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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1917
Page
7
Harvard Yale and Princeton varsity debaters face off tonight in a triangular contest. Harvard negative faces Yale area team at Sanders Theatre in Cambridge while Yale and Princeton meet in New Haven and Princeton, N J.
After luncheon Mrs. Charles S. Reynolds of Lincoln Street Lexington placed an oil heater in a second floor chamber to warm a room. The device ignited a bed causing a blaze that the fire department quickly contained with only slight loss to the dwelling.
Boston readers told hundreds suffer sewerlike drainage problems. Urico, a dissolving agent blend, allegedly targets kidney filtering walls to melt cloping matter. Promotion promises inexpensive, harmless use with guarantee or money back. Trial package available by mail for 10.
A volunteer automobile flying squadron of 425 officers and men, ready to move within 15 minutes of mobilization, was approved by the Massachusetts Public Safety committee. The unit can deploy from Framingham to Boston or Worcester in an hour, to Springfield in three, and to the Metropolitan water system in two. Vehicles include five one ton trucks and a hospital truck, with cars supplied by volunteers. A preparedness meeting in Cambridge tonight will feature BE Leroy Sweetser, Henry Thompson, Congressman Dallinger, and Mayor Rockwood.
A plan to form a unit from men over active service in the National Guard invites veterans to enlist. Recruiting offices open at the Columbus avenue armory and Room 509, 60 State street. Veteran members will provide 115 automobiles, mostly touring type, each carrying four men with equipment.
Berlin reports claim China has severed ties with Germany but official confirmation is lacking. The German government and Chinese legation say only press dispatches have appeared and suggest Russian routing may have delayed despatches after the Russian revolution.
A larger exhibition than in prior years fills Horticultural Hall as thousands visit daily. Attendance surged yesterday with peak crowds in both afternoon and evening sessions, setting a new record for the event.
A record crowd attended the exhibition in the city and set a new attendance benchmark for the event. Organizers hailed the turnout as a sign of growing public interest and community support for the display.
Visitors admire a grand hall display featuring a white astallia bouquet and windmill backdrop in Mrs Luther Breck’s Flemish Garden followed by a white-clad women's orchestra. A China-brought flower mystery hints at a debut unseen in America. Exhibitors at Huntington and Massachusetts avenues stage daily blooms. Mrs John L. Gardner’s cross pollinated tulips and cyclamens dazzle, while pitcher plants from Harvard Botanical Gardens intrigue guests. A. W. Preston of Swampscott presents color gradations and refined shades.
Clarence E. Fuller of Quincy seeks a new trial and appeals to the Supreme Court over a bill in equity brought by his brother Charles H. Fuller, owner of a Quincy spring water company. The dispute centers on the Fuller homestead on Hall place where their 81 year old mother Sarah M. Fuller lives. The Superior Court voided a deed to Clarence, ordered transfer of the property within five days, and taxed $29.81 costs. Clarence appealed and requested a new trial as papers burn at Dedham.
Mrs Catherine Battersby of East Boston eloped to Gretna Green at Bellows Falls Vermont on January 23 and filed a libel for divorce in Suffolk County Superior Court after a 56 day marriage. She alleges failure to provide and that they never lived as husband and wife in this state. Battersby, 22, a confectionery salesman, lives on Thornton Street Revere Pa Van Loon has a cold but the women heed the doctor.
About 300 women in Quincy organized for Red Cross work in case of war. Mayor Whiton presided as speakers Miss Mae Barr of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness and Miss Ellen Emerson of the Metropolitan Chapter for Red Cross spoke. Mrs H L Rice was named committee chair to oversee Quincy Red Cross work.
William J Mills told Judge Bell in Superior Court that after marrying at age 19 his wife Violet A refused to start housekeeping and preferred living with her mother. He said she would live with him only on weekends while he worked in Lynn and she in Chelsea. The judge reserved decision and noted Mills might bear partial responsibility.
The Sunday Post highlights a modish two piece frock, richly illustrated in color and described with helpful details for readers seeking current fashion.
The annual Hasty Pudding Club show in Boston Cambridge New York and Providence was canceled as the 70 Harvard students rehearsing for Barnum Was Right shift to daily military drills to aid the crisis. Robert E. Sherwood and Samuel P. Sears wrote the musical comedy and decided to redirect effort to national service.
In Houston Missouri on March 22 dealers paid farmers five dollars per barrel for potatoes, the first drop after a period of six dollars. Market activity was dull and buyers had previously offered seven dollars two weeks earlier.
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