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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1917
Page
2
A fire on the top floor of a five story building at 491 Huntington Avenue at 7 pm drove many families into the street. It began in Miss TWdna Cannon's fifth floor suite and spread to Miss Caroline Curry's apartment before firefighters contained it. Damage was about $1000. cause unknown.
A Cosmpolitan feature presents Talking Eyes, a South Sea beauty, hitting a hero with a four pound stone and testing modest dress standards. Gouverneur Morris’s tale explores culture, evolution of dress, and the clash of puritan restraint with display. The piece hails Cosmopolitan’s famous authors and artists and questions magazine production as a modern industrial marvel.
Rev Frederick Heath urged a matrimonial advisory board at Warren Avenue Baptist Church to guide young people in Boston. He said ministers lawyers doctors and a mature married woman could counsel couples before marriage to prevent families from being surprised by spouses their relatives do not know.
A speaker urges elders to oversee matches and warns against marrying too young or too old. He suggests a board to evaluate morals finances and health before marriage and advocates parental consent and prayer. He cautions against proposing to a disfavored partner and emphasizes character over charm.
In a sermon at Central Congregational Church Newtonville the Rev A J Muste says God does not require killing in war to protect right. He urges noncompliance with war if it comes and warns against labeling antiwar Christians as pacifists aligned with others.
The Women's City Club Girls organize a dance to abolish class lines, with Mrs. James J. Storrow and other prominent matrons likely to attend. Proceeds from over 350 tickets will fund a camp for club employees. Belle Williamson leads the new group with Helen Rae, Mary Kelliher, and Margaret Morrissey in key roles.
Socialists of New England met at Horticultural Hall in Worcester and adopted resolutions opposing U S entry into the war. They urged postponing disputes, keeping Americans off belligerent ships, denying clearance to neutral ships with contraband and passengers, and withdrawing protection from contraband travelers. Rev Charles Edward Beals presided and pledged to resist compulsory militarism, even jail if required.
Grenville S. MacFarland opened the initiative and referendum discussion at the West End Young Men's Hebrew Association on Mt. Vernon Street. He argued Americans are highly capable but must reclaim leadership by adopting direct democracy as a remedy.
Sophie Kulker Benton, known on stage as Virginia Howell and famed for Iras in Ben Hur, sues Charles C. Benton secretary of the Associated Industries of Boston, in Suffolk County Court for divorce. She had filed a libel for divorce two weeks prior.
Five hundred Boston Newsboys' Club members will be guests of Miss Julia Arthur at the Hollis Street Theatre tonight. They will meet at the club rooms at 7 o clock and parade to the theatre for a performance of Seremonda. She was elected yesterday to honorary membership in the Newsboys' Senior Club of former newsboys now in professional life.
A Reuters dispatch from Delhi reports Indian government measures include curtailing rail traffic and mobilizing resources to boost munitions output. An order bans women and children from sailing to England except for urgent needs.
Geneva report from Berne states Swiss minister to Washington Dr Paul Ritter took independent action to resume relations between the United States and Germany without instructions from the Swiss government.
A Reuters despatch from Berne dated February 17 says the note to the U.S. proposing new talks on submarine warfare did not originate with the Swiss minister or government. A German version via the Swiss minister in Washington proposed mediation if Germany agreed to negotiate with the United States over the proclamation of prohibited areas.
Enrique Goldbaum, claimed major in the Carranza army, was arrested in Nogales Arizona and held for investigation into his movements by Department of Justice agents. He was said to be on a mission to Lower California as an agent for the de facto Mexican government. He previously headed Sonora police and did not discuss his mission. A related charge from Tucson, Arizona, is noted but details remain unclear.
A Protestant church notice lists a Baptist ministers meeting at 10 30 this morning in Chipman Hall Tremont Temple with Foreign Mission Day speaker Rev Dr J Y Aitchison. Separate items note Ash Wednesday services and parish hall opening in Somerville.
Tenor John McCormack opened four recitals at Symphony Hall drawing an audience of about 3300, far exceeding the hall's 2569 seating capacity. Seats on stage were filled and hundreds stood in aisles as Handel and Haydn Society members listened.
R E L de Potestad received a cable from Geneva announcing the death of his father Marquis de Potestad-Fornari at age 85. He served Spain as representative in Washington first as first secretary and later as ambassador, and later handled Cuban claims settlement for Spain.
Louis Watson of Boston, master of the fourth degree, exemplified that degree for 200 Knights of Columbus of New England in Worcester. District Attorney Pelletier of Boston addressed the banquet following the exemplification.
The Handel and Haydn Society presented its 02d concert at Symphony Hall last evening. The program included Gounod St Cecilia Mass Chadwick The Pilgrims and works from Salome Masse Nett and Handel. The Boston Festival Orchestra accompanied with soloists Geneva Jeffords soprano William Hicks tenor and Roberts Langer bass. The audience joined in Lost Chord and America.
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