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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1917
Page
2
Rain halted yesterday bike races and Brassard is postponed to next Wednesday evening. The Revere track hosts a 30 mile handicap motor paced race and a tandem paced race on Saturday night.
Advert says Vitalitas mineral remedy aids indigestion and bodily vigor. Congressman William Schley Howard of Atlanta testifies two bottles cured his indigestion, saving time and money on doctors. Woodward Drug Store at 102 Tremont St back this product, with Vitalitas now sold by reliable druggists.
Mayor Curley and Admiral Bowles press state funds and uniforms for Boston home guard units. Governor McCall supports state provision of uniforms and drill space while considering shoes. Boston council approves 10,000 for Public Safety Committee to cover general needs.
Syracuse July 11 A saloon keeper was fined $200 by Judge George W. Ray in Federal Court for selling liquor to a soldier in uniform. The judge cited the Civil War service of the soldier and warned such sales disgrace the men and harm army discipline.
After a full day trial Judge Parmenter in Police Court found three of seven men arrested during the riot near the socialist peace demonstration guilty of assault and battery and disturbing the peace.
Titus Greviskis Jacob Gravatini and Peter Yotts each fined five dollars and appealed to the Superior Court. Four defendants’ cases were continued to July 17. Attorney George E. Roewer accused police of a frame up and perjury, while Miss Minnie Yanus testified about being trampled and her banner torn during the Municipal Court trial.
July 11 report: Bay State Short Ship Circuit light harness horse races at Northampton were postponed due to rain, delaying events for the day.
Henry Abrahams of the Boston school committee and former Boston Central Labor Union secretary told the constitutional convention liquor committee that non-drinkers in the labor movement draw more sick benefits than drinkers, while drinkers as a class live longer. His remarks opposed the proposed state prohibition amendment and drew a reaction from dry advocates gathered.
A two day hearing on a prohibition amendment closed with wets and drys clashing over liquor’s impact on industry and society. Speakers included labor leaders, unionists, and anti suffrage advocates, debating alcohol’s value and the need for state action.
John D. Ryan president of the Anaconda Copper Company has joined leading industrial executives volunteering for the Red Cross. He is named director general of military relief and will oversee relief work for the fighting forces, succeeding Colonel Jefferson R. Kean who is reassigned to command 160 US army ambulance sections in the war theatre.
J Kozlowski, a 22 year old Russian Pole arrested at Piparto near Woodland California, is held by police as a suspect in the Mare Island navy yard explosion that killed six. He admits being in Vallejo but says he left Sunday and had recently been refused admission to the marine corps.
In Sopenhagen the Reichstag session heard food controller Herr von Batocki report that fruit and vegetable harvests are far below average. Grain production is viewed as good as in 1915, a drought year with poor harvests, while this year’s yield should exceed the 1916 crop failure.
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