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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1919
Page
2
Joseph F. Hanley aged 26 of 50 Elmore Street Roxbury enters a local competitive incident after dodging a girl and upsetting the auto event, with details ongoing on Elmore Street Roxbury.
An advertisement promotes Poslam for eczema and skin relief with a free sample offer from Emergency Laboratories in New York. Separately, a Roxbury accident injures Margaret Curran and Hanley when a car driven by Carr swerves to avoid a child and overturns. both victims taken to City Hospital.
Miss Florence Blunt of Simmons College Library School addressed librarians from across the state at the closing session on reference materials for small libraries. Professor Samuel Crothers stressed education over method as the Dame School of Experience. A luncheon preceded tours to Concord and Lexington and visits to local libraries aboard a Boston Public Library truck.
A Lowell girl calling herself Morris and a Barre girl identifying as Miss Blair were accused of stealing sweaters and skirts from downtown stores. Sleuths tracked them to Tremont Street and paid the cab to drop the goods at City Hall station. They were found guilty in Central Court and remanded to Tuesday for parental action.
An old style ad notes a tea spoonful in water with a dash of sugar relieves excessive thirst for Horsford's Acid Phosphate.
West Virginia Senator Sutherland, chair of the Senate military affairs committee, arrived to visit his army captain son in New York and said he would not attend a White House conference with President Wilson on the League of Nations. He argued the President should speak in the Senate chamber, and that the Senate requires factual discussion rather than generalities.
The Senate on July 17 confirmed H Percival Dodge of Massachusetts for the post as minister to the Kingdom of the Serbs Croats and Slovenes.
Washington July 17 Congressman Frederick W. Dallinger said he will urge the special committee probing cruelty to American troops abroad to summon additional witnesses to bolster charges. He attacked regular army officers and cited Hard Boiled Smith, jailed three years for prisoner mistreatment, who reportedly received a severe beating from enlisted men at Fort Jay New York and is now in the hospital.
A speaker denounces War Department probes as slow and biased, describing a caste system that protects officers. He cites swift congressional findings on cruelty in France, naming Hard Boiled Smith and Lieutenant Mason, and notes witnesses who corroborate abuse while court outcomes appear lenient. He promises further testimony from officers involved with the trials.
Today features a fare zone hearing at State House Room 486 at 10:30 a.m. Municipal band plays Boston Common at noon, followed by memorial services for Maine heroes at Cathedral Church of St. Paul. Evening concerts and Legion meetings fill the schedule including Mattapan Post and E. Clifford Sawyer Post venues, plus Nahant lecture on Remaking of Disfigured Faces of Soldiers at Town Hall.
In Manchester New Hampshire more than 600 striking workers at the McElwain Shoe factories returned to work after wage increase demands were granted.
George A. Goldthrop longtime provision dealer in Newburyport dies at home on 56 Pleasant Street at age 42. He was a member of Newburyport Lodge of Elks. He leaves a widow, three brothers and one sister.
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