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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1917
Page
10
A response to a resolution was approved unanimously by both houses of the legislature, signaling unified support and formal acknowledgment of the measure. The action closes the legislative review with a cross chamber consensus and directs subsequent executive steps.
Flora A. Bowdlear sues the Boston Elevated for injuries from an escalator accident at Sullivan Square terminal. The case moves forward as jury 10 is scheduled to hear the matter today.
Concord and Montreal railroad directors voted to refer to stockholders at a March 27 meeting the question of approving a modified reorganization plan proposed by Boston & Maine directors. President Benjamin A. Kimball said he is satisfied with the provisions of the new plan.
Stockholders will decide not only on approval of the latest reorganization plan but also on presenting it to the New Hampshire Legislature for ratification and enabling legislation for property in the state. Past opposition and confidence by boards shape the forthcoming meeting and disclosure of details remains guarded until stockholder action.
Boston readers are invited to view and sample Vitalitas a mineral liquid claimed to restore health without drugs or alcohol. The display touts testimonials from many cities alleging relief from digestion rheumatism debility and impotency with strength and tone. A demonstrator at Woodward Drug Store 102 Tremont Street conducts the sample session.
The sustained damage suits of Mrs. Jennie F. Willey and Mrs. Flora A. Bowdlear against the Boston Elevated test the moving stairway case at Sullivan Square terminal on December 20, 1915. Each seeks damages of 50000 and 2000 dollars as jurors heard arguments and judge Dana prepared to rule in Suffolk Superior Court. The defense claims the escalator could not have fallen backward and that a wedged suitcase caused the incidents.
Boston Congressman James A. Gallivan spoke at the St. Patrick's banquet by the Sons of Ireland at the Biltmore Hotel in New York. He praised Irish priests of old and urged full, loyal support for President Wilson amid the international crisis, saying it was too late to question motives or profits over patriotism.
Roscoe Conkling Simmons, a Black speaker, lauds the pride and loyalty of the Negro race in American history and looks toward loyal achievements in a Louisville Kentucky gathering. The speech was delivered to members of his own community.
A speech asserts unwavering loyalty to the United States and Woodrow Wilson, denouncing treason while denying disloyalty by Black Americans. The speaker declares unity under one flag, vows to serve regardless of race, and urges forgetting personal grievances in peril, promising duty above all.
The Harvard Memorial Society reports 474 Harvard men active in the European war, including 186 in American ambulance service and 568 with the British army. The group spans graduates and over 100 undergraduates, with roles in medical relief, aviation, hospital work, and various armies and relief efforts.
The Boston Y M C A professional and technical schools opened twenty years ago have become Northeastern College. It includes night schools in liberal arts law commerce and finance and engineering and a day school called the school of cooperative engineering. Frank P Speare will be inaugurated at the March 30 anniversary. Over 1700 students are enrolled with most in night sessions due to day work. Varsity teams are being formed to compete across New England.
In New York on March 15 the election of T. M. Schumacher as president of the El Paso and Southwestern railroad and its subsidiaries was announced. He has served as vice president in charge of the system for years. James Douglas is elected chairman of the board of various railroad properties owned by Phelps Dodge & Co., which controls the El Paso system.
Members of the Order of Railroad Telegraphers on the Boston and Maine system win a 20 cent daily wage increase and one week of paid annual vacation after negotiations led by International Vice-President Robertson and J L Bode. Long hour agents receive 15 cents extra weekly per switch light, with no change to their 12 hour shifts.
A Boston man praising Urico the great uric acid dissolvent explains why a druggist trusts the medicine. The ad claims Urico overcomes rheumatism and kidney complaints by removing the cause and offers a ten cent trial package from the Urite Co. of Binghamton New York.
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