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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1917
Page
2
Washington July 15 The Department of Agriculture asks meat establishment proprietors and operators to cooperate in eliminating waste to conserve the country's meat food supply.
The department emphasizes preventing loss or misuse as vital to the nation. The Bureau of Animal Husbandry aims to conserve fats in meat production without undermining inspection goals. Waste sources include hogs sterilized for lard, nonedible use of cattle, spoilage from poor refrigeration, and fats left on dressed meat. It announces that sound cow udders may be approved for food under certain conditions.
The body of Miss Lyle W. Sanderson, author, was found in woods near the Amesbury line in Haverhill after a three week disappearance. Police say the note in her pocketbook signals she planned to join her father, and there is no sign of foul play. The medical examiner could not determine if death was suicide or exposure.
Boston branch of the National Equal Rights League adopts resolutions accusing organized labor of inciting the East St. Louis massacre and barring colored workers from skilled jobs. W. Munroe Trotter names Samuel Gompers as responsible and cites Roosevelt and others aiding opposition to the killings.
The Kiltie bagpiping band and officers headed to New York for British recruitment patrol Boston amid a rule blocking British ship for local recruits. Canadas forces see higher enlistment while British orders delay transport for Canadian applicants.
McEachern a New England News Co bookkeeper dies at City Hospital after a vehicle skidded at Boylston Street and crashed into the gate of the Public Garden. Mahoney Donovan and Roberts suffer serious injuries. Roberts a former Dorchester resident and Elks convention attendee. Public Garden incident also involves Mt. Vernon Knights and Charlestown navy yard ties.
John A. Flaherty of 36 Boston street Dorchester, 19, was shot in the right arm while crossing a vacant lot off Columbia road near Mt. Vernon street yesterday afternoon. He was taken to City Hospital for treatment and said he did not know who fired the shot or why.
A Cambridge woman plans to press her husband and obtain financial and legal help for Percy Seymour Kelly alias Captain De Willoughby after his day in the Tombs. Kelly faces a Superior Court arraignment on charges of passing counterfeit checks on Boston hotels and will answer an indictment warrant. He remained nonchalant and claimed friends will bail him out as police photograph him for the rogues gallery. A Cambridge woman reportedly aims to involve her army officer husband in securing bail and aid for Kelly.
A Kurd, amid a renunciation of Islam, shoots three men in a Boston street fight. Oman wounded Sedelman and Mahmet as police chase him from 171 Boston street to Ord street. In the chaotic chase, O’Brien is grazed, and a second Sedelman is struck.
The advertisement touts Plant Juice as a herbal stomach remedy that cures indigestion and related symptoms. A Boston machinist, John Lynch of Dorchester Avenue, endorses it after seven years of digestive trouble and poor sleep, crediting relief and renewed energy to the product.
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