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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
8
State Agriculture officials say there is no need to urge backyard or war gardens in the postwar season. They warn that amateur competition lowers prices for farmers and that public funds should not be used to promote victory gardens. Farmers insist on a say in spending tax money.
Secretary Wilfred Wheeler of the department backs children’s gardens for their role in training future farmers, though he disapproves of the back yard garden in general.
In Lawrence on March 19 Mayor Joan J. Hurley announced several manufacturing firms applied for factory sites despite labor unrest. Mills Machine Company plans to employ 600 workers at its new facility in the city.
War Department casualty releases report 623 names with 181 fatalities. Most listed are slightly wounded. New England adds 64 names. Eight local fatalities noted including one in corrections. The list classifies killed, wounded, missing, and other statuses.
Official casualty list names many New England service members and their home towns from Vermont Connecticut and Massachusetts with multiple categories including died of accident died of disease severely wounded and wounded. The list includes Pt. Stanley Vasilauskas Derby Line Vermont Pt. Michael D Vicchia New Haven Connecticut Corp. Harley W Allison Newport Vermont and others from Waterbury Hartford Boston Hingham Dorchester Quincy Holyoke Danvers Springfield and more.
Names and addresses of service members are listed with their status noted as Returned To Duty or Previously Reported Missing. Frank M. Binns in Brookline and George Connors in Stoneham appear as previously reported missing, while Vincent Papierski in Webster is marked Returned To Duty along with several others in Rhode Island and Massachusetts.
Peter W. Collins a former Boston labor leader will address wage-earners next Sunday at Faneuil Hall on Bolshevism as a menace to workers. He plans to show Bolshevism as a threat to the job of every working man and as a force of anarchy disrupting organized society. The talk is expected to draw a large audience.
Paris March 19 The Peace Conference Commission on Czecho-Slovak claims decided on its report at a meeting today.
At the sixth annual banquet in Roxbury, over 300 prominent Bostonians attended as President Pinanski proposed expanding the Hebrew Free Loan Society activities to Boston suburbs. Toastmaster Louis E. Kirkstein and speakers including Louis Baer Nathan Pinanski and others attended. The annual report highlighted strong activity over the past year.
Washington dispatches report American government agents sought details on claims that during Korea's independence demonstrations the Seul consul was arrested by Japanese soldiers and American missionaries including women faced indignities. The State Department had no information beyond press reports.
The former residence of Princess Clementine is being prepared to host President and Mrs. Wilson. They are expected in Brussels later this month with a program including a reception by Parliament and a royal visit to Louvain with King Albert. Louvain plans to present a leather replica of the ruined library.
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