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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1916
Page
3
In an address on "America" at Symphony Hall Mayor Curley appealed for humane industry and the pledge of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness from the Declaration of Independence. The meeting supported St. Mary's Infant Asylum.
Cardinal O Connell presided and praised the institutions of the Boston diocese. He called St Marys Infant Asylum the sole Catholic church institution in the diocese with no debt and lauded Boston Catholics for freeing other institutions from debt over the past decade.
Advertisement proclaims Pierce's Corn Plasters remove corns cleanly and comfortably. It claims the plaster works on thin or compact corn tissue and offers a money back guarantee if it fails. A trial package can be requested by sending a dime to Winthrop Sales Co. in New York City.
The mayor defends a policy to curb wealth power and boost public opinion to destroy economic injustice. He urges equal justice, a stronger merchant marine, and autonomy for the Philippines, while pledging a union of states and nationwide wage regulation.
Desk Officer George A. Reed of the Lower Basin Metropolitan police station will receive a silver bravery medal from the United States Treasury Department for saving a life under great difficulties. The rescue occurred on April 20, 1916, when Jeremiah O Connor of Carver Street fell from the West Boston Bridge in Boston.
An enemy force with fixed bayonets charged toward the Jamaicaway residence of Mayor Curley yesterday afternoon. The units swept near the front porch then formed a column and withdrew to the street in a brief but tense clash.
The Technology Engineering Corps staged an exhibition drill yesterday showing how to drive a fortified position from a hilltop. After leaving the armory around 3 PM they moved through Fenway to Jamaica Pond where two divisions formed. One under Lt Keating entrenched behind a parapet to draw fire while another under Lt Spooner flanked and seized the Mayor's new home from the imagined enemy.
Antone Olizeri, a sailor, is kept under observation at the Psychopathic Hospital Brookline after attacking Policeman Wise of the Joy street station. He slashed the officer s hand with a razor during the early incident yesterday.
A break in a standpipe on Massachusetts Avenue just below the State road in East Lexington flooded the avenue and covered the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway tracks to a depth of several inches. Water flowed for about three hours before being shut off, running nearly half a mile down the avenue.
A letter from Private William C. Walker of Fort Brown Texas dated May 7 1916 appeals to the editor urging society people to act as godmothers for American soldiers in Mexico and on the border. He recalls six months of border fighting near Glenn Springs Texas with 18 killed and 15 20 wounded, and notes many Massachusetts men among the troops. He asks readers to support those serving 0 miles from home and to recognize the dangers faced by soldiers far from Massachusetts.
A petition with over 100 signatures pressures the Somerville Board of Aldermen to locate the Carnegie Library on Franklin Street beside the Franklin Street Congregational Church. The opposing group seeks a site between Illinois and Michigan avenues facing Broadway.
Letters signed by former President Taft as head of the League to Enforce Peace and churchmen urge 10 000 clergymen to explain the league’s aims in sermons next Sunday. The message concedes disarmament seems unlikely but envisions a world vigilante group to uphold peace and curb outlawry.
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