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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1916
Page
21
In this humor column the Van Loon family engages in daily misadventures at a boarding house. Father contemplates changing lodgings as the household schemes to cope with cramped rooms and bustling neighbors.
A Western Republican leader reports Associate Justice Hughes will publicly declare he would not accept the Republican nomination for president under any circumstances. The rumor notes efforts to “smoke Hughes out” as part of party maneuvering.
An unnamed authority and friends discussed asking Mr. Hughes to accept a Republican nomination. The justice reportedly told emissaries he would reject any unsought nomination, to avoid political influence on court decisions. He plans to publish a letter clarifying his stance and ethics.
The seventh annual ball of the Ginter Employees Benevolent Association was celebrated in Paul Revere Hall last evening. Proceeds will fund relief for sickness and distress among members. Attendees included President Augustus F. Goodwin Secretary-Manager James C. Duane and nearly 1000 members and friends, the largest gathering in the group's history.
Billy Sunday denounces childless matrons and matrons who marry for money in a Trenton sermon. He condemns reforming men through marriage and declares he would strike down blasphemers if he were God.
The evangelist draws large crowds with calls for prayer as hundreds seek guidance for husbands and loved ones. He advocates a curfew law to curb youth mischief and denounces modern maternity trends and marriage motives, urging mothers to inspire prudent choices for their daughters.
Eva Byaski 17, denied permission to sell war relief buttons, drank half an ounce of disinfectant this afternoon. She is in critical condition at Salem City Hospital, with prior note of a gas inhalation attempt at home. She has lived in the United States two years.
About 900 attended the annual reunion concert and hall of the Boston Postoffice Clerks Mutual Benefit Association at Mechanics Hall. The organization includes 1300 postal clerks in Greater Boston with officers aiding reception for the large crowd led by Chief Marshal John F Norris and floor Director Walter D Keenan with 185 helpers.
The Boston and Maine railroad announced yesterday that its export embargo was modified and officials expect further adjustments soon.
To aid New England shippers the Boston and Maine Railroad loosens its embargo allowing traffic with valid steamer space contracts to be received at Boston terminal. Freight for Havana and Port Limon is accepted, hay embargo lifted due to full hay houses and accumulating cars. George E Dudaley named as the contact through the Chamber of Commerce.
Eighty graduates of the Somerville High School class of 1916 B will receive diplomas at the midyear graduation tonight in the school auditorium. George B. Whitaker will present diplomas Miss Janet MacLellan will address Our Debt to Conventionality and the class history will be read by Miss Helen Hobart. The organizing committee includes Misses Doris Coyle Louise Berry Alice Swa sey Rita Slack and Carl Newton James Pollard George Gardner Alfred Pride and Edward Siegel.
Mrs Alice Stack of 112 Pearl street Cambridge welcomed three newborns—one boy and two girls—after a birth at 6 o'clock last night at the Lying in Hospital Cambridge City Home. Mrs Stack's husband Robert J Stack works for John P Squire Company.
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