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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1917
Page
2
General Edwards orders 100 regulars from Fort Andrews coast artillerymen to guard against military transgressions and protect soldiers on leave. A lieutenant commands the detail with blue MP armband and sticks. Headquarters at South Armory on Irvington Street Back Bay.
Miss Aloyse M. Owen’s war time cookery class at Warren School Charlestown, under the Women’s Municipal League, demonstrated thrifty uses of leftovers. They prepared creamed salmon with pale sauce, fried potatoes, peas, and an eggless chocolate bread pudding with two sauces.
George W. Perkins, chair of the Mayor's food supply committee, reports thirty carloads of live poultry are stalled in New York railroad yards due to a strike by poultry handlers. The birds face hunger and thirst as no municipal authority has power to resolve the dispute.
John H. Mullen of Roxbury demands a searching inquiry into the death of his 22 year old daughter Florence in a Bridgeport house. Medical Examiner Samuel M. Garlick ruled the death an overdose of opium. The worried father returned from Bridgeport convinced foul play was involved.
The body lies in Boston awaiting burial while Miss Mullen, a Roxbury resident with a good reputation, had recent moves from Roxbury to New York to work then to New Haven and Bridgeport. Police report unclear details about her disappearance.
Florence Mullen, 18, rented a room at 103 State Street Bridgeport Tuesday morning then fell ill and died that night. Her father accuses Bridgeport police of concealing a dope house link citing a nurse at 103 State Street and a physician who treated her without naming. He compares the case to Ruth Cruger and questions why the opium use was not identified earlier.
Washington dispatch reports Ambassador Bakhmetieff outlining plans for Poland to gain complete independence and wide self government for Finland Ukraine and other nationalities within Russia. Poland would control its future government tariffs and alliances with no compulsion toward or away from Russia.
About 1500 people attended a Catholic Truth Guild meeting in Roxbury in front of St. Joseph's Church with Monsignor Splaine and clergy present. A sacred concert for the Ninth Regiment will be held July 8 at Boston College High School with St. John-St. Hugh Choral Society and artists. The Forty Hours devotion begins July 18 at Sacred Heart Watertown, Blessed Sacrament Houghs Neck, and St Bridget Framingham. St John’s Seminary Girton will assign 14 students weekly to farm work during the July-August vacation under Rev Charles N Cunningham.
Pittsfield July 6 Shakeress Jane Gregor aged 84 was found dead in a field near the Second Family House by searchers who had worked late and resumed at 4 this morning She was among the oldest members at the West Pittsfield col Pony and had served there for seven and a half years She leaves no near relatives.
The Harvard Reserve Officers Training Corps will finish its training with a three week encampment at Barre starting July 23. Members will continue drills at Soldiers Field and Fresh Pond until then and will return to Cambridge to disband after the Barre camp.
Harvard military authorities settled on the estate of William A. Gaston at Barre for an encampment after the Maine hike was scrapped. Cap tain James A. Shannon will lead at Cambridge until Captain Winfield S. Overton arrives next week. The corps aims to secure officers commissions after training.
Frank R. Shepard of Boston, vice president of the General Baking Company, named chairman of the War Emergency Council of the baking industry to combat bread waste for war needs. The pledge, endorsed by bakers nationwide, aims to stop returning unsold bread and educate on conserving the food supply. In New England, deliveries and standing orders aid the campaign with state and city councils of defence.
Alfred Markel of Hanover Street was arrested yesterday for neglect to register for the draft. He is held in $1000 bail by U S Commissioner Hayes and committed to East Cambridge jail pending a hearing. Fifteen others rounded up as holiday misdemeanors were released pending investigation after affidavits of registration.
Charles Spang a brewery collector was shot dead in a Fourth Street saloon in Buffalo New York as four men entered silently and stole about $2000 in daily collections. The murder occurred while he counted money at a table.
In 1915, Gardner has applied for a place in the officers reserve training camp opening at Leon Springs Texas on August 27. Gardner was a prominent Yale athlete in college and will be accompanied by his cousin Paul Gardner, former Western intercollegiate tennis champion.
General Edwards continues an exhaustive inquiry into whether National Guard troops under federal orders were present during the Sunday rioting at the Socialists anti draft parade. He promised a statement tonight detailing findings and asserts no army personnel are believed to have participated.
New England is allowed one more signal battalion and officers recruit for the third field unit. Eighty three men have enrolled toward a 239 total, with the district quota set for three field battalions one telegraph battalion and a depot company all in the Signal Reserve Corps.
Boston travelers are invited to take a Rock Island Lines trip to Colorado highlighting Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo. The ad promotes the Rocky Mountain Limited as an overnight, affordable, all steel train with safety and service first. It offers travel bureau contact in Boston and asserts the line is the direct east to Denver and Colorado Springs.
A Keene New Hampshire mother reports her six month old son’s face breaking out in a persistent rash that spread to his head. After using Cuticura Soap and Ointment for two to three weeks the child was healed, with the ad noting skin and scalp benefits and offering free samples by mail.
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