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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1917
Page
14
Amsterdam dispatch reports all Dutch shipping to England halted due to outstanding differences between Great Britain and Holland.
Britain on October 11 stopped all commercial cable communication with the Netherlands until Holland restricts transit of sand gravel and scrap metal from Germany to Belgium via Holland. Dutch officials debate war uses while Cornelius van Aalst defends Dutch stance noting Amercian ties and calling U.S. action excessive.
Oscar Landmesser an evangelist who opened fire in Judge Barnett's courtroom last week killed his rival Fred Boehm and was wounded by bailiff James W. Trost. A poison bottle worn as an amulet diverted a fatal shot and saved his life. A policewoman was struck by a ricocheted bullet deflected by a corset stay.
About 300 members of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of the Archdiocese of Boston honored Father Mathew the apostle of temperance whose anniversary fell on Wednesday Oct 10. The banquet was at the Cathedral School Hall Harrison Avenue and Malden Street with clergy and civic leaders praising his work begun a century ago.
Cardinal OConnell sends best wishes as Rev Dolan presides at St Gregory's Dorchester Lower Mills union event. Congressman Tague extols selective draft and abstinence, praising temperance amid wartime duty. Speakers include Judge Kiely and Hugh Molloy praising moral and educational aims and Father Mathew.
The Berliner Lokal Anzeiger campaigns against Gustave Ader head of the Swiss political department over his comment that Belgium must be restored and compensated for a just peace. It calls for his retirement and for Berne to sever relations with the Swiss political department until he resigns.
Washington reports 80 percent more frozen beef in stock on Oct 1 than a year earlier, with 137,806,561 pounds held across 293 storages. Cured beef totals reach 32,644,559 pounds up 46.4 percent, while lamb and mutton fall 3.6 percent to 8,221,234 pounds. Dry salt and pickled pork and lard dip slightly as frozen pork rises 12 percent.
Newly named Boston provost marshal agents will report to the appeal board today after days of review of local draft exemptions. Hundreds of men excused by local boards may be reopened for review. Boards across the city begin further physicals to meet division quotas as the city rushes to certify the last 15 percent to the adjutant general at the State House.
Representatives of the country s largest mail order houses will confer with the food administration in Washington on cooperative methods to market and conserve foodstuffs.
Washington officials act to check bond market decline tied to Liberty loan financing. The Comptroller of the Currency directs national bank examiners not to force sale prices on high grade bonds but to use conservative discretion in carrying values to avoid money market tightening and potential investor losses.
Memorial services in Hampton Virginia honored Rev Dr Hollis Burke Frissell former president of Hampton Institute from 1893 until his death last August Educators attended and Rev Dr Francis G Peabody of Cambridge Massachusetts praised Frissell for prudence foresight sagacity and efficiency as a leader.
Helen Rodgers of Bea con Hill runs a dairy route delivering 300 quarts daily from a hilltop farm overlooking Salem Bay and Marblehead Bay. She manages the dairy, washes bottles, and seals them between twice daily deliveries while balancing farm life with music and family.
Alliance women are invited to knit socks and sweaters for soldiers and the Red Cross at Trinity Episcopal Church on Sundays. Rev. Robert Roy Remington announced the program to the Women’s Guild, and many members are expected to knit and hear his sermon.
St Calletaote Charen Somerville posts a service flag honoring 106 parishioners called to colors. Rev James J O'Brien serves as pastor at the church.
At Camp Devens on October 14 Private Frank Keenan and Private Nicholas Costello of Bridgeport face a general court martial for assaulting Corporal C E Krog after posing as Private William Brown. Krog, injured, defended his post as Keenan and Costello fled with a rifle barrel. The incident followed by a noisy crowd as 250000 visitors crowded the cantonment with football, bands, and tours.
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