Society and adopt French children from Drome. Miss Rose Seguin and peers like Miss Pope and Miss Engle eagerly await letters and photos, hoping to visit after the war.
In distant homes sisters and brothers rejoice as the New England Conservatory team rises to support the weary public. A student calls the conservatory awake at last and vows to stay active until every burden is eased. More relief efforts depend on continued aid.
William H. Gardner, 16, of South Boston, fled police for a month after a series of thefts. He admitted inspiration came from a moving picture showing a blackjack. He worked in a rubber factory earning $15 weekly and claimed he had not seen a blackjack before.
New York December 10 1910 Slaughterhouse workers threaten a strike if four large meat packing firms refuse a conference with the local union and an adjustment of higher wage demands. The notice was served on William H. Noyes chairman of the Slaughterers Association by W P John Kennedy of the Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen.
The Rockefeller Foundation approved a 1918 war relief budget totaling 5,050,000 with a possible 5,000,000 addition from the foundation principal. Trustees authorized this at their monthly meeting in New York on December 10.
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