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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1918
Page
2
A description lists items such as beaver calfskin bottle case with gold tooling and velvet lining, gilt-top bottles, and a case with initials DNPESC S50. It also mentions a Wisetavses book with folding design and a leather note and address book set priced at $7.75.
Officials in Washington estimate total casualties of the American expeditionary forces will not exceed 100000, including killed in action wounded and missing. The count covers deaths from wounds disease and accidents and the missing who cannot be accounted for.
Advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a mild fast-acting laxative and liver aid replacing calomel. It claims no dental harm, quicker relief from constipation and a refreshed feeling, with boxes priced at 0c and 25c available from all druggists.
A brief line notes that the prisoners will be accounted for when returned from Germany, with no further details provided.
Officials warn it will be weeks before complete casualty tallies from heavy fighting by the first and second American armies are finalized. Unreported deaths from wounds and slightly wounded lists arriving by courier will delay totals, with about 1100 names per day previously. An unofficial tally shows 71,390 published casualties, while unpublished figures may reach 30,000, and Marine losses in France are under 500.
A casualty list from World War II names multiple men from New England and beyond. Entries include Cleon L. Burt Taunton B Co 316th Eng Corp and Albert C. Carlson South Burlington Vt among others. Several are marked died in sinking of the steam ship Warilda and died of disease.
A long list of severely wounded soldiers from Co and Pt units is provided, with home addresses in Vermont Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island and Maine. Names include Walter K Cowie William H Deane Guy R Pattershall Joseph Rosenbaum Michael J Caddigan Luman M Frost Almond P Hill George S Payson William Spinazola Timothy J Galvin Donna J Geyatte Joseph R Snow David Gaylor Marsden Reece Edward A Johnson William T Lowery Frank Thomas Wilfred Theriault Honore Michaud Joseph N Peloquin Henry Perry Miles L Healy Henry L Frenier Joseph Leone John Perry Oliver L Perry Jerry Pignazzi Aime L Peloquin Alfred E Wade Samuel Cashnear Lawrence M Flint Nathan Hodosh Charles A Mathews Adam Thornton George E Whitney and William Zilevieze among others.
A compiled roll lists names and hometowns of servicemen and servicewomen with unit details. Entries include Lt George D Pagnell Manchester New Hampshire and many others from Massachusetts Connecticut Vermont Rhode Island and Connecticut with battalion and company designations.
An advertisement urges women readers to try Dr Kilmer Swamp Root claiming it cures kidney and bladder troubles. It describes symptoms like back pain headaches and fatigue and offers a sample bottle for ten cents by mail from Dr Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York with larger bottles sold at drug stores.
The latest casualty list includes several named soldiers from Massachusetts and nearby states among those killed in action and wounded in action. It notes eight dead and one percent died of disease, with many more wounded or missing in action expected to appear in forthcoming official releases.
The War Department released casualty lists totaling 1069 names for publication this morning, matching the week’s average. Among those listed are 59 New England servicemen.
News brief reports Ira Nelson Morris as the American who captured a steamship two days after its European voyage began. The item notes the event as a novel experience with no confirmation details available.
The minister to Sweden learned the shipping ban was lifted and tried to return to the Swedish American liner Stockholm which had departed on Nov 4. He reached Boston by train and boarded a torpedo boat destroyer to catch up with the Stockholm about 500 miles off the New England coast two days later.
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