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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1918
Page
3
The New England Paper Merchants Association and the War Industries Board urge strict paper conservation. Readers will receive pledge cards to sign, affirming careful use and avoidance of waste to support government needs and conserve coal, labor, capital, and freight cars for the war.
Mrs. Frank Boyce Tupper, office manager of the Home Service Section, urges volunteer clerical workers for the Boston Metropolitan Chapter Red Cross. She warns that without volunteers, young women may be drafted for essential war work at relief agencies like the Red Cross.
Helen learns a lesson in unasked love as Mabel Herbert Urner previews the upcoming Marriage of Helen and Warren in next Sunday's Post Magazine with a focus on romance and social expectations.
Union street carmen threaten a midnight strike on the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway if executives do not accept a Howland recommendation to submit the entire wage dispute to the War Labor Board. Negotiations with Willard Howland, President Richards, and the railway board stalled after three meetings, with a 24 hour postponement granted to seek referral to the National War Labor Board.
Campaign show card for Colonel William A. Gaston shows three red stars indicating two sons and a son in law serving the country. The card proclaims Democratic nomination for war Governor with a Wilson support message and a portrait flanked by phrases Efficient capable progressive. Campaign committees across the state collected large quantities at Gaston headquarters at 35 Congress street yesterday. Primaries set for Sept. 24, 1918.
Washington reports the complete failure of General Horvath the anti Bolshevist leader to set up a dictatorship in Siberia. Allies representatives at Vladivostok intervened to uphold the authority of the new government there.
Despatches report General Pleshkoff traveled to Vladivostok to seize power and crown General Horvath in Siberia. The Vladivostok government panicked, but Allied representatives acted quickly and the coup collapsed, averting a potential crisis in the Russian Far East.
General Pleshkoff warned that allied powers will not support any government that defies popular will. General Horvath, a Czar appointee, long led the Russian-Manchurian Railroad in the far east and aligned with revolutionaries after the Czar's overthrow. He has since fought Bolsheviks and German Austrian prisoners of war.
James Rolph, mayor of San Francisco, surged into the lead in California governor race as corrected figures from 3213 of 6303 precincts showed him 91,748 votes to Governor William D. Stephens 83,514.
General Pershing issues an order praising the American expeditionary forces first and third corps and multiple divisions for pivotal battles in France. He notes Allied cooperation, sacrifices, and the turning point victory on July 18, while honoring fallen comrades and urging all units to hear the message.
The executive committee yesterday voted a 6 percent dividend for stockholders with payment set for September 1. The action is announced by Tre Mont Trust Company in a brief corporate note.
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