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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1916
Page
13
Letter to the editor argues for US and state ownership of coal and gas utilities. Proposes federal control of bituminous mines rail links and coastal shipping, with states running gas plants to provide uniform prices. Claims gas lowers costs, reduces middlemen profits, and improves heating and cooking.
G A Lancaster of 24 Campbell Avenue, Revere, notes the use of steamers to transport coal for operations at the Panama Canal. The brief item records this logistical detail and lists the address of the author.
The British schooner Elsie M Hart bound from Souris PEI for New York with potatoes arrived in the lower roads last night in tow of the coastguard cutter Androsscoggin. A gale damaged her rudder and other parts, sighted off Orleans in danger of going ashore and rescued by life savers at Cape Cod.
David Caplan, last of the alleged dynamiters tried for the 1910 Los Angeles Times building destruction, was sentenced to 10 years in San Quentin for manslaughter. A certificate of probable cause for appeal stayed the sentence pending Caplan's expected appeal decision.
Winter Street shop offers beaded bands fringes beaded crystal trims at 434 the price. Hamburgs edgings beadings insertings in short lengths 5c and 10c per yard. Waterfall gowns in pink white blue at 3 dollars Bengaline options blue rose white at 2 dollars Scotch coatings 54 inch at 2 dollars 49.
A Chicago Woman's Club gathering of social evolution students heard Professor Herbert L. Willett of the University of Chicago argue for birth control as a path to higher motherhood. He said limiting birth rate does not imply degeneration and cited France as a success, framing birth control as freeing mothers from perpetual childbearing for their own good and biology.
In Lexington on December 28 William Jennings Bryan delivered a broad denunciation of the liquor traffic, opening what was described as a sweeping critique of the sale and use of beverages containing alcohol.
Mr. Bryan told delegates that licensing saloons does not stop illicit sales. The convention of the Intercollegiate Prohibition Association will run for five days today.
Edith Horne daughter of Mr and Mrs R B Horne of Watertown and Cambridge wed George Parker Allen oldest son of Mr and Mrs George Allen of 129 Charles St Cambridge. Ceremony led by Rev Dr Raymond Calkins at the Horne home with close relatives present. Allen previously MIT 1916 graduate Lambda Chi Alpha member and class team participant. They will reside in Detroit.
A lighthearted piece notes Nippy's Pop balks at high expenses to frighten Desperate Ambrose, tracking comic mischief across a humor page for the upcoming Sunday Post.
An order from military headquarters forbids children and others from wearing khaki or khaki resembling soldier uniforms, with fines and imprisonment for violations. In Antigonish Mosca Delorey of Tracadie died after a pig attack in his pen, pinned against a wall and bitten severely before succumbing hours later.
Edward Morala, 4, died after severe burns suffered while throwing sticks into a furnace at 960 Bennington Street in East Boston. He was rushed to East Boston Relief Hospital yesterday afternoon where doctors, aided by his mother, fought to extinguish the flames.
The Rev. Thomas Sims of Melrose Congregational Church and the Rev. Edward Tillotson of Swampscott Holy Name Church officiated yesterday at the funeral of Albert Nowell. The service was held at his home on Puritan Road in Wantpscett before the body was taken to Maine for burial.
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