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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1918
Page
4
Professor Elwood K. Spear told the Daughters of Massachusetts at Brunswick that Americans did not invent gas warfare or masks, but improved them when required. He noted German masks were poor, French masks fair, and British inventions superior, and demonstrated several masks tested in warfare.
New York December 12 Dr Adolph Henry Ney of Scarsdale NY a consulting chemist was arrested by Department of Justice agents for failure to register as an enemy alien He was born in Nuremberg Germany 42 years ago and served 18 months in the German army Ney said his reason was to protect his earnings from reduced capacity and argued he was American in his stance against Germany during the war
Postmaster General Burleson released a letter from Theodore N. Vail of American Telephone and Telegraph announcing the Bell System has developed a practical multiplex telephony and telegraphy system. It enables a many fold increase in long distance wire capacity for messages.
Mr Vail describes a new multiplex system enabling five conversations on a single wire pair and ten on two pairs, with potential for 40 telegraph messages. The method, still evolving, suits long lines and allows mixed use for telephone and telegraph, already tested between Baltimore and Pittsburgh with government and industry officials favoring the results.
An advertisement touts Laxative Aromo Quining tablets to cure a cold in one day. It claims to stop coughing and headache and combat the cold, with F. W. Grove's signature on each box and a 30Cc bottle size.
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