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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 13, 1918
Page
4
Salisbury Beach, Aug 12. No more kisses or embraces on the sands when the moon is high and the hour is late. The era of hugs squeezes sighs and titters is gone, a memory of nights past.
Townspeople mourn as moonlit dances are banned after a Boston marshal's letter citing War Department orders. Couples lament lost romance and the dance hall faces a new constraint as locals recount nights of frosted lighting and restricted gatherings.
Bereaved by gas poisoning, Malden socialist John A. Perry explained his movements to District Attorney Tufts and police after discovering the deaths. An autopsy on eldest child Lucile E. was followed by a stomach examination at Harvard Medical School. Funeral services for the four victims will be held at 83 Upham Street with burial at Woodlawn Cemetery in Everett.
Two Cambridge boys aged 8 and 9 visited the city editor to correct their wounded corporal father’s address in the casualty lists. They clarified Gordon W. Mansfield, their dad, lived at 237 Columbia Street Cambridge, not Chelsea, and asked for news of his recovery. The brothers Howard, Gordon Jr., William, Thomas, and baby sister awaited word as they posed for a photo.
Tax Commissioner Trefry announced Boston will receive 4 201 589 54 from this year income tax distribution. Total state income tax collections are expected to reach about 13 250 000, up 1 000 000 from last year.
Berlin via London says the battlefront between the Ancre and Avre was quieter yesterday. The German official report notes that between the Avre and the Oise, enemy attacks failed.
Aug 12. German forces reinforced with artillery and infantry resist between the Avre and the Oise, but the French troops push on and gain a firm grip on Thiescourt Plateau as their advance continues.
Allied forces press toward Noyon forcing German withdrawals from Roye and Ribecourt lines. Soldiers in retreat suffer heavy losses, with dead and wounded scattered in shell holes. A captured letter shows German privations and French artillery reducing meat supplies as advance continues. A German wireless operator was found in a well and a full mail train from a regiment was captured at Ressons-sur-Matz.
Two men were killed early this morning when their touring car was struck at the Littleton crossing by an American Express train entering from Boston. The men were…
A tonic and health builder CALCERBS claim to ease persistent coughs and throat and lung troubles. They are marketed to restore health, claim to strengthen the body and combat illness. Sold as Eckman Calcerbs 50 cents a box by Eckman Laboratory Philadelphia.
Allen J. Shea of Berlin New Hampshire and Peter Sooney of Cambridge Massachusetts died in incidents linked to a jitney bus service near Commonwealth Pier. The deaths are among those blamed on early operations since Camp Devens was established at Ayer.
Two death notices: Dan J Maloney of Brookline died Aug 12 aged unspecified. funeral from life home 46 Reeds North Cambridge. Wal Pendergast of Holbrook formerly Chelsea died Aug 12. funeral from 184 Bnington St East Boston with high mass at Sacred Heart Church.
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