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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1916
Page
2
Former President Taft spoke on Our World Relations at Central Congregational Church Newtonville urging preparedness for war and for the industrial strife he warned will follow the present conflict. The lecture was hosted by the Newtonville Women’s Guild.
Berlin reports Gottlieb von Jagow resigns as secretary of foreign affairs and will be replaced by Alfred Zimmermann. Zimmermann becomes the first commoner to hold the post, with a reputation as a capable public speaker and debater while von Jagow had been uneven in debate and public speaking.
The brother of former Attorney General Parker, a member of the State Forestry Commission, remains in precarious condition with hopeful signs from his household. He sustained a heart strain on Monday and shows grounds for cautious improvement.
Charles C. Casey consul for the Netherlands and steamship agent underwent appendicitis surgery last Monday at Scobey Hospital. Authorities report he is out of danger and expected to be discharged in about a week.
Washington reports the American Railway Association conference committee on car efficiency orders railways to return coal cars to owners immediately. Officials say dispatch of cars to interior coal fields from congested seaports could lift threatened coal famine within two weeks.
Mrs. Elizabeth A. Miller widow of Duty T. Miller died last night at 25 Avon Street Wakefield at age 87. She lived in Wakefield more than 50 years. Funeral at 8 pm at her son-in-law Harry Foster’s home, with burial in Lakeside Cemetery.
Miss Beatrice Roberts a 16 year old Winthrop girl won the beauty prize at the Movie Ball. She tells a Post reporter that nature is the only beauty doctor and shared her beauty secret at her home on Grovers Avenue Winthrop.
Miss Roberts advocates a natural life as the measure of beauty and says she follows this by going to bed early and letting nature take its course. The remarks emphasize simple living and personal well being.
Miss Roberts prescribes a beauty regimen of strict habits including no cosmetics, water only drinks, cold baths, eight hours sleep, regular meals, and a daily one mile walk after each meal plus tennis or swimming. She condemns hot baths and vigorous exercise as detrimental to beauty.
A public meeting marks the 16th anniversary of the Guardian, led by William Monroe Trotter. It convenes Sunday at 2:30 PM at Zion A. M. E. Church, corner of Columbus Avenue and Northampton Street, with speakers including B. E. Morris, Moorfield Storey, Dr. William A. Sinclair, William D. Bingham, William H. Lewis, Eliza Gardiner, and others. George R. Margetson will read the anniversary poem.
A Reuters dispatch from Petrograd reports that Turkish forces massacred from five thousand to six thousand Armenians in Sivas, Transcaucasia. The despatch, dated November 23, cites a London newspaper account from Baku.
Governor Davidson suspended the rules that ordered lights extinguished or dimmed and the port of St. John's closed last month as precautionary measures against hostile ships of war. The move restores normal lighting and port operations.
Incident to attempts to learn the whereabouts of Berak Smith a 44 year old man who disappeared from his home 10 Tudor street Nahant last August Senator Henry Cabot Lodge has headed a list of subscribers to a 500 dollar reward which will be offered for information to locate him.
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