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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1918
Page
7
An advertisement touts Freezone drops that instantly relieve corn pain and allow easy removal. It claims a tiny bottle costs only a few cents and is available from druggists, marketed as a Cincinnati invention.
Sergeant Ernst L. Flentje of Cambridge was sentenced to 20 years at hard labor for unpatriotic utterances. He will serve at Fort Jay after being found guilty of all charges. Flentje, a member of F Company 301st Infantry Boston's Own, was moved to the guard house and later Fort Strong before review.
Testimony cites Flentie accusations including anti war remarks and claims of German vindication. Army units depart for Ashburnham hike, Concord and Townsend camps planned, and Camp Hancock reorganization to form Machine Gun Depot Battalion with many NCOs and 76th Division reinforcements.
Delegates from West Roxbury and Roslindale improvement groups urged Boston school committee to build a high school for their district. They argued Jamaica Plain is overcrowded and distant, with travel time and cost harming local students. Locals named Roslindale square area as a preferred site.
Dr Hugh Birckhead of the American Red Cross mission told the Boston Equal Suffrage Association that after this war a noble type of woman has emerged in England France and Belgium. He praised innocent war victims and described German atrocities in France including mass returns of prisoners sick with tuberculosis and other diseases.
Four former Boston Post newsboys Samuel Slomovitch Joseph Price Philip Goldberg and Harry Levinsky have joined the Jewish Regiment in Halifax Nova Scotia and await service against the Turks in Palestine They write from York Redoubt expressing happiness at army life and longing for the Boston Post while tracking the Red Sox and Braves pennant races They hope the teams will win while they are abroad fighting at the front.
Opera star Elvira Severoni will perform as soloist with Judge Michael J Murray as orator at Red Cross War Night in the F P O Connor Company building. Emma M Durkee will be pianist. The event precedes Red Cross campaign work among Tremont street stores.
In aid of the Boston Metropolitan Chapter of the Red Cross there will be a dancing recital tonight in Jordan Hall by the pupils of M. Theresa Connell.
Winchester town employees adopted a five day week plan to work 48 hours across four or five days and still handle municipal duties. The wage increase accompanies the change, with a rate of 18 dollars for the 48 hour week, up from 2 75 a day previously.
A young American places an alarm clock under his arm and attaches it to a wire in No Man's Land triggering enemy fire as the clock rings. An American patrol leader exposes a German decoy in dugouts and seizes dozens of street signs taken by the enemy, returning them to American lines.
Three American snipers in camouflage faced a German sharpshooter nest in the Luneville sector. They killed an German officer and three soldiers, later missing one comrade who was seen last setting up a machine gun. American patrols recovered the enemy body after a subsequent clash.
Improved weather spurred air activity in the Toul sector with many American planes over enemy lines and observation balloons back in use. American artillery blanketed German rear areas as troops billeted or moving. Major Ralph Royce, First Lieutenant Herbert R Garside, and Lieutenant Paul Meyers received the War Cross from a French general for risk and skill in reconnaissance and infantry liaison missions.
Friends of Guy Piscopo manager of the Colonial Hotel Winthrop Mass held a farewell reception at his mother's home. He departs for the naval officers training camp in Bainham today after serving in the naval reserves since December. Piscopo is a Winthrop Grammar School graduate and attended St Joseph's Academy and Bryant & Stratton Schools.
General Pershing leads about 50 veterans and 200 wounded Allied officers in a campaign with 7500 speakers to urge support for a second 100 million dollar Red Cross war fund. Croix de Guerre and Victoria Cross holders are among the decorated speakers.
Participants in fighting at Ypres Vimy Sanctuary Wood Gallipoli Salonika Verdun the Marne and the Somme will explain to Americans what the American Red Cross hospitals nursing ambulances surgical supplies canteens and other service agencies mean in saving life and morale. Civilian speakers include public figures prelates authors actors and social workers with a singing section led by Madame Schumann Heink and Alma Gluck.
Harvard cadets in the ROTC presented trench defense and attack drills at Fresh Pond for the Harvard Board of Overseers during a Cambridge visit. Lieutenant Morize led the French mission while Overseers Roosevelt and others toured the Harvard Radio School and sailors’ quarters. The trustees and Overseers praised the cadets as they planned a final meeting and dinner at the Harvard Club.
Daniel J. Gallagher state deputy will present the Knights of Columbus war relief and welfare work report at the State Council convention in the Hotel Somerset. Election of officers will be held.
State treasurer and other posts will be filled by unopposed candidates from Boston to Arlington including William J. Day, William C. Prout, James H. Maloney, James E. Dunleavy, John S. Quinn, Henry B. E. Hagan, and James M. Mead. Delegates to the supreme convention include Edmund J. Brandon and a dozen others from Boston to Lowell. Cardinal O Connell and Rev T P McGuire expected to attend.
The Public Service Commission condemns several Bay State lines out of Brockton and enforces a 12 mile per hour speed limit after months of derailments.
The Women's City Club in Ford Hall reviewed American women's first war year. Mrs J J Storrow reported war service progress while Mrs George W Coleman presented a 1918 platform to raise a 20000 war fund and pledge food and clothing conservation.
St Pauls School in Concord New Hampshire marks its 62nd anniversary with events May 29 and 30. Activities include Long Pond boat races luncheon dances an alumni meeting Holy Communion military exercises Memorial Day ceremonies and a prize presentation followed by concerts and socials.
Fire at the Brown Garage and Carriage Company building yesterday left James Murray aged 45 of 1904 Washington Street dead. Firemen Hugh Tierney and J F Noonan of Protective Company L suffered severe bruises from a blast that hurled them several feet.
An old advertisement touts Tiz as a cure for tired feet, puffiness, chafing, and bunions. It promises remarkable freshness and sore-proof feet, projecting a full year of relief from foot pain for a 25 cent box and urging buyers to accept no substitute.
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