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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1916
Page
2
A new wing to the central library in Copley Square will cost 166400 dollars and extend city library capacity. The project signals ongoing expansion across branches to improve public access and services.
The central library expands to accommodate a 150 percent growth in branch deposits. A new three-estate building at 15 17 and 19 Blagden Street will reach 700 feet in height matching the existing style but not a direct extension.
The Rev. Michael Jessup announced the four speakers for next month’s Boston College commencement. William Carney of Malden William A Daly of Brighton Francis J Mahoney of Somerville and Joseph Scolponetti of Dorchester are slated as speakers with Scolponetti chosen as valedictorian.
An advertisement touts Yellowstone Park as a unique vacation destination with geysers canyons waterfalls and wildlife. It promotes Burlington train service comfortable travel and stylish hostels with minimal obligation and offers to mail a Yellowstone folder from agent Alex Stocks at 264 Washington St Boston.
War zone hospitals order Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder for troops. Used in shoes and foot baths to reduce friction and fatigue. Sold by drug and department stores everywhere for 25 cents. Do not accept substitutes.
Hastings on Hudson May 12 John Comiskey returns after days away and scares a friend by slamming him with a back slap. The friend, seeing a body identified as John at 20 Warburton Avenue, panics but learns John is alive when they reach the morgue. The incident ends with laughter as the two confirm the man is not deceased.
In the Supreme Judicial Court two relatives seek to remove Mrs Eleanor R Fernald as administratrix of the Dr Charles A Fernald estate. They argue she owes more than 1000 to the widow under separate support and that the home was bought with her funds. They note the doctor, a South End figure, had not lived with her for 30 years and kept a small arsenal.
Unless a settlement is reached soon at A. G. Walton & Co. Chelsea shoe factory, factory No. 1 will close and its machinery moved to Lawrence, ending work at the Chelsea plant.
More than 100 prominent Boston business men attended a luncheon at the City Club and joined a campaign committee to raise fifty thousand dollars. The effort aims to stamp out usury and promote thrift among residents, with strong confidence of success.
Two percent of teams chosen with fifteen more to be added, forming 200 workers and captains to interview prominent locals until the fund reaches 50 000 dollars. Bertram Waters urged cooperation and enthusiasm as the Bunker Hill Boys Club campaign advances with mass meetings and daily soliciting starting May 16.
Joseph K. L. Miller, a wealthy Weymouth granite maker, was paroled by the State Parole Board after serving 12 days in the Dedham jail for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated. He then worked at the Rutland prison camp quarry until parole. His original sentence would have expired January 1, 1917.
New York police arrest the Rev Francis Schlatter 78 known as the Divine Healer on a charge of practicing medicine without a license. Detectives forced entry into his apartment as a crowd of cripples waited to be healed.
The Arlington branch of the Special Aid Society for American Preparedness announced it has raised enough funds to send one Arlington youth to the Plattsburg military camp. The effort reflects local support for national training programs and citizen soldier ideals.
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