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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1918
Page
12
Boston items. Mayor Peters plans to back a one term bill before the State House committee this week. The measure would raise $3 in the current year and smaller amounts in the following two years for street repair and construction.
The recall system triggers every two years and needs a citywide majority. Mayors Fitzgerald Curley faced a heavy recall vote. Mayor Peters backs a four year term and a law creating city department reorganization led by Lawler. Slattery may resign as treasurer as Peters plans a broad purge of top officials.
The Majestic Theatre benefit for the 76th Division tobacco fund drew Boston support with over $2000 raised. Notables including Mayor Peters Governor McCall former Governor Walsh and military and naval dignitaries attended as boxes filled.
Geneva reports Raymond Swoboda once released on bail for espionage was rearrested in Berne yesterday and taken to prison. He is identified as a German officer. Since the war began more than 100 Austrians and Germans have been arrested in Switzerland for espionage.
The school board announced another opening yesterday joining Saturday notices to cover nearly all city children. Henry L. Pierce School grades four and five will report to the Pierce building at 10 o clock with teachers Mrs. Parris and Mrs. Buckley. No changes to prior openings were made.
A daughter was born yesterday to Mr and Mrs Louis I Green of 26 Arlington street Cambridge. Mrs Green and the baby are both doing splendidly. The mother before her marriage was Miss Virginia Tanner the dancer.
Washington report shows two 1915 letters by Berkman and Goldman to Har Dayal urging aid to the India revolutionary movement from Holland. The letters surfaced amid protests over anarchist leaders' imprisonment under the draft law.
The Department of Justice released two letters to Alexander Berkman from Hal Dayal linking Berkman and Emma Goldman to German espionage abroad. Dayal, using the alias Israel Aaronson, sought help from IWWs and anarchists to support an Indian revolutionary effort with centers in Amsterdam and Holland.
A ready to use Wyeth Sage and Sulphur Compound darkens gray hair naturally. Damp a sponge and apply strand by strand for a uniform, glossy result. Sold at drug stores with a warning it is a cosmetic, not a medicine.
A service flag bearing 214 stars four gold, unfurled at St. Joseph's Catholic Church West End in a cross pattern with 214 at the center. Rev Francis W Maley praised the parishioners for their love and dedication to the flag Uncle Sam and humanity.
Cambridge girl receives commission as first lieutenant in the Hospital Corps in Jacksonville.
Miss Etta Tierney 21, daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward Tierney of 91 Inman Street Cambridge, is stationed at Camp Joseph E Johnston Jacksonville Fla as operating room chief. Her brother Edward is a radio operator in France her father in shipbuilders reserve and her mother and sister aiding Red Cross. She may be the youngest first lieutenant in the army hospital corps, rising from Milford Hospital six weeks earlier where she was chief of the operating room and a 20 year old graduate nurse.
The second concert and hall event of the South Boston Mebrew Free School is set for tomorrow evening in Otisfield Grand Hall Roxbury. Proceeds support the maintenance of the school on Fourth Street Boston.
Sir Henry Arthur Blake G C M G former Governor of Newfoundland Bahamas Jamaica Hong Kong and Ceylon died at Myrtle Grove Youghal County Cork Ireland. Born in Limerick he was 78 years old. He served as governor in multiple colonies and was highly respected by legislative bodies.
Barcelona dispatch reports U S port delays hold up Spanish steamships bound for the United States. Orders postpone departures by as much as 60 days, affecting vessels in American ports and delaying transatlantic sailings.
Feb 24 report from San Juan del Sur says Alajuela San Milateo and Heredia are in revolutionary hands. Las Ganas whispers Punta Arenas may fall soon. The Tinoco regime, installed after January revolution, faces plots tied to Germany and former president Gonzalez. United States has not recognized Tinoco.
Brigadier Joseph Shepard led Charlestown State prison inmates in pledging their mite to the Salvation Army welfare fund. 750 prisoners will draw requisitions from the prison bank to cover donations as Colonel Gifford spoke for the 1 million drive at Emmanuel Church. Kenneth McDonald to auctioneer the No Man's Land sale on the Common after a concert by the Commonwealth Pier Naval Band.
Vis cenzo Stompanato is held by police on an attempt to murder John Finnelli who is in dangerous condition at Portsmouth Hospital. In a Wall Street row Stompanato fired five shots with three through Finnelli s hat one in his left arm and one in the breast. Patrolman Doherty arrested him hiding on Green street.
Reported guidance urges avoiding damp ground and cold, keeping feet dry, and drinking water. It recommends four ounces of Rad Salts daily for a week to flush uric acid, touts Jad Salts as a grape lemon lithia drink, and claims it aids kidney function and relieves rheumatic symptoms.
Bishop Lawrence at Harvard Medical School praised the army medical service and discipline after reviewing disease statistics among Regular Army National Guard and National Army troops. He said conditions in camps keep soldiers healthier than in towns and cities and even safer than in France.
Fire at the Hershey Chocolate Company plant in Hershey Pennsylvania destroyed more than 1,000,000 pounds of powdered chocolate in storage on the top floor. Loss estimated at 500000 dollars as water damaged stock in adjacent rooms.
Lieutenant Thierry, noted as the top Belgian aviator, was brought down yesterday in a fight with four adversaries and fell inside German lines behind Woumen. He has 10 enemy planes destroyed and the Aero Club of America may award him a special war medal.
New York Feb 24 The Methodist Episcopal Church will commemorate its 100 years of missionary work this year by launching a global program of missionary activity Bishop James W Plashford of China announced tonight despite wartime conditions.
Frank J. Simonds of Atlantic spotted his motorcycle missing since September at the Fore River plant. At City square he confronted the rider, Charles W. Stewart of 31 Berlin street, Quincy, who was arrested on larceny charges brought by Simonds.
The 40 member Commonwealth band led by Bandmaster Edwin Tracy performed for inmates at Charles Street jail yesterday afternoon delivering a formal concert in the jail yard.
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