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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1917
Page
12
Plans for national defence create huge labor demand at Watertown arsenal Newport torpedo station and Portsmouth navy yard. Watertown seeks lathe hands 36 and up coloring mill workers machinists and erectors needed at once. Wages range from 3.12 to 4.32 dollars per day.
The Navy seeks 300 machinists 2 percent machine operators and 20 ordnance men at Newport R I with daily wages from 2.64 to 4.48. Ship fitters needed in Portsmouth Navy Yard, four anglesmiths, rubber inspector in Philadelphia earn 1200 to 1500 annually, leather and textile inspectors, engineering material assistant inspectors in multiple cities, and a tent inspector in Philadelphia with two vacancies.
Police with a search warrant visited John Commazzaro's variety store at 14 Vicksburg Street South Boston and seized more than 15 gallons of liquor from the premises. Officers Cratty McLeod OConnor led the operation, recovering jugs and bottles of various sizes.
The Boston Post profiles Ernst Bloch, praising his artistic breadth and Jewish heritage while exploring his views on music, nationality, and war. Bloch recalls his Geneva birth, his aim to write beyond Jewish labels, and his hope for an American citizen future as he plans to bring his wife and children to join him.
Dartmouth trustees at Hanover New Hampshire announced a special committee to study a year round college program. The move seeks to replace the long summer vacation with continuous work and an early feasibility report is expected from the committee.
Dartmouth trustees at their recent meeting announce the appointment of Fletcher Lowe to the staff in Hanover New Hampshire. The decision highlights leadership changes and institutional development with Lowe expected to contribute to athletic and academic programs.
Dr W B Cannon defended animal experimentation in a Harvard Medical School lecture on Methods of Medical Progress. He cited tuberculosis diphtheria meningitis peripheral fever typhoid cholera cretinism hydrophobia smallpox yellow fever and malaria as diseases aided by animal work and said cures for measles scarlet fever infantile paralysis cancer and kidney diseases would come from the same method.
War planning in Winthrop involves potential seizure and razing of 200 or more homes to build coastal defenses if foreign forces threaten the New England coast. Officials say no new fort is planned and the current checks simply update records of property in potentially seized districts.
The speaker argues animal testing saves thousands of human lives by enabling vaccines, serums, and surgical progress. She cites typhoid, yellow fever, malaria, and tuberculosis control, noting Lister and Pasteur’s work, improved childbirth survival, anesthesia, pain relief, fever reduction, and bleeding control as outcomes of vivisection research.
Seventy-year-old James York of 67 Summerstreet Somerville a Civil War veteran has offered his services as a special policeman to Chief Kendall in case trouble with Germany requires extra men.
Thomas O'Donnell a 55 year old stone mason slipped on a dark stairway at his home 33 Vine Street Lexington yesterday morning and fell part way down the stairs striking his head. He sustained a slight skull fracture and was reported in care.
Joseph Flynn a 20 year old father smoked two cigarettes during a blood transfusion to save his newborn daughter at 48 Pearl Street Brookline. Doctors Fallon and Percey performed the procedure, the infant Harriet Catherine Flynn showed immediate improvement and is out of danger after additional transfusion nine hours later at Infants Hospital.
More than 2000 men attended a morning mass at 7:30 with communion as the parish retreat at St Peter's Church Meeting House Hill Dorchester concluded with a baptismal vow renewal and papal benediction. Sermons on Perseverance were given by Rev. William Mellyn SJ and Rev. Edward Brock SJ.
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