24 Sep 1917
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1917
Page
1
Large crowd fills Boston streets and the station to bid farewell to local youths enlisting as Soldiers of Liberty. A mass demonstration at the theatre ends with thousands rushing to Common-North Station, overrunning trains and delaying departures amid emotional scenes.
Secretary Lansing disclosed that Germany hid powerful explosives and deadly microbes in the Bucharest legation after the U S took charge of Germany's affairs there. Instructions for use against cattle and horses were included and the building was guarded by U S authorities.
A state department report from William Whiting Andrews at Bucharest and a letter from Romania's Foreign Minister Porumbaru describe parcels and boxes seized at the German courier office in Bucharest. The display of precautionary measures aroused Romanian suspicion on August 27, 1916, the evening before the event.
Fall overcoats priced at $9.90 including black worsted and silk edging. Advertisement for F Gray Co located at Washington and Hanover streets.
Petrograd's cabinet faces peril after the Korniloff revolt. Left and Right press demand explanations, while Bolshevik outlets accuse Premier Kerensky of conspiring with Korniloff to crush the Petrograd proletariat and the Workmen's and Soldiers' delegates with a cavalry corps.
Novaiazhizs report notes a sensation in government ranks as Mikhail Tereshenko speaks by telephone with Kerensky about forged documents. Kerensky reportedly postponed his return to Petrograd, and officials consider issuing a formal statement on the matter.
Advertisement promotes Horsford's Acid Phosphate to relieve exhaustion nervousness and impaired digestion. It urges readers to try the product as an energizing tonic with claims of health benefits.
Miss Anna Lane 28 daughter of J H Lane Brewster Hotel Boston killed when the car she rode in was struck by an engine at Central street crossing. Richard Robinson 27 garage owner Jefferson Mass injured sent to a Boston hospital for X ray to assess injuries.
Frank Leslie reports a 50-foot stone wall worth many tons stolen from his property overnight. The wall stood a foot thick and two feet high after a 25 year effort, and the owner vows to prosecute and recover the wall.
A neighbor recalls a suspicious sight of a strange team hitched to a dray near the farm at dusk last night. One horse was white and the other a bay, according to Leslie who spoke of the unusual duo on the adjoining property.
Copenhagen Sept 23 Dr Michaelis the German chancellor will speak next Thursday on the Belgian question and German peace terms. He will declare Germany ready to re establish Belgian independence if the Entente powers restore German colonies and abandon territorial and economic conquest.
An advertisement urges readers to choose Lovell and Covel caramels to send the boys to camp, highlighting a practical treat for campers and a sense of tradition.
The vast crowd of about 1516 men from all city sections surged through North station toward the Ayer camp in a parade hailed as the biggest parade Boston has seen. Police aided the locomotion as trains started late, leaving about 150 draftees stranded at the station outside the barrier of humanity.
A massive throng in Boston and surrounding areas gathered in and around the station to bid farewell to the city’s boys, with police estimating hundreds of thousands lining streets, windows, and rooftops for miles. Continued on Page 6-First Column.
Read brief note recalling Monterey Mexico surrender to United States troops in 1846 and mentioning Rinek’s death in 1869.
Fair weather dominates for southern and northern New England. Monday and Tuesday bring moderate warmth with southerly winds. The Boston area and vicinity expect rising temperatures as interior regions also warm.
Yesterday's NL results show St. Louis defeating Boston 11 to 5 in the first game and Boston taking the second 7 to 1. Brooklyn beat Cincinnati 5 to 2 in the first, while Cincinnati shut out Brooklyn 8 to 0 in the second. Philadelphia edged Chicago 4 to 1 in the first game and won 11 to 1 in the league second game. Father Johns Medicine advertised as a best body-building tonic for all.
In Wilmington North Carolina near midnight last Tuesday the body of Mrs. Robert Worth Bingham was secretly exhumed at the urging of her relatives. An autopsy by noted physicians and a national renowned detective was conducted with vital organs removed and sent to New York. The body was reportedly reinterred and the operation kept tightly guarded until attorneys for Judge Bingham released their statement. The public is urged to form its own opinion on this ghastly drama.
Willie Norman of Duffys WV mailed his name on an egg from his father's farm and asked for "a nice little wife." The reply came back from a heartless woman simply saying You poor boob.
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