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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1919
Page
4
The Boston Dispensary Baby Hygiene Association and District Nursing Association plan a joint drive opened Monday. The executive committee met to organize a city wide appeal with 10 000 volunteers aimed at ensuring every Bostonian is asked to contribute.
Volunteers note a prominent citizen slated to sail from New York to Europe today. If uncontacted the pledge will be sought at the dock and by wireless, a first in charitable fundraising. Automobiles offered for next week, with posters for auto windshields to aid canvass in outlying districts.
Local ad touts Hayes Healing Honey as stopping tickle and healing throat with every bottle. Price listed at 35 cents with a free box of O Pen- Trate Salve for chest colds head colds and croup included with each purchase.
Greater Boston trails its $300 000 goal for the Central New England Sanatorium at Rutland, with $71 452 raised so far and six days left. The drive requires $35 091 daily to hit the target of $309 000, amid rally remarks by Dr. Frank E. Schubmehl and plans for today speakers Leonard W. Cronkhite and George Woodbridge.
Newburyport workers employed by the city to collect ashes began a strike after demanding five dollars per day. They currently earn four dollars, a raise previously refused by the council. Superintendent McKay will seek to fill vacancies at the old wage.
The Czecho-Slovak government reports that Schwartz the German vice-consul was the Bohemia leader behind plans to provoke disorder and to push troops across the frontier into Bohemia and Moravia. Spies from Germany and Austria found in many Bohemian towns. arms uncovered at Trautenau near the German border.
Local marketers received a shipment of the largest chickens seen in years at Faneuil Market yesterday. News spread quickly and Stall No. 1 under historic Faneuil Hall drew a crowded, curious mix of bona fide sellers and onlookers.
Major Hyatt of the War Department told Springfield officials the question of a parade by the 104th Infantry in Springfield must be decided by the War Department. He noted the 26th Division would parade in Boston after Camp Devens, and suggested possible disbandment in Springfield in connection with a parade. Springfield men were advised to contact Congressman Gillett.
March report from Washington says Rear Admiral Philip Andrews is detailed to command the Mediterranean squadrons, succeeding Rear Admiral Niblack who was ordered home. Andrews previously led the U S naval detachment in the Baltic.
Frank Walter Potter, a Cambridge gunman who killed Deputy Sheriff G A Bills and wounded Patrolman Charles Thomas after shooting Police Lieutenant J M Daly, pleaded not guilty in Palmer court to murder and assault charges. He is hospitalized, wounded from the Boston & Albany train exchange, with a hearing set for April 5.
Washington march 5 announced today the army organizations assigned to early convoy home from France include the 167th and 370th aero squadrons the 639th aero squadron 14th engineers Ana BH companies 18th engineers Base Hospital No 8 Signal Corps and Casual Company No 3.
Funeral for Ernest F Norcross former Met Life examining physician held at his Dorchester home with Rev Charles L Page officiating. Burial followed in Grafton cemetery. Born in North Grafton fifty years ago he lived in Dorchester twenty years and belonged to Marathon Lodge K of P Union Lodge A F and A M Knights of Khorassan and Keystone Lodge OES. Survived by wife and one daughter.
Miss Gertrude J. O Connor of Hyde Park a nurse with the Boston City Hospital unit fell ill with spinal meningitis at Tours France one evening in February and died the following morning She was buried February 9 at Tours Her home was 100 Hyde Park Avenue and she sailed for France with the Boston City Hospital unit on the Leviathan from Hoboken on July 21 1918
Queen Marie of Romania arrives in Paris with her daughters Princess Elizabeth and Ileana after fleeing Bucharest amid fears of a revolution. A Geneva dispatch dated Feb 23 noted the escape to England.
After two years of neutrality the Omsk clergy now denounces the Bolsheviki and openly supports Admiral Kolchak supreme governor. The shift is described as highly impressive to the country.
Advertisement touts the J. B. L. Cascade as a cure for chronic constipation by Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute New York. It claims half a million Americans prefer internal bathing and promotes free booklet from Liggett's Riker Jaynes drug stores in New England.
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