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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1919
Page
9
Brockton police hold Arthur H. Pickers, 29, at $2000 bail on larceny charges linked to his duties as an express employee. Provincetown police plan to charge him with stealing goods from trains, including ladies wearing apparel removed from parcels in transit.
Surgeon General Blue warns the influenza epidemic will likely return this fall and winter. Authorities urge building up blood to raise resistance, promoting Gude's Pepto Mangan as a dependable red blood builder available in liquid and tablet forms from druggists.
An Iowa advertisement touts Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as relief for long lasting misery from weakness and pains. It cites Mrs Lizzie Courtney of Oskaloosa and urges women with displacements irregularities inflammation or during the Change of Life to try the remedy, citing ongoing letters of praise.
A Dorchester truckdriver failed to heed a warning at Adams Street bridge. The impact dislodged several cases of shoes from the rooftop load, marking the first such mishap in a month of Sundays. Next trip the driver will consider bridge clearance.
Frank I. Sears head of the A J Bates Shoe Co of Webster seeks a new trial in Federal Court alleging two Brockton witnesses testified without being sworn. Sears was convicted last spring by a jury on three indictments for conspiring to defraud the United States through use of inferior materials in army shoe production.
Spokane police seized nearly a ton of radical literature tied to the Industrial Workers of the World while 68 alleged I W W members were jailed on criminal syndicalism charges. A letter purportedly from I W W officials threatened American Legion members in Spokane as in Centralia, and named James Rowan, former I W W national secretary, who is free on bond after Chicago cases.
Despatches received from The Hague say the American steamer Council Bluffs, owned by the United States Shipping Board and operated by Warren Transportation of Council Bluffs, sank at sea. A minesweeper rescued the 39 crew members from lifeboats off the North Sea coast north of Holland. Officials seek more information from Rotterdam as to the disaster’s cause.
The wooden steamer Newton, a Shipping Board cruiser completed at Portland, arrived at Federal wharf East Boston yesterday afternoon. She will receive finishing touches before sailing to Baltimore to load for Cuba and will carry merchant marine recruits for on board training under actual sea conditions.
The British steamer Greystone, damaged in last week’s storms while sailing from Newport England to Hampton Roads, was towed into Halifax N S by a tug. After losing propeller blades it anchored off Sable Island and was brought ashore.
A compilation of marriage intentions records reveals numerous Boston area couples with ages ranging from 18 to 86. It lists each partner’s name, occupation, and home address, including Benjamin H. Fiske Jr and Gertrude M. Ryan, Agostino Manganiello and Felicia Langone, and many others across Dorchester, East Boston, Roxbury, and surrounding communities.
A series of paired local residents listed with ages and addresses in Cambridge and nearby towns. The items note marriages or domestic associations among Cosmo Spinoza and Maria Toscanio, Michael A. Saraf and Elmar Brazilian, William Kelly and Catherine Brennan, William Reid and Maggie Lewis, John Costa and Rogalina Perry, with their respective ages and street addresses.
Joseph Stephen McDonald 20 brakeman 78 Gardner street Newton and Alice Louise Roche 19 27 Cottage place Newton Upper Falls trimmer Austin Wellington McLean Plaistead Jr West Medford 44 contractor and Helen Perry Sheperdson 29 50 Grafton Street Newton Centre school teacher Loreto Antonellio 22 12 West Street Newton snnper and Maria Carmelo Lombard 2 52 Rodman Street Quincy at home.
Robert S. Phillips age 26 of 57 Walker street a book keeper partners with Vivian M. Griffiths 25 of 37 Walker street a musician. Everett C. Ward 23 of 54 Meacham road a book keeper weds Jean E. Johnson 20 of 91 Holland street a saleslady. Charlies Currie 28 of 16 Gorham street an assistant superintendent wuth Mary H. Wilkins 625 River street Mattapan a clerk.
Herbert Rourke a Brookline sexton at 2 Harvard Square and Lena M. Ternan 27 of 14 White Place Brookline listed at home along with James J. O Leary 31 an electrician of 75 Clement Avenue West Roxbury and Mary F. Sweeny 46 Welch Road Brookline named in domestic matter with monetary figures noted.
The American Forum committee aims for an even larger turnout at tomorrow's gathering after a crowd filled Faneuil Mall last Sunday. Dr Edward Cummings of the World Peace Foundation will discuss Labor in the Treaty of Peace, with his pamphlet cited as a text at the International Labor Congress in Washington. Music returns under Lt Ralph Brown, featuring Eunice Drake Morgan Amy Hutchinson singing, Gertrude Casey on piano, and Martha Candage on cornet.
Dispatches describe chaos in Omsk as families flee toward the railway. Admiral Kolchak, head of the All Russian government, rallies volunteers for a defense army and pledges land distribution and elections while urging peasants and soldiers to mobilize.
Harry F. Shea of Lowell failed to compel Mayor Perry D. Thompson to appoint him to the police force. Shea claimed civil service eligibility and improper removal after an August appointment. the mayor said Shea was initially named with four others but civil service rules limited appointments to four men, dropping Shea from the list.
Fifty years of marriage celebrated by Mr. and Mrs. Warren T. Morse of 596 Highsitree West Medford. More than 200 friends attended the reception in the home they built and have inhabited for 47 years. Six grandchildren and Mrs. Edwin Hadley assisted in receiving guests as gold gifts were presented.
The Scotch Presbyterian Church on War Renton Street marks its 32nd anniversary on November 30 with morning afternoon and evening services. Rev. A. J. MacDonald of Bridgewater Nova Scotia will preach and serve as chaplain of the 5th Nova Scotia Highlanders.
Deputy Attorney General Edward J L Griffin of New York urged stronger fraud laws at the Massachusetts Association of Sealers of Weights and Measures closing session in Faneuil Hall. He also attacked Bolshevism. Charles P. Murray of Lynn was re elected president. Hugh H. Healey of Cambridge became secretary treasurer. Other officers named include Warren Riordan Lowell James Healey Worcester Morris Glaston Chicopee Charles Hannaford South Braintree George Davenport Clinton William Foster Springfield John Davis North Adams and executive committee Robert Rafferty Beverly Hadley Sawyer Peabody Hobin New Bedford Woolley Boston.
Washington November 14 Republicans signed a petition for cloture to end the peace treaty debate. Democrats waver over risking a vote on any ratification motion as the Senate prepares to roll call tomorrow. If cloture passes the fight may end or reach a stalemate next week.
Democratic leaders face uncertainty over the administration programme on the treaty as Hitchcock shows hesitation on the cloture proposal. Many Democrats reserve their stance while Vice-President Marshall weighs how to chair the vote to avoid derailing administration plans. The Senate’s recess fuels discussions on the rule’s meaning and impact.
The third address in a Sunday series at St. Pauls Episcopal Church Newton Highlands features Hon Charles S Baxter of Boston speaking on Civic Loyalty. Baxter, former Medford mayor, comes with Coolidge campaign ties and broad statewide recognition. An accompanying music program includes violinist Miss Emily Mercer.
James Lewis Hurley of Bennington, accused of impersonating a naval officer and passing worthless checks in Burlington Montpelier and Wallingford, was arrested in Bridgeport Conn after a cross state chase led by C C Reeve of Vermont justice. He reportedly operated here last June and cashed checks under a naval uniform.
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