01 Mar 1919
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1919
Page
1
The Post prints a replica schedule for farmers showing income and expenses for 1918. It must be filed by March 15, 1919, at the United States Collector of Internal Revenue offices. This is a sample return blank and must not be filed. Official blanks available at the collector’s offices. Ex planation for making out this report is included today.
President Wilson told Democratic national committee members he will not be a candidate after March 4, 1921. He plans to write history and cease being an official, with more details to follow after the luncheon at the White House.
The Episcopal Church pension fund reports 1,181,057 raised since its two year founding. It covers old age pensions and disability allowances for clergy and benefits widows and orphans across 8000 parishes in the United States and abroad.
The Massachusetts senator warns that a proposed covenant would erase Monroe Doctrine protections and the right of self defense, promote war, and be too loosely drafted to be acceptable. He argues the document could unravel major U.S. strategic safeguards.
After a day in hiding, E. J. Howe, now the country’s most famous fine payer, left the arles street jail to deliver a fine. Seven suffragists, freed, lost homes as Howe vanished again to avoid pursuers.
London dispatch says the Dutch minister of war told the Second Chamber that the army must stay ready to resist any annexation of Dutch territory. He warned that immediate disarmament would be dangerous.
Theodore E Hedlund Aviation Editor reports a crash scare near New Haven as his Post airplane, flown 160 miles against wind and rain, forced a mid flight landing in a pasture after a radiator tube failure. He describes a six mile race to cool the overheated engine before reaching a safer clearing at the forest edge.
A blast near the American Woolen Company's mill injures more than twenty people, with ten buildings partially demolished and many windows broken. Police and State Guards search ruins for possible dead and injured as the blast is felt 20 miles away in Milford.
Lieutenant Thomas A. Fitzgerald son of former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald returned to Boston last night after eight months in France. He arrived in New York on the U S S Kansas and was mustered out Thursday. He served with the First Ammunition Train of the 76th Division from Camp Devens, a replacement unit whose officers largely did not reach the front trenches.
A brief ad note promotes NOR cigars described as sweet and mellow. The fragment hints at a continuation on Page 10 First Col. and urges readers to ask your desired seller.
Fragmentary note references a cigar named Mon Cher Ami tied to oversea calls. Details incomplete.
Senator Lodge attacks the League of Nations charter as drafted for Paris while Senator Hitchcock counters, defending self defense rights and challenging key provisions in the peace plan. The men lead a partisan clash over constitutional limits and foreign policy.
Former President Taft accepts invitation to speak in New York next Tuesday night on the same platform as President Wilson. He wired Nashville telegram to local League to Enforce Peace members.
A weather and events snippet records moonrise at 5 30 am and lighted vehicles at 6 04 pm. It lists anniversaries for William Dean Howells born 1837 and notes Britain’s 1915 blockade of the German coast. It mentions a 1917 plot reveal to incite Mexico and Japan against the U S and cites a 1 year ago sinking near Viseland Island. General Peyton March arrives in New York from France.
Forecast shows unsettled Boston area Saturday with rain and a colder night. Sunday turns fair and much colder with strong winds shifting to the west. Northern New England sees rain in the west Saturday and Sunday night in the east, with rain or snow and cooler conditions overall.
The record lists temperatures and times observed at Thompson's Spa, including morning and afternoon readings around 84 86 35 degrees with an average temperature yesterday of 45. It notes a year ago average of 85 and includes various codes and times for the day.
The Dutch Governor of Utrecht, controlling the former German Emperor, visited Count von Bentinck’s castle at Amersfoort last night amid reports of William Hohenzollern and German officials’ visits. Since AP dispatches on these visits, officials have stopped coming to the area.
Reports stir about a Hardenbroek castle near Doorn leased by another Order of St. John member. The former monarch remains within castle grounds, with Hardenbroek unfurnished and distant from neighbors. Attendants deny relocation, while security around von Bentinck castle increases with boarded garden walls and barbed wire.
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