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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1917
Page
2
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Roosevelt announced on his return to Washington that a new plant at the Charlestown navy yard will be established with larger acreage and better frontage than the existing yard, marking a major improvement.
Secretary Roosevelt states a new plant will be used as an operating base with manufacture and repair kept at the existing yard. He notes little chance of enlargement this year while Secretary Daniels must wait until spring for action on Charlestown improvements. Roosevelt will report to Daniels and McNary will confer on navy yard improvements.
Saratoga Springs N Y Sept 4 The American Bar Association opened its annual meeting with a unanimous vote approving vigorous prosecution of the war and a plan to mobilize lawyers in national state and local associations to aid the country.
Resolutions offered by Elihu Root were adopted amid high spirits with members leaping up and cheering after each paragraph. H M Libby of the Boston Press Club received a fountain pen and traveling bag as he departs to take a position in Portland.
Herbert Robertson a 14 year old boy formerly of Cambridge thwarted his father as he tried to kidnap him to take to Vancouver British Columbia to work on a farm. The youth is in Winnipeg police care while the missing father speeds toward Vancouver.
Young Robertson, previously housed with the Kent family after state intervention, vanished from Savoy a week ago. A Shaftsbury hotel landlady later relayed a call claiming the boy was kidnapped by his father and forced toward the West.
About 250 consumers at Faneuil Hall heard promoter James J. Irwin tout a Boston Coal Users Cooperative. The plan promised savings of 2 to 3 dollars a ton, but an advocate cooled the room by suggesting a final figure near 35 cents a ton.
A stormy Faneuil Hall meeting led to the formation of a Consumers cooperative with 50 000 dollars capital and 10 000 shares. Members would buy coal wholesale and sell at market prices with 5 percent dividends to stockholders, subject to a Sept. 9 subscription deadline. The organizers include Irwin Whittier Gray Van Koert and Childs.
Six Boston boys serving with the 236th Battalion in Valcartier Camp Quebec report promotions in a letter. Corporals BE E Dolliver P B Weir W J Rourke W B Piper J A Lindsley. M J Findlayton becomes sergeant. The writers say life is busy and they crave more action. The Post arrives daily, triggering a scramble among newsies.
A Bay State transit car bound from Wakefield to Lynn derailed last night at Water Street Wakefield. The train failed to take a switch and jumped the rails. Three women were injured and several other passengers shaken as the car smashed a telegraph pole and plowed along the sidewalk.
Fourteen month old Joseph R. Ryan of 4388 Boulevard Revere fell eight feet through a window screen yesterday afternoon, striking a spike in a board. The spike caused a skull fracture but did not injure the brain. Recovery is doubtful.
A police probe opened last night into the 7 pm blaze at 26 North Street a wholesale provision store owned and occupied by Samuel Lipsky. The fire, the third at the building in ten days, caused about 7000 dollars in damage with most losses to beef stock on the first floor from smoke water and flame.
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