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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1919
Page
9
The L token system passes into history with the 10 cent fare set for July 10. Patrons must drop a dime or two nickels in the box or add two cents to a token to receive a dime. Old paper certificates for seven and eight cents are no longer accepted and must be redeemed at the treasurer at 101 Milk Street.
The Boston Elevated urges its patrons to carry exact change due to a two cent fare rise effective July 10. Posters advise exchanging metal tickets for dimes or nickels, using fare boxes, and redeeming old tickets at 101 Milk Street or change booths.
Commander James E. Breslin of the Malden Legion has called a meeting of war veterans for tonight in the Malden High School Hall at 8 oclock. He urges every Malden service man to attend due to important business on the agenda.
In Andover July 6 Mrs Bessie Mae Skeels Lundgren has not yet been informed of a rearrest for the Jersey City indictment charging her with the murder of her brother Albert Wilkins. Her counsel Daniel J Daley returned from Jersey City saying news will wait until later in the week. Extradition steps were prepared but may be delayed to allow Daley to present facts to Governor Runyon.
Three youths broke into Williams book store and stole six coverless volumes. One boy, Deadeye Dick, was cornered but escaped with others, pursued by the authorities as five volumes remain with John Silver and Ben Gunn. The incident drew a swift government response and heightened community concern.
Tonight's programme features ballet and dance music conducted by Agide Jacchia at Symphony Hall. Pieces include Tschaikowsky Invitation to the Dance, Nutcracker selections, The Queen of Sheba ballet music, The Cid Aragonaise, La Gioconda Dance of the Hours, Carmen Gypsy Dance, and Romeo and Juliet Ball at the Capulets. Also listed are The Blue Danube and Scheherazade finale, with solo cello by Georges Miquelle.
After a two year dispute the New York New Haven and Hartford clerks gain a 40 cent daily raise retroactive to January 1 1919 with July 17 effective date. Laborers receive a similar increase and overtime at time and a half narrowing the gap with Boston and Maine and Boston and Albany clerks who had earned more previously.
More than 200 college women from across the country arrived in Boston for the seventh national Alpha Gamma Delta convention at the Hotel Tudor Nahant. Sessions begin today with daily meetings through Saturday focusing on the role of college women in future social and political life and including debate on the suffrage amendment.
A boatload of so called bombs found at One Hundred and Fortieth street and North River were towed to Harbor A Battery Park for inspection by Inspector Egan. The item proved to be a solid block of wood reinforced with tar paper and a mesh of wires, likely a floating mark for a launch anchorage.
The four masted American schooner Manuel Carragol reached East Boston's Commonwealth pier 1 at 2 pm after a 141 day journey from Algoa Bay South Africa. Crew bear relief after a voyage marked by calms and head winds lasting over seven thousand miles, with some crew claiming vast distance due to rough seas.
Paris July 6 The proposed Austrian peace treaty will be ready for presentation to the Austrian delegation on Tuesday. The full text is with the printer, and the Austrians will be given ten days or two weeks to study new articles on finance economics reparations and boundary terms not in the first draft.
The Rev. Albert Parker Fitch preached at Mt. Vernon Church and will cover Sundays through July and August. July topics include Can the Church Survive the Changing Order Catholicism and Democracy and Do We Dare to Be Protestants. The Rev. Manford D. White will assume leadership at North Avenue Baptist Cambridge on Sept. 12. The Rev. Walter A. Morgan preached at Union Congregational Church and Austen T. Kempton will lecture on Through Nova Scotia and New Brunswick with Rod Gun and Camera at Martha's Vineyard meeting Aug. 5. Episcopalian Club services were held at St. Paul’s Beachmont yesterday.
Two common garden monkeys named Tom and Jerry escaped from a Keystone Exposition show in North Adams. They evaded capture as the show moved to Hartford, leaving locals watching them swing between trees while an Humane Society officer works to recapture them.
Colonel Walter S. Scott of New York donated 200 volumes to Charlestown State prison library and a Victrola for chapel use. Yesterday the chapel hosted a screening of the film Open Your Eyes for the prisoners.
In New York City, nearly 300 couples sought marriage licenses as clerks, with lines stretching through corridors and extra rooms opened to handle the crush. An observer blamed the absence of John Barleycorn for driving men to wed, marking the busiest period since the draft.
The Shipping Board assigns the West Togus to the Atlantic Transport line for the Boston to London voyage on July 21 after the Ameri can Steamer Seaboosh near completion at Portland fails to be delivered in time. The Babooshe will debut for the company on August 22.
James Mangino, carnival worker, slashed his throat in three places after a local woman refused to marry him. He was rushed to North Adams Hospital where doctors sewed 30 stitches and said he should recover.
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