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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 17, 1916
Page
2
The advertises coats at high prices but insists the new Tweedmoor overcoats are extraordinary value. It notes last year’s coats remain good for another year and that 1918 delivery may delay further purchases. The aim is to build repeat customers for the Men's Clothing Dept.
The coats mostly sport satin yokes and satin sleeve linings with seams piped. Some are lined with Skinner's guaranteed satin, enhancing durability and sheen.
Lieutenant Werner Horn of the German Landwehr awaiting trial in the U S District Court for unlawfully transporting dynamite in the attempt to blow up the international bridge at Vanceboro Maine will be transferred today from Plymouth jail to the Norfolk County House of Correction Dedham. The transfer is for more exercise, with Horn in confinement since his Maine arrest on the dynamiting date. His removal to Massachusetts to face interstate commerce charges was contested by counsel Joseph F O Connell of Boston who has appealed to the U S Supreme Court for habeas corpus relief.
The Chesapeake & Ohio railroad declared a 2 percent dividend payable December 20 to stockholders of record December 8. This is the line's first dividend since November 1914 when 1 percent was declared.
Salvatore Pasqualine, 31, of 90 Saltation Street, and Rugero Ginnelli, 27, of 1 Ness Place, were yesterday taken to City Hospital with bruises and lacerations after an automobile struck them near 700 Beacon Street where they were employed.
Dr. Frederick H. Blossom, secretary of the national birth control group, told Boston's first birth control luncheon that the Massachusetts struggle mirrors the fight for free speech. He urged residents to defend press rights as the Allison case goes to trial next week.
Theodore Roosevelt told the American Academy of Arts and Letters that patriotism should shape art and writing. He condemned cubist and foreign copying, criticized Latin literature for lacking the soul of its people, and urged Americans to express the nation’s spirit in true national works. He argued the greatest literature and art must spring from the people themselves.
A speaker warns that the United States must develop a genuine art and literature rooted in a strong national life or risk a warped national character. He argues nations must defend just causes and citizen lives or risk ignobility, beyond mere prosperity or superficial grace.
A speaker argues for pride in American identity and warns against servile imitation of English culture. He champions a global openness while preserving English linguistic roots and cultural heritage, criticizing artificial versions of patriotism and the cubist notion of originality.
Private William A. Finney disputed a vagrancy accusation saying he arrived from the border with $65 and was greeting old comrades on Causeway street. An officer testified to a nine person obstruction stance, while Finney claimed the actions were friendly salutes. The court questioned his finances and encountered a correction from Colonel Stover, leading to a delay in judgment as the judge pursued next steps.
The War Department through the Southern department chief commissary officer is buying turkeys and trimmings for 150000 soldiers along the border and General Pershing's column in Mexico for the Thanksgiving dinner.
Five regiments including the First South Carolina, Seventh New York, Third Indiana, Third Wisconsin, and Third Minnesota are ordered home from the Mexican border. The War Department cites policy to withdraw National Guard units as conditions permit per General Funston’s recommendations. Separately, Conrad W. Crocker seeks court-ordered impoundment of Boston and Maine railroad books in a receivership contest, focusing on directors and committee records from 1905 to 1916.
Orillia readers share a testimonial from Dan McLean praising Fruitatives for relief from constipation drowsiness and headaches after two years of discomfort. The ad promotes 50c per box six for 2.50 trial 25c and notes availability through dealers or postpaid from Fruitatives Limited Ogdensburg NY.
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