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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1918
Page
2
State Fuel Administrator Storrow and State Food Administrator Endicott established a special food bureau yesterday to issue licenses for manufacturers of foodstuffs and related industries. The bureau will operate starting today to keep armies supplied with food.
Mr Storrow outlined a process for heads of foodstuffs plants to obtain permits to stay operational. Applicants present cases to the new food bureau, seek Endicott approval, then go to Storrow for final action, potentially receiving a license if fuel concerns are met. Endicott expects many petitions. Hoover authorized the bureau's creation.
Miss Cecilia V. Dorsey a Dorchester St Peters Church charity leader will wed George J. McGuin a 42 year old Lawrenceville New York horse dealer The couple announced after marriage intention was filed at City Hall Dorsey has led Salva Regina Court and serves as treasurer and is active in Knights of St Rose and other church groups She resides with her brother Thomas Dorsey at 93 Clark ton Street Dorchester.
Newtonville boy Peter Bradstreet James wondered what the Kaiser would do if he became an angel. The question arose as his mother described the world’s view of the Kaiser, reflecting on wartime sentiment and a child’s innocent curiosity.
Six year old Peter James of Newtonville worries about whether the Kaiser would kill God if he died. His mother seeks to explain that even a brutal ruler cannot defy divinity, reflecting the child’s grasp of wartime atrocities. Peter is in first grade at Horace Mann primary school.
The United Miners convention in Indianapolis votes down a resolution calling for a federal investigation into claims miners stayed idle while mines operated. The proposal, from a Gebo Wyoming local union, faced opposition arguing miners are not responsible for the coal shortage.
Lieutenant Ralph M. Cummings aged 22 of the Royal Flying Corps at Fort Worth Texas died yesterday at the Southern training camp from injuries after a fall. His parents Mr and Mrs Michael J Cummings of Brooks Street learned the news today.
Major Augustus P. Gardner former US Representative from Massachusetts died Monday at Camp Wheeler Georgia from pneumonia. He was interred at Arlington National Cemetery with church services in St Johns Episcopal Church and a Massachusetts delegation led by Lieutenant Governor Coolidge in attendance. House recessed to honor him as Longworth praised his patriotism and wartime preparedness. A bill to name a first class destroyer Augustus P Gardner was introduced by Representative Britten.
In St Thomas on January 17 the anniversary of the cession of the Virgin Islands to the United States was celebrated as Citizenship Day. Governor Had declared the day a holiday and the town wore the national colors to honor the native entry into U.S. citizenship.
Four provost guards, two inside and two outside, will protect the Department of the Northeast headquarters at 25 Huntington Avenue against German spies and cranks at night. Two guards will be on duty by day. Commanding officers are determined to take no chances.
German agents have obtained valuable information while officers report many cranks intruding. Guards will continue to keep disturbances away and protect ongoing operations.
An advertisement touts a home tonic claimed to cure catarrh and catarrhal deafness. It prescribes peppermint double strength, hot water, and sugar mixed to be taken four times daily, promising rapid relief of head noises, dull thinking, and hearing loss.
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