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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1918
Page
4
A mass meeting is to be arranged with participation by military and naval veterans, with Red Cross officers cooperating in planning the celebration. Ottawa reports that a top Canadian military officer will address the gathering.
A Boston area effort to honor Britain’s WWI role includes a mass meeting at Symphony Hall with British Canadian societies and dignitaries. The executive group led by Mayor Peters meets this afternoon to plan reports and overflow arrangements at Horticultural Hall.
Major John F. Murtagh of the U S A stationed at Governor's Island and former New York State Senator died at the Hotel Ansonia from poison taken by mistake for Rochelle salts. He became ill early this morning after sending a bellboy to fetch medicine.
Washington, Dec 1. Food Administration Hoover urged renewed public service through food conservation to aid 300 million hungry people in Europe and the USSR. He spoke as he prepared to bring relief supplies from Europe and called churches nationwide to observe the week.
The food administrator discussed the pledged Allied food relief and said the war ending does not release the US from aid. He urged feeding Belgians, French, Serbs, Romanians, Poles, Russians, Armenians, and newly liberated nations, noting 200 million people now rely on America for help. Brig Gen Cole is relieved of command and sent to Blois reclassification camp amid regimental realignments in the Yankee Division.
New York police department forms an aviation section headed by Colonel Jefferson Thompson. Aircraft will police rivers and harbors and assist in major fires or disasters.
An old advertisement promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle bowel and liver aid that freshens bad breath. The sugar coated tablets are described as a vegetable compound with olive oil, sold 10c and 25c per box by druggists.
Quincy Mayor Joseph L. Whiton asks the United States government to provide hospital, library, and school facilities for the growing shipbuilding population. He notes a 20 000 rise in residents over two years, 100 government built homes this year and 300 more soon, saying city limits cannot supply adequate care. Whiton, a re election candidate, helped create federal housing and tax measures for cities.
The article reports that Robert William G. Campbell son of an old English family faces a hearing after being jailed for allegedly wearing a British military uniform unlawfully. It notes discussions of gay parties in Back Bay homes costly entertainments in exclusive Boston clubs and other spectacular events related to his career.
A sensational social figure known as Ser geant Campbell is linked to a major English war time scandal. Captured by US Army intelligence in Springfield on November 12 he moved to Boston posing as an infantry sergeant. He impressed the socially prominent and stayed at top hotels while cashing dubious checks. He is described as about 80 with thick brown hair and a distinguished bearing. He is jailed in East Cambridge.
The city learned that a man named Campbell, a charming traveler with Boston as his base, evaded identity and impressed women with tales of English life. Shadowed by detectives, he was captured in Springfield and held by local police before being moved to the East Cambridge jail on orders from the assistant U S district attorney.
Derby Vermont resident Mrs. Harry E K Rice stands four feet seven and a half inches tall and weighs 79 pounds. She is mother to Forest Rice a 20 month old labeled a perfect baby. Rice knits sews and handles housework while in good health and unlikely to require larger than a size 13 shoe.
Edward P. McLaughlin former Alderman of Woburn dies of pneumonia after a one week illness. Aged about 107 Main Street Woburn he was in the contracting business with his father Dennis McLaughlin and mother Mary Healey. He leaves a wife two children three sisters and two brothers. The family formerly lived in Dorchester.
A Dover New Hampshire resident credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with calming nerves improving sleep and boosting health after fifteen years of nervous trouble. The ad promotesPink Pills as a blood nourishing tonic and lists diseases aided including neuralgia rheumatism and nervous debility. It invites readers to request a free home treatment booklet and states prices 50 cents per box or six boxes for 2 50.
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