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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1918
Page
3
Captain Andre Tardieu, Trench high commissioner to the United States, returns from France and says the Entente faces its hardest war period, but also a chance for decisive results if they play well. He will travel to Washington tomorrow.
Captain Tardieu arrives in America last May and returns to France in November to keep his title six months. He predicts a winter German attack but remains confident it will be another Verdun. He appeals for men wheat oil ships and locomotives from the United States and praises Colonel House and the Inter allied conference. He notes the French and British armies are superb and the American army grows stronger daily. He declines a cabinet post to keep his commissionership.
Advertisement claims daily pains from rheumatism and kidney bladder trouble can be cured by a 75 cent bottle of Williams Treatment. Offers a free 75 cent bottle and free book on uric acid after sending name, address, and 12 cents for distribution costs to The Williams Co. Dept 610H Hampton Conn.
A Massachusetts country physician asks if his wife’s corporation bond income must be reported and how to compute federal tax. Officials explain deductions for auto costs depreciation interest taxes bad debts and depreciation on rented farms. The example shows a 1917 return with a $3.98 tax and payment deadline June 15 at Collector Malley’s office.
The 1917 income tax requires reporting salaries and commissions received during the year. If December 1917 pay arrives in January 1918, it counts as 1917 income. Salary earned in 1917 but paid in 1918 is 1918 income. Commissions received in 1917 are 1917 income.
Fire swept two Water Street tenements in Fitchburg today, forcing 21 families from their homes. Sixteen people on the upper floors were rescued by volunteers as smoke and flames trapped residents including Mrs Biagio Romano and her four small children. Property damage estimated at 40000 dollars. cause undetermined.
Utica New York January 1 Walter N Kernan the Knights of Columbus commissioner who has returned from France to organize overseas relief staff received a New Year greeting from General Pershing. He wrote Please accept for the members of your organization my most cordial holiday greetings Let us enter the new year with full confidence of the righteousness of our cause and the success of our arms.
A letter to the Post argues the poultry industry faces high feed costs that outpace egg price gains. The writer notes corn and bran prices have more than doubled while egg prices rose only modestly, risking a collapse of hens in the Eastern U.S. poultry sector.
George Eb Kuling of Douglas Massachusetts records a 4 6 price per hundred pounds of corn on December 29 1917. The terse entry notes the date location and buyer seller names in a local price log.
Miss Annie H. Pierce was appointed acting register of probate in Portland today replacing Henry A. Peabody who joined the National Guard last July. Peabody is at Fort Oglethorpe Ga. and Miss Pierce will turn over to him the salary of 2000 dollars.
A man about 63 years old collapsed and died yesterday afternoon in front of the Forest Hills Hotel on Hyde Park Avenue Forest Hills.
An old advertisement touts a product labeled Bromo Quinine as a cure for grip and related ailments. It features E. W. Grove’s signature on the box and promotes the remedy as the sole Bromo Quinine option.
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