Bears Three Wounds at 17 Private Frederick Fe Wilson
Private Frederick Fe Wilson sustains three wounds at age 17 amid unspecified duties. location and broader context not provided in the report. Further details incomplete in the available text.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1918
Page
5
Private Frederick Fe Wilson sustains three wounds at age 17 amid unspecified duties. location and broader context not provided in the report. Further details incomplete in the available text.
South Boston’s Private Frederick E F Wilson youngest soldier in the 1024 Machine Gun Battalion returns home at 665 Hast Second Street after three severe wounds and two gas exposures. He sailed last January, fought at the Marne Chateau Thierry and Argonne, then will report to Camp Merritt New Jersey following a furlough.
A vintage ad promoting Musterole as a quick sore throat relief ointment. It promises gentle penetration without blistering like mustard plasters and lists usos from bronchitis to rheumatism. Includes prices 30c 60c and hospital size $2.50.
Dr Eugene R Kelley, state health commissioner, says another Spanish flu epidemic like last October’s in Boston and New England will not return. He warns of minor recurrences over the next two to three years but none of the magnitude of the prior outbreak.
Boston reports 21 influenza and pneumonia deaths yesterday, down from 29 on Saturday. Authorities anticipate many illnesses are seasonable colds, with Christmas crowds blamed for the latest outbreak. Dr Bernard Carey notes the Chelsea Naval Hospital serum shows promise but remains experimental, requiring injections to patients early in illness.
Health officials spar over where Spanish influenza entered the United States with Dr Donald H Currie of the United States Health Service ill on Gallups Island and unable to respond to Dr Woodward’s charge. Kelley from the State Department of Health notes the disease entered widely and blaming any port is unlikely as ships fumigated and precautions failed to prevent spread to Alaska and Nome before the global outbreak.
The N Y N H & H railroad reversed overtime rules after four days causing a tense standoff at the Boston terminal. Managers Bardo and Smith have five days to reinstate the change or face drastic action affecting 700 clerks and 400 laborers at Boston freight terminals.
At a large meeting held at 724 Washington Street Wednesday, Old Colony Lodge of the Brotherhood of Railroad Clerks declared unanimous support for restoring time and a half overtime pay. International officers from other cities attended as officials noted similar treatment for fellow workers on the Boston and Maine and Boston and Albany systems and urged rail line management to rescind the countermanding order.
Three wholesale liquor dealers face noon deadline to grant a 35 percent wage rise for Wine Clerks Union No 3. Boston Labor Union educational committee reorganized with Michael A Murphy chairing and William Kolis secretary. Leather firm back pay under state award to be disbursed within 48 hours or workers strike. Bay State Street Railway pays about 140000 in back pay to 4000 streetcar men under War Labor Board. Print and Recreation Department Union officers elected. Red Cross drive progress noted. Massachusetts Engineers state branch re elected Herman Comerford. various local officers named. Lynn express drivers’ strike discussed. sub committee to investigate and visit Lynn.
American patrol boats with machine guns used in Soissons ply the Rhine under occupation. The 12-boat fleet includes 10 patrol craft one supply boat and the Prussian used by General Dickman. The Prussian, a top steam yacht, was requisitioned from Blenz district head mayor.
Professor Paul Miluicoft head of the Russian Constitutional Democrats and foreign minister in Premier Looff's cabinet arrives in Paris with Nicholas Schebeke former ambassador at Vienna and four other Russians.
A Russian mission in Paris aims to interest the Entente powers in restoring order in Russia and preventing a new government that would divide Russia. Milukoff nodes to Ukrainian resistance to Skoropadski and a plan to unite moderates, with Venikine forming a government at Yekaterinodar and collaboration with Kolchak. The group includes Gurko, Tretiakoff, Getoff, and Krovo poskoff, with Milukoff leading the Centre party. They seek support to curb Bolshevism and advance Russian interests at the peace conference.
A B Nl Burkhart photo captures a strange ice feature on Pallett Creek, Devil's Gulch, Sierra Madre region. At first it resembles laundry drying in wind, but spray from a nearby stream froze on bushes creating a natural freak of nature.
Professor Wilukoff told the Associated Press that the mission is not government appointed. He said no single government in Russia can speak for all, and the various political parties aim to obtain entente assistance to restore order.
Dr. George J. Vincent, president of the Rockefeller Foundation group, spoke at Old South Meeting House stressing international effort against yellow fever malaria and hookworm with malaria battles aided by government cooperation. He noted the board acts only on government invitations and cited a Halifax sailor pay delay caused by red tape, aided by a citizen who paid his fare and food until his pay arrived.
Count Rothanones the Spanish premier, who recently met President Wilson, was received this evening by President Poincare in Paris after a conference.
Mata nia vividly captures London scenes of the armistice signing in a remarkable drawing set to appear in the pictorial section of next week's Boston Sunday Post.
Among the graduates of the chaplains training school at Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville Ky is the Rev George Loring Thurlow pastor of the Lexington First Baptist Church who has been commissioned a chaplain and first lieutenant in the United States army On account of the rapid return of the army from France he has been assigned to the United States Reserves.
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