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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1918
Page
4
Ten cent theatricals for 2000 national army men will be shown in their cantonment with photo-play and vaudeville on a semi weekly bill. The Liberty Theatre starts next Monday evening at Camp Devens.
A new 2000 seat playhouse at the camp opens with three day price breaks selling seats at 10 cents and 20 cents for the rest, replacing the tent theatre closed by cold weather. Proceeds fund camp athletic equipment. Opening program includes Boston's Own 301st Infantry band and Sergeant Ouimet with a concert and a feature film The Gulf Between. The first three days showcase only moving pictures led by Dr C A Willat.
The division receives 16 000 pairs of overshoes and fresh trousers fast issued. Private Mahlon C. Dow of Albany Vermont dies at base hospital from blood disease after joining on Sept 19 and hospital stay since Nov 26. Nine soldiers in the 31st supply train promoted to sergeant first class. Feeney recounts wartime atrocities to the 3rd Infantry. The 1st Wield Artillery Regiment stages a large mounted parade of 80 men and officers with guidons.
Amsterdam Jan 23 The question of woman suffrage begins to agitate Germany despite wartime restraint. Three major groups campaign openly the Social Democratic Party women’s department the German Imperial Union for Women’s Suffrage and the German Women’s Suffrage Society have issued a manifesto seen as the opening gun in a determined campaign.
Harvard athlete Lieutenant H Little of the Canadian Flying Corps in England describes a 8000 foot loss of engine power during a training flight. He managed a controlled descent, narrowly avoiding a hard landing among stone walls, suffering minor injuries but surviving to tell the tale.
The Salvation Army centre in Roxbury hosted the first in a series of suppers for the South End's poor children. Mrs. Mabel Hunt Slater organized the event with community help to provide meals and companionship.
Former President Taft led the call for a league of nations to enforce peace after the war. Other speakers included ex-Governor Walsh ex-Lt Governor Luce ex-Attorney General Parker and Harvard President Lowell.
Mr Taft spoke to supporters on the League to Enforce Peace chaired by President Lowell, pushing an international court to settle disputes and a conciliation committee to avert war. He warned that any war before submission would trigger united league action to stop aggressors and cited Monroe Doctrine concerns if Germany wins. Former Governor Walsh and Massachusetts endorsements were urged, with a Rome message backing a permanent peace league.
Reader asks the Boston Post to inform the public that the Harvard Dental Infirmary is open every weekday including Mondays and offers dental care to all, countering belief it closes on holidays. Letter from Eugene H. Smith dated January 22.
Advert shows tablets promising to end a cold in a day with laxative bromquinine. Mentions EB and W. Groves signature on a pach box. Price 30 cents. Copyright style ad copy, period tone.
In Woods Harbor Nova Scotia a seacoast town tale unfolds in Suffolk County Divorce Court as Thomas W Nickerson seeks a divorce from Nina Nickerson his childhood sweetheart amid rumors of a romance with an army man and seamen drawn to Britain’s naval service.
The wife rejects both a statutory offense and desertion charges amid a court fight over her marriage. Nickerson, a deep sea fisherman from East Boston, testifies about their troubled life as Hotel Hawthorne keeper Robert James Abbott confirms seeing Lt Trask near the wife’s room. The couple’s strained ties include favors to mothers and differing moves between Woods Harbor and Meridian Street.
Timoteo Farias a former Buenos Ayres policeman seeks luck in Boston after declaring his 13 letter name a jinx. He and Rau Suarez stow away on a steamship and are discovered by an officer. Immigration orders deportation back to the ship. A Long wharf astrologer supports the double hoodoo claim.
Surgeon General Gorgas announced a new Reconstruction Aides corps to assist in rebuilding and re educating disabled soldiers returning from France. The unit will comprise women trained in rehabilitation and Miss Marguerite Sanderson of Boston School of Physical Education is named supervisor. They will serve in hospitals established nationwide.
Brandon Vermont January 23 four central buildings including the Brandon National Bank and Western Union Telegraph Co offices burned. Loss estimated at two hundred thousand dollars.
Rumors circulated at City Hall yesterday that United States appraiser Joseph F. Lyons may resign from the customs service to become private secretary to Mayor elect Peters. A second rumor claimed former Mayor Nathan Matthews would be named corporation counsel.
In Nashua New Hampshire on January 23 Charles Kalham telephoned police from Mary Courtemarch's store saying he would wait for arrest after admitting to breaking into Hallegey's saloon and Courtemarch's shop. He pleaded guilty in Police Court to breaking and entering and larceny and is held in 300 bail for the May term. The police suspect draft evasion motive.
A United States mail clerk died and three other postal workers plus four passengers were injured when the Manhattan Limited and a second express bound for New York on parallel tracks collided near the Girard avenue bridge over the Schuylkill River. One mail car was torn in half.
Cyrus W. Longley 77 longtime Sagadahoc county register of probate for over 35 years and reputedly New England s oldest register of probate died today in Bath Maine He was a Civil War veteran.
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