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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1918
Page
7
A Boston retailer separates merchandise and service costs, instituting a 10 cent delivery fee in greater Boston and 50 cent monthly charge for usage of charge accounts. The policy targets only users, aiming to lower overall merchandise prices by cutting expenses and moving charges off regular cash customers.
Washington December 3. The War Department turned over one hundred De Haviland tours and 12 Handley Page airplanes to the Postoffice Department for use in the air mail service. De Havilands will carry 400 pounds of mail and be altered to hold 1200 pounds. Handley Page planes are bombing craft capable of carrying a ton or more.
In Watertown New York authorities report eleven members of the bow section crew of the freighter Mineola are aboard following an incident. Details are scarce as investigations continue and official statements are expected later today.
An executive order announces a four year armory commission. Members include Adjutant General George McPherson as chairman, Major Philip F. Chapman of Portland in the Third Maine Infantry, Captain Burleigh Martin of Augusta in the Third Maine Infantry, Colonel Albert J. Stearns of Norway, and John R. Trimble of Calais.
Washington December 3. The Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board awards a ten percent raise in piece work pay for riveters chippers caulkers drillers and rovers in steel shipyards along the Atlantic coast Delaware River Gulf coast and Great Lakes.
An advertisement presents United States Judge Atkinson praising Nuxated Iron as a tonic to restore energy and vitality after winter. He argues it increases appetite and red blood cell production, urging readers to test it by taking five grain tablets three times daily after meals for two weeks and compare strength. The note claims easy assimilation and a money-back guarantee.
A Brockton couple tied the knot after a three week romance sparked in New York City's subway maze. Miss Mary Adams, a yeoman, married Ensign J. T. Collins of the Naval Academy at Annapolis. The bride plans to resume duties after a short honeymoon as her husband continues his studies.
The Boston Sunday Post will publish next week an article by H. F. Wheeler detailing General Pershing's earlier tough training days facing western Indian challenges. It portrays Pershing as a leader who made good then as he does now in facing the Hun.
United States Employment Service in Massachusetts aims to place returning soldiers and sailors. State Director Everett W. Lord and advisory board urge local welfare groups and councils to cooperate and organize community efforts. Lord spoke to thousands at Camp Devens about the plan, noting 900 applications already filed since Devens office opened.
The National War Labor Board ruled that the Cleveland Railway must dismiss 150 women within 80 days. After hearing with Mayor Ravis, the board said women are not needed for operation and urged the company to pay affected women for a full month and ordered men to resume work.
An ad claims indigestion causes sour risings and pain and promotes Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets at 50 cents per box as the reliable remedy available at drug stores in the United States or Canada. The copy urges readers to continue eating and let the tablets straighten the stomach to keep in the fight.
New York December 3 peace time readjustment of wages and bonuses will be discussed in Washington tomorrow by officials of the government steamship companies and craft unions. The talks cover over 10 000 deck and engine room officers and thousands of seamen and firemen with wage scales based on 25 per cent 50 per cent and 75 per cent bonuses for coastwise overseas and war zone voyages likely to be discontinued and vessel re classifications possibly altering current pay structures.
Chicago officials of the Western Confectionery Salesmen's Association reported that candy prices will remain high for at least a year due to costly sugar and other ingredients and higher wages. N L Towle, vice president, stated that reductions to prewar levels are unlikely within the near term.
H F Wheeler recounts General Pershing’s unexpected encounter with a group that would be called a jazz band. The tale unfolds in The Real Life of General Pershing and hints at a vivid, humorous episode from long ago.
Washington December 3. War Department continues to receive lists of Americans in German prison camps though most men in camps have been released. Lt Philip G Chesbro of North Adams and Carl Vaughan of Shrewsbury were reported to have been in a Rastatt hospital. Other New England men named include Maurice Yalen of Hartford at Hammelbury and several others listed as being in good health at various camps with locations such as Darestadt Rastatt and Camp Rastatt.
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