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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1917
Page
5
The father of John Burns of 31 Shawmut Avenue, a janitor, sent his son to a Boylston Street building to clean up. John collected about $260 by taking a sealskin coat, and after testimony in court yesterday he was found to have a long record and sentenced to three months at Deer Island.
Advertisement touts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets as safe for all ages including children. It urges mail-in free trials and notes full-sized boxes cost 50 cents from druggists. Encourages parents to use the remedy for stomach and bowel troubles in children or adults.
The Harvard reserve officers corps closed its enlistment period last evening with 1059 students as members. The campaign lasted 10 days and Harvard men aimed to enroll 1200. Military authorities expressed themselves completely satisfied with the result.
Besides 1059 in the training unit, 93 men joined aero training and the naval unit awaits closure. By week’s end Harvard will have placed all patriots into preparatory service, total beyond 1200. Faculty volunteers will lecture, and rumors of turning campus into a war office are denied by Secretary Roger Pierce.
A Middlesex Superior Court jury in East Cambridge upheld the will of Daniel J. Kenney of Marlboro who died Feb 1 1915. The estate is valued around 40000 with William Kenney of Mattapan and niece Mrs Mary Copeland of Marlboro as contestants. The will dated Sept 21 1918 named Frank P. O Donnell executor.
Directors of the New York New Haven Hartford railroad say they have every reason to believe the 25 million dollars in obligations maturing May 1 and 18 million dollars of the New England Navigation Company notes due the same date will be paid or refunded on time.
The New Haven issues a statement showing progress in financing and asset sales aimed at reducing short term debt and expanding railroad facilities. Since June 30, 1914 the company cut floating debt by 10.52 million and paid 20.56 million for equipment and property additions, funded by earnings and investments.
Two American steamships the Rochester of Kerr Steamship and the Orleans of Oriental Steamship left New York for France on Feb 10 and entered the war zone today. Officials held an optimistic view they would reach Bordeaux safely despite no news by night.
Cardinal OConnell authorizes Diocesan Charitable Bureau to collect data on services Catholic women's societies in the Archdiocese of Boston could offer to public authorities in the event of war hostilities. The move prepares aid from church groups for national defense.
The cardinal lauds Catholic sisterhoods and societies for bearing a large share of wartime burden. Women in Europe care for wounded and sick at home and on battlefields, alleviating suffering and reducing bitterness, though press coverage underplays their relief work for soldiers and non combatants.
President Wilson considers not calling the long standing practice of a Senate special session at the start of his term to avoid disrupting inauguration plans. If no extraordinary joint session is needed, the move could change ceremonies and vice presidential procedures. The Capitol aims to prevent a special session if possible.
Dr Hugh Cabot and Harvard President Lowell led a medical unit to the European front, describing the journey as a sporting proposition. Ambulance teams and nurses boarded the 6 o clock train to New York amid a crowd at South Station, with no mournful goodbyes permitted.
Charles Sumner Bird former Progressive candidate for Governor urged a central purchasing bureau to save $750000 annually. He warned that dividing authority among 100 boards weakens state government and called for an empowered Governor with a four year term and a cabinet replacing the council to manage the state budget.
Several hundred boy inmates at the industrial school on Rainsford Island were entertained last night by a minstrel show performed by members of the St. Joseph's Total Abstinence Society of the West End.
Episcopal churches in Greater Boston mark Ash Wednesday with multiple services. St Paul Cathedral hosts morning communion and sermons by Dean Rousmaniere and Rev. Addison with later addresses by Rev. Fitts and Rev. Walton. Trinity Church offers early services and a 5 pm sermon.
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