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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1918
Page
10
Charles D. Mitchell offers a humorous look at life after war in an amusing cartoon for Boston Post Sunday Magazine. The piece hints at social changes and future trends as society adjusts to peacetime.
A health claim urges drinking a glass of hot water with a teaspoon of limestone phosphate each morning to cleanse stomach and bowels. It says this “inside bath” improves skin glow, relieves headaches and biliousness, and combats constipation and disease.
The steel committee of the American Iron and Steel Institute urged continued government supervision of the steel industry during peace readjustment. The recommendation came at the first meeting with the War Industries Board since the armistice.
Optimism over the industrial and labor outlook as it affects the steel industry during the war to peace transition marked the conference. Officials sought industrial stability and discussed general trade conditions national and international. Afterward, they cited the steel committee recommendation for continued supervision by the War Industries Board and warned that abandoning price control could depress prices.
The article explains fixed price materials cannot compete with cheaper OE market supplies. If prices rise, stocked manufacturers gain. Government supervision and price control would prevent these conditions and stabilize the industry until a peace basis is reached.
Messages of congratulations pass between Josephus Daniels and Sir Eric Geddes praising the Allied navies. Daniels sends greetings from 500000 American sailors and notes shared cooperation with the British navy. Geddes responds, thanking the United States for cordial greetings and stressing lasting Anglo American naval friendship fostered by war.
Emperor Charles Empress Zita and their family left Vienna at 9 oclock Tuesday night for Eckardiau according to a Vienna despatch.
A three alarm blaze swept through a section of the Wales Building at 110 Summer Street. The fire in the downtown leather district was sounded from Box 52, retracing the site of the famous old Boston fire.
A blaze in a two to three story building on Milton Place caused $20,000 in losses. Bresnahan and Kelleher shoe makers and the Boston Leather Company occupied its upper floors while the Stubenrauch restaurant stood on the street level. Patrolman Sullivan detected the fire shortly after 8 30 PM and raised the alarm as flames erupted from the second floor. Deputy Chief Taber and Chief McDonough ordered multiple alarms. water tower aided crews as the blaze stayed mainly on the second and third floors. Alfred Peats Company storefront was briefly endangered and Fireman Thomas P. Rossiter sustained a broken leg after a fall from a rear fire escape.
A woman and two men were injured when an auto truck owned by S. S. Pierce Co. of Boston struck them near Arlington Center as they were about to board a Boston Elevated car. Victim Miss Cora M. Manning, 35, milliner of Malden, died three hours later at Symmes Arlington Hospital. Injured were Nicholas W. Foran, 96 Park Avenue Arlington Heights, with a severe scalp wound, and Joseph T. Morgan, 140 Central Street Somerville, bruised and shaken.
The National Security League and the American Defense Society began campaigns against red flag displays in public assemblies. The Security League urged enactment of regulations prohibiting the flag in parades while the Defence Society formed a committee to stop such exhibitions.
London records the first official announcement that the battleship Audacious sank after striking a mine off the north Irish coast on October 27 1914. The loss had been kept secret at the urgent request of the commander in chief of the grand fleet.
First Private David Beal of D Company 325th Infantry was wounded in action in the Argonne Forest France while delivering a message to his captain. He is at a base hospital in France and writes his wife Mil dred Beal of Jamaica Plain that he was lightly shot in the left foot and will be operated on.
Despite intense bombardment with high explosives and large shells, our troops held firm and advanced beyond initial objectives. The assault featured heavy enemy fire but did not deter the unit from continuing the mission and achieving gains.
A field of 36 players competed in the open mixed foursomes at Wollaston Golf Club Montclair for the United War Fund. Mrs J D Woodfin and A M Hoxie along with Mrs R Hammer and J R Bowker tied for best gross at 87 and will playoff tomorrow. Hazel B Cole and F G Thayer won the net prize with 88 11 77.
Augustus L. Thorndike bank commissioner was guest and principal speaker at the Tele phone Workers Credit Union gathering at Faneuil Hall last night. Over 200 attended, with George L. Donahue presiding. The union, begun just over a year ago by telephone workers, has passed through its bank more than 70 000 in savings. Other speakers included Matt B. Jones first vice president B. W. Longley vice president and William J. Driver Jr general manager of the telephone company. A patriotic concert followed.
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