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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1919
Page
8
The four army airplanes that departed San Diego on December 4 completed the first trans continental flight. They landed this afternoon at Bolling Field near Washington. Major Albert Smith led the squadron.
The 50 hour flight covered 3600 to 1000 miles in total using the same aircraft that began in San Diego. The mission sought landing sites for future trans continental trips and to chart a regular southern air route. Participants included Major Smith, Major James McKee, Lieutenants H D McLean and Robert S Worthington, Albert Pile, and Lieutenant James Vans as photographers.
Yesterday set a record for haddock prices as buyers paid 11 cents a pound at the fish pier. About 190,000 pounds were landed, totaling roughly $20,900 for fishermen. Demand exceeded supply, keeping prices strong.
During convalescence from influenza and pneumonia take Imperis Gra Sum Food. Nourishing and strengthening, delicious with no sickly sweetness. Available from any druggist for 25 cents.
Caliph the camel at Franklin Park Zoo, famed for gentleness, grows irked as snowball teasing from boys shifts from friendly fun to taunting. The snowstorm alters his mood and drains his usual sunny demeanor.
Washington January 6 The House appropriations committee narrowly approved President Wilsons request for one hundred million dollars for relief work in Europe excluding Germany. The bill will be reported to the House tomorrow with Sherman seeking prompt action.
The panel of 21 members lacked full attendance with 14 present and one abstention. Reported 7 to 6 along with Chairman Sherley casting the deciding ballot. Debate centered on timing and scope of relief funding and insistence on audit and accountability. The bill authorizes the president to spend the relief fund as a revolving pot through next June with reimbursement from allied governments or recipients where possible.
Washington mourns Colonel Roosevelt as a leading public figure dies stirring talk of 1920 candidates. Republicans see reunion after the progressive founder's death while rumors of a formal withdrawal from the race resurface among senators governors and other influential figures.
Paris January 6. M de Margerie director of political affairs at the Foreign Office and former secretary of the French Embassy in Washington has been appointed French minister to Belgium, a post slated to be raised to an embassy.
Mayor Peters calls postwar reconstruction at City Hall in Pilgrim Hall address to Women’s City Club. He outlines potential dep artment reorganization, new street improvement system, and possible consolidation of Deer Island Long Island and Rainsford Island institutions under a single commissioner and deputies. He urges timely decisive action after the war.
An old advertisement notes that Colds cause grip and influenza and promotes Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets as removing the cause. The box features only one Bromo Quinine and the signature B. W. Grove. The ad price is 30 cents.
Hoboken New Jersey January 6 officers on duty at the piers report a new scene as women field clerks receive authority to wear silver chevrons for wartime service at home. Officers lament the sight of female wearers and deck-side soldiers jeer, questioning the purpose of insignia worn by those who never left shore.
Mrs. Eliza Le Clair, aged 62 and grandmother of five, of 43 Clifton Street Cambridge, plans to marry Lawrence N. Sampson of Middleboro, 67. Her first husband died four years ago. She had 12 children, nine dead. The remaining three are married with families and will live in Middleboro after the wedding.
WARSAW Jan 4 The Poles resist a Bolshvik Ukrainian siege of Lemberg with limited means as 50,000 attackers led by ex premier Holubowicz threaten water and electricity and curb food supplies. Civilians flee while city struggle continues under German guns and gunners aiding the besiegers.
Freeport Maine January 6 Mrs Mary He Littlefield 75 died when the house she lived in burned to the ground. The fire also destroyed the home on the same site where her mother died in a similar manner in a prior house.
Amsterdam dated dispatch reports the German evacuation of Ukraine proving extremely difficult. Kiev army corps regiments are said to have abandoned key railway sections, endangering comrades, with many transport trains sent without orders. Lack of discipline is cited as a growing danger to German troops. The Caucasus force, except General von Kress’s staff, has boarded at Poti on the Black Sea.
Captain James H. LeFavor Boston’s last fire fighter from the 1872 blaze dies at 77 after 40 years of service. Retired 12 years ago he lived at 19 River street Braintree and commanded engine 21 in Roxbury. Funeral at his home and Gleason’s Chapel Dorchester.
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