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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1920
Page
3
Revised naval estimates for 1920 and 1921 total 421 851 500 dollars, down from 787 640 00 the previous year. Personnel planned 136 000 men, versus 81 000 last year.
Miss G. T. Baird of Allston Massachusetts describes two years of illness and four doctors with little relief. After reading an advertisement she bought Dr True's Elixir and reports rapid improvement with symptoms of worm infestation, including offensive breath and skin changes. The testimonial claims the product purges worms and restores health, sold by all dealers.
London reports on Earl Curzon's Lords speech and subsequent statements show the Near East tangle growing dangerous. Syria and Mesopotamia complications loom with Damascus Syria congress, France Cilicia mandate rumors, and Britain and League of Nations debated as guardians for Turkey's non moslem subjects. Bolshevik influence alleged in Afghanistan and India amid nationalist Turkish push. Yorkshire Post criticizes American manifesto amid fears of bloodshed in religion clashes.
The text notes anxiety that Muslim and Arab opinion could influence allied councils more than seen and that pressing the Turks might provoke Arab involvement. It also cites Italian caution against using British and other Muslim troops against the Turks due to these fears.
Alice Hogan Rice, renowned for Mrs Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch, writes a short story And Paste the Pie set to be published in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece showcases Rice’s witty prose and social observation in a light fiction format.
On his way back to Boston from Palm Beach ex Mayor Fitzgerald stopped in Washington for a conference with Joseph B Eastman of the Interstate Commerce Commission. They discussed a possible collaboration between New England financial interests and Canadian railroads to develop the port of Boston.
Mr Fitzgerald advocates arranging with Canadian railroads to make Boston a winter port for their exports. He urges New England cooperation with the Interstate Commerce Commission to coordinate railroad properties, favoring a merger with a Canadian trunk line over other links.
Paris March 12. The entente military mission visiting Bremen faced a hostile crowd on departure after talks with German officers. Demonstrations broke hotel windows and damaged cars, prompting German authorities to provide a strong escort to the railway station.
Sergeant Ruth Farnam of the Serbian army will speak to hundreds of Boston women today at 2 PM at the Serbian Child Welfare Association of America 894 Boylston Street. Mrs James Lovell Little presides. it is Farnam's last Boston lecture. Adamson's Cough Balsam ad ends.
Miss Teresa Vela starred in a skating festival at the Cambridge Ice Pavilion to benefit the Ellis Memorial and Eldridge House. Dozens of skaters including Miss Elizabeth Caswell Miss Elia Snelling Miss Pauline Cabot and Mrs Nathaniel W Niles wore Pierrot and snow maiden outfits as about 50 skaters, including many children, took part.
Newton Post 48 American Legion members adopted resolutions opposing the $0 a month bonus. They said the plan should be pressed by the national executive committee and aligned with the Legion’s role and the country’s interests.
A steamer and five coal barges arrived in Boston Harbor yesterday carrying coal and small cars but failed to ease the shortage significantly. Rail gateways reported 449 cars received and 292 forwarded within New England, plus 211 cars of anthracite, per the New England sun coal committee.
The committee on social welfare yesterday reported leave to withdraw on bills by Wendell P. Thore and others to establish a non contributory old age pension system. The report was filed in the House and supporters aim to substitute the Thore bill during debate.
Mrs Emily Knowles Spiker of Baltimore waived all legal rights to be called mother to her six month old son Alfred Ray Spiker. The child’s father is Perley Spiker, her former sweetheart in an English aviation camp, and the act occurred in Baltimore Courthouse this afternoon.
In a court appearance Mrs. Emily Knowles Spiker relinquished motherhood rights for her English babe and urged guardianship to her former sweetheart and his wife Mrs. Cora Spiker. Judge Stanton signed the petition awarding custody of Alfred Ray to Mr. and Mrs. Perley Ray Spiker.
A dazed woman wearing pajamas and a bathrobe in stocking feet, said to be Mrs John Townsend widow of 1089 West Sixty ninth street, wandered upper Broadway and was taken to Bellevue psychopathic ward for observation. Patrolman Dennis Brown found her. neighbors denied any known Townsend residence.
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