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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1914
Page
2
Armour & Company president J Ogden Armour denies packers are using wartime to raise prices. He cites near famine levels in stockyard receipts and reduced slaughter across Armour plants, including Chicago 60000 hogs weekly capacity with only 2024 killed last week.
A Nish Servia dispatch reports Prince George of Servia was wounded by shell fragment while on Belgrade fortress walls during the Austrian bombardment. He was consciousness but knocked down. authorities say the injury is not dangerous.
A prominent physician asserts coffee causes a substantial share of fatigue among active men and women. He advocates Postum as a harmless nutritious beverage that could improve physical and mental condition if adopted in place of tea and coffee.
Nineteen Jewish refugees report anti-Semitic violence in Germany tied to the war. Madame Stekcyea, a Russian Jewess, recounts a mob attack on her Plauen home, forcing escape via a rear entrance. She details deaths of other Jews and the separation from two daughters left behind. Her American-born brother travels to Plauen to locate them.
The admiralty reports cruisers from Britain and France will patrol the Atlantic to safeguard trade routes. Armed merchant vessels join the effort while German raiders are hunted. British control strengthens daily. the North Sea remains a mine danger with no reassurance from the admiralty.
Newly named American diplomats face travel hurdles as European conflict blocks routes. Sharp to France stuck in Washington, Marye to Russia delayed, and Morris to Sweden sails via Arctic route. Baltic and North Sea minefields complicate civilian transit. Immigration trends show over a third entering steerage from many nations as wartime closures bite commerce.
New York reports a dramatic decline in steerage passengers from abroad for the year through last week, down by 200 069 compared with the same week last year, based on steamship figures.
London Aug 12 The Exchange Telegraph says a combined Servian and Montenegrin invasion into Bosnia from Plevije near Novibazar has begun in three columns General Jankovitch assumes supreme command while Radomir Putnik is ill
An advertisement urges readers not to blame cooks for indigestion and promotes Dyspeplets as a pleasant remedy. It claims weak stomachs cause issues like sour stomach wind heartburn and nausea and encourages buying a box for a quarter at the druggist.
London reports state Britain will not bar Americans from landing, citing aliens restriction act rules. An order in council limited alien entry to certain ports but not Americans, with officials confirming Americans have often been admitted.
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