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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
12
By orders of the Navy Department the band at the Charlestown navy yard is to be disbanded. Details of personnel assignments and ceremonial duties were not provided in the fragment.
An advertisement promises removal of freckles using ethine double strength. Apply nightly and morning with a druggist provided ounce. The guarantee offers money back if freckles fail to clear, claiming most cases need no more than one ounce.
The article observes the band members wearing sailor style uniforms since formation and notes the leader will don a chief petty officer uniform matching the marine inspired look used by the group.
Paris April 4 Robert Bayard Cutting of New York a Y M C A worker died at an American base hospital after an operation. The burial occurred Tuesday with funeral services led by Right Rev Charles T H Brent Bishop of the Philippines. Cutting served as associate organizing secretary and was tasked with opening new areas in the front’s advanced section.
In Cleveland on April 4 a German propaganda bonfire is planned for either Saturday or Monday night. The event will be led by German school books literature war screens music phonograph records and pictures. Large boxes for collecting material will be placed in downtown areas by organizers.
United States authorities have requisitioned several Russian steamships that formerly carried supplies between America and Russia. The ships, detained in American ports since the new Russian government took power, will continue under the Russian flag and be operated by the Russian volunteer fleet. Some vessels lie on the Pacific coast and will be moved to the Atlantic, with one ship recently held at a South Atlantic port after a mutiny.
Mrs Helene Bertling, just wed to Dr Karl Bertling, the former German propagandist in the United States, stood at New York South Station as he boarded a train to Fort Oglethorpe Ga for internment. Two deputy marshals and guards accompanied the group and she planned to return to New York after meeting with an assistant U S attorney about her husband’s personal property.
Richard Mansfield Jr son of the actor Beatrice Mansfield died of spinal meningitis in San Antonio Texas while serving in the U S army aviation section. He had enlisted in France’s ambulance service after France entered the war and later joined the U S forces. He was in his early 20s and had studied dramatic art in France.
San Antonio April 4 Rodman Law a balloonist with the Fifth Aero Squadron today jumped from an airplane at 2500 feet and landed safely with a parachute. He was taken aloft by Edward Stinson at Kelly Field. Law, Ruth Law’s brother, is testing the feasibility of airplane jumps. Stinson is Katherine Stinson’s brother.
Widener Memorial Library at Harvard will reopen next Sunday after nearly three months of Sunday closures caused by fuel regulations. The library will extend hours to 10 p.m. on Sundays, restoring access for weekend study and allowing students to use books in the building again.
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