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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1915
Page
12
Fire sale advertising lists brass beds priced at 27.50 and 25.00 as perfect condition values with sale prices of 89.85 and 54.95 respectively. The text reiterates brass bed values and sale figures in a fragmented fashion.
Berlin reports the German Empress plans to celebrate her birthday as Marmalade Day and asks that jars of jam be sent to soldiers in trenches and military hospitals as gifts from civilians. The idea, relayed from Amsterdam to the Exchange Telegraph Company, calls for this charitable gesture.
Petrograd October 2 report states the Russian government prepares an internal loan of 1 000 000 000 rubles equivalent to 500 million dollars. The rate will be 5 1 2 percent and the loan to run for a short term.
Samuel J. Elder, Massachusetts bar leader, described the League to Enforce Peace aims at a banquet. He stressed a simple plan: signatories will submit causes of war to a court if judgeable, and other issues to a conciliation council.
London reports a sensation as the wife of former Liberal MP William J. D. Burnyeat is arrested for espionage. Burnyeat served as MP for Whitehaven from 1906 to 1910, and the North Country arrest draws wide attention.
Mrs. Burnyeat, a German wife of Colonel Retzlaff of Berlin, and their family own a fine house on the Irish Sea coast near Whitehaven. Recent reports claim the residence was raided by a German submarine believed to be guided by signals from the coast.
Oct 20 Pittsfield reports the 12th annual Massachusetts State Conference of Charities opened with over 300 delegates as Governor Walsh praised charity workers for fighting disease, poverty and crime. Speeches urged decent living and the dignity of labor, stressing reform in industrial health and happiness.
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