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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1919
Page
7
A Boston dinner honoring Admiral Hugo Conz of the Conte di Cavour drew 500 Italian professionals and their families. The event featured repeated appeals of love for both adopted and mother countries and strong denunciations of President Wilson's stance on Fiume.
A Boston audience greeted a speaking program led by Charles Grillo with intense demonstrations over Italy’s claim to Fiume. Commodore Conz and others urged support for Italy, criticizing President Wilson’s stance and praising Italian war efforts and loyalty.
Discontent among federal workers grows as the Federal Employees' Union considers removing the no strike clause at its San Francisco convention opening September 8. The move would empower workers to demand radical changes and better working conditions, leveraging collective action.
A wet wind drives a party along a narrow lake reach where an island bears a barn door sized group of great horned owls. Eddie shoots the young bird after a failed pursuit, and the narrator recalls the plan to eat the owl, while tensions with companions grow over the ethical and practical choices of the hunt.
An excerpt describes a meal where owl is roasted and shared after trout courses. Eddie declines further eats but falls ill later, with the diarist noting the owl may be poisonous and that the illness follows prior overindulgence. The entry records appetite, tension, and a fatal warning.
Notice indicates continuation of a story across tomorrow and each day in the daily and Sunday Post until completion. It sets expectations for ongoing installments and serial coverage.
Miss Margaret Harrington a East Boston telephone operator and Lieutenant Andrew J Bernard formerly of the 101st Infantry announce their engagement. Bernard served overseas with his regiment and earned a promotion in France before returning to the United States as an instructing officer with the rank of first lieutenant. The wedding date is not fixed.
Warren, Aug. 1. H Robert Harwood youngest son of the late Frank L and Louise B Harwood named chief chemist for Tide Water Oil Co of Bayonne New Jersey. A Warren High School 1911 graduate he is said to be among the youngest chief chemists in the East at age 34. He studied physics and chemistry at Columbia University 1915 and worked at Bellevue Laboratory Lederle Laboratories before joining Tide Water Co in 1916 as assistant chemist. His promotion was announced recently. He is married with two children.
New York Aug 81 Prominent dancing masters urge the Methodist church to lift the ban on dancing They pledge to elevate dancing to a high standard and to reject jazz and other music they deem degrading They call dancing a true art and natural expression of music and motion.
Labor Day spectacle over Boston features Lt Hogue dropping envelopes with free theatre tickets and Majestic Theatre box office orders for five dollars to be cashed upon presentation. Envelopes released over Boston Common include tickets and five dollar orders.
Bathers along the shores adopted a new fad using court plaster to ink initials on protected skin. Initiated early in the season, the practice spread as plaster was removed to reveal dark tans and legible initials, with popularity growing this year compared to prior seasons.
Lumber men from New England and 20th Regiment engineers met at the Quincy House for the first annual reunion banquet of the New England Saw Mill Units Association. Officers were elected unanimously with Richard L. Melcher Jr. as president, Webster Blanchard as vice president, and J. L. Mullavey as secretary. A resolution praised Scotlands Ardgay and Bonar Bridge postmasters for wartime hospitality. Blanchard presided. brief addresses followed with remarks from Blanchard, E. C. Hurst, George Shea, and W. D. Tonner.
It was unanimously favored to hold next year's reunion in Portland Maine. Mr Hurst was manager of the lumber units in Scotland.
The city government backs the police union as they seek a $5 daily pay and eight hour day. Counsel William J. Bradley searches for a legal method to fund the raise. Commissioner Carr hints at one day off in eight, replacing the former eight from 15, citing January prohibition.
Congressman George Holden Tinkham introduced a bill to amend the war risk insurance act allowing insureds to name any person as beneficiary. The act previously restricted beneficiaries to spouses, children, grandchildren, parents, brothers, or sisters and now permit assignment by the insured.
Paris reports sixty two French women who married American officers or soldiers and were divorced in the United States have returned home aboard the same steamer. The Avnier cites reasons including difficulty adapting to American living. American jurists note divorces are harder to obtain than some believe.
A 55 year old man, about five feet nine inches tall and weighing 175 pounds, was found dead floating in the Fort Point channel near the Broadway Bridge. Drawtenders William J. Donovay and John J. Delay discovered the body and it was taken to the North Morgue. He wore a gray suit, black laced shoes, and a black belt.
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