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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1919
Page
12
Doctors advocate metal work in European hospitals as soothing therapy for shell shock. Soldiers craft tin can artifacts including candle-sticks book-ends water-pipes and toys. A photo shows a toy automobile built from discarded cans with parts from common containers.
Combined casualty releases from the War Department for the country number 1663 names, a decrease of almost 600 against yesterday. Fatalities for the day total 111 for all forces, most killed in action or died of disease.
A list of 116 New Englanders includes 9 fatalities with Lt Edward A Lara bee of 402 Main Street Bedford leading those who died of disease and Nurse Luella M Wheeler of 65 Dorset Street South Burlington Vermont also among the dead. The roster shows killed wounded and missing divided into categories with notes on wounds accidents and missing in action.
Official casualty list includes numerous names from New England and surrounding states with ranks and home addresses. The long roster lists privates, corporals, sergeants, and officers from Rhode Island through Maine, noting killed in action, died of wounds, or died of disease. Major individuals include Lt Edward A. Larabee of Bedford and Nurse Luella M. Wheeler of South Burlington, with many others from towns in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, and beyond.
A long OCR list presents numerous individuals with addresses across New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Maine and Rhode Island. The section names various Corp and Pt entries followed by street addresses and towns including Bedford Concord Manchester Holyoke Worcester Cambridge Providence Exeter Liberty and more. The fragment includes a missing in action note and multiple partial place names and misspellings indicating a wartime or community notice listing residents by location and rank or status.
The new bascule bridge over the Thames River in New London connects to the New York New Haven & Hartford line. Built at 2.5 million dollars, the structure uses 5700 tons of steel and was opened today.
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