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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1917
Page
5
The leak inquiry committee focuses on Dec. 20 telegrams between E. F. Hutton & Co. and other brokers, examining how heavily Hutton members traded in the market on that day regarding President Wilson's peace note.
E F Hutton testified he earned 20000 during the peace note period. A December 20 message from H G Barrett of Clement Curtis Co brokers Chicago says I am selling stocks again. All Hutton firm members deny profiting from ad actions.
An old advertisement touts Musterole as a white ointment made from oil of mustard that replaces mustard plasters. It claims to relieve sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuraglia headache congestion pleurisy rheumatism lumbago and various aches without causing blisters.
Committeemen and Sherman L. Whipple pressed George A. Ellis Jr of the Hutton firm to show that note information was in his office and known by partners before public dissemination. Clement, Curtis & Co protested the leak, claiming Washington news from W. W. Price would be cut off. Whipple showed stock quotes shifted after Hutton forecast, suggesting breach of faith. The committee plans to travel to New York Thursday for another session.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce pledged its aid to the state in the current crisis. President Charles F. Weed urged Governor McCall to carry the chamber’s message of support and said the group would follow his lead. The chamber also started a fundraiser to buy a 20 by 10 foot American flag for the library entrance to the trading floor, led by three members of German parentage to show Teuton ancestry citizens’ loyalty.
The article states that Germans aboard warbound merchant vessels in U S ports are treated as any other aliens if they come ashore, while crews of interned German auxiliary cruisers are under military guard. Sailors aboard merchant ships may enter the United States if they pass required tests.
The entire Massachusetts National Guard is on call with state offices on 24 hour schedule. Armories are open around the clock as inventory completes across infantry artillery cavalry signal and sanitarian units. Requisitions for arms equipment and winter clothing have been sent.
Adjutant-General Pearson announced that 80 percent of the 10 000 Massachusetts National Guard could be mobilized within hours whether by day or night. Officials favor armory mobilization to let men stay at home to attend to business and aid recruitment. The Kearsarge naval training ship was coaled and stocked, with infantry regiments largely armed except the Fifth which had none. Colonel Willis W. Stover said ammunition was taken from his troops at El Paso before return.
Charles Ward, who terrorized women in multiple city areas with vicious assaults, was sentenced yesterday to 35 to 40 years at hard labor in the State prison at Charlestown. The court heard a shocking recital of his crimes.
Three women testified about humiliation at the hands of Devlin Ward a man described as a degenerate fiend He attacked Annie Foley on January 29 1916 in Blackwood street and robbed her of 12 He assaulted Elsie Silvia on September 20 1916 in Springfield street and attacked Lucine Barner on October 20 Ward has prior criminal record including an attack on a crippled girl Assistant District Attorney Gallagher urged a life sentence Judge Morton will decide the sentence Ward’s defense seeks 10 to 15 years
Enthusiastic Boston business leaders pledge 850000 for a new Y M C A building in six days. The drive, led by J Randolph Coolidge and William A Gaston, divides into ten teams reporting progress daily from the City Club at 127 Tremont Street with an electrically lit clock on the building.
All distilling plants in Kentucky were placed at the disposal of the United States for alcohol for munitions, in a telegram to the Secretary of War from J B Wathen Jr president of the Kentucky Distillers and Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association.
Chicago February 5 a rush of applicants sought naturalization papers at the circuit and superior court clerks offices with a large share of applicants being Germans or Austrians and percent figures noted.
An advertisement touts Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a pure vegetable remedy for kidney liver and bladder troubles. It claims no habit forming drugs and urges readers to buy at drug stores or mail for a sample with Boston Daily Post mentioned.
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