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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1919
Page
9
The Post begins a series of real personal WWI stories by members of New England’s division. Read daily in the Daily and Sunday Post as these narratives continue.
Veteran recounts a gas attack near Vaux and Chateau Thierry during a seven hour siege. He and his buddy were buried by a gas shell but survived and were moved to hospitals in Jougnie La Ferte Orleans Angers. A panel of incidents includes a brutal Algerian ear piercing prank and a deadly shell hit on the 101st Signal Station.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets promoted as a vegetable remedy cleansing blood bowels and liver. Claims include clear skin improvement and relief from a dark taste bad breath and constipation. Boxes priced at 25 cents with directions to take one or two nightly for a week.
The will filed in New York Surrogate's Court routes an estate of about 1 million dollars to his three children John Duncan Emmet Erin Emmet and Robert Emmet and his granddaughter Margaret Harris. It leaves Ireland related antiques to son Robert Emmet and comments on Ireland becoming a province of England in time. Other bequests include Ireland books to Rev. John Cavanagh Notre Dame and a Confederate treasury seat to the Richmond museum.
Exeter town meeting appoints a committee to study continuing the Exeter Hamp ton and Amesbury Street Railway. Hampton Seabrook and Hampton Falls had earlier discussed action and may formalize it. Allen Hollis of the Street railway company says the Public Service Commission has approved ceasing operations but joint town cooperation could avoid this.
Casualties show 8¢ fatalities and a total of 288 names nationwide with 87 deaths. Local list highlights six fatalities, Lt. Harry H. Denning of Brookline as a severely wounded officer, and names from Woburn Pawtucket Worcester Jamaica Plain New Bedford among others.
Official list names five fallen service members with towns across New England. Tony Palermo of Forge Village and Gregory Peterson of New Milford are listed as killed in action and died of wounds. Beryl Prosser of Monticelio Me, John Castrar of Hartford Conn died of accident, James Burns of New Haven Conn and George Smith of Dalton are recorded as died of disease.
Lt. Harry Healy Denning of Brookline and others named in a casualty list. The document records wounded and missing personnel with home addresses in Massachusetts New Bedford Bristol Conn Brighton Somerville Madison N H Peabody and other places.
Count von Bernstorff told a Berlin meeting forming a democratic club that public opinion must lead Germany but be educated in democratic norms. He argued ruthless U-boat warfare doomed Germany and noted most Germans returning from America opposed it, agreeing peaceful paths might have prevented much of the wartime conduct.
Petrova Botchkareva, who led the Death Bat battalion of Russian women, tells her own life story for the first time. The tale promises movie allure and fiction like thriller material. The Boston Sunday Post will publish it next week.
Ten members of the Yankee Division are named among 11 local men cited for bravery by the War Department. The awards go to several soldiers and one Marine, all for actions near Belleau Wood and Trugny in July, with detailed deeds of valor recorded for each.
A serviceman stayed on duty for 14 hours until fatigue weakened him enough to require evacuation.
A Marine Corpsman from Woodstock New Hampshire reconnoitered and silenced two enemy machine guns near Beaumont on November 10 allowing his company to advance across the Meuse. He located the positions and halted their fire facilitating the breakout.
Edmund L. Brown a Cambridge draftsman living at 36 Glenwood Avenue was arrested on an indictable warrant by Inspectors Claflin and Alexander for conspiracy with John J. Kerwin to steal from Pearmain & Brooks. The charges total 14 counts amounting to 9932.96 dollars.
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