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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1917
Page
2
Moseley once Hyde Park postmaster and editor will be held tomorrow afternoon at 2 oclock in Christ Church Hyde Park for a service or gathering following his prior roles in the community.
Miss Nellie F. O Neill sues National Oil Company for 15000 dollars after claiming paralysis of the left side of her tongue from a fall into a gasoline tank at F S Converse estate in Westwood on August 2 1915. The witness demonstrated tongue paralysis before Judge Sisk and the jury at Suffolk Superior Court yesterday.
Captain T Swart of the Dutch steamer Eemdyk coaxed cabin boy aged 14 and mess boy aged 12 to return to duty after they deserted in Boston fearing U boats. They wandered the city for hours before confessing to Dutch consul C C Casey and were brought back by a hired tug. The Eemdyk still seeks four crewmen despite high wages offered.
Washington reports complete arrangements for pulling back American diplomatic and consular officers from Austria-Hungary on orders from the State Department. Ambassador Penfield will supervise the withdrawal if relations break, with Spain asked to handle American interests and plans to accelerate evacuations. Tarnowski cannot present credentials until the Austria-Germany dispute is resolved.
Cardinal O Connell orders transfers of two priests in the archdiocese. Rev. M. J. Heenan moves from St. Joseph Kingston to Church of the Sacred Heart Atlantic and Rev. Julian E. Johnstone of St. Teresa West Roxbury replaces Heenan at Kingston. Transfers take effect tomorrow.
William Bailey Howland, born 1849, president of the Independent Corporation which publishes The Independent and recently absorbed Harper's Weekly and Countryside Magazine, died suddenly in his New York office from angina pectoris. He founded Outing and led the Cambridge Tribune. treasurer and publisher of The Outlook from 1880 to 1913. served as commissioner of the State reservation at Niagara.
The larceny case against Mrs. Charlotte Smith president of the Women's Homestead Association was dismissed by Judge Duff in municipal court yesterday. The judge said the State failed to make a case. Mrs Smith was charged with receiving $2 from an advertisement in a paper.
After severe tie ups from sudden thaws and mini spring freshets, the Middlesex and Boston street railway resumed regular running time yesterday.
Frederick Marabile aged seven and his six year old sister Mary were left alone in a locked kitchen at 15 Fleet Street and started a fire with matches. Their father, home briefly, forced the door open and carried them to a physician for emergency treatment.
The Interstate Commerce Commission suspended proposed freight rate hikes on lumber from Atlanta Birmingham and other Southeast and Mississippi Valley points to Boston New York Philadelphia Baltimore and other Eastern points until June 2 for investigation. Increases would range from 2-10 of a cent to 1 cent per hundred pounds.
In an eight year marriage dispute a Superior Court judge awarded custody of both children to Ellen Carlson after hearing testimony from a dozen witnesses. Augustus Carlson may visit at reasonable times and pay five dollars weekly for support beginning next Monday.
Carlson wins divorce from Jan in Suffolk Divorce Court with Judge Dubuque amid claims of cruel and abusive treatment. Decree nisi not to be absolute until July 20. Cross-examated about diamond ring from Daniel Jennings and past proposals, with Jennings linked to Mrs Carlson’s former employment and suitor history.
The port closure order after nightfall is suspended until further notice. Rear Admiral Nathaniel HR Usher posted the notice at the New York navy yard. Ships will pass through a 900 foot gate in the steel net across the harbor entrances.
U S minister William F Gonzales delivered a note to President Menocal urging continued vigorous pursuit of rebels implicated in wounding American mining engineer William H Leerpabel at the Carlta mine near Cienfuegos on February 20.
A fragment reports Colonel Corn telling Sam that honesty is best. The note hints at a forthcoming page of fun in the next Sunday Post.
Miss Leonora Warneson a young Kansas City teacher who wrote an anti-enlistment motto on a school blackboard was ordered to return to her duties. School board president Haia H. Cook said Warneson had expressed respect for the American flag and promised not to repeat the motto.
Washington Feb 27 The Chamberlain plan for six months universal military service for American youths was attached to the army appropriation bill today by the Senate military committee but will likely be ruled out on a point of order as it violates rules by altering an appropriation measure.
An advertisement touts Fruit a Tives as a unique fruit juice medicine for stomach liver bowels kidneys and skin. It claims to be the only remedy made from fresh ripe fruit juices and presents pricing 50c per box six for 2.50 and a trial size 25c.
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