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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1917
Page
5
Jordan Marsh launches its annual dresses event with a bright display on the first day of June. Retail staff showcase new misses styles and announce seasonal promotions to entice shoppers.
Cosfee Fibre Sweater in plaid weave with detachable belt and white collar and cuffs. Includes a full shirted skirt and trim white pieces. Priced at 3.95.
In New York the First American Conference on Democracy and Terms of Peace featured a committee on American Liberty backing conscientious objectors to the draft. A telegram from former Senator John D Works of California charged that we dishonored ourselves by declaring war without adequate cause. A speaker, Gilbert I Roe, urged that voters must have a chance to express themselves as government control shifted.
Harold Kelley twelve year old son of Mr and Mrs Patrick Kelley of 44 North Street Haverhill shot himself in the left eye with a .22 revolver while playing with a companion. He may lose sight of the eye and the bullet remains unfound.
Mrs Frank Demars of Maynard reports from the London War Office that her husband Corporal Frank Demars has been seriously wounded in France. He has served at the front for two years with English troops.
Young men flock to the municipal registry to alter birth records and fall outside the 21 to 30 age bracket as draft rules take effect. Clerk Miss Margaret Foley handles the attempts in City Registrar McGlenen’s department, but all efforts fail.
The inspector Miss Foley explains how she identifies slackers by expression and handles a man who misrepresented his age for marriage records. She advises him to obtain a certified birth date from his European hometown, noting he may be in the trenches by the time it arrives.
The passage notes that requests to alter records arrive faster from men seeking to dodge conscription, while many avoiders come from foreign shores, implying rapid, improvised appeals over more carefully constructed excuses.
The Rev. Charles L. Lehnert of Central German Methodist Episcopal Church was arrested in Minneapolis on a Justice Department warrant over alleged seditious statements denouncing the Liberty Loan.
Concord New Hampshire May 31 Governor Henry W Keyes was elected president of the Sullivan county railroad a leased line of the Boston and Maine Alvah W Sulloway was named president of the Peterborough and Hillsborough and the Concord and Claremont lines and joined the Northern railroad board The contingent fund was increased by 1800 dollars at the Northern railroad annual meeting.
Travel notice promotes visiting Yellowstone Park via the Government built Cody Road. It highlights Cody as a hub with Buffalo Bill’s ranch nearby and describes entrances through Shoshone Canyon and Sylvan Pass. The ad invites inquiries for planning, tickets, and stopovers with Boston agent contact details.
Retired Commander Albert L. Key will command a new naval reserve training camp at Bumkin Island Navy Yard. About 1500 men now under Lieutenant Porter at Marblehead Neck will transfer by next week, with a training ship afloat to give shipboard experience lacking at Marblehead Neck or Commonwealth Pier. More Marblehead reserves moved to Bumkin Island yesterday.
Copenhagen report via London quotes Dr Eduard saying German Socialists and government have no plans to negotiate a settlement of the Alsace Lorraine issue under a frontier regulation. no basis in intermediary promises.
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