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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 17, 1918
Page
4
In a camp tale a rough new recruit named Joe Pants, born Pantlinski, shows surprising punching power under coach Captain Martin. The narrator details Joe’s unlikely rise from kitchen duties to a formidable drill and boxing candidate, while contrasting Joe’s clumsy start with his eventual potential.
A long casualty roll lists Sgt. John R. Meehan and Seventeen other personnel from towns across New England and nearby states. Entries include ranks, units such as 101st Infantry and 102d Infantry, and home addresses in Dorchester Pittsfield Portland New Haven Worcester and Hartford. The list notes severely wounded men from 102d and 104th Infantry units and machine gun battalions with citizen-soldier origins in Connecticut Massachusetts New Hampshire and Maine.
The day’s casualty list shows 98 names, the smallest in weeks, with New England totals exceeding 60. Early Allied advance casualties include many from the 102d 103d 104th Infantry Regiments and losses from the 101st Infantry during the German offensive.
The casualty report recalls stiff resistance by the 101st on July 15 the opening day of the Marne drive. In two days 15 men from G Company are listed as missing with many in French hospitals. Letters dated July 19 from Frank W Woods and John O Donnell indicate patients in hospitals include John P Mahoney and others from the company. The 1024 Infantry from Connecticut leads yesterday’s severely wounded tally while the 103d Infantry Machine Gun Company records several casualties with four men slightly wounded.
In a Sunday Post excerpt, Joe recalls a harsh boot camp life yet accepts a new chance at dignity. A drill sergeant’s personal taunts clash with Joe’s belief in luck and a looming German threat as he faces a pivotal choice to fight or submit.
Lieutenant Kenneth Eliot Fuller of Harvard is killed July 18 while leading a raid on a machine gun nest. His father, Arthur O. Fuller of Exeter New Hampshire, was informed that the raid succeeded and the gun was captured. Fuller was born in Exeter, educated at Phillips Exeter and Harvard, and served in Camp Devens and with the 23d Field Artillery. Captain Lester S. Wass of the Marine Corps is reported killed July 1. He was born in Gloucester and educated at Dartmouth. He served as a second lieutenant since 1909 and fought in Port Royal, Portsmouth, the Philippines, Haiti and Vera Cruz. Private Reginald L. Brown, H Company 162d Infantry, is also reported killed in action in France. He was the son of Mr and Mrs William Brown of Sutton Quebec and had lived with Mrs George Parsons of Bristol Connecticut prior to enlisting.
Official notice lists returning names and addresses of soldiers in the 104th Infantry and associated companies. Several men are tagged with units such as Co B D Co G Co and Eng to include 102d and 101st Inf, with some notes of gas exposure and hometowns in Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut New Hampshire Maine and Vermont.
Retired farmer William K. Dean was found slain at the barn door in East Jaffrey New Hampshire after a midnight milking routine. Investigators report no motive or suspect and note a missing milking pail and a missing weapon. Authorities say the crime shows planning and familiarity with Dean’s premises and habits.
Authorities learned a Boston woman with a summer place near here and close to the Dean family said Dean had told her of receiving a threatening letter. A safe deposit vault at a local bank held private papers. Frederick Dean of New York arrived and authorities searched the bank but found nothing lightening the affair.
The wedding of Cora Norton to Eugene Cody Norton becomes a village sensation. Norton, born female, recounts his upbringing in girls clothes, misfit draft status, and a sudden gender switch after marrying his teacher, with neighbors gossiping about the couple and the bride’s loss of her old identity.
A bride's lament over cutting her long hair ends as the groom refuses the gendered attire and vows to be a man. He returns in fresh overalls, laying aside his blue suit as the exchange shifts from corsets to practical work clothes.
Three former Boston mayors John F. Fitzgerald James M. Curley and Josiah Quincy filed for Democratic nominations in Congress. Quincy runs in the 11th against Frank J. Horgan, Fitzgerald in the 10th against Peter F. Tague, Curley in the 12th against James A. Gallivan. Each held office in earlier decades and seeks fresh terms in the new districts.
Middlesex and Boston Street Railway employees voted to strike unless wage questions are referred to the National War Labor Board. The company operates in Newton Waltham and surrounding towns. The current wage scale ranges from 33 to 40 cents an hour with a proposed 41 to 45 cent range. The strike action follows a recent war bonus and expires June 1919.
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