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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 14, 1920
Page
2
Franklin D Olier national commander of the American Legion pledged that doughboys and poilus would be brothers in peace as in war. The message to Marshal Foch was sent on Bastille Day eve in reply to Fochs Fourth of July salutations from France.
The message honors French courage at Verdun Chemin des Dames and the Marne and expresses American pride in shared ideals. It salutes the glorious dead and pledges unity and future prosperity for France and the United States.
Hood Company workers plan a field day and picnic at Thompson's Grove Silver Lake Wilmington. Free bus service from 494 Rutherford Avenue leaves between noon and 12 30 to the event featuring a Hood first team ball game and field events from 1 30 to 6 with dancing to follow.
Washington July 13 An Interstate Commerce Commission extension of thirty days delays the order for preferential open top car distribution to coal mines east of the Mississippi to ease transport. New emergency orders will prioritize coal shipments to the Northwest and New England, with amendments to bar excessive car reconsignments and require embargoes on consignors not unloading within hours. Operators propose a plan giving coal and coke priority over other commodities except food and perishables, to be submitted to railroad executives.
Kathry n Marjorie Madden daughter of Samuel J and Catherine Madden nee Sheridan aged 1 month 7 days funeral from 154 Harvard Street Brookline on Thursday July 15 at 8 15 am high mass at St Mary of the Assumption Church at 9 o clock relatives and friends invited motor cortege Catherine McShane wife of the late Bernard McShane Roxbury July 18 funeral notice later
In Brockton on July 13 Judge C C King of the Police Court ordered a warrant for Angelo DiCicco for neglect of his children after learning he furnished bonds of 400 for his son Louis DiCicco who was sentenced to the Lyman School for breaking and entering. The judge noted this was not the first time bonds were posted and directed Officer K A Pickering to serve the warrant.
After a Cambridge Gaslight Company hearing, the City Council asked Mayor Edward Quinn to petition the State Department of Public Utilities to fix Cambridge gas prices. Albert M. Barnes, president of the gas company, cited a rise in the price per thousand cubic feet from 1.10 to 1.60 net to cover higher oil, gas and transport costs and to pay a 4 percent dividend to stockholders.
An advertisement promotes Horsford's Acid Phosphate as highly beneficial for exhaustion from heat overwork or insomnia, asserting it helps restore energy and sleep.
Postal employees protest the compulsory retirement act set to take effect next month cutting off service for anyone over 65. In Rutland Vermont Archibald Kendall nearly 90 continues work as transfer clerk, and Gilbert Millington of the Boston and Troy route, appointed in 1867, remains active. The act allows retention only with a department head certificate, but Postmaster General Burleson will not issue such certificates. President Wilson is not expected to intervene.
About 1 percent of Boston district letter carriers and clerks will retire under the new order, plus 66 railway mail clerks. Many receive 720 dollars yearly pensions, though two thirds dispute the need to retire now. The eldest retiree may be John J. Williams of Winthrop, a 54 year veteran since 1866, formerly at the central post office. Also retiring is George H. Crockett of Malden, a 60 year veteran delivering in Dock Square. officials note he remained capable despite losing an arm decades ago. Officials of the railway mail service are implementing the changes.
The schoolhouse department awarded repairs and painting contracts for city schools totaling nearly $70,000 with Mayor Feters approving.
Allied and German negotiators failed to break the coal deadlock as Marshal Foch and Field Marshal Wilson are summoned for possible enlargement measures. The allied premiers moved up a 6:30 a.m. meeting while Germany’s response is deemed unacceptable. Foch departs Paris for Spa and is due there tomorrow morning.
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