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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 1917
Page
6
Many draft boards report questionnaires for physical examination and discharge or exemption are returned as registrants have left their old addresses without notifying their boards of their current whereabouts.
The local draft board division 6 South End reports 1200 questionnaires sent to registrants received back unanswered. District 6, a cosmopolitan lodging area with many transient residents, faces serious potential penalties for noncompliance and possible loss of deferred classification. Dr. Gooding urges registrants who did not receive their forms to visit district headquarters for questionnaires.
William Bullock, director of the Bureau of City Inquiry, sues Mayor John T. Mitchel in New York alleging 40 libelous statements during the mayoral campaign. Each print claim seeks $10,000 in damages.
A survey of recent books about Russia and the war era highlights Boris Savinkov’s What Never Happened, Catherine Breshkovsky’s Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution, and Inside the Russian Revolution by Rheta Childe Dorr. It also reviews Christmas themed works, war fiction from Mundy and Burroughs, Spanish and Canadian wartime stories, and analyses of German aims and industry.
Advertising copy touts LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE as the world renowned cold cure used by all nations. Claims high US sales and a quarter century record with Grove’s signature on the box. Cash price listed as 0 cents.
The War Trade Board bans butter exports to nations at war with the United States and urges butter makers to stop using certain packaging for shipments to the orient tropics and other countries not allied with the United States.
The Boston Metropolitan Chapter sells Red Cross Christmas trees at 61 Massachusetts Avenue corner of Commonwealth to aid war work. Trees arrive from Hinsdale in various sizes and are priced from 75 cents to 5 dollars with a few premium ones above three dollars. All proceeds support the Boston Metropolitan Chapter.
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