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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1917
Page
11
Washington March 14 The Interstate Commerce Commission extended the grace period for solving car shortage and congestion. Drastic rules for returning foreign cars to owning lines will be suspended until April 15. The rules were set to take effect tomorrow after a suspension from February 21.
Official report details a clash 40 miles south of Parral near Rosario Durango between Villa forces led by Nicolas Hernandez and Murguia’s troops. The government claimed victory though no date was given and Villa’s losses were described as heavy.
At a Somerville Teachers' Club meeting on Tuesday Mrs. Phebe H. Mathews was the only candidate on the ballot for president but failed to reach the 27 votes needed. She received 23 of 50 votes. the rest were write ins, triggering a second election.
An New York promoted tonic Nuxated Iron or Fer Nuxate is hailed by doctors and advocates as restoring iron to blood, increasing strength and vitality. It claims to treat anemia and boost energy, with testimonials from Dr. King and Dr. Beans, plus a money back guarantee and wide druggist distribution.
Fort Bliss guardhouse detains Sergeant Alexander Fruchter of Company K Seventeenth Cavalry on desertion charges after German letters are found in his effects. A German civilian friend is surveilled as authorities probe links to a border German plot and to the offer to Carranza officials in Chihuahua City to raise a regiment of German reservists. Four German officers are with Francisco Villa near Durango, while Carranza agents recruit former Mexican generals. An industrial firm says German employees must secure final citizenship papers.
Mgr. Splaine spoke last night at Rose Croix Council 1331 Roxbury on the moral influence of the Catholic Church. He said morality requires religious obligation and praised the church’s role over 2000 years in guiding humanity, with emphasis on aiding the fallen. Boston newspaper man Thomas F. Phelan spoke on Constituted Authority.
In Freeport Illinois Judge K M Landis freed George Reitzell after a 30 second chair sentence. Indicted five years ago for Mann Act violation the court said the act targets commercialized vice not personal indiscretions. Reitzell was released after testimony in federal court today.
Major-General John F. O’Ryan and Dr. Thomas A. Storey head the hearing at the Massachusetts State House on a bill for a general system of physical education. Speakers include Dr. Sargent of Harvard and Dr. Gulick, Camp Fire Girls president, among others.
March 14 a West Pittsfield hen owned by Mrs. Joseph O'Brien laid an ordinary egg that when opened contained a perfect second egg with a soft shell. The unusual find was reported as a curious poultry rarity in Pittsfield.
A short term debt campaign will raise about 36000 dollars for the Roxbury Boys' Club at 8 Dudley Street to fund reading rooms gymnasium and classes. Councillor James J. Storrow presided, naming a 100 member civic committee to organize the effort with Frank Ferdinand Thomas Forsyth and others including Mayor Curley and S. W. Bard of New York as campaign manager.
The Everett police force of 54 officers attended a public hearing before the Board of Aldermen on suspected threats to force a pay increase. City Solicitor Casey questioned all officers. they were exonerated. Mayor Mullen announced a later special meeting to act on exoneration and whether to oust Alderman Hamlin.
Charles A. Richardson, longtime superintendent of the Postal Telegraph & Cable Company in New England based in Boston, is transferred to a New York superintendency. He departs with goodwill from employees and telegraph public, receiving a pigskin travelling bag humidor and a box of cigars, along with many farewell letters.
Governor McCall sent nine appointments to the Executive Council yesterday. Appointees include Henry P. Walcott of the Metropolitan Water and Sewer Board for reappointment. John F. Moors of Boston director Collateral Loan Company. Sarah Lawrence of Boston trustee Wrentham State School. Michael F. Ward of Canton clerk District Court Southern Norfolk. Luke F. Kelley of Middlebury clerk District Court. Thomas B. Smith of Lowell medical examiner Fifth Middlesex District replacing J. W. Meigs deceased. Reginald T. Fitzrandolph of Nantucket trial justice. William A. Kelley of Lynn master in chancery Essex County.
New York March 14 A threatened strike of firemen oilers water tenders and coal passers on steamers of the American line was called off after a meeting in which the union said an agreement with the company had been reached.
The Leyland line freighter Norwegian, en route from New York to Liverpool, was seriously damaged by an explosion off Galley Head that killed five crew members. No submarine was seen and a mine is suspected. The ship was beached. casualties include four British nationals and three firemen. an American cook survived.
Charles Knowles Bolton was yesterday reelected president of the Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquities. The annual meeting convened at the society’s new headquarters in the Otis mansion on Cambridge and Lynde streets.
In Dorchester a $5000 damage suit by Mrs. Josephine W. Toombs against her stepdaughter Mrs. Florence B. Hallett and Edgar A. Hallett ended with a jury verdict for Mrs. Hallett. The case against Edgar Hallett was dismissed. Toombs testified she married Herbert A. Toombs in 1914 and that his time in Hampstead, New Brunswick, was followed by the Halletts persuading him to return to Boston, causing distress and a broken home. The defense denied the claim, arguing Toombs did not prosper farming in Canada and returned to Boston for better opportunity.
Six Baltimore boys who refused to salute the flag for being internationalists must salute in front of their schoolmates and recite The Star Spangled Banner and My Country Tis of Thee to lift the suspension. All but one are of Russian extraction and now agree to comply.
Alexander B. Royce of Cambridge a Yale 1915 graduate was chosen president of the Harvard Law Review for 1917 18 Royces rose to the top student helm after serving as Yale Daily News managing editor during his undergraduate years in New Haven
March brings a common condition from neglecting winter exercise and overindulgence. Aches and a general sluggishness follow, weak kidneys trigger chill or grip. Start anew with Dean's Kidney Pills, a Boston remedy claimed to help kidneys.
A collection of testimonials from Chelsea and Boston residents praising Dean's Kidney Pills for relieving back pain and kidney troubles during colds, heavy lifting, and after illnesses. Names include Mrs. I. W. Hutchings, John F. Hart, Mrs. J. D. Van Wart, Edmund Fruean Jr., and Mrs. George Lee with addresses in Chelsea and East Boston.
Jas A Rehell of 345 Sumner Street East Boston endured back pain, weakness, and frequent kidney secretions after elevator injuries. A doctor warned his kidneys would not improve, but Dean's Kidney Pills cured him and he has had no kidney trouble since.
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