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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1917
Page
11
Christian Lantz of Salem, chairman of the Salem rehabilitation committee, will head reconstruction work in Halifax. The appointment comes from the National Red Cross on the recommendation of John F. Moors, who is in Halifax directing Red Cross aid.
Arrangements are in hand for a Dorchester School Centre Mothers Club bazaar to be held next Thursday afternoon in Codman Square Library. Proceeds go to the Red Cross. The club annually hosts a one day fair for charity and a Christmas tree event is planned for Dorchester High on Friday December 21. Admission is free. Two Provincetown fishermen are believed lost after a gale. Manuel Isidore and Joseph Tanes went to sea in a dory as the storm hit and the craft washed ashore today. Tanes was married on Thanksgiving Day.
A letter from F. A. Pope of the 103d Regiment Field Artillery praises Private George J. Gould of C Battery 101st Regiment for bravery. The 19 year old Brighton native helped capture eight German prisoners while with the American Expeditionary Forces.
A Boston soldier on outpost duty challenged advancing Germans who refused to halt. He fired, sent one enemy to the ground, and the rest halted, allowing him to march them back to quarters. He is to receive the Medal of Honor for his actions.
Washington Dec. 14 Representative Frear Republican of Wisconsin urged the House to act on President Wilsons recommendation to return to the prior practice of drafting all appropriation bills through a single committee to prevent waste and extravagance in handling public funds.
A special school board meeting is set for tomorrow to decide closing public schools in January as a fuel conservation measure. The city has coal on hand to last through the winter due to earlier purchases.
Walter P. Rock daughter? No. Walter P. Rock, son of Mr and Mrs George F Rock, died at City Hospital from a fractured skull after coasting into a street car on King street. Frank H Bullock remains on dangerous list with fractured skull and other injuries from the same incident.
The schooner Jackson and Arthur and the ship Grace Clin ton suffered damage at the same wharf during a 75 mile gale. The Sea C was sunk at moorings and the L. B. Windsor ashore after a stone bulkhead collision. A piazza fell, a greenhouse glass area broke, a 5 foot willow tree collapsed through a roof, and Manuel Rio’s barn, plus the town standpipe cover, were blown down.
London reports a Times correspondent estimates about 150 German divisions on the western front with 79 on the eastern front and more youths aged 19 to 35 being pulled to the west. The piece notes shortages, predicts a half million fresh German troops and urges Allied and British measures to delay a central powers victory until American forces arrive.
The Navy reports Gunner Arthur B. Toerpe and Seaman Thomas J. Rose drowned when a naval patrol vessel was struck by a steamer at an Atlantic port. Seven others, including one officer, were rescued. Toerpe’s mother lives in Oak Park Illinois and Rose’s father in Baltimore. The Navy also confirmed a small submarine chaser was rammed and sunk off the Atlantic coast last Tuesday with crew saved.
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