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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1915
Page
4
Petrograd reports bitter fighting as German reinforcements arrive from East Prussia. German losses include 2500 Russian prisoners near Ostrolenka and raids on Memel. Antwerp Hoboken raid damages two submarines. Dutch neutrality breached as submarines pass Scheldt. Austria seeks separate peace via Vatican, per Exchange Telegraph.
The British admiralty announced an air raid against German submarines at Hoboken outside Antwerp was successfully carried out. The statement described the raid and the targets as submarines attacked in the harbor area.
Dr Frederick W Beering Jr of 61 South Street Jamaica Plain testified in Suffolk divorce court all afternoon seeking a statutory grounds legal separation from wife Mary J Beering The case centers on the couple's marital status and allegations presented in court
Vice-President Marshall dedicates the Panama Pacific International Exposition under the Tower of Jewels. He speaks to a vast crowd in the Court of the Universe urging peace amid world tensions as foreign representatives and military officers observe in full dress.
An old health adclaims meat raises uric acid causing weak kidneys and lists Rheumasalts as a quick remedy. It promises rapid relief from dull kidney ache headaches dizziness and fatigue and notes the product is a uric acid solvent and saline laxative sold by Riker-Jaynes and druggists.
Official communication from general headquarters describes fierce fighting on the Narew and Orzyc fronts with Germans reinforcing and counter attacking. Russian forces claim gains including 300 prisoners eight machine guns and two trench mortars near Vakh Karask and Jednoroziec and 4000 prisoners plus field gun and many machine guns in the Carpathians.
The report summarizes ongoing Western Carpathian fighting near Galacia Uzsok pass with Russian and Austrian forces. Attacks across Alsace Champagne Memel Narrows fronts near Hartmannsweiler Kopf Pont-a-Mousson and Gallipoli landings. Reports of German and Russian actions include trench gains, submarine raids near Hoboken, and heavy prisoner and matériel captures in Poland and Carpathians.
A stirring story in the next Sunday Post Magazine explores ego and romance in a grand mixup. The feature teases social conflicts and witty dialogue set against a domestic backdrop.
An ad touts GETS-IT as a simple effective corn treatment with two drops shrinking corns without pain or ointments. It claims widespread use, availability from E. Lawrence & Co. in Chicago and Riker Jaynes in Boston, and sells for two dollars.
Berlin reports artillery duels in Champagne and repulsed attacks northwest of Pont a Mousson and Badonvillers. German forces pursue retreating Russians north of Memel, capture 500 soldiers near Polangen, plus guns and rapid-firers. Przemysl garrison praised after four months of siege. Baltic operations include bombardment of Polangen and firing on the Libau road.
Sheriff John Quinn remains confined to Massachusetts General Hospital. He can walk the ward and shows signs of improvement but has not regained enough strength to leave. Attending physicians have not set a discharge date.
The Times dispatch from London reports wind remains too high for naval actions in the Dardanelles as mine sweepers resume work. The Tenedos correspondent notes conditions hinder further operations despite resumed activity.
The war office reports two German attacks north of Arras on Notre Dame de Lorette failed completely. In Champagne, a night assault on Beausejour fortifications was repulsed.
The Austrian war office reports heavy fighting in the western Carpathians reaching Ussok Pass with strong Russian attacks and fierce defense. Russians were driven from several Bukowina villages north of Czernowitz near the Pruth, while no change occurred in Poland and West Galicia. A Russian pontoon bridge across the Lower Dunajec was destroyed.
Sailors recount sieges by Kronprinz Wilhelm and Wilhelm with captures near Brazil. Prisoners from Hemisphere and Potato. over 200 aboard sign pledges not to aid Allies. Women spared signing. French crewmen detained weeks. Details of Highland Brae and Holger transfers at Pernambuco.
Wing Commander Longmore reports five airplanes from the Dunkirk squadron damaged German submarine works at Hoboken near Antwerp. Squadron Commander Ivor T Courtney and Flight Lieutenant V Rosher bombed submarines from 1000 feet while two pilots returned due to weather. Crossley Meares landed in Kruiningen after engine trouble and will be interned. he was uninjured.
A letter to G. Herbert Windeler chairing the British Imperial Relief Fund of New England acknowledges a 2500 donation from the fund to the Prince of Wales National Relief Fund in London. Frederick P. Leay, British consul general at Boston, signs the document noting this is the third contribution.
Subscriptions received by Joseph H. O Neill treasurer 85 Devonshire street Boston for Belgian relief total $287 222 91 with donors including William Wood 20 Florence B Miller 5 First Baptist Church of Boston 25 Anna H Chace 15 Mrs J E Curtis 2 and others from Arlington Taunton Cambridge Providence Stow and Oberlin among others.
Bert W. Gleason presented scenic Alaska at Tremont Temple last evening using 150 color lantern slides. Mrs. Gleason colored the slides, a photographic result of a 6000 mile Alaska trip taken last summer with E. W. Harnden of Boston.
In a Dorchester courtroom Dr. Beering and his wife faced detailed testimony as detectives and witnesses filled the room. Beering described a late November 1914 visit by a man named Lester Lamb to his wife’s Jamaica Plain flat and a strained marriage dating back to 1901 including accusations of whiskey drinking and a rival, Matthew Brennan, seen visiting late at night.
Mr Marshall's remarks on the canal drew strong applause as he lamented a defect in its charge of injustice to a southern sister republic. Charles C. Moore introduced speakers including James D. Phelan and Chester H. Rowell. Moore and others urged unity, goodwill, and the goal of righting wrongs while stressing the canal’s humane purpose beyond gain.
The column prescribes three-grain sulperb and cadomene tablets to aid constipation and vitality. It urges five-grain arbolone for fat reduction and offers a bespoke mix for rheumatism. It recommends plain yellow mingos for hair care and double four stomach and bowel medicine for digestive strength. Laxative menthol laxene cures coughs, and hypo nuclane along with vilane powder assist green sickness and catarrh.
Thomas A. O Connor received a recess appointment to the post mastership of North Easton by President Wilson. A prominent Democrat and five year chairman of the Democratic town committee, he is a close friend of Richard Olney II, Congressman-elect from this district.
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