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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1918
Page
3
A clipped ad style notice promotes Adamson's Balsam as a guaranteed remedy for a rasping graveyard cough. The fragment implies a medicinal sales pitch typical of period classifieds.
In Central Court yesterday, Charles Hurlihy of Rutherford Avenue Charlestown and John Berkeman of Jacques Street Somerville were fined 75 and 50 dollars respectively for milk below standard with cream removed. The Kelsey Company 1569 Washington Street and Automat Company were fined 15 dollars each for low standard milk. John Gregory 252 Massachusetts Avenue and Thomas L. Berrard Pinckney Street were fined 10 dollars each on milk charges.
Pittsfield reports the death of Michael Reynolds a Civil War veteran and Boston native who served five years in the army with the 49th Massachusetts Infantry and the 4th Cavalry and collapsed in the street today.
Secretary of War Baker writes to Charles Evans Hughes disputing a draft board ruling that marriages since May 18 for men of draft age are slackers. He says boards must decide each case on its merits and marriage remains lawful under the selective service law.
Dr. Alfred L. S. Morand aged 80 a former acting assistant surgeon of the United States army and longtime physician in South Boston died yesterday in Chelsea Hospital after a long career in medicine.
At Camp Devens on January 30 Colonel Frank Tompkins, commander of the 301st Infantry Regiment, ordered dogs barred from the camp confines. He cited food conservation and disease prevention, and said the ban prevents abandoning animals when troops move, noting War Department regulations forbid taking dogs along.
Companies across the camp march in new overshoes issued rapidly. Professor Richard Fo Nelliean, boxing instructor, has been offered a captain’s commission. Professor Nel ligan, on leave from Amherst College for a year, may take army duty but declined to discuss it. Thomas H. Cooper of gi Hast Third.
Street in South Boston lies at the Base Hospital suffering severe blood poisoning from a bruised foot. Colonel Frank Tompkins orders that only wood be burned in company cook stoves for breakfast, with prisoners on wood piles and coal use limited to dinner. A wedding presages Boston Brookline ties as Captain Norman F Lovett plans to wed Christine Lystone Rose in Geneva New York Trinity Church.
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