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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1917
Page
4
J. B. Lewis of Boston and Cambridge, a noted prohibition leader aged 76 and twice widowed, will marry Minnie C. Wilkinson 48, widow and Tremont Temple aide, at 11 this morning at 86 Brown Avenue Roslindale. Rev Donald A. Newton will perform the ceremony.
The Morning Post reports Sinn Fein has begun a food control department in Ireland independent of the government. A circular asks priests to inventory food stocks to ensure sufficient food for the population and to organize distribution in famine risk times.
City Council approved the Grand Lodge of Elks plan to erect a $260000 hospital for sailors and soldiers on Parker Hill. The council also accepted Mayor Curley’s order to sell the old reservoir property for $40000 to the Elks for the site. The hospital will be presented to the federal government.
City Council at a special meeting uncovered years of under assessment on a central business district land plot. The council approved purchasing the site at Arch Street and Hawley Place for 145000 dollars for a police station, following the discovery.
A two tract Hawley place parcel shows 2735 square feet in a new survey versus 1670 listed in 1917 atlas and city records. Assessments are held by Laurence Minot and J Henry Russell as trustees under Thomas B Winchester and Eliza Winchester wills. City real estate expert John Beck warned of possible similar errors across downtown tracts and noted no legal steps can recover the underassessed city funds.
Mayor Curley and Corporation Counsel John A. Sullivan miss the Finance Commission bonding hearing after the mayor declares he will dine with Japan's consul general in New York instead of attending. Constable Reid served summons, but Sullivan remains unavailable on vacation. Commission chair Murphy says the session opens as planned and an appeal to the courts may follow if the mayor is absent.
Madame Signe Lund, a naturalized American of Norwegian birth, won the National Arts Club prize of 500 for the best musical setting of Daniel M. Henderson s poem The Road to France at a New York dinner. She was decorated by King Haakon with the Gold Medal of Merit in 1912 and was chosen to write the cantata for Norway s centennial celebration. Her two sons are in the United States army, one in France.
The Boston Metropolitan Chapter of the American Red Cross seeks 14 000 extra Christmas bags for U S fighting forces to ensure none are neglected during the holidays. The original Boston quota was 15 000 bags with about 15 000 already completed or in progress. Supplies for the additional 14 000 are being purchased and volunteers are urged to assist. Committee leaders Mrs Thomas J Scanlan Mrs M B Broderick and Mrs George McEvoy supervise 20 to 25 workers daily at 142 Berkeley Street Boston Chapter headquarters.
A mass meeting at Centre Methodist Church Malden urged hearty cooperation for the Lynn district apportionment of 920,000 toward the New England Conference 550,000 campaign to fund pensions for retired Methodist preachers. The Rev Webster H Powell spoke, with Rev C C P Hiller presiding and ministers Archey D Ball Peter Black Henry L Winston and Charles W Blackett supporting.
A washout on the Calais branch of the Maine Central railway between Machias and East Machias halted train service and required transferring all mail and passengers by auto in both directions.
Richard Adkin, a Black man from Savannah, Georgia, was held as a fugitive from justice by U.S. Commissioner Goodspeed in New Bedford for failure to register under the draft.
Last night Boston hosted a grand Hallowe en celebration with ghosts cider hotel cafes dressed as farm yards corn stalks pumpkins and lively activities. Locals described the event as the biggest and best Halloween festivity in the city with humorous antics and bobbing for apples.
A Halloween evening began around 9 and lasted into the early hours with dinners priced from 1 to 3 dollars for gentler meals or cabaret entertainments. Ghosts roamed cafes and hotels like Quincy House and Copley Square Banquet venues, singing spooky songs and creating a eerie mood.
The Post reports lively scenes in Boston with many cafes and hotels hosting dances and private entertainments. Hallowe en emerges as a night of jollification in the metropolis and suburbs, with venues like the Copley Plaza Healy's Crawford House Napoli Clar endon Hollis Lombardy Inn Boston Tavern Thorndike Westminster and other well known places filled with merriment.
The clandestine marriage between Elizabeth Arnold of Wollaston and John Ford Jr. of Cambridge, first held over a year ago in New London, was disclosed at a second wedding service at St. John's Church Quincy last night. Mrs Arnold learned of the union recently.
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