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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1917
Page
4
Mr. McMillan began a solo trip to the Berkshires and collected B F Miller A Lincoln and E E Low near Malone NY before proceeding to Amherst Massachusetts where FE E Wood joined.
A 17 year old Dorchester High School student, with her stepfather Charles A. Skory, sues Mrs. Mary Liebman for 5000 damages in Suffolk Superior Court alleging slander and assault. The case before Judge Quinn and a jury marks one of the more unusual damage suits in recent memory.
Miss Curry described living with her stepfather at 17 Gibson Street Dorchester. She testified that on Saturday June 19 1915 in West Street Mrs Liebman accused her in public of taking a pocketbook, causing humiliation and illness. She denied the charge and said she kept her own pocketbook in her coat. The defense denied the accusation and talks of a settlement followed.
Carl E. Shumway of the Franklin P. Shumway Company leaves today for Akron Ohio to test the merits of the Blimp type non dirigibles for coast and harbor patrol work. He was presented yesterday with a Waltham radium dial wrist watch by his office associates.
Thirty five Post men represent every department of the paper bearing arms for Uncle Sam. A service flag with 35 stars was hung at the Post building on Washington street. More employees are in government service awaiting call to the colors. Post men serve in regular army navy National Guard Naval reserves national army Plattsburg and training camps. six are officers. State Guard members and other organizations not yet called do not count among the stars.
Sh'mini Atzereth concluded the series of holidays with ceremonies in Boston as over 100000 Jews marked the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkahs erected last week will be abandoned, and Simchas Torah will be celebrated with collations in homes, closing the season.
Boston hotels will offer meatless days on Tuesdays and Fridays following a City Hotel Association meeting led by President Archie Hurlburt. Endicott urged the change, with menus to feature eggs fish and vegetables and meat soups to be omitted on those days.
Revolutionary bands of General Porfirio Gonzales were reported moving toward Mendez Tamaulipas as government troops pursue them. A detachment under Rodriguez sacked Trevino seeking a large sum held by three citizens but failed and fled with the cash.
The brick structure at Washington Street and Metropolitan Avenue in Roslindale, once a pumping station, was transferred from the public works department to the police department by the City Council yesterday and will be converted into a jail station division II.
Washington October 8 Contracts to launch the 350 million dollar destroyer program were prepared for signing by Secretary Daniels. Preliminary agreements with ship boiler and engine firms set an 18 month completion window though some minor changes remained.
The plan calls for building additional shops and shipyards to more than double the current American destroyer fleet. Private builders need government funds for plant construction, with much of the appropriation likely to pass to the government or be repurchased by companies after work. The Navy requests secrecy on new destroyer totals, though hints suggest large shipyard progress and contracts for at least two series of 40 boats each.
In Lowell on Oct 8 reports say wage hikes averaging 10 percent will affect about 20,000 operatives across seven cotton mills. The increases, totaling roughly 1,900,000 dollars yearly, come as plants push to meet government orders and mark the fifth raise in the last year.
Army officers left Washington for commissions to be presented at the Des Moines Iowa negro officers training camp to graduates completing a four months course. The new officers will be assigned to negro units in the regular army National Guard and national army as needed and most will serve as company commanders at first.
Harvest day for school children, postponed by weather, will be held tomorrow at Franklin Park. Hundreds of Dorchester students will swap books for hoes to harvest potatoes beans and garden truck with prizes for the child farmers and a closing program of exercises.
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