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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1916
Page
11
A narrator recalls Old Kaspar and his granddaughter Wilhelmine as they discover a skull and hear the tale of the Battle of Blenheim. Kaspar explains it was an English victory over the French, celebrated yet costly, with a warning that consequences echo beyond the field.
Readers discuss ways a 35 000 fortune could help themselves in old age, fund pensions, aid children, or assist hospitals. Replies urge self preservation, charity to the elderly, and practical acts such as building a home or supporting hospitals and orphans.
An aged milk wagon horse attached to a North End milk wagon sprinted through Scollay square during a fire alarm. Driver Andrew Larson halted the horse by crossing the street, knocking the animal down and spilling milk, with no injuries reported.
Frances McCabbe age nineteen of Malden jumped from her motorcycle on Medford Main Street as the cycle skidded at about twenty miles an hour. Her dress was caught in the wheel gear and she was dragged twenty feet before she escaped with cuts on her legs and no serious injuries.
George Beane age 67 of 8 Prescott Street Cambridge a Brighton grocer is on the dangerous list at Cambridge City Hospital from injuries after being struck by an automobile at Massachusetts Avenue and Remington Street Cambridge last night. The car was driven by John J Burke of 18 Granville Road Cambridge. The machine skidded on the slippery pavement.
Boston’s major bankers and 24 leading banking institutions threw their support behind a city campaign for 20 000 new Red Cross members. The effort reached a climax with the public pledge of their backing to the drive.
In El Paso on October 20 army officials indicated new hopes for early home return of Eighth and Ninth Massachusetts Regiments. Georgia infantry regiments began for the border while Massachusetts artillerymen remaining in El Paso would have cars assembled Monday to transport them home.
An Atlanta paper reports the Georgia infantry regiment, slated as the first Georgia unit to leave for the border, will not mobilize until next Monday due to transportation shortages. Bay State soldiers react with disbelief and growing irritation at the delay and what they see as a joke about Georgia troops existing.
Boston Mayor James Michael Curley endorses Democrat John F. Fitzgerald for United States Senate despite past feud over the moving picture Where Are My Children and urges all Democrats to vote for Fitzgerald. The pair will speak together at a Boston Democratic rally in Faneuil Hall.
Harold Barbour of 45 Hemenway Street faced a sad homecoming after his wedding on September 11 when his mother Mrs. Sarah Barbour died suddenly at Mars ton's, 1074 Boylston Street. Dr H W Andrews assisted, but she died of heart failure. Barbour and his bride were to arrive in the city today.
The Red Cross tent on the Common near Park Street subway enrolled 149 new members yesterday. Benjamin Joy urged high and grammar school scholars to enter letters for five prize five dollar gold pieces. Boston bankers gathered at a luncheon in the Exchange Club with 24 major banks represented. Ernest Truex and M Jean DeBriac led a group delivering many new members to the tent in the afternoon.
State health division analyses found no evidence that Boston dealers used powder mills to make milk. Herman C. Lythgoe said no support for charges of powder milk amid a broader milk investigation led by Arthur Sea grave. Pattee of the New England Milk Producers' Association reported shipments cuts and 40,000 quarts withheld from dealers recently.
William G. Sharp United States ambassador to France told a Boston City Club audience that predicting the war’s end remains as uncertain as two years ago and outlined the postwar challenges and American role in Europe. He then departed for New York to sail on the St Paul.
After a large search by the Dedham fire department boy scouts and citizens Morgan Briggs 16 son of Walter M Briggs a Boston broker disappeared Thursday evening from a Jamada Plain sanitarium. He was found safe at home last night in Dedham following the marshes and woods search.
Frederick W. Mansfield the Democratic nominee for Governor addressed crowds in Fitchburg Clinton Ashburnham and Leominster. He attacked Governor McCall over his stance on milk and urged stricter inspection for Massachusetts dairy producers facing competition from other states.
Mansfield accuses Governor McCall of aiding discriminatory laws and blocking a bill that would extend strict milk producer inspections from Massachusetts farmers to suppliers in other states and Canada. The conflict centers on protections for dairy producers and regional enforcement.
Instructions for serving omelette using eggs flour milk and butter, followed by a tomato soup mock bisque made from boiled tomatoes, soda, milk, butter, salt and pepper. Recipe credited to Mrs John OBrien of 30 Spruce Street Bangor Maine.
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