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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1918
Page
5
Advertisement notes prepaid delivery on receipt of price if pharmacists grocers or department stores do not stock the item. It describes a booklet with full directions for She Sulpho Napthol Os and lists 14 Medford St Boston MA as the address.
Twelve hundred thirty draftees from Maine arrived at Camp Devens to join another batch scheduled for tomorrow. The men, praised by Portland crowds, were assigned to the Depot Brigade for two weeks of quarantine before entering training.
About 2500 aliens were naturalized today under Judge James M. Morton Jr. in the Y M C A auditorium. The new citizens joined units including the 802d 3034 and 804th Infantry Regiments and several machine gun battalions. Some German-born soldiers were among those naturalized. more were expected tomorrow. Separately, two Boston servicemen faced court martial: Private William Carten and Private Robert E. Maynard received hard labor sentences for AWOL and attempted fraud respectively. Captain Sidorowicz and Captain Hammon d reassigned roles within the regiments. Major Rhinelander Waldo returned from France to assist division staff, having served in the provost guard in Paris. J Shelton Howe and Joséph Pink awarded battalion sergeant-major ranks. A new conscientious objector group was placed with the Depot Brigade, with four still awaiting disposition.
The Rev. James M. Macdonald, pastor of the First Unitarian Church in West Upton for four years, has accepted a call to the Unitarian Congregational Church of Melrose and will begin his new duties on Sept. 1.
A conference of Free Sea Service Bureau agents from the Atlantic Gulf Great Lakes and Pacific coasts will gather in Boston today. The meeting takes place at the Shipping Board Recruiting Service headquarters in the Custom House.
Yesterday a large crowd gathered at the British and Canadian Recruiting Mission on Bromfield Street after the United States and England accepted the alien draft law. It is estimated 25,000 British subjects in Massachusetts are eligible for service, with branch offices to open in Lynn Gloucester Lowell Lawrence Springfield Worcester Pittsfield North Adams and other cities to meet the enlistment surge.
The local recruiting mission will not grant exemptions. All exemption matters will be decided by the British ambassador in Washington. The draft law now covers all British subjects aged between 2 and 44, whether married or single.
Simplicity marked the Somerville High School graduation last night in the auditorium. Mayor Charles W. Eldridge presented diplomas to 294 graduates in a formal ceremony.
The United States Navy issues an official call to recruiting offices to enlist a large number of personnel including mess attendants, officers' cooks and stewards. Mess attendants earn 87 to 41 dollars monthly, officers' cooks 55.50 dollars, stewards 61 dollars per month.
Lieutenant Knight B. Owen of the Naval Flying Corps spent five days and nights adrift in the North Sea after a disabled aircraft forced a waterless surface ordeal. He and his partner were rescued by a destroyer and he is now convalescing in England at Ford Manor Lingfield.
Governor McCall and Mayor Peters will deliver the welcome addresses at the opening of the 22d annual American Osteopathic Association convention at Copley Plaza. Dr. George W. Riley of New York City will respond, and Dr. Charles E. Still of Kirksville Missouri will give an address. About one thousand osteopathic physicians from across the country attend.
Yesterday marked the fourth anniversary of the Salem disaster. The city has been rebuilt with new buildings streets and trees replacing those from earlier days leaving few signs of the blaze that wrecked half the town and left hundreds homeless.
The text discusses clothing design to prevent blouses from riding up and describes features like fine pin tucks and long fronts. It notes items such as short fingered gloves, fat ankle shoes, and extra size stockings as examples of efforts to make large women's lives happier through better fitting garments.
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