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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1917
Page
7
Washington November 5 official casualty list from France reports Private Thomas F. Enright and others with next of kin details including mothers, fathers, and siblings. Several soldiers listed as captured or missing. Names span multiple states including Pennsylvania Indiana Iowa Oklahoma and Illinois.
Advertises a homemade cough syrup using Pinex pine extract 214 ounces for 60 cents with a pint yield. Promises rapid relief from coughs throat and chest colds within 24 hours and claims superiority to ready-made syrups with a money back guarantee from The Pinex Co. Fort Wayne Ind.
An advertisement touts Orvine as a scientific remedy to kill desire for whiskey beer and intoxicants. It claims home use with no sanitarium cost and offers a money back guarantee if no benefit is seen. Priced at $1.00 per box with a free booklet from Orvine Co Washington DC available through Liggett's Riker Jaynes Drug stores.
The War Department released Pershing's briefing about a dawn November 8 trench raid in which a 20 man American post was cut off by heavy German bombardment. Three Americans were killed five wounded and twelve captured while one wounded German was taken prisoner.
London reports a steady campaign by British forces in southern Palestine with operations ongoing around Gaza and north of Beersheba. Since start of the offensive, 207 officers and 2,429 men have been taken prisoner.
The British Munitions Commission warned at a Boston City Club luncheon that U S labor strikes threaten Allied victory. Commission member H W Garrod, who oversees England's labor crisis, said if England faced U S distress during the war a peace with Germany would have been forced earlier.
Stephenson Kent head of the British labor supply department warns that victory hinges on constant munitions output and cooperation between labor and capital. He cautions Britain may pull troops from France without raw materials and notes English policies against profit from war and strict arbitration. James Storrow chairs with calls for allied partnership and unity.
Lieutenant W. Mayne Lynton urged Britons in Scollay Square to join the army, saying they must help Britain and stop staying in America with good jobs while American youths are drafted. The event started a week of rallies at 7 30 each evening with Captain Hutchinson and others, aided by the British Military and Naval Band.
Five men are known dead and two others believed missing after a blast and fire at the bronze powder plant of the United States Aluminum Company in New Kensington Pennsylvania. Seventeen workers were seriously burned and 47 were burned overall. R A Hunt, general superintendent of the company, issued a statement tonight.
Report says German agents may be responsible for a blaze that destroyed a plant employing about 800 workers. Officials plan an immediate investigation into the fire origin. The plant produced materials for liquid fire for an allied government, making water ineffective and leading to sand as the primary extinguishing method after five rapid explosions.
Following a discovered blaze the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company plant suffered damage and a nearby damag in the plant. Residences in Parnassus were damaged as fear of further explosions led to 3500 workers being ordered out and 800 tin plate workers sent home for the day. Loss is unofficially estimated at the time.
Brigadier-General John A. Johnston, commander of the Department of the Northeast, returned to Boston after touring Vermont and New York. He praised the northern New England units for their condition and noted the low sickness levels at Fort Ethan Allen and Plattsburgh where embryonic officers train. He highlighted Plattsburgh’s training course as a credit to the nation and commended the instructors and training apparatus.
Joseph R. Libby of Portland a prominent retail merchant and longtime president of the J. R. Libby Company has died at age after forty years of service. The article notes his central role in Portland commerce and leadership within the firm.
Died here today, aged 74. He was born in Buxton and as a young man was employed as a traveling salesman. He is survived by a widow, three daughters and two sons.
Washington reports that amid a London conference on Romania the United States has provided 3.5 million dollars to Romania through Russia.
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