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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1918
Page
4
Advertising copy touts Cadum Ointment for tender infant and child skin. Claims quick itch relief from tetter rash eczema chafing and related troubles. Also promoted for pimples blotches scaly skin eruptions sores scabs cuts burns ringworm and insect bites.
Washington December 4 The War Industries Board withdrew all restrictions on news print paper effective December 15 Chairman Baruch urged publishers to adopt permanent rules to curb waste and conserve reading matter space voluntarily for a period Previously mandatory limits required a 15 percent cut in daily editions and 20 percent in Sunday editions Adamson's Cough Balsam advertisement notes a remedy for cold or cough.
A front page feature recounts letters from Boston children begging Santa for gifts as mothers toil and fathers are absent or ill. It details the Post Santa drive, urging readers to donate to provide bundles of joy for needful youngsters, with hundreds of contributors listed and notes on receipts and timing.
Local items report William Gaffney’s larceny conviction and reformatory sentence after arraignment in Central Court, Lucy Burke’s marriage to Sergeant Austin Freeley at St Joseph’s Church, and banker James Sullivan’s probate inventory of 761647.17. Malden man James Cameron died of gas, autopsy planned. Plus travel talks on London 1918, Lazaro concert, fare hearings, express fraud warning, school heating hearings, Jewish Massachusetts pledge, Harvard sing, War Drive funds, Whipple lecture, Strand Theatre Sunday concerts, and St Mark’s Club concert and mass meeting.
The shipping board commissioners ordered abandonment of the Cleveland merchant marine training base. The Missouri training ship will be returned to Northern Michigan Transportation Company of Chicago. About 300 men have completed training locally and 150 will be sent to Boston. Officers will be reassigned as Great Lakes stations close for winter.
The National Security League executive committee urged Secretary Daniels to station warships at all ports of debarkation to salute incoming transports. It also approved a telegram to Secretary Baker urging use of local draft boards as the final medium of demobilization.
Washington December 4 Representative Carter Glass of Virginia, long-time chair of the House banking and currency committee, is understood to have been offered the post of Secretary of the Treasury by President Wilson. Senate confirmation is expected if he accepts, with Glass reluctant to abandon his 18 years in Congress. The administration has prepared the nomination, and Secretary McAdoo is to resign upon his successor’s appointment.
H. F. Wheeler recounts General Pershing and a then unnamed jazz band in The Real Life of General Pershing, to be published in next week's Boston Sunday Post. The anecdote blends history with entertainment as Pershing’s early encounters with music are explored.
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