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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1912
Page
9
A poem by Walt Mason from 1912 contrasts granddad and father with changing spending habits. It recalls frugal ancestors saving eighty acres and a farm while modern wealth builds banks and buildings. The speaker questions any clear moral, noting expense in everyday rituals like barber visits and bootblacks, and ends with a playful shrug.
Portsmouth New Hampshire May 12. Business leaders and local politicians who long supported the navy yard express concern over shrinking orders and funding. Discharges spread across ship fitters riveters calliers machinists and helpers as the yard’s operations shrink. The Navy League accuses discrimination in recent layoffs, while President George E Caine and league officers probe the situation with department heads.
Under a defence scheme by Winston Churchill destroyers of the British fleet began on May 1 to continuously patrol the coasts of the United Kingdom. The northeast coast faces the German fleet threat and is guarded by the most modern vessels with submarines supporting the mosquito fleet.
The home fleet abandons permanent destroyer attachments to battle fleets and forms eight flotillas with four active and four reserve units. Rosyth Harwich and Portland host the active flotillas with a North Sea emphasis, totaling 165 destroyers plus eight fast cruisers eight scouts and eight repair ships. The new arrangement doubles eastern seaboard protection and equips most ships for North Sea conditions with wireless systems.
In Portsmouth New Hampshire on May 12 Navy officers acknowledge Congress will raise numbers for the navy and marine corps, but expect years to fill the ranks. Admiral George F Wilde contends too many sailors are imprisoned and would pick the best crew from the hundreds confined in Portsmouth naval prison and the prison ships Southery and Topeka.
In Oyster Bay on May 12 Oscar Straus joined Theodore Roosevelt's visitors on the lawn. When asked about an analysis showing five dollars spent per voter in the recent New York primaries Roosevelt smiled and urged asking Straus if he received his five.
An advertisement promotes the J. B. L. Cascade internal bath as a natural method to relieve constipation and biliousness. It claims to improve efficiency, reduce accumulated intestinal waste, and explains the device at Riker Jaynes Drug Stores in New England with a booklet titled Why Man of Today Is Only 50% Efficient.
The engagement of Lena Maynard executive secretary of the Democratic City Committee to James T. Donovan Warren Grammar School Charlestown sub master was announced. Maynard who is Joseph A Maynard’s sister helps lead the party. Donovan Harvard man and well liked.
Monsignor Edward J. Moriarty, pastor of St. Peter's Church Cambridge for nine years, preached his farewell yesterday. He will become rector of St. Thomas Aquinas Church Jamaica Plain. The high mass was sung by Rev. Dr. Edward F. Ryan. The church was crowded and many wept as Moriarty thanked parishioners for their support and asked continued aid for his successor.
Captain John Drum Camp No. 18 U S W V organizes Memorial Day at Blake Hall Dorchester with Commander William J Fitzgerald directing preparations. About 100 members work with officers George Splaine James Connaughton Joh J Shea and George W Carroll assisting.
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