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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 05, 1919
Page
8
The Daily and Sunday Post begins a series of first person World War stories by members of New England’s division. The feature promises real experiences and will continue in upcoming days.
Private Thomas Hennessey of the 101st Infantry recounts action from 1918 in the Chemin des Dames and Toul sectors, Chateau Thierry, and the capture of a ground lost to the Germans. He describes gas attacks, heavy shelling, a major raid with few losses, injuries from an Austrian shell fragment, hospital three months, and postwar relief by veterans groups and Eddie Logan.
Senator Walsh urged support for equal suffrage, declaring victory for women and the ballot inevitable as he spoke to the Margaret Brent Suffrage Guild. Margaret Foley noted Massachusetts’ long, hard fight for suffrage, citing women outnumbering men three to one and unfair representation ending.
Harry Webb Farrington, noted poet and war worker, urged stern action against Bolshevism at a War Camp Community Service meeting. He pledged readiness to break up a red flag gathering and recalled his WWI service with YMCA workers in France. He led 7000 French troops in care, later honored as an honorary second officer, a rare distinction.
A mother of six promotes Dr True's Worm Elixir as essential in her home after her sick baby improved. The ad lists worm symptoms including swollen lip, sour stomach, offensive breath, pale skin, dull eyes, and restless sleep and urges parents to start the elixir immediately.
The Emerson College commencement season opened with a baccalaureate at Union Congregational Church preached by Rev. Ernest G. Guthrie on the theme The Preparation for the Great Journey. He urged graduates to keep open hearts and minds as they enter the wider world led by senior class president Imogen Hegel. Junior classmates served as marshals and ushers, with a farewell breakfast for graduates at Copley Plaza.
Official casualty list names many New England men and one Boston officer among the wounded and dead. Includes Pt Lorenzo Novello of Lawrence and Lt Melvin H. Leonard of Boston, with dozens more listed by town and state. Also notes two people unconscious from gas at 28 Sharon street and a provocative wartime appeal about Kaiser costs.
Henry B. Endicott of the Massachusetts Public Safety Board told a Boston Central Labor Union gathering that the next two years could mark the most successful period in U S history. He warned that excessive planning for shorter hours could kill the golden goose of prosperity.
Mr Endicott urged abandoning strikes and pursuing arbitration for all industrial disputes. Delegates praised the speech but privately doubted abandoning the last resort weapon. He credited wartime labor leaders, urged restraint, and warned against belligerent actions. Resolutions backed half fare for schoolchildren, labor on the Civil Service Commission, lower living costs, and larger labor- department funding. The union also supported wage increases for Lawrence mills workers and urged continued efforts toward industrial peace. O'Donnell announced a Mooney mass meeting at the Grand Opera House with strict alignment to the US President, the flag, the country, and the AFL.
Robert B. Martin, former Hyde Park representative and government inspector, died at his home on Hyde Park avenue after a lengthy illness. Born in East Dadham on December 9 1862, he served in the Massachusetts Legislature 1915 through 1917 and ran for the Senate last year. He had lived in Hyde Park many years and held various local offices. A reception for Roxbury members of the YD Infantry was announced, with Governor Coolidge and General Edwards invited.
Red Cross girls serve lunch daily as noon luncheon workers. Miss Edith McHenry and Miss Susan Lee, Vincent Club members, compete in griddle cake making, with their rivalry adding flavor to the menu as the popular luncheon attraction.
The Atlantic Coast Gulf and Great Lakes Metal Trades Federation opens its first annual convention in Tremont Temple Lorimer Hall at 10 am with over 2000 delegates from navy and shipyards across the coast, expected to last three to four days. Reports from labor meetings in Boston cover wage demands and strikes among clerks, barbers, horseshoers, and other unions. The piece notes wage talks, new agreements, and ongoing campaigns, ending with a patriotic nudge to buy Victory Notes.
Mrs Katherine Tingley former Newburyport leader of the Universal Brotherhood addresses Tremont Theatre crowd urging home education to curb rising crime and insanity. Pupils from Raja Yoga College sing and recite precepts while she denounces fortune tellers and astrologists as profit led.
Dense smoke rises from burnt cork shavings aboard the transport Patricia at Charlestown navy yard despite large quantities of water. The ship stabilized after the hatchway flooding, later recovering temperature, while Chief Dower from the yard fire department confirmed control and departed for rest.
Readers question whether showing the V symbol on YD men signals patriotism or if a previous reception on the 25th already tested loyalty, reflecting a charged local sentiment about allegiance and display of national symbols.
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