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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1917
Page
5
In Washington on July 13 Congressman Tague introduced a House resolution demanding five and ten percent pay raises for 90 000 postal workers nationwide. The measure seeks equal horizontal salary increases already approved for other federal employees in the 64th Congress.
Mrs Elizabeth John of Toledo says Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her back pain and female troubles after years of nursing work. The ad touts the medication as the safest and most successful remedy for female ills with many testimonials on file.
Winchester town leaders challenge Thomas W. Lawson’s assertion of town service while Citizens like Whitfield Tuck defend his charity. Assessors say Lawson owns personal property valued at 300000 with 5806.36 in taxes and interest, and the case is tied up in court.
Pittsfield July 13 J Allan Dunn adventure writer and friend of Jack London paid 20 in district court after arraignment on assault and battery and carrying a revolver without a license. He pleaded nolo contendere and said youths staged a brush fire bell ringing and rock throwing near his home July 4 and used blank cartridges to frighten them.
Dr. Harold DeW. Cross announced that the Forsyth Dental Infirmary for Children will remain open over the summer. The clinic at 140 Fenway will operate daily from 9 to 5 except Sundays and legal holidays, with Saturday hours until 12 30 noon.
Since May Special Officer James Hoy of Station 15 pursued Wilfred Danville for allegedly stealing five cases of eggs valued at one hundred dollars from the Boston and Maine railroad. Hoy captured Danville in Boston and brought him to Charles Town for arraignment in court this morning.
A man posing as Sergeant Frank E. Custer claimed to be a nephew of General Custer and attempted to buy thousands of dollars of groceries, beef, grain, and refrigerators for a regiment said to be at Glen Echo. Police held him pending transfer to military authorities after confirming he had no authorization.
Massachusetts plans to meet its regular army quota by mid next week. Colonel Mc Coy, commanding the Tremont Row recruiting station, says enlistments are progressing and the state needs about 400 more volunteers from across Massachusetts to reach the target by next Wednesday.
The hot weather drew hundreds of youngsters to the Charles River at Magazine Beach Cambridge all day as they discussed a new bathhouse planned for the site and marveled at its prospective features.
Citizens tour Magazine Park amid push for bath house and sports facilities. The Cambridge hearing July 24 will weigh new baths, ball diamonds, and extended park areas amid debates on water quality and public health.
Superintendent Alfred H. Cullis of the Back Bay post office celebrated his 50th birthday and his 30th anniversary of appointment to the postal service. Carriers and clerks at the Jamaica Plain post office presented him a purse of gold, commemorating his long tenure before recent promotion to Back Bay.
The crowd hissed when the anthem played and a woman in the southeast corner refused to rise. Major Frederick Downing intervened, grabbing a man accused of hissing, as bystanders and a sailor and a National Guardsman offered help. The ejectee protested patriotism while others assisted.
An old newspaper fragment urges women and others to get their blood checked for iron deficiency. The ad promotes a product marketed as Nuxated Iron, with a malleable claim of health benefits and easy availability through a sparsely named supplier.
The colored Americans of Boston plan a public protest at 2:30 P.M. tomorrow in Twelfth Baptist Church Shawmut Avenue and Madison Street Boston. The meeting, under the Boston branch of the National Equal Rights League, features E. T. Morris presiding and speakers including Rev. M. A. W. Shaw C. W. Williams William Monroe Trotter Dr. A. P. Russell Jr and others addressing international legal labor and moral aspects of the Illinois outbreak.
The Rock Island Lines advertise Colorado vacations with the Rocky Mountain Limited train service to Denver Colorado Springs and Pueblo. The Rock Island Travel Bureau Boston offers guidance on travel and costs, highlighting comfort and non extra fare premier service.
Navy and Marine Corps recruiting remained slow yesterday while British enlistments at 44 Bromfield street showed a fair volume of new enrolments for service with Canadian overseas units.
His orders spurred merchants to unprecedented hustle with trucks and freight cars hurriedly deployed to accelerate shipments and stockpile supplies amid mounting wartime demands.
President Menocal suspends constitutional guarantees and orders an extra session of Congress in Havana on July 13.
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