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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1919
Page
6
William C. Aman describes a 32 member workers committee at Wilson & Co. elected by department peers to propose improvements, with a women secretary recording recommendations. The group meets frequently, votes to advise officials, and fosters mutual trust. Aman was made an honorary member after addressing them.
Field Marshal French, England's sole supreme commander writer, presents uncensored wartime facts rather than fiction. He criticizes Lord Kitchener, discloses military secrets, and exposes English errors. Exclusive Boston Post New England rights secured for this 1919 publication.
On August 21 1914 General de Marionville reported Belgian forces withdrawing toward Antwerp to protect their left flank as German columns advanced through Belgium. The Belgian army of about 50 000 infantry 276 guns and 4100 cavalry planned to retire under Antwerp forts while awaiting Allied support and to cooperate where possible. Allied leaders and Allenby assessed the situation noting the Belgian retreat and continued German advantage, with French and British forces maneuvering to cover the retirement and potential counter actions. The report also mentions the Azores discovery and Portuguese possession, plus geographic notes on the archipelago.
Harry Caswell Thomas a famed Boston journalist died at 44 after a two week illness at his Auburn Brookline home. He worked for the Boston Globe Boston American Boston Transcript Boston Sunday Post and the Advertiser and served in the Shipping Board during the war. He is survived by his wife and mother with services at 2 pm and burial in East Weymouth.
Boston College and Fordham schedule a joint debate on the prohibition amendment for four years Wednesday night in Assembly Hall at Boston College Newton. This follows BCs earlier debate with Princeton this year on the same issue.
The note indicates continuation will appear tomorrow and in the daily and Sunday Post until the item is completed. It signals an ongoing serialized report with future installments and no final conclusion in this fragment. The text mentions forthcoming coverage across multiple editions to finish the story.
The Navy increases subsistence allowance to seventy two cents per day for enlisted men for May June and July. The raise is four cents from the prior quarter and forty one cents higher than five years ago. The order comes from Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D Roosevelt and was sent to all ships and navy yards.
An explosion at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Presque Isle Maine on May 11 shattered the church interior and blew the piano to pieces. There is no known motive or suspect as officials search for clues.
Washington May 11 Placements by the United States Employment Service during the week ending April 26 averaged more than 10 000 a day. During the week 94 325 applied to the service for jobs 83 226 of the number were referred to vacant jobs and 63 283 notified the service either directly or indirectly through their employers of their placements. Of those placed 20 per cent were soldiers. Cards from overseas troops in need of jobs on their return are being received by the service at the rate of 5000 a day. As a result of the nation wide drive begun on Employment Sunday By the churches said Edward Easton Jr national superintendent of Returning Soldiers and Sailors Bureaus soldiers placements should be materially facilitated.
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