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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1917
Page
12
Four men believed to be allies of a mayoral candidate tried to buy all copies of the Boston Post in South Boston and Dorchester. They purchased bundles from newsstands and newsboys in a blue automobile, aiming to prevent public access to the paper.
Early raid at 5 30 a m sought to buy out South Boston Dorchester Post sales as newsboys and stands were targeted. Automobiles offered high prices to shove papers, with dealers and regular customers losing supply. At Field’s Corner the car halted, papers in tow, as buyout attempts continued in Dorchester and Savin Hill areas.
The Festival Chorus under Professor H Augustine Smith of Boston University will sing Christmas carols at the Parkman bandstand on the Common from 7 to 7 30 PM. The event benefits the Armenian Syrian Relief Fund and precedes a Tremont Temple concert. Syrian shepherds in costume lead the parade to Tremont Temple after the singing.
Chelsea's schools closed yesterday due to a coal shortage, two days earlier than usual for Christmas. Williams Grammar School, the largest in the country, also closed on Monday. Superintendent Frank E. Parlin says the move preserves scarce coal while noting some rooms were uncomfortable for pupils.
George T. Taylor died at his Quincy home at 101 Beach Street aged 75 He was a prominent New England railroad figure serving as general superintendent of the Plymouth division after rising through Old Colony ranks from a Kneeland Street worker to conductor and train despatcher He retired in 1908 after the Old Colony was absorbed by the New Haven.
Boston born Andrew J. Peters, elected mayor, rose from Jamaica Plain birth on April 3 1872 to Harvard trained lawyer and long service in Congress. He shaped tariff and interstate commerce policy, reformed customs and treasury operations, led war risk insurance, championed workers rights and eight hour laws, and authored Peters Bill aiding women and children in stores. He married Mary R Phillips in 1919 and has four sons.
Mr Peters rose in Boston politics starting in 1901 as a House candidate winning a Republican ward. He carried a Republican stronghold again in 1904 and 1906 to the Senate. His legislative record was stout and he then sought Congress from the 11th district, winning by a large plurality and serving three terms.
Lieutenant Charles F. MacDonald Jr. of the American engineering regiment with the British Expeditionary Force recalls British troops seizing the German breakfast at Cambrai and dining on captured rations as shells cracked nearby. He notes his hut shelter, nine months with the Harvard surgical unit, and his family ties to Dr. A F. E. MacDonald.
Eyewitness account recalls liberated peasants from villages near the front including a young woman in baggy trousers with spiral puttees. He describes marching onto the battlefield the next day along the Hindenburg line and observing scattered war material and dead soldiers including eight to ten Tommies around a machine gun emplacement.
Georgia Tech asked Indiana University for an inter sectional game to be played in Indianapolis on November 24 next year. Indiana coach Stechem announced the proposal while in Indianapolis. The Indiana faculty will decide on the plan.
Chicago club president Charles Weeghmann told Grover Alexander at a dinner that two additional baseball surprises were in the works, matching his recent acquisitions of Alexander and Killifer from Philadelphia.
Ralph C. Stevens of 12 Shannon Street Brighton, a ballot clerk in Precinct 6 Ward 25, was arrested for giving more than one ballot to a voter. Michael McDermott of 78 Foster Street was later arrested after reportedly marking three ballots for Curley. a faulty ballot box mechanism caused the issue. Both were held for a Brighton District Court hearing.
A stubborn blaze yesterday damaged several stores in the Whittemore block at Arlington Centre. Damage is estimated at $12,000 and is believed to have been set. The Ginter Company and the Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company faced the heaviest losses.
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