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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1919
Page
22
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The late Lieutenant William Drohan is praised as a figure of steady cheer and morale for the 26th Division. He endured illness to seek combat, inspired comrades, and gave his life in service, a devoted hero who sacrificed beyond the call of duty.
The peace conference reparations committee assigns Belgium priority payment of 500 million dollars from first German indemnities. Belgium bore the brunt in 1914 defending neutrality, delaying the German advance, and aiding France and the civilized world, justifying top billing in reparations.
President Breckinridge fires a volley reasserting hostility toward Secretary Daniels and the Navy League. He says the League opposed Daniels over two years of alleged neglect of vital naval interests and obstruction of reforms and expansion.
The American Relief Association plans to finish food shipments by July 1 ensuring sustenance until autumn harvest. It has fed 17,000 children in Romania, 366,000 in Czecho Slovakia, 222,000 in Serbia, 653,000 in Finland, and over 500,000 in other nations through schools with one meal daily. The effort continues for weeks until local committees take over care.
The text thanks Northern and Eastern France for their generous assistance while awaiting liberation under enemy rule. It suggests the gratitude will be echoed in all countries aided by relief efforts during the war.
The piece argues Germany failed to sense foreign opinion during the war and after, misjudging U S and allied views, leading to harsh punishment at Versailles. It cites Weimar Premier Bauer and asserts broad international horror at Germany's conduct, warning German incapacity may invite more trouble.
The piece explains coffee prices rose after the war due to logistics and consumption. Captain Nascre mento of the Uberaba says a dollar per pound is absurd, noting Brazil produced record amounts and ships were scarce. He cites Rio de Janeiro prices at 10 cents a pound and urges more steamship traffic to move stock and lower prices.
A fatal airplane accident at Franklin Field prompts strong grief from victims' parents and criticism of policing and landing space. The incident underscores the need for state or federal aviation landing areas near large cities as aviation grows as a core transport method.
Secretary Baker releases a detailed war expenditure schedule covering April 6, 1917, to June 1, 1919. Total costs reach 14.54 billion dollars with about 12.70 billion spent in the United States and 1.83 billion abroad for the American Expeditionary Force. The document accompanies the opening congressional inquiry into war spending.
Congressman Reavis aims to reveal ties between large packing houses and government buyers. The quartermaster budget totals 8 265 705 433 with 7 142 250 947 spent in the US and 1 123 454 486 abroad. The sum represents over half of War Department outlays, yet funds paid for food, necessities, and comfort of troops abroad.
The House judiciary committee rejected an Anti-Saloon League demand for random home searches based on two credible persons affidavits. It instead added a warrant requirement for searches, aligning with American procedure and the Constitution. The debate warned that expanding spying and illegal searches would harm the prohibition cause.
Boston News Bureau reports on rumors of a major chain-store system funded by top shoemakers Endicott Johnson McElwain and Hamilton Brown. A leather maker bought same shoe at wholesale for 5.40 after paying 18.50 retail, exposing 250 percent retailer profit.
Captain Harold Anthony of the American Museum of Natural History travels to the West Indies to secure mammals and birds for study. The research seeks clues on whether the islands arose from oceanic birth or a land connection to Yucatan or Venezuela.
The oldest inhabitant recalls Boston weather with official highs of 94 degrees in 1909 and 1914 and lows of 64 degrees in 1913 and 1909. He notes no rain on this date in the past decade except in 1913 and 1916.
A verse dialogue traces the rise in bread prices through a farmer miller and baker, blaming higher costs on millers flour and labor. It argues workers moved to cities, raising wages and making farming less profitable, ending by placing responsibility on the reader for bread prices.
The speaker rejects the notion that assisting others makes one a perpetual giver, stressing that true help comes from seeking out those in need rather than waiting to be asked. The remark cautions against overestimating one’s influence in charitable efforts.
In a humorous dispatch the Observant Citizen recalls buying many insurance policies from various agents and the ensuing debates overCoverages choices. The piece also covers Salem’s fifth anniversary fire restoration, local Pie shortages, fireworks and prohibition chatter, a suffrage era monument debate, mice used in cancer research, dog show proceeds, rising blueberry crops, and a flood of out of state cars touring Boston. A Lexington 14-year-old wins champion garment maker in Middlesex County.
Dorothy Gish will join the Sunday Post movie doll feature with a fine collection of her character costumes ready to be cut out and fitted.
The article surveys changing views on alcohol from 1860 to postwar times, noting early limits to global prohibition yet growing support shaped by the war. It highlights U S leadership, British shifts toward abstinence, and factors like wage trends and liquor scarcity driving sobriety. It ends with a nod to Tomorrow's Picture a Japanese cartoon.
In letters to the editor the questions include how many were carried on the German ship Vaterland after seizure. The largest Europe voyage carried 10 867 men and a post armistice return trip brought 14 300. Additional inquiries confirm parts of the Philippines have Islam as a prevailing religion, lightning may strike the same place twice, and the accent of the word interesting is on the first syllable.
Statistics show New York City infant deaths at 8.8 per 1000 live births versus Boston at 98.9 per 1000 in 1917. The data indicate a far lower infant mortality rate in New York, contradicting a claim that Boston fares better.
The letter states the Constitution took effect on Wednesday March 4 1789 and that George Washington signed the Constitution as president of the convention and Virginia deputy but did not sign the Declaration of Independence.
The Nantucket Lightship is a steel vessel about 135 feet five inches long 29 feet broad and drawing 13 feet of water. The lightship is not far from land when measured up and down as waters shoal to 30 fathoms near the light.
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