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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1917
Page
8
W. B. Jones a private detective testified at Wyandotte County District Court that a broomstick with mirrors on both ends used as a periscope allowed him to observe Edna May Winkler in her hotel room after her separation from a jeweler. The court granted Winkler a divorce based on the evidence.
The Cromer commission report on the Dardanelles inception lays bare British military civilian oversight. It details tensions between Churchill and Fisher and Earl Kitchener’s dominating influence, with Asquith Grey and Lloyd George as cabinet figures, and notes how senior officers and junior sea lord aides were consulted. The document, signed by Cromer on his death bed, probes the war council’s deliberations and aims to explain responsibility.
Spirited artillery actions continued overnight between the Oise and the Aisne as French forces seized prisoners in Lorraine and repelled a German attack at Seppois le Haut. Russians moved against the Turks from Hamadan and occupied Kangaver, while operations near Bidjar and Davketabad continued. In reconnoitering between the Somme and the Oise, seven were captured and several machine guns taken. In Champagne French troops captured most of a salient between Mesnil and Maisons de Champagne after heavy artillery, taking about 100 prisoners including two officers.
Paris on March 8. The civil population mobilization measure, first presented in the Senate on February 8 by Etienne Clementel, has been amended by including ideas from Henry Berenger’s bill. The plan calls for voluntary enrollment of all ages 17 to 60 across France and allied or neutral nations, with compulsory invitations to enlist for nonvolunteers.
The Navy Department will use Boston's large drydock under a subsidy of 300000 dollars, paid 50000 dollars annually for six years. A telegram from Senator Weeks to the Waterways Commission reported the President signed the bill authorizing the Navy to contract for the dock's use.
London dispatch reports Turkish forces pressed by Entente troops on three fronts. General Maude’s British forces advance along the Tigris in Mesopotamia, driving the Turks back as cavalry nears Bagdad’s southern outskirts.
In Persia the Russians push the Ottomans west from Hamadan and occupy Kangaver while another Russian backed force under King George advances against Turks in Palestine toward Jerusalem. Turkish retreats extend across three fronts, with unclear plans at Baghdad. Minor engagements and artillery fighting persist amid bad weather. In France the British see small gains in the Ancre valley and near Biaches, while German raids take a few British troops near Chaulnes and Arras. French forces retake a salient between Butte Mesnil and Maisons de Champagne with over 100 prisoners. Bombardments continue along the front.
Dr Frederick A Webster at Bessey Hospital performed a speedy cesarean in Boston history. In two and a half minutes from the start the eight and a half pound baby was in the nurse’s arms. The patient was Mrs Charles E Donner of Beverly. Ether to consciousness took 22 minutes according to the surgeon.
London March 8 Dr Georg Michaelis the Prussian food controller told the Prussian Diet that the food distress is such that a more severe state of things could hardly be imagined, especially in large industrial centres, according to a Reuters despatch from Amsterdam.
The food controller warned that surplus grain may run out and called for severe action to keep the population fed into next year. He urged rationing and requisitioning of eggs milk butter fruit and vegetables and warned of possible mill closures and loss of municipal autonomy. The agriculture minister defended policies blaming the Entente and lamented a poor harvest.
Nippy's Pop starts to see Desperate Ambrose as an expensive acquaintance in a colorful page preview for the upcoming Sunday Post.
Boston will spend 7,362,974 on its schools this year after the School Board approved the budget last evening. Excluding nearly a million for new buildings, the total is 230,000 more than last year. Salaries reach 4,460,350, up 125,000 from the prior year.
Major Fred L. Bogan refused to back a $940,974 school appropriation lacking a Dorchester high school, while the board granted most requests. A 1 percent cut hit repairs and supplies as 4571 fewer pupils reduced expected costs by about $100,000 so far, with anticipated $300,000 saved this year. Buildings planned include eight rooms in Dorchester, eight rooms in East Boston, a 10 room North End school, and a site for a Public Latin School.
Louis E. Denny, who visited Mayor Curley with his pet lion Brutus seeking zoo work in Franklin Park, was arrested yesterday by U S Deputy Marshal Bancroft for allegedly using the mails in a defrauding scheme.
Advertisement promotes Poslam as a safe remedy for itching skin and eczema. It claims quick relief and permanent improvement from pimples and discolored skin. The copy urges free samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York City and advertises Poslam Soap medicated with Poslam.
British forces report a cavalry pursuit eight miles from Bagdad after found Turkish positions evacuated near Lark Monse. Cavalry moved past Ctesiphon and bivouacked near Bawi as wind and sand hindered marching.
The passenger steamship Rochambeau arrived from Bordeaux with two guns mounted on the forecastle head and the sixth aft. A forward gun is a naval vapori fire piece and the aft gun is a four inch weapon. Rochambeau is the first ship here since the war began equipped with guns forward and aft.
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