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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1916
Page
8
London May 2 The King’s despatch to the Press Bureau commends General Sir Percy Lacy and the Tigris Corps for gallantry under trying conditions in the attempted relief of Kut el Amara. He notes floods hindered relief, praises leadership, and expresses admiration and confidence for future encounters with the enemy.
Whitman High powered a 10 to 1 win over Van Vloten of Braintree High yesterday afternoon. Ferguson pitched well for Whitman, allowing eight hits but limiting the opposition to a single run despite the high offensive output.
In Pittsburg on May 2 a mob mainly of foreigners attacked the Edgar Thomson works of the Carnegie Steel Company in Braddock. A one hour battle ensued with 400 shots fired. Two men were killed four fatally wounded and many others hurt as deputy sheriffs and guards repelled the rioters.
District Attorney R H Jackson ordered deportation steps for foreigners amid a day of disorder in Braddock and Rankin. Rioters attacked four steel plants including Edgar Thomson, injuring workers and clashing with deputies and guards as snipers fired from doorways. Two foreigners were killed. State constabulary from Wilkes Barre were ordered to Braddock and expected tomorrow.
Senate approved a bill allowing street railway companies to operate jitney lines as feeders or extensions to existing lines by a two thirds stockholders vote. The measure substitutes for an adverse committee report and permits expansion into the jitney bus business.
Concord High School fell 7 to 1 to Boston College High yesterday afternoon. Costly errors by Concord and timely hits by the city boys led to the easy Boston College High victory, with Eddie Boyce driving in Concord's lone run in the eighth.
Scores of young women from across the country gather at the National Service School Camp in Chevy Chase Maryland to learn Red Cross work first aid hygiene nursing surgical dressing food values cooking motor service telegraphy and horse care. The program aims to prepare women for national service during war with classes covering domestic skills and potential tasks in the absence of men at the front. Boston and Massachusetts are represented and participants will stay at the camp for at least a month.
The calendar lists tide times and astronomical cues for May including tide heights and intervals for Gloucester Portland and Newport relative to Boston. Evening planets Venus Mars Saturn and morning Jupiter are noted with rising times and full moon dates May 17 June 15 July 14 and August 13 and 14.
Thirteen ships arrived at the new fish pier with heavy arrivals causing a slight drop in prices. The Cavalier delivered 40,000 pounds of shore halibut while wholesale prices for various fish ranged from 13-4 to 43-4 cents per pound and sea freight lists show several vessels and crews docking at the port. An especially valuable cargo of wool and hides from South Africa arrived aboard the big British freighter Aros Castle after a 43 day voyage via Baltimore. Four more ships with cargoes from transatlantic ports were reported overdue including the Philadelphia Haigh Hall Oosetrdijk and Orpheus sailing from London Marseille Rotterdam and Bermuda respectively.
The Anglian arrives safely in London from Boston after 13 days with a full cargo. The Bostonian renamed Glengyle, bound for Japan, sails from Middlesbrough on a 6225 ton gross voyage after being sold to the Glen line. The Detroit, an old gunboat converted to a tank barge, reached Porto Rico in 12 days with 400000 gallons of molasses for distilling. Swift Wings arrives from Hull after 14 days and heads to Liverpool with grain and general cargo.
Shipping news lists numerous steamers and barges arriving and sailing from ports such as Dorchester Howes Norfolk Suffolk Portland and Newport News. Vessels include Aros Castle Purse Cape Town Swift Wings Geldert Prince George City of Augusta Ontario and Walter A Luckenbach with multiple towing barges like City of Washington Upton Albany and S. T. Co.
A cartoonish report accuses Bob of misrepresenting a charity figure known as Lady Bountiful in the upcoming Sunday Post. The piece portrays a humorous social friction around fundraising and public image.
The Senate voted to pass to engrossment a bill allowing Boston police to have one day off in eight. Senator Parker opposed, arguing the mayor and police commissioner were against it and that the cost would be about 150000 dollars. Currently they have one day off in fifteen.
Dr Karlton G Percy of the Children's Hospital spoke at Evans Memorial on summer baby care. He warned of high infant mortality noting a newborn has lower odds than a 90 year old and a baby under one year faces poorer survival than an 80 year old.
The piece argues that New Zealand saves 62 percent of infants through government and personal care, estimating each baby to be worth 200 to the United States and noting annual losses of about 13 million dollars. It calls for public health bills, sanitation, nutrition, medical supervision, and mother class programs while urging basic infant care practices.
Advice on handling a nervous animal during exposure to dampness and direct sunlight. Warns against lifting the animal if it frets and against over-feeding. Recommends seeking medical attention if illness occurs.
King George attended a Shakspeare tercentenary performance at Drury Lane Theatre and knighted F. R. Benson, renowned Shaksperian actor and manager, in London.
Miss Alice Brown denies a misread claim of her cure for ulcerated stomach via electricity at The Osmo-Chemic System of Medicine. She confirms complete relief after two months of treatment and medicine, praising the method’s purported X-Ray and Snow Pencil therapies.
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