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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1916
Page
11
A brave American earned the Victoria Cross for crawling into a danger zone on his stomach to save a wounded officer. The daring act highlights civilian bravery and battlefield peril faced by servicemen in wartime Bostonian reports.
Chicago's Wire Hair Terrier owned by Mrs. A H Crawford won top honors among 850 entrants at Mechanics' Building in Chicago for the Eastern Dog Club show. Champion Vickery Brockley Miss Circuit led finals as crowds of society folk watched, with sales of prize stock marked by a $1000 French bulldog sale to Francis J. Oakes Jr.
Muggy and rainy weather yesterday left Boston in a dismal mood for Thanksgiving. Families, facing high turkey prices, turn to chicken goose pork and other meats to offset the holiday, but the overall gloom persisted despite substitutes.
On resumption of federal Parliament Premier Hughes said the government would persist in aiding Great Britain and its allies with men and commodities despite the conscription defeat. An opposition no confidence motion failed 46 to 21.
An advertisement touts Musterole a white mustard ointment for sore muscles joints and throat pain. It claims rapid soothing relief with no blistering and compares favorably to old fashioned plasters. The copy highlights wide uses from rheumatism to colds.
Captain Oscar Jostoon and crew of the American schooner William P Hood reported the abandonment off Fastnet Light on the Irish coast. They were rescued by the British steamer North Cambria after being picked up on November 6.
Mrs Aubrey W Mann of 33 Taft Street Medford suffered a wrenched ankle and facial cuts while her 5 year old son Alfred Mann was cut about the right eye and face when the machine they rode in with Mr Mann collided with a car driven by Louis S Payson of 835 Main Street Stoneham yesterday afternoon.
About two hundred inmates including the accused Shawmut National Bank thief Therek were entertained in the jail chapel as warders hired professional performers. The event brought laughter from Therek who faces trial for a serious crime and his wife was not present. New York planned a Diagnostic Hospital to cost 200000 dollars to diagnose unidentified ailments and refer patients to specialists or return them to their general practitioner with a full diagnosis and treatment plan.
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The article reports prisoners at the Charles Street jail receiving meals of real jail-grown chicken with vegetables fruit and pie. A local candy firm donated 100 pounds of chocolates and bonbons and Winthrop Murray Crane with Mrs Lovejoy of Cambridge supplied 380 pounds of tobacco for the male inmates.
Uncle Sam provided a turkey dinner to soldiers at harbor forts yesterday. Many sailors and guardsmen reportedly accepted meals with simple gratitude, despite mild complaints about menus and portions.
In Boston area garrison life shows morale as coast artillery cadets finish a hearty turkey dinner. Soldiers report stomach aches but agree the meal was worth the effort and reflects shared camaraderie after training.
The German liners in refuge did not observe Thanksgiving Day as a holiday. Work continued for many, though some were granted shore leave to dine with friends. Authorities noted they had celebrated the German last day a week earlier when no work occurred.
Joseph Leslie Bush of the Athletics pitching staff won a $7800 damage suit in Brainerd Minnesota on November 15. The case charged him with running down and killing Louis Miller a Northern Pacific flagman in an automobile. M F Ryan defended Bush whose home is in Philadelphia.
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