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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1918
Page
6
The battleships Maine Missouri and Wisconsin, on duty off the Atlantic coast, entered New York Harbor for the grand review of the nation s fighting ships. They will join the fleet and four other vessels near Solace to greet the American fleet returning from the North Sea.
Resinol ointment soothes mosquito bites insect stings wind and sunburn and is sold by all dealers. The Resinol shaving stick reduces need for other soothing lotions for men.
Washington December 22 about 300 units of the Reserve Officers Training Corps created by the 1916 act will be established immediately at colleges and schools. The War Department announced. During the war the plan was to develop at least 50,000 reserve officers, but the program was abandoned in favor of the Students Army Training Corps which is nearing demobilization.
New rules would allow reserve officers training corps to specialize by army branch including artillery engineer signal ordnance air service and medical corps instead of a single infantry focus. About 115 units existed before the war with 100 reestablished and 200 additional schools signaling participation. A war plans division committee will oversee the corps and select instructors with relevant war service qualifications.
The Handel and Haydn Society gave its 139th Boston Messiah yesterday at Symphony Hall with Emil Mollenhauer conducting. The soloists were Mabel Garrison, Merle Alcock, Arthur Hackett, and Arthur Middleton, backed by a 400-voice chorus and the Boston Festival Orchestra conducted by John W. Crowley.
Lewiston Maine December 22 The death at his home last night of Frank Gutman agent of the Worumbo mills at Lisbon Falls was announced today He was 86 years of age He is survived by a son and a daughter.
Congressman Michael F. Phelan of Lynn has replaced Carter Glass as head of the pivotal House committee on finance, becoming the new Secretary of the Treasury.
Congressman Michael F. Phelan of Massachusetts becomes chairman of the House committee on banking and currency succeeding Carter Glass. The move places a Democrat from Massachusetts in charge of key financial legislation including a bill enabling national banks to contribute 6 million dollars to the United War Work Campaign.
At 4 30 a.m. Patrolman John J Reardon and Reserve Officer Francis J Cullian of the Athens street South Boston police station found Nellie Quann and her two daughters Ellen seven and Mary four unconscious in a burning first floor tenement at 21 Athens street. They dragged them outside and provided first aid until an ambulance arrived. The fire started in the kitchen from an undetermined cause and caused about 76 dollars in damage.
In this WWI vignette by H C Witwer, a Yankee pitcher-turned-soldier in France declares his plan to marry his French sweetheart Jeanne before heading to the front. The couple wed with Father McCarty, as comrades cheer, and the narrator earns a future promotion while promising to return with news for the gang.
Major-General George Barnett delivers a public Christmas message to Marine officers and men praising their bravery and sacrifice in World War I battles at Chateau Thierry Belleau Wood Villers-Cotterets St Mihiel Blanc Mont and Sedan. He honors Semper Fidelis and asserts the corps helped secure peace and good will.
Washington December 22 regulations limiting bread meat sugar butter and cheese in public eating places in effect since October 21 were rescinded by the food administration effective tomorrow The move aims to replace specific rules with a general appeal for conservation to aid relief for distressed European civilians public eating places urged to be ready to implement future measures as needed due to world developments
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