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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1917
Page
4
A guest, about 88, was found unconscious at the Back Bay Hotel with a pipe in an open gas jet and was moved to City Hospital where physicians pronounced him dead. He had been a guest since June 2.
The largest Socialist gathering in Boston to date drew 3,000 plus under broiling sun as speakers urged peace without annexations or indemnities. Mayor Curley defended free speech while security details from army navy and federal agencies guarded against rioting and treasonous talk.
A speaker at a public gathering urged abolition of Kaiser autocracy and the rise of genuine social democracy after the war. He argued for a general peace without annexations, supported disarmament, and warned against native Junkerism. The talk linked war profits to continued conflict and urged voters to back the socialist programme at the polls.
The Socialist party issued a statement praising the orderly meeting on the Common and the police department's assistance. They commended Mayor Curley for his manly stand and expressed no desire to raise old grievances after yesterday's orderly gathering.
Washington July 22. The War Department adopts a new plan to issue clothing to American soldiers only in accordance with individual needs, abandoning the old system of regular allowances that allowed personal savings, with organizations now to carry out the revised method.
Manders will be held responsible for proper equipment of their men and at the same time for rigid economy or the issues of clothing.
Moodus July 22 local Home Guard rushed to intervene as an excited mob moved toward a tree with a rope aimed at Philip Matinuch after he confronted Louis Grollman hotel proprietor over a child custody dispute. Grollman’s injuries were not serious though Matinuch’s wife had left him two years earlier with their child.
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