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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1918
Page
2
Two National Woman's Party militants were arrested as they attempted to picket the Capitol in protest of the suffrage amendment defeat. They were detained, banners torn, and later resumed the action with new banners as three more bearers were arrested.
ROMB Oct 23 Austrian rear guards in Albania retreat to the north of the Matia River about 30 miles north of Elbasan as Italian cavalry and Albanian detachments press them, per the Italian war office.
Major Henry Crosby Emery Russian representative of the Guaranty Trust Company of New York was released from German confinement and arrived in Copenhagen. A former Yale professor and Tariff Commission member, Emery went to Petrograd in 1916 to represent the Guaranty Trust Co and married there in 1917. He and Mrs. Emery were traveling with neutrals from Russia to Sweden via the Aland Islands when captured by the Germans last March.
Cambridge Mayor Quinn will appoint a committee of citizens to advise the Boston Elevated railway trustees on improving Cambridge transportation conditions. The Cambridge Board of Trade endorsed the plan, praising the mayor. Transportation congestion has caused public discontent in Cambridge.
A Baldwin apple raised at H. W. Furbush’s apple farm in Duxbury measures 14 inches in circumference and weighs 114 pounds. The year brings abundant apples but workers are scarce while prices for crops rise.
A recess committee appointed to investigate the state fish industry holds a hearing at 11 o'clock in Room 458 of the State House today. The session continues the inquiry into industry practices and regulatory issues.
William Z. Ripley, administrator of labor standards for the army’s quartermaster department, warns New York workers on government contracts that those who violate principles of straightforward business dealing between capital and labor will forfeit their jobs and be blacklisted from government employment for the rest of the war.
A meeting this afternoon at the Wilbur Theatre at 2 o'clock aims to stimulate support for the Knights of Columbus home on Berkeley Street for soldiers and sailors. Noted speakers and wounded veterans will address the gathering. Mrs. Edwin A. Shuman is chairman of arrangements.
Clouds of dust from the third floor windows of the City Hall Annex at noon yesterday led nearby offices to fear a fire. The city hall operator received a report and dispatched a still alarm for the fire department.
In Northboro on East Main street a private car carrying Thomas W. Lawson and chauffeur Michael B. Kelley overturned after skidding on streetcar tracks. Lawson escaped with two broken ribs and scratches while Kelley suffered serious leg gashes. both were hospitalized overnight.
Mayor Peters approved eight additional employees for the city fuel distribution office at salaries totalling 125 dollars a week. The clerks jumpers collectors visitors and bookkeepers named are James J. Dolan Abraham Dole Lawrence Harrington Ralph F Bullard Sarah Kitchen Elizabeth A Walsh Leroy White and Archis Sears.
Dr. John S. Mott, director-general of the National War Work Campaign, told 1000 chairmen directors and workers at Ford Hall that more American soldiers will die in the coming months from exposure than from German shells.
Dr. Mott warns of brutal winter and epidemic deaths in trenches while officials and churchmen from Catholic Protestant and Jewish groups unite in a full day War Work campaign. Notables include Mgr Splaine Billkopf Gifford Roberts Rolloff and Holdy among speakers.
The Springfield and Worcester street railway unions asked for 60 cents an hour for uniformed workers and a 40 percent pay rise for others. Company officials, after a conference with union committees, denied the request and rejected submitting the dispute to the War Labor Board.
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts will eventually receive $50,000 under the will of Miss Amelia Morrill of 11 Arlington Street Back Bay who died October 13. The Children's Hospital Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts Charitable Eye and Ear Infirmary will benefit by large sums. Gifts take effect upon the death of certain relatives.
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