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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1918
Page
12
Mrs Louis Lazarus of England visiting Lynn for the Portnoy wedding anniversary learned her host was her brother, long separated since they were in Russia. He had come to America to settle, while she went to England to marry, and they had not heard from each other for years.
An old advertisement touts Musterole as a mustard oil ointment that loosens stiff joints and relieves bronchitis, croup, rheumatism, lumbago, and back pains. It claims doctors and nurses recommend it, with 30c 60c jars and a hospital size $2.50.
Senate military committee plans to introduce a bill to create a Secretary of Munitions to oversee all war material purchasing. A separate bill would abolish civilian advisory committees and bar their members from supply contracts. Eisenman allies named in spending data show contracts worth hundreds of millions. testimony notes 80 percent of soldiers shoes misfit and delays in shoe fitting devices.
National American Woman Suffrage Association officials opened the first day of a House committee hearing on the constitutional amendment. Dr. Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt led opposition to a proposal for a nationwide women’s vote referendum, while opponents circulated Mrs. James W. Wadsworth Jr.’s statement. Representatives of the Woman's Party plan remarks for Saturday.
Jan 3 reports Mor ris resignation triggered cabinet exits with three ministers quitting. Richard Squires the colonial secretary John Bennett the militia minister and Michael Gibbs the minister without portfolio all retired in the wake of Morris departure.
A blinding snowstorm in Portland Maine caused two crashes with multiple injuries and near misses. A trolley slipped from sleet covered rails and hung over a 0 foot drop to the Boston and Maine tracks after smashing through a bridge fence. Foreman Charles Checkland suffered head injuries and two women were cut by glass. Fire engine driver Harry H. Abbott swerved to avoid a pedestrian, crashing into a tele phone pole and into a shop doorway, injuring Captain Edwin A. Springer and Hoseman J. H. Libby with shoulder and head injuries.
The American Red Cross mission to Italy allocated 50 000 lire to aid victims and families of those affected by enemy air raids on Padua and other northern Italian cities recently hit by raids.
The State Waterways Commission asks the Legislature to appropriate 2 473 141 69 for Boston harbor improvements. John N. Cole, chairman, notes this is in addition to 9 million already appropriated in 1911. Key item is acquiring Union Freight Railroad tracks and extensions over the Northern Avenue bridge. Additional sums cover drydock completion, tracks on Commonwealth flats, paving streets, and sewers near the drydock.
Donald J. Ferguson resigns from the Board of Sinking Fund Commissioners after opposing withdrawal of over $50,000 from the Tremont Trust Company. Mayor Curley accepts the resignation and names Thomas H. Ratigan of 6 Gardner Avenue Dorchester to fill the vacancy.
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