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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1919
Page
16
Boston Post issue dated June 24 1919 from 259 Washington St Boston Massachusetts reports local notices and community items in a daily publication style.
Joseph Lee, former Boston School Committee chair and War Camp Community Service leader, receives the Distinguished Service Medal. The award honors his energetic leadership of the organization and its impact on entertaining and guiding soldiers over here. General Edwards is expected to pin the medal at a Boston Common ceremony this afternoon.
The report says King Albert and Queen Elizabeth accepted President Wilsons invitation to tour the United States, possibly in September. The piece praises Alberts stature and suggests American warmth toward the royal couple despite the Kaiser’s wartime actions in Belgium.
The Senate leader says focus shifts from League of Nations to essential budget bills, aiming to finish major appropriation measures before the new fiscal month. The extra session began May 19, with the House already enacting several essential laws, while the Senate has stalled on appropriations amid debates over a treaty and League plan.
The Berlin Tageblatt defends the act as a scrap of paper confession amid German apologies for torpedoing ships after armistice. It argues Allied approval would imply treachery is acceptable, noting prior violations from Belgium to armistice terms.
The passage asserts that she cannot be trusted under any government, highlighting a pattern of unreliable behavior that spans political systems and regimes. Her actions are presented as consistently disloyal, undermining authorities regardless of governance.
The agreement to end the war with allied victory marks a hard won peace. Germany faces strict terms and constant vigilance by the League of Nations as excursonists take about 3000 dollars each in outbound funds, with labor and cash flows expected to rebalance with postwar loans and returns.
The Chicago convention urged free zones at principal American ports to assemble and finish goods for export without duties, boosting cargoes and the new American merchant marine. Boston is named as a principal port that should have such a zone, though locals sometimes doubt its status.
Six wealthy NYC men listed as deputy police commissioners without salaries were appointed under a wartime measure. They include Dr John Alton Harriss, Redmond Wanamaker, Alien A Ryan, T Coleman du Pont, John M Chard, and Edmond A Guggenheim. The peace treaty may end their commissions and send them back to private life.
The author notes Senate leaders shun Knox amend ment and favor Root reservations to ratify the treaty. The piece argues such reservations would largely affect little on the treaty's validity and questions their real impact. It labels Root’s plan as an easy way out with doubtful Senate support.
Henry Schrow of Everett is described as the oldest living marine at 87 and likely the first one to fight. The piece notes a Paris Island top sergeant, famed for training marines, who humorously asserts he is “two hard guys” with rookies.
Investigators note the administration’s record in repatriating and mobilizing millions of troops after the armistice. Washington critics may seek inquiries, but officials say shipping 350000 men across 3000 miles of water is an unprecedented quiet achievement.
Mrs. Fanny Fern Andrews, returning from the peace conference where she spoke for the Bureau of Education, said she found widespread anti League feeling in the United States and urged works for universal happiness and progress. She praised open terms and disclosed diplomacy, condemning any obstruction to the covenant.
Mrs. W. F. Draper widow of General Draper and former American ambassador here 20 years ago died this morning in a Rome hotel. Her daughter Princess Boncompagni was at the bedside.
A broad plan to deport undesirables gains shape in Washington and soon becomes law. The plan targets loyal aliens in the United States as part of postwar cleanup. The Department of Labor estimates about 1,300,000 would return to their native lands.
The piece riffs on price changes from shillings to thirty cents and thrippence in London. It notes Jack Alcock and his American companion reportedly drank ale, then corrects to hail being said, a humorous quip about dropping Hs and landing gears by Arry n Awker, with no ale by transatlantic fliers.
Six hundred tons of candy were shipped to Belgium recently. A cheeky proposal suggests sending 60 tons of caramels to Germany to clack their jaws and a further 60 tons of slippery elm lozenges to the peace conference delegates for good measure.
New York man jailed on bigamy charges says he could not resist proposing to a woman who could cook goulash. The comical remark frames the case with a light, tongue in cheek tone while noting legal action.
A Boston physician argues the public is not insulted by the term crazy since mental disturbance is a disease labeled Major Neuroses. He quips if we are nuts the proper name would be Colonel Neuroses.
A Boston man chose marriage over enlisting, leaving vaudeville comedians with a fresh joke to spark laughter as Cesar yawed at the unexpected twist in the local scene.
In May Boston Elevated reported 9.267 cents per passenger to operate the road. The speaker jokes about paying 9.268 cents for a seat and notes Taft advocates higher fares. Taft is described as taking up two seats at the bar.
A playful line in the Post teases Cal for potential performance, suggesting singing or dancing as possible entertainments. The remark implies a lighthearted moment or challenge aimed at Cal in a casual social setting.
A World War II era cable game of brinksmanship claims the British dirigible B-34 will fly to America if Germany signs a peace treaty, or to Germany loaded with bombs if they refuse. The quip mocks German negotiators and lampoons ink used as a weapon.
F G D from North Berwick Maine critiques a clipping about Elsie Janis riding in a town’s new automobile hooked and ladder. The writer mocks the war tax rules for soda drinks and ice cream, noting complex charges and odd requirements that would drive a soda hound to hard drink.
Alice McGowan's story mixes Cowboys circus acrobats and a love plot against a Western Fourth of July backdrop. The Boston Sunday Post Magazine features a lively, novel take highlighted by frontier characters and festive visuals.
The piece blends seasonal superstitions around Midsummer Day with lively Boston market gossip about mackerel and green peas. It recalls New York dance crowding, charity requests, a London cash gift craze, and a veteran homecoming tale plus a stray Arlington mockingbird sighting and local theater connections.
An allegory about a valley freed from alcohol and tobacco by floods of Fountainland and renamed towns. It traces a borderland where tobacco states Snuffington Puffington and Chewington send gas warfare, then purge and banish tobacco along with alcohol. Published 40 to 50 years ago, it hints at a future prohibition crusade.
Letters question watch dial glow duration, high altitude flight limits, and spelling Pekin or Peking. Authors discuss eight years glow, air thinning makes ascent harder, oxygen needs, and Chinese capital naming both spellings acceptable.
A style tip notes that rhyming with doubt or about is permissible but the first named option is preferred, guiding readers toward a preferred wording choice in poetic or prose usage.
The phrase is a legal principle rather than a formal law. It appears in early modern writings, notably attributed to Sir John Selden (1584–1654) in an essay. he argues that ignorance cannot excuse wrongdoing because it would enable everyone to plead ignorance and avoid accountability.
The trip from Boston to Montreal by auto follows the White Mountains route. It covers about 41112 miles and passes through Portsmouth New Hampshire the White Mountains St. Johnsbury and Burlington Vermont.
The Oldest Inhabitant cites official figures for June 24 noting a heat peak of 94 degrees in 15875 and 1882 and a cold 49 degrees in 1903. He adds no rain in Boston on this date for ten years except 1910 and 1917.
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