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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1919
Page
6
An unidentified youth died by his own action in Field's Corner area near Neponset. Police and the medical examiner are handling the case with the body in City Hospital morgue. Thomas Osborn reported a man leaping from a creek near Fulton Street and seeking help earlier yesterday morning.
A man in his boat heard distressed groans and saw a youth plunge head first into the water. Neighbor William Sellegrenn, Jr. helped reach the mouth of the creek and with a fishing pole recovered the body. The youth, 18 or 19, 130 pounds, light complexion, brown hair, blue eyes, wore a dark gray suit, brown overcoat, soft shirt, green knitted tie, and brown shoes.
At Wells Memorial Hall Boston members of Web Pressmen's Union Local No 8 voted 27 to 40 in favor of creating an international union for newspaper pressmen in the United States and Canada. A referendum is now under way nationwide. The group is currently affiliated with the broader International Printing Pressmen's Union.
The International Mercantile Marine Company announced that passenger service on the Red Star Line between New York and Antwerp with calls at Southampton will resume December 18. Regular weekly passenger and freight sailings were interrupted in 1914 by World War I.
Two arrests were made near the packing houses in Somerville yesterday afternoon amid a three week strike. One arrest was for loitering and the other for throwing a missile.
The Jackson College hockey team this year looks like a winner with a fast roster and several former stars on board. Competition for varsity spots is spirited as the squad shapes up to sweep through the season in strong form.
An Armistice Day observance took place at the Old North Church with the tower trumpets sounding and the old chimes pealing. A large congregation attended the service where Captain Moritz of Harvard spoke.
A mass meeting of Somerville school teachers will be held this evening in the high school hall to push for a substantial salary increase. Prominent local men and the city’s leading business interests back the effort.
The note previews William Sylvanus Baxter Jr. from Booth Tarkington's Seventeen series and follows his adventures in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine, titled Girl Girl Girl, as the next chapter of Willie Baxter's antics unfolds.
The Post Office Department unveils bombshell like air mail plans with new long range planes to drop mail on city roofs using bombing sighting gear. Boston and other cities eye aerial hubs while aviators urge a unified air department and stronger national defense through aviation.
A memorial service for those who died at sea was held at St. John's Episcopal Church in Charlestown with naval officers from the Charlestown navy yard and seafaring men in attendance. The Marine Band performed suitable selections and the pastor delivered a sermon honoring the debt owed to sea and navy personnel during the war.
An ammunition dump near Fort Diave in Belgium exploded early today. Four of fourteen British sentries on duty answered roll call. others are feared dead as continued explosions occur among the dump remnants. The cause of the main blast is not yet known.
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