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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1917
Page
14
Camp Devens officials implement meal inspections at every service line to refute rumors of bad food. Officers will sample meals, and soldiers may quietly complain on the spot. The move, part of broader security measures, follows arrests and a crackdown on bootlegging and desertion cases impacting morale.
New York November 25 The New England division lists 62 officers commissioned today in the ordnance corps. Captains include Nelson P Bumps John L Crosswaite Jr Lorne L Cupples Charles P Garland Frank J Goggins Wallace W Malley Charles H Pearce Paul Potter Hiram D Rogers Horatio L Small Charles B Thompson Guy R Varnum Robert A White Frederick Vieweg Jr Charles I Winship. First lieutenants J L Aney Robert E Briggs George D Chase John D Clarke W W Comings James F E Cummiskey Frederick B Cushman Arthur J Dalot Albert W Davis John C Dinsmore Charles K Flanders Henry A Garrow Walter M Kirkpatrick Philip H Kron Louis D Latimer Sidney H Lincoln Enoch R Moody Auri Payson John W Peterson Victor E Schmidt Emmons J Whitcombe Eugene L White. Second lieutenants Earl W Austin Ariston K Barrows Charles W Quimby Harrison S Royce Basil Gibson Woods.
Milwaukee police hunt for the bomber after an explosion at headquarters killed 11. Twenty-five Italians are detained, including Giuseppi Mazurini who allegedly moved the device from the Italian Evangelical Church basement to the station. authorities pursue a church link amid church crowd timing and rivalries with unknown individuals.
An enormous crowd greeted contralto Mme Ernestine Schumann-Heink as she sang in Symphony Hall yesterday afternoon. She received prolonged applause after the program and delivered works including Cry of Rachel and Heart Ever Faithful along with Handel, Beethoven, Delibes, Glazounoff, and other composers.
A half dozen or more Camp Devens soldiers from Ayer who cannot spend the holiday at home will be entertained at a Thanksgiving dinner hosted by Lexington First Baptist Church next Thursday.
James J. Walsh of New York city told about 1500 Catholic women at Boston College Hall that the social service of the so called dark ages was infinitely superior to present day charitable work.
Dr Walsh argues social service is a new label for charity and laments reduced modern philanthropy. He recalls Shakespearean almshouses and dowers for poor girls, praises early Catholic orders, and notes 19th century nursing and medical progress. He claims the Reformation turned hospitals toward profit, with Augustine V. Hickey presiding.
Eighteen miles were marched by 70 men of Company A, 12th Regiment, Rence State Guard of Somerville, under Captain A L West. They started 10:40 am from the armory, rode to Arlington Heights, then hiked via Burlington Woburn Winchester Arlington Medford back to Somerville arriving 5:11 pm with all men in line and energetic.
In Kitchener Ontario on November 25 anti conscriptionists organized a disruption that prevented Sir Robert Borden from addressing a large audience. Disturbances included a parade of Laurier banners and clashes with returning soldiers who tore banners yet the crowd continued marching toward the hall.
The eighth congress of the National Federation of Religious Liberals opened with prayers by Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham and a sermon by Rufus M. Jones of Haverford College. The evening session at Central Congregational Church discussed The Message of Religious Democracy with speakers including Jesse H. Holmes Swarthmore College on Freedom Charles W. Wendte Newton on Fellowship Harry F. Ward on Service and Rabbi Harry Levi Boston on Reverence.
Yale University today dedicated the Albert Arnold Sprague Memorial Hall, a new music school building in New Haven. The edifice was funded by Mrs. Albert A. Sprague and her daughter Mrs. Frederic S. Coolidge, with construction costs around 175000 dollars.
The Finance Commission accuses Mark H. Lynch contractor for cleaning catch basins of billing for non existent or partially cleaned basins. Inspector work allegedly totals under an hour daily per site. Payments may be halted pending law department ruling while Mayor Curley notes campaign dynamics and prior petition requirements.
Charles Goos a Danbury butcher of German extraction was found dead in his store after hanging himself. Authorities say worry over the war likely prompted the act. The tragedy occurred tonight in Danbury Connecticut.
A 44 star service flag and an American flag were unfurled at St. Anthony's Church in Cohasset yesterday afternoon. Rev Fr Carney delivered the address as the Cohasset State Guard company stood in attendance giving the event a military tone.
Leicester notes that John Bigelow, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bigelow of Auburn Street, receives a second French honor the Croix de Guerre for bravery at Verdun. He drove ambulances through shell fire and repaired a broken down vehicle to save wounded under heavy fire.
Washington November 25 The National Commission of Patriotic Societies calls for War Ananias Clubs to identify and name men and women who circulate false rumors that hinder wartime prosecutions. The plan envisions public posting of the names of those responsible.
Henry B. Endicott executive manager of the State committee on public safety will confer at the State House at 11 this morning on the Western Electric strike affecting 300 employees and the potential spread to more than 8000 New England telephone workers over wage and condition demands and union recognition.
Mr Endicott and organizer John E Fennel of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers with William Kelley president of the union and a strikers committee plan a meeting in the Old South Building. The Joint Council of Telephone Workers of New England will arrange a conference with executives of Western Electric and New England Telephone to amicably adjust the strike. Yesterday the local joint executive board voted full financial support for the strikers and named an additional committee of electrical workers to join the five Boston locals and the joint council in seeking settlement. William Kelley addressed the council.
William D. Mahon, president of the Amalgamated Association of Street Railway Employees, is arriving in Boston from Detroit at the request of Boston Street Carmen's Union officers. The visit aligns with protests for higher wages amid the rising cost of living affecting Boston Elevated Railway Company workers.
The text notes that current pay levels make it nearly impossible for workers to cooperate or maintain harmony, highlighting economic strain and potential tensions tied to wage adequacy.
A Boston committee of prominent labor men calling itself the Flying Wedge met at Co L A headquarters in the Wells Memorial building to promote James T. Moriarty for the City Council. Members reported endorsements from several unions and from the National Building Trades Department of the A F of L.
Labor Notes reports multiple Boston unions nominating officers for December elections and wage changes. Freight Handlers at Kneeland Street and Huntington Avenue sheds gain 40 cents daily to 2.90. N Y N H & H員 workers vote to affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Railroad Workers. TB Trainmen elect George F Cody as president. Cigar Makers plan a Wednesday strike if demands are not met.
Way Spaulding 19, son of Mr and Mrs Harris W Spaulding, was struck in the chest by shell fragment while driving in the Verdun sector. An American ambulance volunteer, he later sent word home and is believed to recover. He graduated from Middlesex School and enlisted secretly before sailing to France.
Patrolman William J. Nealon of the City Hall avenue station shot himself at the courthouse Friday. He died at 9 45 last night after a rapid relapse following noon yesterday. He was 42 and lived with his wife at 18 Fenwick street Roxbury.
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