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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1918
Page
4
The British and Canadian recruiting mission will open a recruiting office in Lynn under Lieutenant Maurice Stehelin who previously led the Lawrence office. The site near Central Square will launch a recruitment drive across Lynn Salem Beverly Peabody and nearby towns.
Harvard will hold a field day and review at the Stadium in May with bayonet drills bomb throwing obstacle races and wall scaling for student soldiers followed by the troop review.
If you have catarrhal deafness or head noises, obtain 1 ounce of Parmint double strength from your druggist. Mix with hot water and a little sugar as directed, take one tablespoonful four times daily. Relief often follows as nostrils unclog and breathing improves and mucus stops dropping into the throat. Easy to prepare, inexpensive, and pleasant to take. Anyone with these symptoms should try this prescription.
Collector Edmund Bil lings held a surprise meeting at the Custom House for 115 employees. He announced wage boosts totaling 20000 dollars a year, including clerks and messengers rising from 150 to 200 and guards at the port receiving notable increases. Inspectors also saw pay bumps with three advancing from four to five dollars a day.
Harvard musical clubs held their 11th Cambridge concert in Knowles Concert Hall last night to benefit the French fund for the blind. Two songs by Harvard junior H E Hinners were performed as duets by Archibald T Davison and the composer.
Miss Elizabeth McKay of 124 Hancock street Cambridge was struck and killed by a car owned and driven by Guy M. Lord of 264 Riverside avenue Medford as she tried to cross Massachusetts Avenue at Hancock street. Lord, a Boston optician, drove her to Cambridge Relief Hospital where doctors said her chest was crushed and she died shortly after.
Corporal Frank E. Hurley of Malden is thought to be among New England soldiers awarded the French War Cross for gallantry. The wedding list shows Frank F. Hurley, possibly a middle letter error. Hurley, of E Company Fifth Regiment, later joined the 101st Infantry. relatives report no official notice yet. He has two brothers, James and William, in service.
A Connecticut couple, the Bs, recounts debt in early marriage and how they saved 1,800 dollars in banks plus 1,700 in 7 percent preferred shares. After adopting a strict budget and Woolson’s Economy Expense Book, they saved 653 dollars in one year and improved finances despite salary raises.
Washington reports the House committee praised Navy leadership and performance in the past year. Despite early wartime shortages, Admiral Mayo and his officers are credited with rebuilding and training crews with skill and dispatch. The panel states the fleet is in excellent condition and "all is well with the fleet."
The Oliver sub committee on naval affairs chaired by Rep Oliver Alabama heard testimony from Secretary Daniels and navy leaders. It commends Marine Corps strength in France, urges more Marines abroad, and lauds Bureau of Operations and Navy Supplies for efficiency. It endorses resuming three year shipbuilding and notes high readiness and small submarine attack success rates.
The steam trawler Seal arrived at the South Boston pier with 325000 pounds of fresh fish from Western Bank, sold for about 18000 dollars. Officials call it the greatest stock ever landed in the history of the fishing industry.
Stewart W. Millar Jr a Medford native born in England age 25 earned the French war cross for gallantry in action. He attended Medford High School class of 1911 where he captained the football team before enlisting in 1917 in Lawrence Light Guard E Company Fifth Regiment later merged into the 101st Infantry. His brother Robert serves in the navy.
William R. Taylor of Melrose Highlands died in France March 11 due to appendicitis while serving in the United States Signal Corps. Enlisting last September in the aviation corps, he trained in San Antonio Rantoul Hempstead and sailed to France. The Melrose City Hall flag was placed at half staff until the public funeral. Born in Lowell, he was 21 and worked as a machinist.
Washington reports protests over the War Department plan to issue casualty lists without addresses. President Wilson weighs the change while General Pershing was asked to provide a full statement of military reasons. Cabinet members say the topic was not discussed at today’s meeting.
A nation wide book drive will start next Monday directed by the American Library War Service with every public library in the country cooperating. Two million books is the goal though more may be contributed for the men of the army and navy at home and over there. The Boston Public Library aims to surpass its prior record in the campaign.
Fifty tons of shipping space each month is reserved for transporting books to France. Up to 100000 volumes monthly are issued by the American Library Association with help from the army chaplains the Y M C A K of C American Red Cross and Y W C A. Books reach hospitals and billets near the front for wounded and serving soldiers.
The rail committee reported leave to withdraw to the House a petition by George P. Bingham and others to incorporate the East Boston Marginal Railroad Company. The plan aims to build a railroad linking the East Boston waterfront with the Grand Junction and Boston and Maine lines in the city.
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