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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1919
Page
5
On Halloween evening a grotesque mix of witches and spooks is set to visit homes hotels and other gathering spots in Boston for All Hallows Eve celebrations. Hotel managers expect a lively night with many drinks and dancing a prominent feature across venues.
Former Senator William F. Russell, son of the late Governor Russell, launches his campaign as the Democratic nominee for Middlesex County District Attorney. Campaign managers expected a strong fight despite Weeks missing solid Republican strength, noting he won the county by 1500 votes over Senator Walsh.
Russell campaigns through all party meetings as strategists claim 7000 Republican votes, plus solid Democratic backing, aiming to dent Republican strongholds in Belmont and Cambridge. The Cambridge native is a Harvard-educated lawyer, 25, married with two children, living on Mt. Auburn Street.
Paris reporting on the wartime press case shows Second Lieutenant Eiger Herve Louis Laverne and Henri Crockel sentenced to death for aiding the enemy. Others received five to seven year terms including 18-year-old Yvonne Viez who wrote three articles for the Gazette.
Thorne Murphy of Yale was sidelined for several weeks after an X ray showed a fractured bone above the ankle from a game against Boston College. Surgeons told Coach Al Sharpe Murphy might still play Princeton and Harvard. He is the son of trainer the late Mike Murphy.
The Girls' City Club in Boston will offer evening classes in business English for office staff. An instructor from Boston University will teach, following a request from local merchants who seek improvements in their office forces.
Reverend Cortland Myers warned at Tremont Temple Baptist Church that harsh talk of Japan by U S senators and street vitriol could turn Japan into a real enemy. He urged enemies be made friends, noting France and Belgium pursuing better commercial ties with Germany despite tensions.
Naples reports a surge of Italian emigrants with two thousand applying for U S passports in the first half of October. Officials cite more emigrant ships and eased visa restrictions at American ports as the main causes of the new migratory wave.
Paris reports that between 650000 and 700000 French troops remain under arms as of today. The navy has seen over 71000 personnel demobilize, leaving 70000 to 75000 sailors in service.
The Rev. Dr. William Harman van Allen of Church of the Advent Boston criticizes both labor and capital in their fights for advantage. He condemns public harm from industrial unrest and notes the Washington national conference shows self interest on all sides. He warns that strikes hurt the public and recalls mutual hostility between employers and workers.
Rome October 19 Baron Sonnino former Italian premier definitively announced that he declines to be a candidate for a seat in Parliament at the upcoming general elections.
Daylight saving will end next Sunday morning as clocks set ahead last spring must be turned back an hour. Congress repealed the wartime measure, meaning the end of daylight saving for all time unless reauthorized, a unlikely prospect after the war’s end.
Bayer advertises Aspirin tablets in a Bayer package with directions for headache colds pain neuralgia lumbago and rheumatism. The name Bayer denotes genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for nineteen years. Handy tin boxes of 12 tablets cost a few cents. Aspirin is a trademark of Bayer Manufacture of Monoacetic acid ester of Salicylic acid.
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