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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1917
Page
9
President outlines war aims stressing high principles and democratic preservation. He calls Congress to prosecute the war vigorously while potentially addressing rail and transport coordination. He condemns Central Powers and asserts a just settlement aligned with liberty, democracy, and moral purpose.
A reader shares a simple home recipe to darken gray hair using 7 oz water, Barbo Compound, 1 oz bay rum, and 1/4 oz glycerine. The mixture is applied every other day until the desired shade, leaving hair soft and glossy without stickiness or rubbing off.
Fulton resident Nellie Phelps details relief from female weakness after trying Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says doctors offered no cure but the remedy restored health, enabling her to work again. Public notices promote a Carnival at Wolf's My Clothier with double legal stamps and holiday shopping bargains in Boston.
The Congress of Vienna met from September 1814 to June 1815 to settle Europe’s affairs after the Napoleonic wars. Attended by rulers of Russia Prussia Austria Denmark and Bavaria and by representatives of England France and Belgium.
Washington reports that a formal declaration of war with Austria-Hungary follows months of de facto conflict. Officials note Austria’s role as Germany’s ally, with Austrian submarines and diplomats aiding wartime aims. The move aims to unify command and end German-Austrian-Flag deception while targeting the broader war effort.
Department of Justice ties the trial Workers of the World to German methods. Secret service traced von Papen and 30y-Ed through Austrian consular channels in the United States. Officials and Congress members have urged a declaration of war for months.
James Reilly managing editor of the Wall Street Journal died in a New Jersey hospital from burns and exposure. He fell ill at his Ridgewood home Thanksgiving morning while preparing to travel to Washington and collapsed after vertigo. He was alone when he summoned help, later found with severe back burns and cold exposure as furnace fires burned out.
Miss Margaret McLeod of 97 Crawford street Roxbury was held up and robbed on Humboldt avenue near Seaver street last night. An unknown man grabbed her struck her and tore away her pocketbook containing money and valuables. She fought back forcing the robber to flee through Franklin Park woods. he has not been caught.
Christmas mail for the troops began arriving in the American zone with a thousand sacks in one town. Packages bore inscriptions like Open at Christmas as the American post offices plan to keep mails moving to quartered troops and prevent congestion from heavy volumes.
The British steamer Apapa was torpedoed and sunk with eighty passengers and crew perishing. About 120 passengers survived. Reports say the submarine fired on women and children in open boats. Apapa, 7832 tons gross, built in Glasgow in 1914, owned by the African Steamship Company.
The foreign office announced after the inter allied conference in Paris that the United States joined in agreements based on complete understanding and close solidarity among the allies. A supreme inter allied naval committee was also decided upon to oversee common war interests.
The interallied general staff was stated to be working on a definite military programme designed to place unity of action in the path of certain realizations.
Reports from the front say German attacks near Cambrai yielded heavy losses for the attackers with thousands of British prisoners and over 100 guns taken, while British forces hold a stronger line and prepare for potential renewed offensives. The Austro-German assault on the Italian front has not yet materialized, though artillery remains active along the Piave front.
President Wilson's address to Congress was transmitted globally via express trains telegraph telephone wireless and submarine cable. An operator in New York sent it to San Francisco with Spanish translation to Colon, Panama, radiating across Central and South America. About 35000 miles of wires were used.
About 2000 patrolmen, members of the Patrolmen's Benevolent Protective Association, plan to resign en masse on December 31 unless Philadelphia city council raises salaries to 1400 dollars a year. They represent roughly two thirds of the city police force, with other grievances noted but pay as the main issue.
A Rome cable reports the Russian embassy at the Quirinal and the legation at the Vatican have ceased recognition of the Lenine government. It notes the killing of General Dukhonin, Korniloff’s flight from Mohilev, and Krylenko’s message condemning the lynch act as the Bolshevik advance toppled Mohilev headquarters.
London dispatch reports Ensign Krylenko宣布 the Bolsheviks killed General Dukhonin in Petrograd after he refused to ask German forces for armistice terms. The official note confirms the in furiated killing by Bolshevik followers.
The weekly tally lists 169 officers killed or died of wounds and 6153 enlisted men. Wounded or missing numbers are 494 officers and 22006 enlisted men.
Malden will erect a new central fire station on the John Sprague lot at Sprague and Salem Streets. The project costs 45000 dollars with land valued at 16000 dollars. Aldermen approved five to one with Reuben Clark the sole opponent.
Walter Peterson of Lynn Massachusetts was arrested in Saco on negligent shooting charges in the case of Mrs. Raymond C. Burbank who was seriously wounded by shots fired from the woods near North Shapleigh while riding in an automobile last Friday. He was taken to Sanford by Sheriff Haven A. Roberts.
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