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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1914
Page
8
This advertisement promotes Dr Williams Pink Pills as a non alcoholic tonic to treat nervous exhaustion and debility by nourishing nerve cells. It claims relief from headaches and fatigue, and offers a free book on Nervous Disorders from the Williams Medicine Co.
An old advertisement extols Resinol soap as pure and suited for daily use. It claims gentle Resinol balsams stimulate pores to heal, calm irritations, and prevent complexions from defects caused by neglect or artificial aids. Sample free from Baltimore department.
Must erole ointment promises quick relief from bronchitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia and rheumatism. Doctor and nurse recommended with millions using yearly available in 25 50 cent jars and a hospital size for 2 50 from Shrug stores and druggists.
Officers report a brigade of French bluejackets on the Belgian frontier lured German entanglements crews by tying strings to wire canes and bells. The sailors withdrew to their trenches and then pulled the strings to provoke a prolonged but ineffective German barrage, leading to the capture of several prisoners. A known Anglican bishop urged men to pledge abstinence from all alcohol amid concerns over polluted water.
The Kaiser follows a German tradition of firing the first shell from each new 17 inch howitzer. After mounting a gun he goes to a position behind the line and releases the initial shot by touching a button.
A Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift piece by Professor V. Czerney describes German wounded transport conditions. Wounds from shrapnel and embedded debris in uniforms, trenches flooded by night frost, long, unprotected journeys on trucks with up to 80 wounded per vehicle, four to six days to reach Cambrai or Cologne, no dressings or nourishment, despite sanitary trains being available but insufficient for all wounded.
The “woman in white” haunting Potsdam Palace reappears with reports reaching Paris. One version claims the figure is not a ghost but an Empress’ waiting woman grief stricken after her fiancé was killed at the front as Berlin talks of the apparition.
Two German lieutenants Merez and Poldte conducting reconnaissance toward Plock 58 miles west of Warsaw were forced to land west of Rypin after engine trouble. Russian cavalry surrounded them in woods and repelled a German rescue, with the aviators and their plane brought into Plock yesterday.
A London meeting chaired by Sir Frederick Cowen approved a boycott of German and Austrian musicians if their hiring harms English artists. A committee led by Sir Edward Elgar and including Edward Herman Landon Ronald Sidney Jones Hubert Bath Fred James Gilbert Webb will circularize the profession. The move aims to let English musicians fill roles long held by foreigners while wartime shifts reduce French Russian and Italian rivals.
Shoemaker Vogt known as the Captain of Koepenick has been given a new chance to serve in a military role. He works at a military shoe factory in Erfurt and is regarded as a highly skilled workman. Years ago he gained notoriety by dressing as a captain and taking charge of Koepenick's burgomaster's office in a stunt viewed as a satire of German military life.
Messages from the front describe tobacco as gold dust for the soldier. English mail to the continent is filled with cigarettes, pipes and plugs. Societies collect tobacco and place donation boxes in hotels and clubs. Temperance groups urge soldiers to abstain from drink and volunteer as in the Russian army decree.
Germany and Austria waived marriage fees for soldiers and conducted large group weddings to boost birth rates and morale. English church leaders followed, reducing clergy fees for soldiers and encouraging rapid marriages before deployment. War brides wore iron rings, with gold rings donated to the war fund.
Panama officials track three British cruisers believed to be Suffolk Berwick and Lancaster to pass through the canal en route to the South American west coast. The ships were patrolling Mexican waters and later the West Indies in search of German vessels.
Olga Samaroff and baritone Reinald Werrenrath gave a Symphony Hall recital. Werrenrath showcased his refined technique and stylistic finish in Brahms Grieg and Sinding songs while Samaroff, after an absence, displayed matured artistry, poise and a poetic reading of MacDowell with vivid tone color and intellectual grasp.
Hon. Samuel J. Elder urged a federation leading to a Supreme Court of Europe with jurisdiction over treaties money claims and armament limits. He proposed a Hague Tribunal style body akin to the U S Supreme Court to bind nations after the war and enforce disarmament via strict interdiction. The idea drew heavy applause at Faneuil Hall with remarks from Thomas B. Fitzpatrick and Herbert Parker.
The speaker asserts a personal creed honoring inner virtue over conquest and proclaims a future day arising from crimson seas of war. He rejects submission and envisions a humane ideal dissolving national and racial prejudice.
Heavy rain saved a major blaze at the Eastern Storage Company warehouse on Everett Avenue in Chelsea. Fire broke out at midnight but spread was stopped by wet conditions. only one end burned with about 1000 dollars in damage. Nearby box factories and lumber piles were kept safe by the downpour.
Elizabeth Foulkes of 6514 Sumner Street East Boston suffered a prostrating nervous shock and 10 passengers of an inward bound car were badly shaken when an empty outbound car crashed into it after a trolley segment left darkness at Spring and West Village streets West Roxbury shortly after 11 40 last night.
James Varey aged 27 confessed to police that he broke into the East Walpole railroad station Saturday night and stole tickets from the City Hall Avenue locker. Officers Hale and Murray arrested him on suspicion on School Street early this morning and found one New York railroad ticket in his pockets.
Mayor John F Hurley marked his 70th birthday with a dinner at City Hall Salem with five veterans of the Salem Light Artillery as guests The occasion saw no recall impact and the mayor joked about his repeated elections He received gifts including citron cake and woolen blankets from Mora Kingsley Hurley of Bedford City Va for a big fire relief gift hope.
Adrian Duff and Donald Thompson, photographers long on the firing line, returned aboard the steamship New York. Thompson wore a nose bandage after a shell blast in a restaurant where German officers dined, one of whom was killed. He recounted General von Boehm asking his view on the war’s outcome and a German remark that a baseball game is never over until the ninth inning.
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