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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1917
Page
4
Rabbi Jacob Mendel, a noted Boston religious leader, collapsed and died yesterday at the Beth Jacob synagogue in Boston while delivering a sermon on the significance of the Jewish New Year 5678. He was delivering the liturgical phrase who shall live and who shall die.
Washington Sept. 17 progress of the war tax conference slowed as major disputes neared resolution. House conferees urged retaining the second class mail rate increase while Senate members seemed willing to accept some postage increase provisions.
The committee discussed adjustments to the Hardwick plan and a compromise on war profits tax. Negotiations focused on second class mail rates and a potential shift away from the McKellar amendment. Efforts continued to distinguish reading from advertising rates as adjournment loomed.
Governor McCall backs centralized tug and barge operation under US Shipping Board to improve efficiency. Public Safety Committee and Boston shipping leaders meet with a Shipping Board representative in the State House. The Governor supports Shipping Board supervision to speed food and fuel shipments and ensure New England coal and food supply.
Your Soldier Mothers Sisters and Sweethearts your Soldier s. Comfort should be foremost in your minds. Tired swollen blistering burning and aching feet which are brought on by marching and drilling can be prevented. rubbing Fastep Foot Powder well into the feet. Fastep heals cuts and broken blisters. It s cooling soothing and antiseptic. As an effective deodorant for all parts of the body Fastep will prove indispensable in the trenches when time is pressing and facilities are lacking. Send your Soldier a can today. All druggists 25c or E FOUGERA CO Inc 90-92 Beekman St N Y.
The Boston Post offers three prizes a Double Gold Eagle ten dollars and five dollars in gold for the best dog stories submitted in no more than 200 words. Entries must be signed with real name and address and may be original or not. Judges include Dr. Francis H. Rowley Mr. H. C. Merwin and the Post Dog Story Editor.
Margaret J. Stewart recounts a household incident where a missing pocketbook reappears only after she hides the dog, who famously hates cats and caused trouble from his puppy days. The dog’s 14 year life underscored his feline animosity and boisterous behavior around the household.
A young man who had enlisted and then returned home fled when authorities pursued him. He was last seen wading in a brook with water over his waist. Two weeks later a neighbor found his body while ploughing, near Maple Wood Cemetery. A dog led the cortege with the Stars and Stripes in its mouth.
In a border troop tale, dog Ugly Mugs saves a soldier from a rattlesnake, leaping between the reptile and a man. The dog is killed in the act. narrator Fredric Evans of Boston recounts the incident and a prior mischief with corporal Mack.
Gip the yellow mongrel schemes to steal a bone from General the noble Dane. The plan starts a neighborhood chase as Gip lures multiple dogs, then retrieves the meat and hides it under a veranda while General glowers at him. Mrs Mary A MacFarland Swampscott notices.
A bright collie on a stock farm in Ontario proved quick to learn and accurate at herding. He could count or recognize each animal, preferred company of a person for sociability, and would bring cattle home when fed his favorite foods. Jerry grew fat and sleek by this plan. M. Martin.
A large Newfoundland named Rover followed my father home after a busy county fair. Rover took charge of my younger siblings and protected them at the house. During one day near the pool Rover intervened when Fred wandered too far into the water.
A family recounts Rover the dog who cared for his master after his father died. He stayed by the churchyard, followed the procession, and refused to leave. Eventually the dog lay dead on the grave, near Malden at 155 Cross Street, in sorrow and loyalty.
A man recounts teaching a dog to fetch a handkerchief from his room and bring it to his store. He placed a duplicate on the table and commanded Rover to retrieve the original, which the dog did by trotting over a distance of about a mile and delivering the item to the owner. The anecdote is shared by Joseph C. Bridgman of Hyde Park.
A dog named Prince located a missing child’s doll along a sandy shore and guided Mrs. Lee to her child Natalie. The rescue ended with the trio on the Lee porch sharing ice cream, as Prince’s instinct and affection were praised. The notice lists Miss Jeanette Goldstein of Roxbury, 185 Walnut Avenue.
The Rev. Joseph J. Williams S J, a Boston native, will speak at Cathedral branch of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith. He has spent six years in Jamaican missions and will recount a missionary life in an event open to the public at 8 o'clock in the Cathedral basement.
The Fourth Presbyterian Church at Dorchester and Silver streets hosts a 400th anniversary service tomorrow at 4 pm with Dr Charles W Wendte speaking on Luther and his Bible translation and Rev James A Verburg moderating on the Reformation dawn. An evening service follows at 7 45 pm with additional exercises led by Professor Robert Hast.
Nichols Ph D will speak on Some Religious Meanings of the Protestant Reformation for Our Time. Public is invited to these services.
Four year old William Markes was struck while crossing Hudson street near Curve street close to his home. He died at City Hospital after the collision with a Bailey's Wellesley express truck yesterday afternoon.
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