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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1919
Page
6
Yale mobile hospital unit departed Brest today aboard the steamship Melita bound for Boston. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph M. Flint, in charge of the unit, sent the telegram to Yale confirming the voyage.
The Shawmut and Aroostook returned from the North Sea where they helped lay 60 000 mines forming a barrage that baffled German U boats. They arrived at Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday to a cordial harbor welcome with homeward bound pennants nearly touching the water.
Captain William T. Cluverius describes a 235 by 30 mile mine barrage across the North Sea from the Orkneys to the Norwegian coast credited with sinking German submarines. The Shawmut and Aroostook, converted at Charlestown navy yard, feature white noses to distinguish them, and carry crews largely from New England. Bob the kitten and Unbreakable the dog accompanied the crew.
The Free Religious Association holds a midwinter conference at Ford Hall Sunday at 8 pm with John Haynes Holmes of New York speaking on The League of Nations Will It Do the Work George Grover Mills presiding A Twentieth Century Club conference on January 20 features Holmes speaking on Liberty or Community Church as Distinguished From the Denominational Churches. Sunday Tabernacle Choir concert at Mechanics Hall January 27 includes Harvard Schubert and Pilgrim Male Quartets with Mrs Laura Littlefield Harold Tripp and Willard Flint for the benefit of Women’s Auxiliary for Americanization and Reconstruction work. Rev Dr William Harman van Allen lectures on The Blight of the Bible Lands tonight and Dr van Allen’s course has parish support. Rev Dr George A Gordon speaks tonight on A Roman Hero Horatius at the Bridge in Old South Church freedom course, as immortalized by Macauley.
An advertisement touts Mustarine as a ready to use mustard plaster with added pain killers. It claims rapid relief for lameness sore muscles stiff neck cramps earache backache headache and toothache. The yellow box product is promoted as made from real mustard and suitable for chilblains frostbite and drawing pain from feet.
Mrs Maria de Almeida Medeiros a Boston based niece of the late Viscount de Costa and former Portuguese consul is jailed on a charge she aided U S Army private Emedio Pedro to desert from Camp Devens and flee to the Argentine Republic. She waived examination and posted 1000 bail in Taunton Mass.
Sinn Fein reports a conference of Irish republican MPs reviewed drafts of a declaration of independence and a world message and referred them to revision. An all Irish conference is to be summoned under the national assembly. The raid on Sinn Fein premises interrupted standing orders work. Deputies De Valera Griffiths and Count Plunkett are to be recommended as Ireland’s peace conference delegates.
The U S Tallapoosa carrying Arkona survivors from Gloucester reached Halifax after heavy seas offshore forced it to turn back. It had previously stopped briefly in port of Forteau Bay Labrador on its Bostonward voyage. The captain hoped to reach Boston promptly.
The Mayor's committee for reception of returning soldiers and sailors calls for intensive vocational training for unskilled veterans. Government aid covers up to ten percent impairment while they take college courses in suitable business fields. Physicians and committees assess eligibility, with plans to assist all veterans regardless of injury.
Bile dealers in the city signify willingness to cooperate with the committee in organizing a training system. Employers of labor across industries are urged by the committee to do likewise.
Lawrence reports Jewish textile workers join forces with two others seeking a 48 hour week and threaten a strike on February 3. A general committee calls a mass meeting for Saturday January 25 to push the action while mill owners have not yet replied.
The piece markets a war tale by Marcel Nadauud, a famed French air service member, as more than a standard war story. It promises unusual sympathy and humor, authored by a writer of real literary worth.
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