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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1918
Page
8
Pay Clerk Roy M. Hartshorn of the Navy was convicted of misappropriation of funds and sentenced to dismissal from the Navy and five years at hard labor in the New Hampshire State prison. President Wilson approved the Navy Department's announcement of the sentence.
Conrad W. Crooker, a Boston lawyer, is sued by West Union Telegraph Company for 40.17 dollars for messenger errands between July 1916 and April 1917. The plea lists 109 items including jobs to the State House City Hall and newspapers.
An old patent remedy advertisement promises instant relief from head colds and catarrh by applying Ely's Cream Balm in the nostrils. It claims opening air passages, stopping snuffles and headaches, and fast soothing of swollen mucous membranes.
Yolande Rock Castle and Searles mines idle today as coal miners strike spreads to three new companies. About 15,000 miners idle. union officials warn a general cessation of operations may follow if issues with Garfield proposals are not resolved.
The Civil Service Commission announces that women who qualify will be employed as ship draftsmen in the Navy Department and navy yards nationwide. Exams open anytime with immediate employment upon qualification at pay from four to six dollars and eighty eight cents per day.
Edwin Ludlow of the Lehigh Coal and Navigation Company told the American Institute of Mining Engineers there is little prospect for lower coal prices after the war. He said the peak in anthracite production has been reached in America and the only hope for relief lies in conserving coal supplies.
Arthur Hovey Storrs warns coal will remain costly and urges earnest conservation. He links car shortages to reduced production and urges storing fuel, suggesting ground piles suffice instead of expensive warehouses. C M Young notes coal can heat when dumped in large heaps.
Robert Topham of South Natick pleaded not guilty in Dedham District Court to breaking and entering the dormitory of Dr. Moses C. Stone at 18 Belair avenue Wellesley. He was held in bonds of 500 for the grand jury after Miss Leslye Thomas of Swansea Tenn class of 21 testified she struck him with a hot water bottle as he entered the room. Judge Emery Grover found probable cause and ordered further proceedings.
Bradford February 18 Dr Raymond Calkins announced Miss Marion Coats as principal to succeed Miss Laura A Knott who resigned last October Coats a native of Eaton New York born 188 and a Vassar graduate taught in Worcester and Hartford and studied philosophy at Yale and Radcliffe Colleges.
Private Russell D. Tufts of North Weymouth earned a slot in the United States aviation corps. He is finishing technical studies in the school of military aeronautics at Princeton University as preparation for field service.
Private Tufts, born in North Weymouth, rose from local schools to Bethlehem Steel training then faced two deferrals for a minor defect before reporting for aviation service. After several reassignments and rapid advancement, he was selected for the Bethlehem plant drafting path before enlistment redirected him to the army aviation corps.
The subject planned to complete an apprenticeship that would last months longer and showed much talent as an artist. He previously won a Fore River Log cover design prize and was made staff artist for the magazine, a role he held until joining the aviation corps.
Twenty five men were enlisted in the British and Canadian armies at the British recruiting office in Bromfield Street and will depart for Canada immediately. Rallies were held at Boston Common and Scollay Square with ongoing noon and night gatherings planned. Captain T F Mac Mahon of the Irish Guards will speak at Scollay Square tonight. Sergeant Ernest Kerr returns from Canada for a few days with his parents before rejoining his regiment in England next week. Additional rallies are planned at the Hippodrome on Berkeley and Tremont streets beginning Sunday March 3.
Bernard Lawrence was sentenced to a year in the House of Correction by Judge Aiken in the Superior Criminal Court. He impersonated a husband to help Mrs. Borg borrow $75 on a piano, triggering a forgery charge after her husband intervened.
Admiral Urban J. R. Borrensen, retired Norwegian navy, arrives at an Atlantic port on a private mission and reports Norway's coast protected by government vessels and patrols making submarine bases by Germany impossible. He cites 700 Norwegian merchant ships sunk and more than 650 sailors dead, fueling Norwegian bitterness toward Germany and its naval warfare.
Funeral services for Patrolman Daniel J. Driscoll of 211 Parsons Street Brighton were held at St Columbkille's Church. Rev William Reardon celebrated a solemn high mass. A 16 member City Hall delegation led by Sergeant James Laffey escorted the body to St Joseph's Cemetery West Roxbury for burial after his death at a relief hospital following illness at a theatre.
Thirteen year old Florence Bianco appeals to police to locate her mother Mrs Grace Bianco 32 missing from 2 Leyden street East Boston since Oct 29 1917. The girl and her father believe she is in Boston or vicinity with no sign of her since disappearance. She is described as about 6 feet 6 inches tall 167 pounds with fair complexion chestnut brown hair double chin and a nail on the right index finger turned down. Last seen wearing a blue silk dress purple velvet hat an oxford gray coat with fur collar cuffs and pockets covering.
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