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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1917
Page
2
Building Inspector Robert H. Mitchell announced he will resign within weeks amid the City Council inquiry into seven charges raised by Alderman William H. Root, head of public safety. The council held a hearing on those accusations this afternoon.
A legislative committee favorably reports a bill requiring divorced fathers to provide support for minor children even when custody is awarded to the mother. The measure removes any defense based on divorce or custody arrangements. Meanwhile, labor and liquor bills face opposition and possible floor fights in the General Court.
George B. MacDonald of 3 Powellton Road Dorchester filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy yesterday in the United States District Court. He lists debts of 33640 dollars and assets totaling 10038 dollars.
The House approved without a roll call a measure to continue government in the Danish West Indies and allocate 25 million dollars to pay Denmark. It allows goods with up to 20 percent foreign material free of duty and imposes an eight dollar per ton export tax on sugar. A Senate version to authorize a temporary administration and study local needs has been favorably reported, with passage expected soon and conference to reconcile the bills.
Cora Held for Grand Jury in $2500 bond for robbing Adam Sidofsky of Morton Street of $165. Fall River man was arrested by Officer Killion in a Cross Street cellar after Sidofsky chased him. Sidofsky identified the prisoner as one of three men who backed him into a doorway and took the money.
The article cites Prof. H Strauss and others linking gout rheumatism and lumbago to elevated uric acid from kidney dysfunction. It advises regular fluid intake and using AMURIC or ANURIC as kidney flushing tonics.
The property at 205 Newbury Street Back Bay recently bought by George E. Lothrop Jr will be improved into a modern three story and basement apartment house designed by Silverman Engineering. It will raze the current building and erect a brick stone structure with eight room apartments two baths and verandas. The interior will feature quartered oak and birch finishes Italian marble vestibule and a roof garden with upgraded heating plumbing and electrical systems.
The telegram from M. Lauzanne in New York states from Feb 10 to Feb 15: two French steamers and 10 French sailors sunk, vs six steamers and 28 sailors in January. Port entries averaged 112 ships daily, showing the blockade failing. German submarine losses reportedly did not decrease in early February.
General Sir Sam Hughes told the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety about civilian efforts to equip the Canadian overseas forces in France. He outlined civilian labor and procurement that supported the large Canadian army under British command.
A wartime relief effort adds two subcommittees emergency help and equipment and industrial survey. They will organize labor and materials for defense tasks and study Massachusetts factories to outline munition and equipment production. Notable appointees include Gow Bancroft and several executives from major firms.
Berlin via London February 19 Professor George S Atwood a longtime resident of the American colony in Berlin and 18 years secretary of the American Association of Commerce and Trade died suddenly Sunday morning He was born in Boston and leaves a widow and a son who is in the United States.
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