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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1917
Page
8
Critics condemn Mayor Thompson for not inviting the French mission to Chicago and for forbidding bond salesmen to solicit Liberty Loan subscriptions in City Hall. Despatch notes widespread resentment as other mayors rally city employees to invest in patriotism and finance. The mayor's stance isolates Chicago from national action.
Professor Pupin of the New York Academy of Sciences argues that American inventiveness will soon defeat German submarines. He suggests the same ingenuity that built the submarine can be used to disable it, despite German misjudgment.
Secretary McAdoo states the Shipping Board has ready funds, with $1,000,000 in credit and yesterday a further $9,000,000 was provided upon request. General Goethals and the board were not and will not be held up for money.
The Brazilian Chamber unanimously approves a policy shift toward cooperation with the United States, signaling deeper hemispheric unity in democracy against aggression. Chile also signals readiness to join the effort, with Santiago's Diario noting the move moves beyond an ideal neutral congress to real united action.
The passage argues Pan Americanism and the Monroe Doctrine now carry greater meaning, aiming to establish a deeper secure and intimate reciprocal basis of American democracy.
A 1918 column honors Memorial Day as a holy, solemn holiday. It recalls a saved Union, battlefield sacrifices, and veterans in uniform, urging citizens to ponder past battles present devotion and a hopeful yet uncertain future amid the war across the sea.
A call to Americans to join the Liberty Loan effort on a national anniversary. It urges every citizen to buy bonds as a silent, immediate contribution to democracy and to the front, promising the investment will return enriched by the bond’s work.
Representative Jeannette Rankin urged the Agriculture Department to hire women for the food census. The House adopted the amendment with applause, highlighting women’s role in national food supply. In the Senate, a tax bill change drew less attention.
The Oldest Inhabitant notes that Memorial Day rain in Boston is not reliably rainy. Between 1881 and 1905 records show measurable rain on May 30 in several years. Extreme temperatures include a coldest 43 degrees and hottest 90 degrees observed in the period.
A light exchange references Abraham Lincoln and the White House with a humorous note from the Ohie Sun Dial. The snippet captures local chatter about historic addresses and national heritage in a casual tone.
A brief mention notes ongoing activity after the whistle, highlighting continued efforts and assorted tasks. No specific people or organizations are named in the readable text.
Napoleon Gomo complains of living beyond means and consumer pressure from book agents in St Albans Vermont. He laments debt, scams, and social pressure fueling hardship, naming Anxious neighbors, a sleigh, and costly engravings while urging caution against aggressive peddlers and scams.
A Boston column recalls Civil War era sacrifices by patriotic women, Captain Charles H. Cole’s enlistment story, and local wartime scenes. It notes a Boston gardening day at Franklin Park, the Gannet flounder planting sight off Maine, and community figures like Mrs. Mabel Hunt Slater joining city oversight. The piece also mentions English labor commissioner James A. Thomas visiting Boston, Irish home rule, Confederate money humor, George Dewey Squires in the navy, and local veterans’ reminiscences.
Advertisement in a Boston newspaper seeks a young man good at figures for eight dollars. The notice asks what “good at figures” means and questions differences between locals in Waltham and workers in Boston Tremont Street, implying a stereotype about abilities and location.
A terse notice seeks a single eligible male visitor to Newport Rhode Island. The letter requests the man to join Sunday assembles with patriotic women of means during his stay at the Daily News Office box 116.
Public notice seeks a house with a stable about two miles from Bath Maine. References requested and responses to P O Box 69 Bath ME.
Ed Brown of 28 Lemont Street advertises a public auto service promising rides day or night in a “rattling good car.” Formerly superintendent of the Pogie, Brown invites inquiries at telephone 431-R in this Matine Newspaper notice.
A Everett inventor touts Moore's Mow More Mower as a grass cutter that mows more with each use. The maker urges readers to try the machine and enjoy mowing with the mower more, claiming growing popularity.
Poem fragment reflects hopeful youth and faith in life despite wounds and weariness. It speaks of leafy paths, dreams, time’s darts, and the enduring joy found in the world through the season’s music and light.
A feature on the planned Lincoln Memorial in Washington, its 2 million appropriation in 1911, construction starting 1914, and design by Henry Bacon. Details include a 1000 foot earth mound, a white marble temple with a 192 ton Doric-column façade, and 36 columns for 36 states, plus panels for Gettysburg and inaugural addresses.
On Decoration Day the Grand Army Hall hosts veterans as Blue Blood Newton, 72, stands proud. His grandson leads new enlistees in a parade while Newton faces a past scar with Carlotta and a vanished son whose memory vindicates the family name.
A reader asks about a swearing lover and the columnist warns that habitual swearing by a man in company is a serious flaw. She urges the woman to either help him reform or end the relationship to avoid enduring his bad habit in life together.
A column offers etiquette guidance on introductions at gatherings and guest handling. It advises introduce people as groups form, not by individual ping pong style. It also covers smoking with ladies, bowing etiquette, and manners around country settings. It notes past fads like eating cenaraecus with fingers and asparagus tongs giving way to forks.
A letter to the editor asks if conscientious objectors may be exempt from military service registration. A separate query discusses pronunciation of Marie, Somme, and Aisne with rough phonetic hints.
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