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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1917
Page
5
A Post reader based Q and A column explains the draft process and advise on using a legal advisory board. It includes sample inquiries about eligibility by nationality marriage age college status and residency and notes classifications and exemptions under evolving rules.
A home made Pinex cough syrup mixed with granulated sugar syrup is advertised as a fast acting throat and chest remedy. It claims to ease bronchial symptoms within 24 hours and to be cheaper and better than store bought syrups. The ad notes Pinex as a concentrated Norway pine extract and urges asking for 214 ounces with directions.
The City Council approved an order barring Boston Elevated Street Railway cars from Washington street between Franklin and Essex streets from 9 a.m. to 5 30 p.m. on business days with returns fixed at 5 30 p.m. except Sundays and holidays. Councillor Hagan said the rule ends erratic return times by the company.
Two pastors resign to join YMCA A war effort abroad. Rev. William C. Poole of Parkman Street M E Church Dorchester will resign Sunday and Rev. Clarence Campbell of First Presbyterian Quincy has already stepped down.
Lexington patrolmen fired several shots during a chase after three youths surprised at a fertilizer plant near East Lexington station. Arrested suspects claimed the names Joseph Lamana 21 Cambridge Ohio Chilton street, Frederick Shelley 17 Cambridge Broadway, and Joseph McCarthy 17 Cambridge Maple street. Lamana identified as Joseph Hetfarhan released from Concord Reformatory.
William Castel formerly connected with the Hotel Brunswick died at his home 150 St. Botolph Street Back Bay after a lingering illness. He was born in Tryvie Scotland and had lived in Jamaica Plain. He leaves a widow. The funeral will be Sunday at 3 30 p m from Waterman's Chapel Rexbury.
Camp Devens reports First Sergeant Henry S. Evans of G Company 301st Infantry married Miss Arizona Haddox of Folsom West Virginia on Christmas Day. Evans proposed and wed five hours after first meeting the bride who had been his pen pal for six years. The couple exchanged letters and photos during wartime correspondence and Evans hoped for a furlough for the ceremony. Evans, 32, from Knoxville Tennessee, returns to camp with his new wife remaining at home until further orders.
Councillor Ford introduced an order at the City Council meeting for 17,500 to build a new sheriff home and 132,500 for a jail hospital. The measure was sent to the finance committee for review.
Mrs. Ethel J. Wilkins, former market cashier and co owner with her ex husband Charles S. Wilkins, is defendant in an alienation suit for $000 filed by Mrs. Nora F. Gannon. Gannon’s husband Edmond J. Gannon was a meat cutter at the market. Wilkins was arrested and bailed to appear at the April term of Windsor County Court in Brattleboro Vermont.
Mme. Melba was soloist at the Boston Symphony Orchestra concert in Symphony Hall yesterday afternoon. The program included Brahms tragic overture Sibelius Swan of Tuonela and Tschaikowsky fourth symphony. She performed Mozart arias from Idomeneo and Nozze di Figaro and Debussy cantata L enfant prodigue.
Review applauds Mme Melba's expressive singing and finish despite minor flaws. It notes Brahms's overture and the clear Greek spirit, compares Debussy's air to other works, and praises Sibelius and Tschaikowsky with cautious admiration.
Boston police aid sought by the Boston and Maine claim agent to locate relatives of James Murphy a brakeman killed at Greenfield on Sunday. He was about 50, six feet tall and of brown hair with a dark complexion. A brother named John or Daniel may serve in the Boston police and a married sister Mrs Kate Greenough is believed to live on Washington street Taunton.
Mrs. Charles Kline, actress in The Wanderer, was robbed of $90 by a masked man on St Stephen street Back Bay near the Boston Opera House. The bandit fled across a field into the Fenway as witnesses raised the alarm and police were alerted. Esther Shaw witnessed the scene with Kline.
General Pershing released the names of American engineers who were killed and slightly wounded in action on December 23. Killed: Corporal Russell W. Sprague of Middletown New York. Wounded: Corporal Charles G. Hewett of Rockland Maine.
During a recent moonlit night in France German aviators dropped bombs near a town and hit a camp in a wood where two American privates were killed. The airmen flew low and released bombs with accuracy.
An explosion at Inland Steel Company by products plant in Indiana Harbor injures several workers engaged in munitions production. Fire forces control of the blaze after the blast.
Boston received word that one seized German steamship had a narrow escape from a Hun submarine while delivering horses and supplies to American forces in France. John T. Maloney of East Boston reported safe arrival at an Atlantic port as his ship faced a submarine at 2 a m. The crew fired back and reached a European port.
Jerome Clifford Judkins a supply sergeant in EK company Fifth Massachusetts National Guard died at the base hospital in Charlotte on December 23. Enlisting November 1912, he was 27, a popular member of the Dandy Fifth and formerly worked in the insurance business. He was the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Judkins of 71 Wyman Street, West Medford.
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