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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1918
Page
12
Mayor Peters and the new City Council joined the 39th annual Boston fire and protective departments ball in Mechanics' building. Fire Commissioner Grady and former Mayor Curley were among the 15 000 attendees welcoming the new mayor to his first official function.
The evening featured a grand march of 62 maples led by District Chief A. J. Paulfield and his wife. The hall flaunted red white and blue decor with a blue and pink balcony. Recep tion committee escorted Mayor Peters and the City Council to the platform. Over a thousand couples danced after the march as Peters mingled with guests.
Representative Miller told the House from his France trip that German submarines are being destroyed about as fast as Germany can build them. He praised Vice Admiral Sims for his convoy tactics and urged naval officers handle American shipping rather than the Shipping Board. He noted no Americans served on the two transports he crossed with.
Medford School Committee votes to close indefinitely the lower grades to use coal in schoolhouses to ease a local coal shortage. Central and High school sessions will continue.
Major Henry Lee Higginson has introduced a Legislature bill allowing soldiers and sailors to play baseball on Sundays from 1 to 7 pm. Admission may be charged only if proceeds go to charity.
An advertisement touts Fruit-a-tives as the only medicine made from fruit juices. It claims benefits for constipation, liver issues, indigestion, headaches, neuralgia, kidney and bladder troubles, rheumatism, back pain, eczema, and other skin conditions. Sold at 50 cents a box, six for 2.50, or 25 cents trial. available through dealers or Fruit atives Limited in Ogdensburg, New York.
Miss Alice R Geer of 46 Warren Street Lawrence claims the finest hair in New England and perhaps the United States. Her hair is light with a golden sheen and measures 64 inches long, resting two inches on the floor, though four inches were clipped after a recent ball accident to even ends. She traces her ancestry to old New England Pilgrims. Her grandfather John Pratt Robinson was a direct descendant of John Allerton of the Mayflower.
Letter to the editor proposes using idle oxen horses and autothere cars to harvest wood from dead and live cords across New England. Suggests mobilizing older youths and students on Garfield Mondays to aid in gathering wood for fuel.
Private Lew is Cusley of the infantry was killed in action on February 2 near the front. Five soldiers were slightly wounded the same date: Ernest Suddaby of Louisville Kentucky Boyd A Close of Poland Indiana Felix Woroskiy of Wyoming Pennsylvania Joe Matthews of Bismarck North Carolina and Elmer D Young of Farmersburg Indiana. Additional deaths from pneumonia include Nurse Alice A Ireland of Media Pennsylvania Charles E Bitgood of Derry New Hampshire Percy Ward of Morgan Center Vermont and Private I Swanson of Chicago who died from dilation of stomach.
Arthur L. Fairbrother, connected with John R. Rathom of the Providence Journal, will speak at Sanders Theatre on February evening. He vows to expose German embassy intrigues. Harvard officials donate the theatre and proceeds aid a club fund to buy trailers for troops over there. Tickets from club members only. Trailers provide hot soup to soldiers after marches.
London reports the British government will hold another series of imperial war cabinets and imperial war conferences this year as in 1918. New Zealand has named representatives including Premier William Ferguson Massey and Finance Minister Sir Joseph Ward.
In Paris on Feb 5 the high court heard that Bolo Pasha received half a million dollars from the Guaranty Trust Company of New York as Deutsche Bank agent and from the Royal Bank of Canada. The government's expert accountant presented receipts and checks, challenging Bolo's claim that he earned no commissions.
M Doyen details nearly two hours of examination into Bolo affairs as Bob Bolo clings to bravado before the jury. Porchere, his former secretary, cools later under cross examination as a letter from New York officials and checks involving the Amsinck Bank and large sums are introduced as exhibits.
In the House of Commons James Tan MacPher son said Germany has placed officers as prisoners of war in localities subject to air raids and that similar action is contemplated in Britain.
The ad touts a scalp circulation treatment that nourishes the scalp to grow hair. It invites readers to visit Masseur SPECIALIST EFFORT at 194 Boylston Street Room 31 from 10 AM to 5 PM to prove its value with seeing and trying.
The state welcomes two new lawyers, Mrs. Sarah G. Hennelly of Cambridge and Miss Helen W. Bradlee of Boston, graduates of Portia School of Law. Hennelly will enter active practice linked to her current duties and formerly ran an executive clerk job. Bradlee, with Stewart and Rand at 6 Beacon Street, completed the four year course in three years and will join her firm.
Mrs Isadore Kessler 29 of Chelsea is under arrest on charges of shooting at her husband with intent to kill at the Mullins home 214 Poplar street where the couple’s small daughter stays. She is held on 2500 bond. Dr Kessler a Chelsea dentist declined to comment.
London report cites Andrew Bonar Law stating that German U-boats have slain 14 120 non combatant British men women and children in wartime sinking incidents revealed in the House of Commons.
William H. Bradford aged 72 of 16 Walton Street Roxbury was in front of 160 State Street when an incident occurred resulting in his death or serious harm. The report notes sudden events at the scene and lists Bradford as the principal person involved.
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