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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1919
Page
20
Dr Cortland Myers denounces wealthy Bostonites at Tremont Temple saying the city’s wealthier suburbs breed more sinners and murderers than the poorer areas, criticizing childless homes and elite social circles.
Plans for a Boston parade to greet the 26th Division advance with a grandstand for 75400 spectators. General Cole arrival will guide final decisions. committees work on stands, routes, and accommodation for Army and Navy units. Local towns prepare receptions, meals, and flotilla meets transports while police and guards plan massive crowd control.
March will depart like a lamb with fair today and tomorrow and only slight temperature changes. Northwest winds will be fresh to strong as the fickle month, entering like a lion, exits tonight calm. Sunshine and alternating rain sleet and near summer days mark its close. only one of five Sundays was dry. The latest three day storm eased by 5 PM with a 39 degree reading. the storm peaked Saturday night.
Albany March 30. Mayors and health officers across New York were asked to establish local clinics where drug users may be treated by physicians named by local authorities. The move aims to handle an expected rise in drug users when prohibition takes effect next July.
Units of the Yankee Division will be deloused on arrival in Boston and moved directly to Camp Devens. Passes and visits are restricted until quarantine ends. Troops from the Mt. Vernon will be released from quarantine by late Saturday or early Sunday. Local troops at Base Hospital and Convalescent Centre expect a cordial welcome, with billeting decisions to be discussed with General Charles H. Cole and cantonment officers.
Payson Smith state commissioner of education urged teaching English in all schools during an address at Somerville High School. He blamed illiteracy for current unrest and cited 260000 non English speakers in the state, calling the Lawrence strike partly due to workers' illiteracy.
Horace Morse Smith, past commander of the Francis Gould Post 36 G. A. R., was laid to rest at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Arlington after funeral services at his home 15 Newman Way. The Arlington First Universalist Church pastor Rev Frank Lincoln Messeck led the church service, with brief rites by the Grand Army and Odd Fellows.
The 12 800 ton steamship Lewis Luckenbach, 587 feet long, was successfully launched at Quincy Bay yesterday with Mrs. Louis Luckenbach as sponsor. The vessel, part of six ships contracted by Luckenbach Steamship Co, will serve transatlantic cargo trade and replace a torpedoed ship.
New York reports Princess Stagliano Colonna, head of the Italian Red Cross, died Friday at her Santa Margherita home of influenza. She was daughter of Mrs. John W. Mackay by her first husband and sister to William Cullen Bryant's half cousin. Born in Nevada's Goldfields, she rose from poverty to prominence after marriage to John W. Mackay and later to the Colonna family in Rome.
Officials in the First Naval District reported the coastguard cutter Ossipee located the Norwegian steamship Ocean about 150 miles off Cape Cod. The Ocean, en route from Liverpool to New York, reported engine trouble and heavy seas as a gale, rain, and snow roared in.
The town will convert a 1 1/2 acre pasture area bounded by Salem Charles and Harrison streets into a public garden in one day. On April 19 at least 1000 residents will work with tools to develop the site donated by local women in memory of Temple Batchelder Pierce and others. Notables include Horace Wadlin Charles Brown Edward Fames and Walter Parker. Warren Manning oversees the layout.
Bishop Thomas J. Shahan rector of Catholic University in Washington has been made a chevalier of the Legion of Honor by the French government. The decoration was conferred at the university during a ceremony in March.
In Budapest bank presidents are figureheads while Soviet clerks run affairs. rents go to the government represented by janitors. stores are nationalized and factory heads have been replaced by workers chosen by them. The note mirrors Moscow policy as of this weekend.
Refugees stream toward Vienna as frontier searches strip belongings. Count Karolyi and Budapest elites delay flight while Hungary's regime seizes estates and restricts telegraph service. Rail strikes disrupt travel. uprisings surface in Szecho Slovakia. Bolshevism rumor spreads to west Ukraine and Romania. American officials report smooth treatment by Hungarian authorities and free passage for couriers.
A car reported stolen from Boston Saturday afternoon was found wrecked off Bedford street in North Lexington yesterday morning. The vehicle owned by Frank Bott of 55 Academy street Arlington had been joy riding toward Boston when it left the highway, struck a stone wall, and toppled into a meadow embankment. The front wheels and axle were damaged.
Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty, commander of the Grand Fleet, told Liverpool on March 29 that the navy must learn from the four and a half years of war. He warned against improvisation and vowed lessons will be applied to avoid facing future crises unready.
Admiral Beatty praised Liverpool for fitting out the Tenth Cruiser Squadron and maintaining a vital blockade of Germany. He emphasized seamanship, vigilance, and duty, noting raiders and submarines as constant threats and urging wise retrenchment to preserve naval efficiency and the bond with the mercantile marine.
The funeral for William H. Simonds dean of conductors on the Boston and Maine Railroad and father of war correspondent Frank H. Simonds was held in Bedford this afternoon at his home on the Great Road. The service was led by Rev J W Garton with a male quartet singing, and many railroad men attended, along with members of the New England Fox Hunters Club of which he was master.
Dealers and smaller milk firms are aligning with the Hood price reduction set to take effect Tuesday morning. Some concerns hint at a slight decrease, while others openly adopt the reduced rate established by Hood.
Hood & Sons leads a broad price reduction on milk with a total 11.5 cent per quart cut by June 1 and Tuesday's new retail price at 15.12 cents per quart. Other dealers including D. Whiting & Sons and Alden Bros expect similar shifts with slight reductions. Producers’ association terms and quarterly averages cited as basis for the consumer drop.
Unrest spreads across Korea with 100000 protesters in Samga attacking telegraph lines and town facilities. clashes with police and troops cause many casualties while reinforcements are sent as officials deny foreign involvement and defend Japanese troops.
James Rafferty Ware's oldest man and holder of the Boston Post cane died suddenly this noon of heart disease at his Ware home. Born in Ireland 91 years ago he came to the United States at age ten and had lived in Ware 26 years. He worked as a mill operative for more than 20 years in the town.
The steamship Frederick VIII arrived from Copenhagen on her first voyage since February 1917 with Ambassador von Bernstorff and his party. The ship carried 105 first class, 67 second class, and 110 steerage passengers, after being laid up at Copenhagen for about two years.
Mrs Skeels Lundgren, indicted for murder in two states, was moved from Brookline hospital to her Andover home by private ambulance arranged by her husband Alfred J. Lundgren. She was carried on a stretcher through the storm with her husband by her side and gave a faint smile and handshake at departure.
A bride, Mrs Skeels Lundgren, leaves hospital for Andover after expressing happiness to go home. Reporters note her return follows a sudden decision while her husband visited at her bedside. Family and a nurse await at the Lundgren residence to welcome her, as she faces upcoming murder charges.
Richard C. Kelly 29 of 1 Lexington place East Boston fell from a vacant slip at South Ferry East Boston about 9 last night. Struggling in the water he was rescued by John Ranahan 351 Sumner street a ferryboat fireman. Kelly taken to East Boston relief station. Ranahan towed by rope and ladder pushed out by Engine 47 city fireboat. Kelly is employed by Hastern Dredging Co.
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