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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1917
Page
14
The text explains Germany ordering the American relief team to leave Belgium while Hoover vows the aid continues from Holland and will go to another neutral group in Belgium. It argues relief serves Germany's own interest to avoid famine and international blame.
The Boston Elevated Railway announces a plan to acquire 177 new cars for surface elevated and subway use. Officials admit current rolling stock is shabby and worn while noting a 70 percent price increase from two years ago amid wartime inflation.
Congress has passed a near unanimous bill making threats to the President a crime. It imposes up to $1000 fine or five years imprisonment, or both, for depositing or delivering threatening letters. The house awaits President Wilson's signature and public support for the measure.
The statement signals the start of legal action targeting a novel category of case. It outlines that the law will address the matter with new or unique methods designed to end the conduct in question.
The piece argues that President Wilson seeks war only if forced by an overt act similar to Lincoln after Fort Sumter. It compares Wilson to Lincoln, urging patience, restraint, and not urging precipitous action. It praises the president for deliberate judgment and defends calm, non rushed decision making.
Secretary Lansing warns Cuba and its people not to let hotheads trigger a revolution over last November’s disputed presidential election. The Cuban Supreme Court ordered new elections in some districts, to be held today, in hopes of peaceful resolution while the United States maintains its interest in stabilizing the island.
The late Josiah H. Benton leaves 100000 dollars for a permanent Children’s Fund at the Boston Public Library to buy books for youths. The remaining one million dollar estate will ultimately go to the library, reflecting his long public service and benevolence.
The piece argues that burying the river and harbor bill would harm key projects. It urges endorsing the Kenyon plan for New York East River and Boston harbor improvements, noting their ongoing nature and vital significance amid current world affairs. It warns against letting these works languish due to pork within the bill.
More than 600 friends of the R. H. Stearns Company Military Corps attended an entertainment and dance in Convention Hall. The eight male employees drilled under National Guard officers Captain Forrest B. Moulton and Lieutenant Lloyd Howarth. G. A. Weeks directed the floor with aides Jed Goulding C A Nicholson Percy North and W G Gillespie. The entertainment committee included J Davidson A W Sharpe G A Weeks A W Goodnow and Lloyd Howarth. Contributors to the programme were M A Bowdoin Miss E Batchelder Mr Henderson Miss E Lloyd Miss Siverston Miss EB Kinsley and M A Saunders.
A playful verse proclaims that the best Valentine is a sweetheart who says yes. The speaker cheerfully notes the gift of love is the beloved herself, not a card or verse, and announces the engagement.
The All Sorts column owner closes the camisole controversy after public letters and reader definitions reveal varied guesses. Readers from Medford to Dorchester debate whether a camisole is a garment, a dish, or something else, with humor and critique.
Winfield Scott Hancock born February 14 1824 at Morristown Pennsylvania. A West Point graduate in 1844 he served in the Seminole and Mexican wars and commanded stores in California during the Civil War. At Gettysburg he helped select the battlefield and fought at the front until the attack was repelled.Congress thanked him and statues honor him in Washington and Pennsylvania. He was the 1880 Democratic presidential candidate who lost to Garfield by 7018 votes.
A recap of colossal statues and monumental carvings around the world. It notes a 180 foot long Burmese Buddha in Burma’s jungle, major Buddhas in Kamakura Nara and Pegu, the 189 foot Sphinx in Egypt, Thorvaldsen’s Lion of Lucerne, and the 78 by 62 foot Lion of Belfort. It ends with Dinocrates’s plan to carve Mt Athos into a statue of Alexander the Great, which he rejected.
The column notes wind reports in 1916 differing from lay observations, discusses St Valentine customs and billets, and mentions Maine Legislature Indian representatives Wallace Lewy and Peter Dana Point. It also covers jurors rewarding Judge Dana with flowers, clerk Hart with a pen, bell-horn auto trend, fur trade prices, Bath shipyard activity, Clifton Flag farm sale history, and Adams educational trust income and academy sale implications.
Nancy Marshall blows up over a quarrel with Jack Wilson then seeks to prove she can be a wife by learning cooking and domestic work. A Valentine from Jack and a burned cake reveal her progress and lingering emotion as she grapples with love, home, and hope for a future together.
A reflective verse notes how rural life shifted from scarce almanacs and stale weeklies to modern access to hot news and reading in the comfort of home. The speaker imagines Uncle Hi reacting to today’s abundance, praising progress while recalling past limitations.
A letter reveals a man professing growing fondness for a young woman after three months of acquaintance. He notes they have attended theatres and dinners together and she has seemingly welcomed his advances, but he has not yet asked her the crucial question due to their short acquaintance.
Mrs Carrie Monty from Taunton offers household hints to extend fabric life. She suggests loosening the sewing machine tension to darn towels, tearing a sheet along its center and reseaming, and hemming edges or seaming blankets with buttonholed Germantown wool.
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