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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1917
Page
4
Minute Men of 1917 linked with the Sons of American Revolution plan to enroll a full regiment of great grandsons of Revolutionary War soldiers. Marshall P. Thompson chairs the enrollment drive and aims to offer the regiment to the government as a unit.
An old advertisement touts Musterole as a clean white ointment made with oil of mustard. It promises relief for sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia headaches congestion rheumatism lumbago sprains and more.
May 4 report states 400 naval reserves encamped at the Eastern Yacht Club will move next week to Bumkin Island and its 29 acres in Boston Harbor. Marblehead station outgrows quarters with no new buildings planned. dispensary and hospital ward canceled. Commanding officer grants 24-hour furloughs as orders loom. Second division off duty 8 Sunday, return 8 Monday. first division liberty at 8 Sunday and not required to return until 8 Tuesday.
Harvard's corps of student soldiers will switch to day shift Monday with intensive training in the college military camp. Six hours of drilling daily, seven days a week except Sunday, are prescribed. Enrolment stood at 325. today is the last day for enlistment and applicants from outside Cambridge push totals toward 500.
May 4 in New York Colonel Theodore Roosevelt Joseph Choate former ambassador to Great Britain and Henry L Stimson former Secretary of War addressed about 2000 college men. They deplored the amazing lack of interest shown by college graduates in officer training camps.
H B Clark reports New York City leads in college enrollment after San Francisco Chicago and Boston. Roosevelt says he is shocked and pained by the figures and that educated men have a duty to serve. He urges volunteers and warns that inaction portends ugly times ahead.
Miss Lora M. Gibbons won a $75 verdict against Dr. Gregory S. Meerysek of Back Bay in a $5000 damage suit. The jury found in about two hours in Judge McLaughlin's Superior Court session.
The Mechanics building hosts Mrs W S Butler's festival with hundreds of children performing dancing evolutions this afternoon and evening. Grace Earle a 12 year old Dorchester girl and granddaughter of Doc Brown appears. Margaret Macdonough debuts The American Beauty. Two performances at 2 and 8 mark the event.
A critical survey of recent novels by St John G. Ervine, Conrad and others notes Changing Winds as top fiction of the year, alongside The Shadow Line and Peter Sanders Retired. It praises vivid characters, social themes, and intricate plots while flagging minor flaws and praising works by Gerould, Lane, Beresford, Norris, and Tolstoi.
The article notes Joseph C. Lincoln, chronicler of Cape Cod humor, considering real estate ventures after receiving enthusiastic letters from a Southerner eager to buy Cape land and live among mariners. Jules Bois recalls an Alsatian joke about difference between an accident and a calamity.
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