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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1918
Page
5
Readers are urged to donate as hundreds of letters from children describe loss and poverty this Christmas. The Post Santa fund seeks clothes toys and essentials to ensure every needy child in New England shares in the holiday.
Lieutenant Farre decorates and paints portraits of Georges Guynemer William Thaw and Raoul Lufbery. The Official French Aerial Warfare Exhibit shows films on aeroplane building pilots training and more. Ticket sales fund education for children of French aviators killed in action.
Mrs Phoebe J. Batchelder mother of the American women strikers died yesterday at her home 76 Green Street Lymn of acute indigestion in her 86th year. Survivors and other details not provided in available text.
Tomorrow marks the final deadline for sending Christmas parcels to war workers and military personnel. Boston stations have shipped 21,400 cartons with 10,000 more ordered for today. At least eight thousand boxes are already en route via the Metropolitan Red Cross.
Washington November 29. To aid returning soldiers to obtain work the federal employment service will set up agencies in every city and town across the country. Nathan A. Smyth directed regional directors to begin immediate organization, expanding on the plan to place an agent at each demobilization camp to steer men to local jobs.
London reports casualties in the British Indian Army during the war totaling 101,439 with 33,051 killed or missing. Wounded number 59,206 and 9,092 captured. Most losses occurred in Mesopotamia. At war start 239,561 served. 1,161,789 recruited. 953,874 sent overseas.
Frank J. Deady, formerly assistant cashier of the Post, was promoted to lieutenant after his bravery at Chateau Thierry helped pave the way for his advancement. The announcement notes his wartime actions and current rank.
Sergeant Frank Deady led his unit after commanders were wounded at Chateau Thierry. The former assistant cashier was promoted to second lieutenant after attending officers’ school. Mrs. Deady of Somerville notes the appointment to C Company Fourth Infantry Third Division following three months of training.
Chester Perkins of Bridgton is arraigned in Portland Municipal Court on bigamy charges. Authorities say he, age 38, claimed to be 28 and married Marion Brown, 17, last August while having a wife and four children left in Centre Harbor, N H. The case is continued for one week.
Senate finance committee completed revision of the war revenue bill aimed to raise six billion dollars in 1919 and about four billion in 1920. The measure, rewritten for postwar conditions, goes to the printer and will be reported to the Senate next week likely Thursday.
Senate discussions delay the revenue bill as Republicans oppose restoring 1920 tax rates. Officials fear tax collections next year unless the new law passes before Jan 1, while amendments on second class postage rates and a 10 percent tax on child labor products draw fierce debate. Tax bequests to charities are made tax free.
Dr. Otto H. Schultze testified that arm marks on Mrs. Helen Hamel were caused by Miss Elizabeth Baksa teeth, asserting no other living person could have made them. The trial in New York is examining forensic viability of bite marks as identification.
A collection of malapropisms gathered by the war risk insurance bureau in Washington appears in insurance applications from relatives of men at the front. The article lists several curious misuses of English found in these forms.
A disjointed, earnest letter from a lone mother claiming military service issues, seeking support, marriage papers, child care, and basic needs. She references a husband discharged for goiter, four children, an infant, and a request for assistance from authorities and the president.
A distressed mother writes about her son’s absence, unpaid pay, and their family’s hardship. She questions his elopement status, requests information on his welfare, and asks who will support her now that her husband is away. She mentions a platoon and seeks his current address or fate.
Boston's beam trawlers seized at the outbreak of war with Germany are to be released by the Navy Department. The return will take six to eight weeks with boats turned over to fishermen as quickly as possible. The naval district from which they were taken will receive the ships, many of which are overseas, though Admiral Sims says the trawlers are no longer needed abroad.
Attorneys for the Hotel Association of New York City say members will ignore Postmaster General Burleson’s order to cap telephone calls at five cents. They contend he has no legal authority to fix rates in New York State and the directive takes effect December 1.
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