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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 28, 1917
Page
10
Charles S. Baxter of the Soldiers Information Bureau warns relatives of soldiers that no attorney fee is needed to obtain government benefits. The advisory urges caution against paying brokers or lawyers for help in securing due payments from the United States government.
Mr Baxter states the government has departments led from Boston handling all war situations. He cites the Soldiers Information Bureau created to shield relatives from graft and urges relatives to inquire there for service information. He recalls a Fitchburg case where a mother of a deceased overseas soldier received solicitations from out of state attorneys offering services to claim arrears, dependency, allotment and war insurance.
Despatches from Florianopolis report a large group of German conspirators arrested after a plot to overthrow local authorities was uncovered. The arrestees were armed and had meetings claiming to be part of a German society. Florianopolis lies on the southern Brazilian coast in Santa Catarina.
About 200 national army men who left during the curtailed Christmas furlough face potential sentences of hard labor. Officials tabulate names and decide charges of absent without leave or disobedience. All were captured and returned. fines and travel, meal, and guard hotel expenses are due. Temperature plunged to 21 below zero, rising to 2 below, hindering drills. The Boston Symphony Orchestra plans a concert at the YMCA. Gas tests and medical classes are announced for staff officers at Boston facilities.
The ad lists pricing for the Sunday Post with 3 months for 90c and a yearly rate at 3.50, alongside a 20c Sunday edition price. It emphasizes value for regular readers and long-term subscriptions.
Twenty five enlisted men and non commissioned officers of the 3s01st Engineers Regiment were selected at Camp Devens to attend the Engineer Officers Training School at Camp Lee Virginia. The group includes Sergeants Jackson Lyon Lawson Delano Dunbar Ebbs and others from Providence Newport Boston Plattsburg Somerville and nearby towns. The program offers a path to commissioned officer berths for selective draftees.
Two East Boston women were arrested by Special Officer James J. Driscoll for stealing $60 from Daniel I. Wood. Miss Lillian Garrod, 23, and Mrs. Emma S. Morgan, 36, of 7 Morris Street, pleaded not guilty in East Boston District Court and were held in $300 bail each. Morgan posted bail. Garrod could not obtain surety.
General Pershing reported additional deaths from natural causes among the American expeditionary forces. The list includes Private Ralph T. Lashua of Lowell Massachusetts and Private John M McDonald of Dorchester Massachusetts, both due to cerebro spinal meningitis, with their next of kin named.
An advertisement promotes Fruit-a-tives as the only medicine made from fresh fruit juices. It claims benefits for stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys, and skin, offers 6 boxes for 2 dollars, and a 25 cent trial size, with ordering details for Fruit-a-tives Limited in Ogdensburg, New York.
Workmen from the cemetery department felled the first of about six dead elms at Old Granary Cemetery Tremont Street to provide cord wood for Mt Hope greenhouses. They estimate the tree over a century old, planted when Boston was a struggling colony, shading the tombs of patriots like Samuel Adams.
William Ward of Water town and James Doherty of Brighton were captured by State police near Camp Devens and charged with smuggling liquor into the training site. Authorities seized a quantity of liquor and turned them over to a U S Deputy Marshal for a federal grand jury inquiry.
M D of Boston argues against compulsory vaccination as unconstitutional and harmful. He cites Japan's 1908 smallpox surge and Germany's epidemic, claims 2000 unfvaccinated Olean, New York children in public schools, and urges a public discussion in the newspaper.
A charity dance at Summer Hall in East Boston will support the Navy Relief Fund for sailors families. Music from navy yard, Bumkin Island, and Commonwealth Pier musicians will back a military march at o'clock under Ensign Wilfred J Olsen and fellow East Boston sailors.
Rome dispatch reports British and Italian forces shot down eleven Austro German planes in a large air clash that began as the Teutons tried an unsuccessful assault on Treviso, sixteen miles north of Venice, according to the Italian war office.
Mail carrier Meeley at Sussex street station found a Christmas day cash amount between 40 and 60 dollars in a purse inside a mailbox at Hollis and Washington streets. He turned it in to post office authorities. If unclaimed, the finder may claim under finder’s keepers law after a verification exam to prove ownership.
A New Hampshire reader attacks bird hunters and claims game commissioners shoot cats to protect birds. The letter references 1917 Civil War era events and includes anecdotes about cats beloved by Julia Marlowe and other writers.
A reader from Falmouth expresses appreciation for the Boston Post’s animal stories about cats dogs and horses and opposes dog and cat legislation. He signs Chas S Bainicr and sends New Year greetings dated December 25 1917.
Boston and Maine unfurled a service flag at North Station concourse honoring employees who joined the colors. The flag bears the number 1559, representing the total employees in service as of December 1.
Abraham Lincoln cared for three motherless kittens amid civil war turmoil. Mrs. Huntington Smith of the Animal Rescue League cited the anecdote as an example of a great man's affection for cats during hardship.
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