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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1918
Page
3
Washington May 14 A memorial signed by 20 Protestant denominations and six interdenominational agencies asks President Wilson and Congress to complete prohibition of the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages during the war.
The Massachusetts Homeopathic Hospital declares it will not cooperate with the government in expanding Boston military hospital facilities for now. War Department will conduct its own military hospitals independently, avoiding partial civil organization control.
Brown University will send a team to the New England Intercollegiate meet at Tech Field on Saturday. Providence College had dropped track due to the war, but Coach Archie Hahn has entered a squad, albeit with late entries, and shows promising runners.
The text explains higher prices reflect higher build costs for trucks designed to deliver superior service. They are built to do more work faster with fewer interruptions and longer lifespan, justifying cost plus profit as necessary to maintain the service and reputation of Pttert ects trucks.
Washington May 14 The Overman bill to empower the President to reorganize government departments and agencies passed the House unamended and goes to President Wilson for his signature. The vote stood 295 to 2 with Republicans Sterling and Gillett voting no.
The House backed down on several amendments aimed at curbing presidential power as the war time bill advanced. Proposals to exempt the Interstate Commerce Commission and to shield the War Finance Corporation and Capital Issues Committee failed by wide margins. The plan to empower Senator Overman to coordinate wartime activities yielded little detail, with talk centering on shifting duties to the War Trade Board and War Industries Board and reorganizing the quartermaster and signal corps.
In San Diego on May 14 Mrs. Francis Burton Harrison wife of the Philippine Governor General was granted an interlocutory divorce for desertion. She receives two notes totaling 105000 plus a New York trust property. Alimony set at 1500 monthly from Governor Harrison with 15000 yearly from trust income while unmarried. On remarriage 10000 yearly for children's care. Custody to Mrs. Harrison. governor may visit and advise on education.
Mrs. W. J. Flanders of Concord urges housekeepers to decline entertaining guests at meals to save food and money for the boys at the front. She argues that meals for guests cause extra preparation time and expense, urging readers to eat at their own tables during wartime.
The Pops program lists Masaniello Overture, Artist's Life Waltz, Za Gioconda Dance of the Hours, Nocturne Op 48 No 1, Second Hungarian Rhapsody, Star Spangled Banner, Jack O Lantern, Moment Musical, Trois Gymnopédies, Pomp and Circumstance and more, featuring composers like Auber Gounod Ponchielli Sullivan Chopin Elgar Waldtenfel.
The broadside catalogs White Truck fleet owners showing installations of ten or more trucks and the rise of activity from year to year. It lists 2 153 fleets in active service totaling 23 226 White Trucks excluding single truck setups. The final column covers only the first three months of 1918.
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