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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1919
Page
6
Prominent local women and war workers who returned from Europe praise women's extensive wartime labor. Clifton B. Carberry's Paris correspondence notes European women filled roles traditionally held by men, supporting suffrage as a natural outcome.
Mrs. Mary J. Shepard of Dorchester praises women for proving capable in tasks once reserved for men. Returned Boston workers cite Europe’s war effort showing women’s competence and demand for suffrage grows as men were absent.
Joicey Williams, a renowned American actress touring St Louis at the Imperial Theatre, shares a low cost home cure to darken gray hair. The mix uses bay rum glycerine and Barbo Compound in water, applied twice weekly to achieve a younger look without staining the scalp or rubbing off.
Major Peters, Rear Admiral Wood, Brigadier-General Buckman and a Boston committee hosted a reception at Liberty Hall on the Common for more than 70 returned soldiers and sailors. Guests were presented to the Mayor and senior officials by Miss Rosamond Estabrook and Miss Harriet Butler, with entertainment help from several local and Chicago guests.
Paris January 26. Secretary of State Robert Lansing will serve as one of two American members on the peace conference committee established to address the question of responsibility for the war.
Premier Clemenceau outlines committees for the peace congress to study major issues. United States members include Robert Lansing and Henry White, with counterparts in Great Britain France Italy and Japan. Topics cover responsibility for the war reparation international labor legislation and regulation of ports waterways and railroads.
Dorothy Croasdale of 20 Charlesgate West, a Wellesley College graduate, leaves New York with a YWCA canteen unit bound for service in France. She is joined by Sibyl Richards of Lowell and Elizabeth Kennison of Dorchester, both with prior canteen experience.
Henry P. Davison chair of the American Red Cross War Council announced from Paris that a relief mission will be sent to Poland at once from national headquarters in Washington.
The Baron recalls a cherry-stone duel with a stag and a later shot bringing down a tree bearing fruit. He recounts fighting a wolf in close quarters and escaping a mad dog by discarding a fur cloak before a clerk notes the cloak’s madness. Tomorrow’s tale promised in the Daily and Sunday Post.
William Jethro Spudd draws mixed responses from his two hopeful children in George Brinton Beal’s humorous dialogues set for next week's Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
Final arrangements for a $100000 campaign by Boston Jews to raise a new building and support Beth Israel Hospital at 45 Townsend Street Roxbury were completed. A banquet at Ford Hall will launch the drive to fund an inclusive hospital serving all faiths, with 75 percent of patients treated free. A letter from Mayor Peters expresses gratitude for the hospital’s influenza relief efforts.
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