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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 03, 1918
Page
9
The Summer Social Register shows little effect from a month ago submarine scare on seashore resorts. Families remain at summer places, and about one third of socially prominent people in service have gone abroad. Of 949 in the service, 347 are abroad.
Whitfield Tuck of Winchester announces his son Leon P. Tuck has been commissioned a lieutenant in the aviation section of the Signal Corps. A Dartmouth 1915 graduate who played varsity football and hockey, he has been in service several months and is now in France.
Captain Frank H. Elliott formerly of the 26th New Brunswick Battalion who was invalided home last year after shell wounds at the Somme died in St John New Brunswick today of pleurisy. He had gone to the United States after his France return and helped train American officers. He was 30 years old.
The Daily Mail reports a mis understanding between the Dutch and allied governments over goods transported by Germans to Belgium via the Limbourg railway. Four allied governments pressed Dutch Foreign Minister Loudon, denying any intent to recognize transit of timber barbed wire hay and straw for military use.
Major Edwin T. Cole United States Army retired professor of military science at MIT is gravely ill at Brooks Hospital Brookline. He became ill Friday afternoon and underwent emergency surgery for a perforated appendix with ensuing peritonitis. Doctors report he is resting as comfortably as possible and that recovery remains possible.
It emphasizes lower mileage cost and extended use of cars with Hartford tires. The copy asserts maximum mileage and usefulness, attributing this to Hartford quality and a quarter century of consistent performance.
Five persons were injured when a heavy truck collided with a touring car on Washington street Quincy last night. A broken steering gear was blamed. Injured were George P. Ranson his wife and daughter Lydia Oshkosh Wis and Harry F Burns and his wife of Back Bay. Lydia Rawson required shoe removal before liberation. her chest was crushed and she suffered multiple injuries at Quincy City Hospital.
Washington July 2 publishers and Department of Labor officials agree to cooperate with the employment service to stabilize labor conditions and reduce turnover. A committee of the American Newspaper Publishers Association will guide negotiations. They urged avoiding ads that pull workers across industries or regions and favor standard forms and certified firms. Norman E. Mack noted standardizing wages aids turnover prevention. The government may save money by using paid newspaper ads for recruiting labor rather than field agents.
American forces carried out two successful raids in the Montdidier region. In the daylight raid a corporal and three men entered an enemy post in a wheat field and captured one prisoner and a machine gun.
London July 2 British airmen yesterday disposed of 42 German airplanes and three balloons in aerial operations. Of the planes 25 were destroyed 15 driven down out of control and two landed behind British lines with occupants captured.
Joseph Havelock Wilson, head of the British Seamen Union, is urged by 600 Liverpool seamen and stewards to extend the after the war boycott of Germany by five years for the sinking of the hospital ship Llandovery Castle. The current boycott runs 68 months.
Beginning Saturday July 6 the price of a haircut in Brookline will be 35 cents with a similar price for honing a razor. Eight of the town s barbers met last night and agreed on the new schedule.
A critic argues the glossy silk hat is doomed as war reshapes civilian dress. He notes Salem figures and parade reviewers backing the shift away from luxury attire to khaki hats, praising practicality and less fuss in public life.
Lieutenant Burr W. Leyson, a Boston 114 State Street address holder, is described as a prisoner in Germany. A U S Army School of Military Aeronautics graduate from MIT last summer, he hails from Spokane Washington and formerly worked as a Toronto newspaper man. He was among the earliest graduates sent to France for flying training and never operated a business at his stated address.
The Gilchrist Employees' Co operative Association social committee led by T N Wilson and Meyer Hoffman schedules a full day Saturday from 9 30 a m to 6 p m at Riverside recreation grounds. The program features races baseball water sports dancing bowling golfing and other activities with members W Oltmanns Mary Kirke Lena Soroker Tina Stein and Scholler assisting.
Walter Holt aged five of 15 Albemarle Street Roxbury is in City Hospital with a brain concussion and possible skull fracture after being knocked down by an automobile while crossing Columbus Avenue near Camden Street yesterday afternoon in front of the playground entrance.
Mrs Moy Ni Ding, wife of a Chinese restaurant keeper on Essex Street, has been cured of trachoma by an operation in a Boston hospital and approved by immigration authorities at Long Wharf to enter the United States.
The article reports on a statement by Professor Max Muller claiming that the most handsome people are darker toned with bronze hues like statues. It discusses sunburn and tanning as desirable attributes and notes Muller's authority on beauty standards.
A Post reporter surveys beauty experts and workers about tanning claims by Harvard researchers. Nantasket women prefer sun kissed skin while some sunburns are deemed unattractive. Telephone operators and other sources weigh in. Dr Muller cites Abyssinians as the world’s handsomest people.
Harbor boat owners face a new requirement under Treasury rules to secure federal licenses rather than local permits. Blank forms have been sent to the collector, with a reasonable compliance period announced. All vessels except foreign trade, ensconced and licensed under navigation laws, documented pleasure craft, and government ships are affected.
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