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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1918
Page
8
The House passed a bill admitting free import duties on all supplies consigned to the American Red Cross. The measure now advances to the Senate for action.
A home recipe blends two lemons with three ounces of Orchard White to yield a quarter pint of freckle and sunburn reducing lotion. Sold by grocers and drug stores for a few cents, it claims to fade freckles windburn and tan with daily massage and leave skin clear soft and white.
Massachusetts MPs Crowder orders 4200 men to report beginning September 3 for service. Of these 1425 go to Camp Devens 2000 to Syracuse 800 to Camp Upton. Twenty five hundred to Wentworth Institute and Franklin Union for special training while 325 black draftees entrain for Camp Devens. Boston boards ready for supplementary Aug. 24 registration. divisions list local register sites including Blossom Street Washington Street Dorchester Lower Mills and City Hall.
Former Lieutenant-Governor Ed ward P Barry announces his bid for Governor in a lengthy statement denouncing his opponents. He portrays one rival as a renegade Republican whose wealth from war contracts taints his Democratic bid and claims the other candidate represents predatory wealth and influence.
George H. Wrenn, head of the War Emergency Industrial Commission, writes that Richard H. Long received permission to employ about 2000 additional workers and to have overtime at his Framingham plant after meeting all conditions. The commission verified he was producing war essentials and that War Department urged rapid deliveries. Conditions at the Long factory were corrected to comply with state law.
Forty one crippled children, patients of the Massachusetts Children's Ambulance Service begun by Mrs. John Hays Hammond, had an enjoyable outing yesterday at Mother's Rest, Revere Beach.
Brockton August 1 The entire police force including plainclothes officers will guard the gates of Brockton shoe shops tomorrow to prevent a repetition of today s rioting in which sticks and stones were used and seven arrests were made. Tonight quiet prevailed but trouble is feared in the morning. Strike leaders warned disturbers they would resign if violence continued and sent a telegram to the federal war labor board asking for instructions while vowing to return to work under the Boot and Shoe Workers Union if the board orders it.
Seven crew members of the U S patrol boat Montauk were lost when the vessel drove ashore during a northeast gale on Cumberland Island near Fernandina. One body has been recovered.
Four people were seriously injured when a speeding car on Brookline avenue side swiped another near midnight. James C. Gray, of 17 Parkvale road Brookline, is listed as critical at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. Na than Levy of 166 Maplewood street Watertown and his daughter Dorothy 11, with Dennis McCarthy of 31 Putnam avenue Cambridge, were also hurt.
A British and a German submarine were in a brief encounter in the North Sea as the enemy crossed into British waters and waited to attack any passing ship.
A British submarine on a routine return from a long cruise intercepted an enemy sub. Surface encounter led to a dive, two torpedoes fired, and an observed explosion. One German captain survived, while the rest of the crew perished.
German shelling twice targeted American lines between Soissons and Rheims but failed to alter the front. Patrols continued with one American detachment reporting a German prisoner from the 17th Division. German aircraft increased activity over back areas.
Burlington Vermont Aug. 21 Two Vermont boys are reported among casualties with the Canadian expeditionary forces. Private Norman Walker of Barre aged 21 was killed in action July 25. He belonged to the Second Company 13th battalion Canadian Royal Highlanders. Private Samuel Jones of St Albans member of the First Company 24th Canadian battalion was wounded July 3.
Portland is hosting the Grand Army of the Republic encampment where Commander in Chief Or lando A Sommers says members await the return of their sons from war and credit Congress with a new pension law aiding needy veterans. He calls aid for Civil War nurses and officers are to be elected.
Roy Goggin 18, the son of Captain Patrick F Goggin of Boston Engine 4, has been commended for gallantry with Company Pr 1024 Machine Gun Battalion in repelling a German attack at Leiche prey on April 20. A citation copy was received by his father.
A September enlistment notes the unit’s lineage as Troop D Roxbury Horse Guards. The item highlights a historic regiment linked to early Boston military heritage and its continued service.
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