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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1915
Page
9
Sunday rifle practice by Worcester militia at the Shrewsbury range stirred tensions between Worcester military officers and Shrewsbury town officials and residents. Adjutant General Charles H. Cole criticized Shrewsbury residents as unpatriotic for protesting Sunday target practice.
Four former heavy taxpayers in Shrewsbury push back on Sunday rifle range use arguing it disturbs church services and community peace. Town officials threaten legal action while Worcester officers vow to continue Sunday practice citing national security. Captain Burr defends weekend shooting as necessary for country.
The British embassy submitted further arguments and statistics to the State Department denying claims that its merchants profit from war restrictions at the expense of American trade. The memorandum notes negligible gains in British trade with neutrals compared with U S growth and highlights New York exports to Scandinavia in the first 13 months of the war offsetting declines to Germany.
The Ford peace party lands in Christiania Norway and plans tours through neutral nations to push a world peace agenda. Delegates meet with preachers professors and officials as they aim to unite the group on Wilsonian preparedness while stressing a universal desire for peace ahead of Hague talks.
A former Western film star recalls thrilling ranch life in California and Arizona and his romantic sketches of cowboys, horses, and a love interest. The tale contrasts glamorous fantasy with a hard city retreat as the cowboy returns to “God's country.”
A Copenhagen dispatch reports that Ford peace supporters addressed the Norwegian Student Union in Christiania with attendance by Albert G. Schmedeman and the University of Christiania rector. Ford could not speak due to influenza. Jenkins Lloyd Jones Katharine Brewster and Lt Gov Andrew Bethea spoke. Lochner outlined Ford's plans. Norwegian chair expressed student interest.
Mary Pickford’s talks will appear usually five days per week in the Daily Post and each Sunday in the Sunday Post. the writer notes Mary O Sheas interest in neat dresser drawers and fond memories of The Little School Teacher. Mattie A Tounes collects the articles daily for a big book.
In Neosho Falls Kansas on December 19 a second woman rural mail carrier was appointed. Mrs Lessie Reynolds substitutes for her husband Logran H Reynolds and covers a 24 mile route each day in the usual time.
The Civil Service Commission lists openings including nautical expert and chart engraver in the hydrographic office with salaries from 720 to 1000 annually, junior pharmacologist at the Bureau of Chemistry offering 1200 to 1500, and bacteriologist pathologist in Manila Philippines with 2000 to 2500 yearly. Qualified applicants urged to enter examination as none were secured for the pharmacology post.
Sayville New York December 19 Captain Frederick Ockers of West Sayville reports a successful test preserving shell oysters in cold storage. He asserts frozen oysters can remain indefinitely in suspended animation and be thawed back to life when needed.
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