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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1918
Page
7
Washington reports official Pershing figures show 66,892 American expeditionary force casualties not printed, with 64,862 wounded including many minor cases. Marine corps totals of 1,202 killed and over 4,000 wounded already published are excluded from this count.
Military casualty figures show 64,862 wounded and 350 missing or prisoners. Killed in action, died of wounds, died of disease, and other causes total 1680.
Mrs. Louis Ross of Brookline reports that tobacco cigarettes chocolate candy and fruit have been distributed to returning wounded from overseas on transports by Y M C A secretaries aboard ships including Finland Antigone Pocahontas Aeolus Kroonland Madawaska Powhatan Pastores Princess Matoika Mercury Susquehanna Huron der Nederlanden Rijndam Martha Washington Zeelandia Tenadores. The fund is nearly exhausted though many wounded remain to be returned. Further contributions welcome with no overhead charges and goods purchased at wholesale prices distributed on board by Y M C A.
An old advertisement touts a cold remedy promising to stop cough and headache with Laxative Quinine tablets. It mentions a signature on the box and a price around 3 to 6 cents, reflecting a period tone and catalog style.
A 75 pound toe dancer of note has toured Canada and the United States. At 14 she walked on her toes up and down the steps of Bunker Hill Monument. The small performer, shoe size 13 1 2, acts in both amateur and professional theatre and now works as a telephone operator in a large shoe firm. She makes all her clothes and hats and has many friends across the city.
Director General McAdoo announced that five years of government control would enable significant cuts to freight and passenger rates within the coming year without cutting railroad wage scales, as this could be achieved without altering current pay.
H F Wheeler writes of Pershing's fighting style shown in Cuba and the Philippines in The Real Life of General Pershing, to be presented next week in the Boston Sunday Post.
Dr. John A. Pettey of Brockton, the city's first physician to enter military service, has been promoted to captain according to information received today.
Washington Dec 19 Retention of the proving ground at Aberdeen Md and gradual development of the government ordnance plant at Neville Island Penn to full wartime scope are definite War Department projects. Assistant Secretary Crowell in charge of surplus war material said there is no disposition to abandon either establishment.
The Neville Island project contemplates a 65 million dollar plant to furnish new facilities for big gun manufacture including 18 inch or larger rifles if needed. It will also produce forgings already obtained from private firms and is planned to develop gradually with annual appropriations. Aberdeen ground spans 26 000 acres with 15 000 test rounds daily and a 60 mile range. The government will retain ongoing ordnance work at Aberdeen, while encouraging private enterprise.
The Dorchester School Centre hosts a Christmas program in the Dorchester High assembly hall led by an amalgamated 40 piece orchestra under George E. Dickinson. Soloists Miss Olive Gould Lauppe and Thomas F. Clifford perform as the audience sings carols. A children’s matinee follows with films Amarilly of Clothesline Alley and The Night Before Christmas. Dancing classes led by Miss Marion Owen hold a 2 PM reception in the gym. Mothers and Homemakers' Club elects Mrs Mary E. Hanly president with officers and directors named.
The estate of George Ehret, a wealthy New York brewer, seized by alien property custodian A. Mitchell Palmer while Ehret was in Germany, has been restored to him by Attorney-General Gregory. The announcement was made here tonight by Francis P. Garvin, Palmer’s managing director.
A brief promotional note urges using Horlick's the original Malted Milk when a nourishing diet is required, highlighting its trusted formula and suitability for sustaining strength and health.
Argentina recalls its minister to Mexico Manuel Kk Malloran who will depart by December 21. Mexico recalls acting charge d affaires Manuel Garcia Jurado of Santiago to brief Mexico on Chilean ministry affairs.
Paris December 19 President Poincare received an American flag from Rodman Wanamaker chairman of New Yorks citizen committee Wanamaker announced at a November 15 New York dinner for French and Belgian war missions that flags would be presented to President Poincare and King Albert of Belgium The event highlights continued US sympathy for France and Belgium during wartime exchanges between nations and civic leaders
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