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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1917
Page
2
May Day brought sore arms to 40 officers and men aboard the naval reserve training ship as the crew completed inoculation with anti typhoid serum. Lt J O Porter ordered light work until effects pass. The Marblehead Special Aid Society presented a piano magazines books and a baseball outfit to the ship via Ensign Cummings.
Eleanor C. Donnelly, a prolific poet and author of over 60 volumes, died at Villa Maria Convent in Woostchester, Pennsylvania. She was 79 and hailed as "the Adelaide Proctor of America." She was sister of Ignatius Donnelly, famed for a cryptogram disputing Bacon or Shakespeare as the author of the plays.
A jury verdict for the defendant was returned in Judge Hall's Superior Court session in a suit by Mrs Caroline E Currie against Charles Kolodny a Back Bay landlord. Currie claimed an assault on January 4 1916 at 10 Museum Road.
In Mexico City on May 1 1913 Venustiano Carranza took the oath of office as the first constitutional president since Madero’s assassination. Backed by nearly 800000 votes from the March election he then drove to the Chamber of Deputies to swear to uphold the new constitution.
Mr Kolodny took the stand denying the accusations by Mrs Currie in a dispute over heating radiators in her apartment. He testified he visited the flat to inspect a valve after being invited and that another man entered with groceries during the inspection. He said he later refused repairs citing complaints about the building and warned that Mrs Currie should vacate, denying any physical struggle. The jury deliberated for hours after the testimony.
Major-General J. Franklin Bell arrives at Governor's Island as commander of the department of the East. He is greeted with an 18 gun salute.
Oil was declared more expensive than coal at a conference in Mayor Curley's office attended by oil dealers coal company representatives boiler experts and city officials. Oil proponents argued labor savings could offset higher price. conference aimed to assess substituting oil for coal in city institutions.
An orderly Socialist May Day procession was held in Amsterdam. Banners carried by marchers called for peace and the maintenance of Holland's neutrality.
The United States government will build 30 wooden cargo ships built by T. C. Desmond & Co. at Essex Massachusetts and Thomaston Maine yards. A new yard near New York City, possibly in the New Jersey meadows, may be added to speed up production against the German submarine threat.
Sixty two 50 by 100 foot lots were staked on Tufts College land for cultivation. The lots were assigned to Somerville residents.
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