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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
2
In anticipation of a July 3 strike, fishermen have left Foston and Gloucester for New York and Newport News to join vessels in the menhaden fisheries. Wholesale dealers have not moved to counter the action, arguing that a minimum price demand is impractical and market conditions depend on supply in port.
A testimonial advert from 73 Lees Ave Ottawa claims great health gains after using Fruit-A-Tives Liver Tablets. Walter J Marriott says prior fatigue and liver kidney trouble vanished, with a selling price of 0 0 a box, 6 for 2 50 and 25c trial size. Available from dealers or Fruit-A-Tives Limited Ogdensburg New York.
Florence Louise Howe, decorated nurse of the 26th Division, arrived home after serving at the Marne, Meuse-Argonne, and San Mihiel. She described German attitudes to Americans, the hardship faced by civilians in Luxemburg, and praised Captain Roper of the Prinz Frederich Wilhelm for crew care during the voyage.
Miss Howe, a Wal tham High School and Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital graduate, served five miles behind the front since last July at Base Hospital 44 and Evacuation Hospitals 13 18 and Mobile No 1. The Prinz Frederich Wilhelm was exchanged by the Germans for American foodstuffs now sold in German shops. She met her niece Eleanor Howe yesterday and remarked it seemed funny.
At Jordan Hall last evening the New England Conservatory Alumni Association elected officers: Edward L. Gardner president Belle Bacon Bond first vice president Frank Morse second vice president Bertha Graves recording secretary Ruth Russell Chase corresponding secretary Alfred DeVeto treasurer Homer Humphrey financial secretary Henry M. Dunham auditor. Directors for three years are James E. Bagley Richard Stevens Fred A. Ladd and Marion Skinner. Tourjee Memorial Student Aid Fund trustees are Caleb L. Brigham and Frank E. Morse. A reception followed with dancing in Recital Hall.
An eight year old boy nicknamed a soldier of misfortune traveled with troops off the Spanish steamer Alfonso XIII arriving from Bordeaux. Immigrant authorities hold the boy pending disposition of his case. Rochester nurse Miss Lillian Foster has expressed a wish to adopt him.
Valentine’s father, an Antwerp University languages professor, answered the first call to arms and vanished. When Germans entered Antwerp, his mother died in a German air raid. After the armistice the boy found a camp of the 106th Supply Train of the 31st Division and wore an American uniform.
A boy who was barred from America clung to the dock as the Alfonzo prepared to sail. Soldiers and sailors hauled him aboard by a waist rope after recognizing him. He speaks five languages learned from his father. Base Hospital 209 on the steamer resumed duty under Lt Col Gustavus M. Blech. Frederick Lawson of the city reports becoming an ace in one day on July 14, 1918, with five enemy planes downed.
Birthday notes present John Horne Tooke born June 25 1736 in Westminster. The piece sketches his path from clerked clergy to politics plus his discredit and imprisonment for aiding Concord and Lexington victims.
Chester O Dorchester head of the Boston area Minute Men and 150 Ralphs will wear uniforms for the 1775 fashion style in a parade of 85 000 Minute Men at Columbus Ohio on July 5 1935 The Boston delegation sails July 2 to join the centenary celebration of Methodist missions and the centenary fund drive now reaching 165 million dollars The Boston and New England group will lead the Minute Men's Day parade.
Philip Trober of Lewiston Maine, 70, convicted of manslaughter in the death of Mrs Diana R Breed at Hampton Falls last August was sentenced to two to three years in State prison and fined $1000.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine previews Alice McGowan's Columbia and the Cowboy a Fourth of July story mixing Cowboys circus acrobats and a love plot in the far West highlighting an unusual holiday tale with lively period flair.
Four stolen cars were recovered and three alleged thieves arrested by Special Officers Matty and Brett, and Patrolmen McNabb and Becker. Baggert of Brighton and Reinherz of Dorchester face larceny charges after thefts from Henderson in Cambridge and Sunter in Springfield.
A reflective verse urges sowing a creed of faith and friendship. It details raking beds and broadcasting memories to nurture brave seeds that may sprout as the white blossoms of beauty of God, symbolizing spiritual growth through love.
In a statement dictated by Thomas J. Mooney, imprisoned for murder in the 1916 preparedness parade bombing, he warns against any July 4 bomb explosions, saying they would not aid his cause and would greatly harm it.
Harold Leydon, former Worcester Academy and Bowdoin College athlete, vanished a week ago 24 hours after discharge from his overseas unit. Army intelligence investigates with Boston police and nearby towns alerted. Officials cite shell shock and a later nervous breakdown as possible causes. Leydon spent six weeks in a hospital overseas before convalescing at a Pyrennes camp.
George W. Chadwick directed the New England Conservatory commencement at Jordan Hall. The 75 graduates mainly trained in pianoforte, with three post graduates receiving diplomas. Minnie C. Wolk won highest honors and Naomi Bevard earned an honor student prize. Chadwick also conferred ensemble honors on Wolk Kenny and Lucile Quimby. Samuel Carr addressed the class prior to diploma awards.
South Weymouth firemen stretched hose from a hydrant to a stable attached to Ruben Loud’s house on Milk Street. Hose bursts forced three long deployments totaling 900 feet each before 900 feet was borrowed from Weymouth apparatus. Stable burned with $2000 damage.
Interest grows in a three game series between Portsmouth Council K of C. and Pere Marquette Council K of C. of South Boston. The opener is set for next Saturday in New Hampshire with two more games on July 4 at M Street playgrounds 10 30 a m and 3 8 p m. A large crowd is expected for the holiday games.
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