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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 03, 1914
Page
2
Opera star Geraldine Farrar describes scenes from Germany and Belgium, praising humanitarian care of wounded while condemning war as unjust. She laments civilian suffering, recalls refugees, and notes disbelief at any side's moral certainty before turning to personal life rumors and engagements.
Summerfield's promotes furnished homes for young couples and brides via a large high grade stock in Boston. Attendants guide affordable furnishing with open-charge terms, no interest, no investigations, and extended payment options.
Governor Walsh spoke at the Paine furniture building on Arlington street to promote wider dissemination of book knowledge. He urged the creation of a higher type of citizenship to tackle the era’s great moral problems.
The governor praises Boston as the nation’s education hub and first to open a major book exhibit. The display features thousands of volumes from 23 publishers, with furnishings from Paine company storerooms. Speakers include John Kendrick Bangs and Rev. Edward A. Horton urging renewed interest in quality literature.
A catalog excerpt names publishers including Dunlap Harper & Brothers Henry Holt Co Houghton Mifflin Company Little Brown Co G P Putnam’s Sons Frederick A Stokes Co Baker & Taylor Duffield Co B W Huebsch John Lane Company Lothrop Lee & Shepard Co McBride Nast Co Mitchell Wenherley Penn Publishing Frederick Warne Sturgis & Walton and John C Winston Co. These firms appear linked to classic publishing in the era.
At Rodman Wanamaker’s Melrose estate in Philadelphia a domestic quarrel between Herman Schmidt, a German butler, and Elsie Wyman, a Russian cook, escalated into a mock war over the pantry. The dispute, treated as assault and battery, was referred to a United States tribunal in Norristown where Schmidt was held for court while Wyman called for Germany to be eliminated.
Hoffman Miller the son of George MacCulloch Miller appeared before Judge Foster and was granted permission to enter a not guilty plea for his father who is 82 years old and in ill health. A bond of 5000 dollars was accepted for Mr. Miller.
The School Committee asked the corporation counsel to rule on legality of payments by the board for Harvard and other college extension courses for teachers nurses and staff. The board also authorized a new sub master in the Phillips Brooks district and accepted the resignation of truant officer Achille Forte after a leave of absence through Jan. 31. William C. Crawford was granted leave to attend the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education convention in Richmond Va and to inspect industrial schools in New York Philadelphia Newark Montclair and Carlisle.
Theodore N. Vail expressed surprise at being named among former directors indicted by a U S grand jury in New York in connection with the New Haven investigation. He declined to discuss the indictment.
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