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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1919
Page
6
New England employers face scrutiny as blue rimmed white stars on service flags reveal who has returned workers. Boston aims to improve display and support for veterans with expanded Service Men's Employment Bureau space and expert staff to aid men in finding permanent work.
The Service Men's Employment Bureau on Boston Common will gain extra offices after the Employment Committee for Returning Soldiers and Sailors led by Ralph B. Williams secured final plans. The bureau has struggled with crowded conditions handling numerous applicants for positions, forcing batch processing that was unfair to the men.
Washington faces a busy week as war revenue, informal war contracts, and oil land leasing measures are pushed. Regular appropriation bills may finish before Saturday night amid possible filibusters and calls for extra sessions. Equal suffrage may return in the Senate with Susan B Anthony resolution awaiting a two thirds vote.
Court coverage notes ongoing trial of Henry Hall the accused preacher as he awaits cross examination and a possible dramatic witness stand. Authorities continue a broad search for a missing woman linked to the case while jurors rest in their rooms and await further testimony this week.
Funeral services for Charles U. Thomas a longtime wholesale dry goods merchant were held yesterday at his home 40 Green Street Brookline conducted by Rev Harris G Hale of Leyden Congregational Church Brookline.
Paris February 2 The American Congress passed a bill to appropriate 100 million dollars for European relief Hoover director general of relief said the move will lift fear from the hearts of millions in Europe He outlined how the funds will be used and the measures already taken for relief of various peoples.
Hoover outlines a broad relief effort backed by new congressional funding to aid liberated peoples in Europe and the Near East. He cites shipments totaling tens of thousands of tons of food to Jugo Slavs, Rumanians, Czecho Slovaks, Armenians, Poles, Finns, Belgians, and French, with American troops aiding administration and distribution.
Fragmentary OCR quotes referencing capitals among distressed people and a new act of Congress enabling business. No clear names, dates, or places provided to establish a full event or outcome.
Germantown Civic Association of West Roxbury voiced strong opposition to Mayor Peters plan for a Greater Boston. They urged attention to neglected suburbs like Hyde Park, criticized lack of libraries and local schools, and urged delaying annexation until finances and services improve.
A former prisoner recalls fifteen months in Brandenburg Lager, details relief from British Red Cross and American Red Cross parcels, harsh camp conditions, rationing, and punishment. He describes malnutrition, poor facilities, disease risk, and the roles of Red Cross aid, guards, and camp leadership. He recounts postarmistice transfer to Denmark and eventual return to the United States in January 1919.
Sunday freight service over New York New Haven and Stratford lines was discontinued yesterday by order of W D Hines director general of the road. Only perishable goods moved. Similar action may be taken by the Boston Albany and Boston Maine soon as freight traffic remains unusually light.
New York Federation of Churches sent a cablegram to President Wilson urging him to use influence at the peace conference to establish Armenia as a free nation. The message suggested Britain or the United States might extend aid during Armenia’s formative period.
Intelligence Sergeant George A. Jung, 128th Infantry, 82d Division, wounded by a bayonet in No Man's Land in Lorraine last March. He killed the attacker, recovered his rifle and gear, later wore mustard gas burns at Waldy, and will box at the Auditorium. A new guard house, barbed wire stockade, and camp fatigue work accompany his unit. Colonel John P. D. Long named military attache to Buenos Ayres and presiding judge in the Captain Harris trial.
The Rt. Rev. Herman Page, Bishop of Spokane Washington, preached the Holy Communion service at St. Paul’s Cathedral in Spokane yesterday morning at 11. Page, a former Boston boy educated in Boston and at Cambridge’s Episcopal Divinity School, will address the Women’s Auxiliary tomorrow at 3 pm. The Trinity Emmanuel The Advent Alvinis Brookline and Christ Church Cambridge auxiliaries will cooperate.
The Rev. Kenneth M. Munro, pastor of the First United Presbyterian Church on Warren Avenue and West Brookline Street, will resign his Boston pastorate to accept a call from the largest Presbyterian Church in North Sydney Cape Breton. He plans to stay in Boston until about mid March after six years of service.
Hair specialists nationwide report hair loss after influenza with bald heads and thin hair. Barbers and hairdressers offer Noonan's Hair Petrole at fifteen cents per application and one dollar per bottle, with a booklet titled Care of the Hair.
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