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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
2
Ottawa reports Sir Robert Borden will stay as prime minister after pressure from colleagues and others. His health requires a prolonged respite from duties, with no decision yet on acting premier during his vacation.
The premier was advised by his physician that continuing duties would cause serious permanent health impairment and eventual incapacity. Absence period depends on recovery progress and health determining return or retirement. The official statement notes Sir Robert Borden desires that the health matters be kept private.
The text notes the leader aims to present the plan to supporters in Parliament and stresses that approval of the arrangement urged by colleagues is essential, a position the leader has accepted.
Police and fire officials resume inquiry into the Abbotsford Hotel fire in which two people died and about 20 were rescued. Housekeeper Miss Vera Farren alerted residents and fire crews, saving lives. victims were Frances Cole, 80, and William S. Whitney, 60, an MIT graduate and longtime American Woolen Co. engineer.
Sergeant Charles V. Russell formerly of the Yankee Division sails for France to oversee removal and embalming of American soldiers’ remains in France and other countries. He expects a four to five year absence and was known as an embalmer in Meeting House Hill and Winthrop at 138 Rewdoin Street. He participated in the Leicheprey Vaux and Chateau Thierry offensives.
Five crew members and fifteen stowaways believed lost when the Cuban schooner Sunbeam capsized one hundred thirty five miles off the Virginia Capes. Captain Riveron and two crewmen were rescued by the coast guard cutter Manning at Norfolk.
Captain Sir John Alcock, famed for the first nonstop Atlantic flight, sustained serious injuries after his plane crashed near Cotterrard in the Seine-Inferieure department of Normandy, according to a Lloyds despatch from Rouen dated December 18.
The War Camp Community Service shifts to peacetime aims with an extensive Americanization program. Supported by Army and Navy leaders, governors, mayors, newspapers and businessmen, it rebrands as Community Service Incorporated. A Boston school to train community song leaders marks the first step in its new work.
William C. Griffin a West End native and longtime Boston Post pressman at 63 Myrtle Street was nominated as a constable and yesterday confirmed by the City Council. He is well known in Greater Boston labor circles.
Washington December 18. The House approved a Senate resolution allowing the immigration bureau to spend as much as needed of the $600,000 allotted last October to supervise passport issuance abroad. The same session agreed to consider the immigration committee bill defining radicalism and permitting deportation for members of the I W W and allied groups.
Haverhill notes mark the 92nd birthday of Mrs Charlotte Robinson at the Old Ladies Home. She joined the First Baptist Church in 1840 and is the last surviving member of her immediate family. Born in Andover in 1827, she has lived in Haverhill 62 years. Her niece Lilian Pettingill, a Red Cross nurse, is en route from the war zone.
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