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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1917
Page
4
James J. Storrow as New England fuel administrator and Henry B. Endi Herbert Danton are noted as the Arlington High School junior class leader elected captain of the 1918 football team at a special meeting yesterday. Danton played in the backfield this past season.
War conditions boost marriages with 10 605 to date, over 1000 more than 1916. Births reach 18 486 this year with reports still pending from several areas. Health officials expect further reductions in deaths after late-year reports and out-of-town cases are excluded.
The speaker notes this year surpassed their 1916 peak by June but then dipped. By October the marriages began to rise again, signaling a rebound after the earlier drop and the long-standing high mark.
Chief Justice White sharply rebuked J Gordon Jones for attacking the army draft act during Supreme Court arguments. Jones, representing Albert Jones, claimed unconstitutionality over wartime participation without citizen approval. The rebuke halted his remarks as unpatriotic and unrelated to legal points.
The Executive Council approved $250 000 in bonds to pay Massachusetts State Guardsmen called to guard duty in the waterfront barred zone. The tax commissioner recommended appointments at $2000 salaries for Ralph L. Donahue Henry H. Burr Elmer A. Merriam Rudolph W. Currier and Jerome MacDonald.
United States Marshal Power raided the Medford Beauty Parlor on Main Street after a station agent reported an express package labeled corn cure. Lucy Askins and Mae Burnie were arrested for selling liquor to soldiers from Camp Upton without a license.
Harvard soldiers from the first battalion of the colleges regiment will take the afternoon off to attend a Cambridge tea in their honor. The event will be followed by a tea for the second and third battalions. Prominent faculty members and their wives, along with President and Mrs. Lowell, Dr. and Mrs. Charles W. Eliot, and Major William F. Flynn, U S A, commander of the Harvard regiment, are listed as attendees.
A blaze in Whitfield Maine gutted the Bell & Jewell potato warehouse and 8000 barrels of potatoes. Two adjoining buildings with tubers were at risk as crews fought the 28 below zero blaze. Loss estimated at 22000 dollars with 15000 dollars insured.
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