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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1919
Page
6
New York July 15 John Armstrong Chaloner won a partial victory on his petition to be declared sane in this state and placed in charge of his property. Justice Ford of the State Supreme Court showed preliminary inclination to grant the petition and will thoroughly examine the papers before a final decision.
Three defendants in alleged larcenies from Boston department stores stood trial in Municipal Court. One woman explained her default on July 2 due to being in Lewiston Maine for her marriage.
A. Harry Waite of Boston and Francis B. Washburn of Provincetown drifted 40 hours at sea after their motor boat failed off Cape Cod. With no food or water they fashioned a tarpaulin sail, drifted about 40 miles from shore, and were rescued by coast guards at Provincetown station. They arrived back to recover from exposure.
The Aero Club of Massachusetts and the Aero Club of New England voted to cooperate on restoring balloon flights. They will secure equipment, stage fall flights mainly from Worcester, and seek landing fields while plans honor wartime pilots and balloon pioneers. J Walter Flagg left Worcester to arrange details.
Albert G. Schmedeman United States minister to Norway arrived in New York today aboard the Norwegian steamer Stavangerfjord from Bergen.
The State Fisheries and Game Commission will meet to decide on an open pheasant season this fall, with indications pointing to an earlier start. Open seasons for ruffed grouse woodcock quail gray squirrels hares and rabbits are set for Oct 20 in most counties, while Dukes Nantucket Essex Middlesex and Hampden are excluded due to insufficient supply.
The schooner James F E Coburn failed to launch at the Boston and Penobscot Shipbuilding Company yard in South Orrington. It slid to the water edge and stuck on the ways. crews will attempt to refloat her on Wednesday.
Filene highlights a summer value boost with price increases across items. A Bolivia cloth coat is $50 now versus $35 three years ago, with expectations of $70 next fall due to improvements and general price advances.
A young woman asks if she should date a new suitor after a long letter-based romance with a sailor. The adviser says changing heart is a woman's privilege and notes the sailor should have safeguarded the relationship. postwar communication remains possible if the letters survive.
Harvard University's drive for ten million dollars starts in Cambridge with Eliot Wadsworth and John Price Jones arriving. Wadsworth, Harvard overseer and Red Cross vice chairman, returns from Europe to co lead the endowment effort with Thomas W. Lamont. Jones led New York Liberty Loan committee press and events.
M. S. T. Tre tickoff, president of the economic and financial commission of the Russian political conference in Paris and former provisional government member at Petrograd, has gone to Omsk to serve as Minister of Commerce and Industry under Admiral Kolchak.
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