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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1915
Page
8
The 22 year old Prince Alexander suffered a fracture after an incident that left the prince and Queen Sophia in Athens. George transported the entourage by ambulance to medical care.
Lord Derby spoke at Mansion House outlining the government plan to solve the recruiting problem in London during a mass meeting this afternoon. The effort aims to mobilize volunteers and increase enlistment to bolster national defense.
Lord Derby outlined a plan dividing unmarried and married men into groups for military service. The bachelors would be called first, married men later by age, with a fortnight to adjust their affairs. He argued for a steady recruit flow to aid Earl Kitchener and called the voluntary system a last, honest effort to do duty.
The Follies at the Colonial Theatre staged Across the Continent with a live long distance link to San Francisco. Charles Purcell in New York and Claire in San Francisco sang via a line arranged with American Bell Telephone Company. Florenz Ziegfeld and Billie Burke joined from the hotel, hearing the performance three hours earlier in time.
Brighton residents cheered as a greased pig escaped from the stockyards and ran through Surrey street near Oak Square. Patrolman Maurice Ryan made a flying tackle, bringing the pig down in the muddy gutter after a long chase through backyards.
West Point expands its coaching staff to ten with the arrival of Captain Ernst Graves of the Corps of Engineers The Army bench veteran has coached Army linemen for five years and joins the 10 man staff.
The ad claims weak kidneys cause a range of ailments including rheumatism headaches and liver trouble. It urges flushing with five ounces of rheumasalts, two teaspoonfuls in water before breakfast, to restore kidney function and cleanse the digestive tract, ending with Rheumabath Co. of St. Paul.
More than 500 Prohibitionists from Greater Boston honored William Shaw as their gubernatorial candidate at a ratification dinner in Ford Hall. Shaw and his running mates urged a strong Prohibition vote on election day and predicted national prohibition in 1916.
The event raised 304 for campaign purposes with promises of quick funds if needed. Speakers including Shaw McCall Evans Emery Davis Wylie Hinshaw Gill Calderwood Cady and Myers attacked the old parties while promoting prohibition as the day’s central issue. Myers pledged 1000 votes via a letter from Tremont Temple.
A bronze memorial to John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration and first governor under the state constitution, was unveiled in Doric Hall at the Massachusetts State House and accepted by Governor Walsh on behalf of the people amid a large dignified gathering of representatives from the state’s oldest families.
A ceremony honoring the Hancock tablet featured a large turnout from the Sons of the Revolution the First Corps of Cadets and veterans and other guests. The bronze bust atop the tablet replicates a Senate wing statue and bears the inscription detailing John Fiancochis 1737 1798 as a Revolutionary patriot first Continental Congress president first signer of the Declaration and early Commonwealth governor.
The distribution of a $57,000,000 Russian war contract for munitions and supplies was announced. The Bradley Construction Company won a roughly $50,000,000 munition contract including one billion rifle cartridges and a new back carried one man machine gun. A separate five million yards of cloth for overcoats was awarded to the American Woolen Company.
Clarence W. Barron of the Boston News Bureau told Melrose Club last night that Allied victory is assured. He outlined postwar territorial divisions with England seeking no new land, France receiving Alsace and Lorraine, and Bolg Bulgaria split between Roumania and Greece. Barron dismissed fears of the Yellow Peril, noting Japan’s focus on present conditions rather than the future.
A feature in the next Sunday Post Magazine explores worm farming as an unusual livelihood and profiles practitioners in the field.
Dorchester resident Patrick Dorcey of 11 Newhall Street is expected to be among Dorchester Fruit Growers League leaders after amassing seven bushels of pears from a single tree.
A blaze at Milford Connecticut destroyed the South View Hotel and a large Walnut Beach pavilion early today. Estimated loss reached 160000 with other summer properties endangered. Authorities say a lighted cigarette dropped on dry leaves under the porch started the fire.
In New Orleans a well dressed woman admitted in delirium at a hospital was identified as the wife of former heavyweight champion Tommy Burns. Burns said she had not fully recovered from a recent illness and that she disappeared from their home last night.
The piece vividly contrasts darkness and daylight scenes in a feature spread. It describes transitions from night to morning with lyrical imagery and focus on mood, light, and human perception across the magazine’s pages.
The second son of King Constantine has been severely injured after a fall from his horse while riding to battery. He received medical attention and remains under care as details are updated.
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