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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1918
Page
14
Major John Purroy Mitchel former Mayor of New York was laid to rest at Woodlawn Cemetery in a grand funeral attended by about 5000 mourners marking a remarkable civic ceremony.
A state funeral on Fifth Avenue honors Mayor Mitchel with military honors, world leaders, aviators, and 10,000 mourners. Troops, sailors, police, and Red Cross nurses fill the cortege as bells toll and city life pauses. AIRMEN dropped roses while 18 aviators saluted above the bier.
The Boston Post announces a no-return policy since March 17, 1917 and urges readers to place advanced orders with news dealers to gauge demand and ensure regular receipt of Posts.
Wollaston girl Miss Gladys L. Bain, a 1915 Wellesley graduate, married Ensign Reginald H. Sprague yesterday at her Wollaston home. Rev. Dr. I. W. Sneath officiated. The couple—on a brief auto trip—are in Felham Bay Park training recent naval student groom on leave.
Men who fled to Ireland from England Scotland and Wales to avoid military service must report for medical examination within a week for possible incorporation into the army. If they fail to comply, action will be taken against them.
Judge Loring of the Supreme Court ruled that William W. Ormsbee and Elogian D. Ormsbee are the parents of Dorothy A. Ormsbee. They had challenged a Suffolk Probate Court decree appointing Parker BE Field guardian of the 3 year old girl.
The Provost Marshal General Crowder announced a minimum height of five feet three inches for Army registration. Registrants under 63 inches must be rejected for all military service according to the official ruling received at the State House.
The Assumption parish of East Boston schedules its annual Wood Island Park picnic for Saturday July 20 with baseball and sports. An Oblate retreat for married women runs July 23 to 26 at the Convent of the Cenacle, conducted by a father. A general retreat led by Rev Father Murphy occurs August 6 to 20. Summer Masses listed for St Ann s Waveland Green Hill Nantasket St Mary s Bay Hull with weekly and weekday times.
Amsterdam July 11 German foreign minister Dr Richard von Kuehlmann has resigned but reports say there will be no change in the empire s foreign policy The Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung states the policy to seek a speedy and honorable peace remains the immediate task for the successor and a different approach would not be more patriotic or better
The late Abram T Eddy left $25000 for Tremont Temple Baptist Church with smaller conditional gifts to Baptist institutions including the Baptist Old Ladies' Home in Cambridge 2000 the New England Lord's Day League 3000 Rev Martin D Kneeland secretary 3000 Colby Academy New London NH 2000 Gordon Bible College Boston 3000 and First Baptist Church New Bedford 2000 The will was filed in Suffolk probate office after his death at 77years.
Lorenzo A. Wiliston, a longtime Holyoke lumberman and former president of the Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers' Association, died today after nearly four decades in the local lumber business.
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