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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1918
Page
3
The Cambridge park department reports the Magazine Beach bathhouse may not be ready for occupancy this season. Despite completion of exterior work, interior finishes, labor shortages, and material delays threaten finishing before autumn and the swimming season.
An Italian special mission led by Signor Luciano arrived in Montevideo with aims to improve commercial relations between Italy and South American nations. The program mirrors the British mission led by Sir Maurice de Bunsen, which has been conducting an extended tour in the region.
A (fictional) German physician recounts life in Berlin from 1914 to 1918 under wartime controls. He describes rationing, food shortages, hoarding, and graft, with vivid episodes of empty shop windows, card systems, and smugglers. He notes profiteering, at times ironic shortages, and soldiers at the front sending food home amid scarcity.
A 1918 copyright notice from the McClure Newspaper Syndicate states the work continues daily in the Post both on weekdays and Sundays, with ongoing serialization across issues.
Fire of incendiary origin devastates Bradford N H business district starting at the post office and spreading to the Odd Fellows building and Colby block. Concord responders arrive after 1 hour 20 minutes, a record 28 mile run for heavy apparatus, preventing total ruin.
Professor Arnold H. Rowbotham of the University of Pekin argues the wartime labor shortage should be solved by importing hundreds of thousands of Chinese laborers under government contracts. He says they would be returned when no longer needed and spoke to a Post reporter before leaving Harvard to return to his post in the Orient.
Eight year old Theresa Capaducci was badly burned and unconscious at East Boston Relief Hospital after a boy threw lit matches in the air in front of 49 Everett Street. The flames enveloped her dress as she played, and she was placed on the dangerous list.
The State fuel committee set Quincy’s allotment at 85,000 tons while 14,150 approved orders total 100,445 tons, leaving a gap of 15,000 tons. Barbour announced the shortfall as winter nears and deliveries remain scarce. Local consumers fear a repeat of last year’s hardships as supplies run tight.
Sergeant Joseph McGrath age 20 of the medical staff 88th Infantry is a prisoner at Camp Darmstadt Germany his aunt Miss Elizabeth McGrath 14 Washington Avenue was informed by a cable from Geneva Switzerland reading Prisoner Camp Darmstadt well It notes he enlisted a year ago in Waterbury Connecticut and is a pharmacist.
All male persons who have reached their 21st birthday since June 5 1918 and on or before Aug 24 1918 must register on Aug 24 1918. These men should consult with local draft boards as to how and when they should register.
Paris reports in the Official Journal a striking citation for Count Gilbert de Lafayette who died in Champagne fighting on June 12. The young noble, son of the Marquis de Lafayette, is praised for courage as a scout who remained under bombardment to aid comrades and was mortally wounded shortly after.
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