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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
2
Harvard keeps the waltz in the junior prom program set for April 11, despite being outnumbered four to one by fox trots and one-steps. The dance limit is 20 numbers with extras. Juniors and guests will dance to martial music as many selections recall war songs and current show successes. The finale will feature Harvard football songs, unheard in Cambridge recently.
Fred M. Russell age 50 of 64 Fuller Street Dorchester was thrown from the step of an inbound South Boston trolley at L Street and Broadway and sustained a fracture of the base of the skull. He was taken to City Hospital and his name is on the dangerous list.
Camp Devens April 4. Recruitment of the 76th Division to war strength will begin April 20 at the Depot Brigade. It is unclear if the new men come from within the brigade or if a fresh local board quota is summoned to join the camp.
Forty six promotions were announced today led by Captain George C. Donaldson of the Eighth Battalion who is promoted to major. He has been in charge of the Negro troops from the South and was formerly a Salem lawyer with a South Hamilton home. The list includes several second lieutenants promoted to first lieutenants in the Quartermasters Corps and infantry, all from the Depot Brigade, with names, hometowns, and units across Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and beyond. The 304th Infantry unit began patrol maneuvers. sixty detail soldiers, including twenty captured, and band stands are being built near regimental HQ. General Hodges and Col Stuart visited ranges with talks on duty. A gas mask drill era note reports a baseball game played with masks and a vaudeville alumni, John McNaughton, singing with his gas mask on.
London April 4 Premier Lloyd George arrived back in London from a Front visit and was accompanied by M Clemenceau the French premier They met with Field Marshal Haig and Generals Petain Foch Pershing and Bliss in the official announcement of the trip
April 4 report from New York states the Federal Food Board does not advocate discharge of enemy aliens from plants but urges they not be used in critical control points where they could contaminate or destroy food, such as by adding powdered glass.
The board announced that the United States food administration approved revoking Mesh & Co license for refusing 264 cases of eggs ordered Feb 22 at 64 ½ cents a dozen from Roanoke. The action follows warnings about injurious substances and marks a first prosecution after dealers were barred from refusing ordered foods.
Washington April 4 The American Red Cross authorized a gift of half a million dollars to the Canadian Red Cross for war relief work.
In Newburyport Judge Dana presided as a jury awarded civil engineer Charles A. Bacon of Boston one cent in a $0 suit against Newbury constable William Dole for false arrest after Bacon’s car struck a baby carriage injuring a relative of Dole. Dole admitted the arrest but said it was to protect a possibly fatally injured child. judge ruled the arrest illegal.
Harriet Newell Tapley Richardson, Lexington's oldest resident, died yesterday at her Hancock Street home in her 98th year. Born December 5, 1820, in Rising Sun Indiana, she lost her father at age five and traveled with her family to Lynn Massachusetts before moving to Lexington around 1889, where she resided thereafter.
An old advertisement touts Tiz a miracle foot remedy promising relief from burning, swollen, corned, and tired feet. It claims immediate action, draws out poisonous exudations, and encourages smaller shoe use with a 25 cent box available at druggists or department stores. A one year comfort guarantee or money back is offered.
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