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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
13
Washington announces that speculation in butter and eggs is ended through a voluntary agreement with all major exchanges. The rules bar resales in the same season, require delivered grades, prohibit bidding on unoffered or scarce grades, and limit purchases on call to distributors for normal business needs.
Lieutenant Andre Morize of the French army will lecture on trench warfare to technology students this afternoon. About 500 will assemble in the Smith Hall lobby at 4 30 and move to the hall for the presentation after gathering in the lobby.
Henry Obed a native East Indian arrived in Boston aboard a British freighter. Immigration officials refused to let him land claiming he had no country after three years of residence. He becomes an outcast in the city and country.
An East Indies born man named Obed, three years in U S coastal cities, entered as an alien and faced deportation after Public Health Service found trachoma. He had hoped to land in England. the captain pledged return to ship. law bars entry for infectious disease. possible endless sea life.
Evangeline Booth announces after a 600-officer conference in Chicago that the Salvation Army will undertake a $1,000,000 campaign for war relief. A telegram to President Wilson pledges loyal support and notes ambulances and officers already serving in France and U S cantonments.
Arthur B. Chapin told City Club members that lottery tickets financed the Revolutionary War and aided soldiers similar to the Liberty Loan. The tale of wartime fund raising by chance tickets emerged from papers found in an iron box and is now archived in the State Treasurer’s office at the State House.
Lieutenant H. L. Baker of the 23d Engineers Regiment launched a recruitment drive for road builders to serve in France. The unit seeks men 18 to an upper age limit, with practical road building experience and fitness for combat. Starting pay is 33 dollars monthly, with higher rates and possible noncommissioned ranks for qualified workers.
Boston received a total of 650000 pounds of sugar with 175000 pounds refined and 475000 pounds raw. The raw sugar arrived from the Philippines by rail from San Francisco, marking the heaviest supply in memory as the city faced a sparse stock situation.
The navy requests gifts of spy glasses telescopes and marine binoculars from private hands to ease a critical shortage. The appeal stems from a letter by Civil War veteran J F Hefflebower 74 now at Sawtelle Soldiers Home California.
Judge Bosson ordered the arrest of Julius Roschefsky after a brief testimony. The three oldest children Annie 7, Julial4, and Frank 10 months were committed to the Home for Destitute Catholic Children. The baby’s case will be decided within a month.
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