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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1917
Page
1
German forces launch a desperate offensive to disrupt British lines and sever communications with Ostend and Zeebrugge as Haig resists with coordinated defense. Troop concentrations and heavy bombardments signal a major attempt to collapse Allied positions along the coast.
News notes that General John J. Pershing is named to be a general while plans also show him titled lieutenant general. The item reflects top military leadership decisions and honors within the U S armed forces.
The War Department plans reviving the grade of full general to grant Major General John J. Pershing, commander of American expeditionary forces in France, a suitable rank.
It was learned tonight that Secretary Baker has submitted the department’s programme to the Senate military committee. The plan includes keeping the title general for the chief of staff and creating several lieutenant generals to command corps under General Pershing, with legislation to carry these provisions into effect to be pressed.
An advertisement urges readers to take Hors ford s Acil Phosphate to relieve head ache caused by mental strain or worry with a brief admonition to act now.
A conscientious objector who arrived at Camp Devens as a declared skeptic of military life joined the Seventh Battalion as Private John T. Arbour. He announced he wanted to be a soldier and enlisted after meeting Captain E. L. Weiscopf. He will return home tomorrow.
Thomas Cosgrove, a stableman for a cattle exhibitor, was tossed by an angry bull after a small herd of cows, at Brockton fair grounds last night and died from his injuries today.
Two subscriptions of one million dollars each are reported in Boston as New England chairmen convene a meeting. The campaign adopts the slogan no man can afford not to buy and appeals to the middle class to increase subscriptions.
A steady stream of dollars totaling millions flowed into hundreds of banks and bonding houses across New England on the second day of the Second Liberty Loan campaign. The drive seeks 500 million dollars for a total victory over German autocracy. Early returns show a far larger response than the first loan three months ago, according to Boston Federal Reserve figures incomplete at press time.
The massive Liberty Loan effort, launched Monday, intensified across New England yesterday as campaign logistics ramp up and daily progress accelerates.
Miss Edna Carling, a senior at Sargent School in Cambridge, has been appointed coach of the Arlington High School girls field hockey eleven and will likely start duties next week.
The first fatal football accident of the season occurred yesterday afternoon at Russell Field Cambridge. Francis Burns of 238 Putnam Avenue Cambridge died from a broken neck after colliding with another player during play.
Burns a senior at Rindge Technical School and a first year football candidate died after a collision during a punt return drill. He barrelled into an opposing player, his neck snapped on impact, and he collapsed unconscious. Coach Charles Linehan and Dr. O’Rourke tried to revive him before he died half an hour later.
Henry Ford, noted pacifist and manufacturer, told a Post reporter he seeks united citizen action and faults in Wall Street and selfish business men. He spoke during a Detroit stop after visiting his Cambridge plant, soon to be taken over by the government for the war period.
Ford calls for national unity behind President Wilson urging all citizens to set aside personal aims and give full support to the chief executive as he faces the greatest challenge in U.S. leadership.
The Evening Standard reports on high authority that Britain will pursue very effective reprisals at the earliest moment, guided by high military command. Wilhelmshaven Tageblatt issues warnings of possible Entente air raids to its readers.
Billy Miske of St Paul outfought Charley Weinert of Newark in ten rounds in Brooklyn. Miske pressed the action throughout as the weights stood at 176 3 4 pounds for Miske and 184 1 2 for Weinert.
In a rear end crash on Washington Street Newton near Parsons Street a motorman a conductor and one passenger were seriously injured last night. Five others were severely injured and taken to Newton Hospital then discharged. Twelve more were slightly cut by glass and shaken up.
A Framingham car of the Middlesex and Boston Street Railway halted to discharge passengers at Parsons street when a following Waltham car, driven by Motorman John Adams, could not stop. Adams and Charles Gleason, 176 Concord street Newton Lower Falls, were gravely injured along with several others aged 14 to 16. Adams and Gleason remain under observation. X rays were taken.
Five great German attacks against the Ostend Lille rail line were repulsed by British forces. Crown Prince Rupprecht’s divisions drove waves at the front, but German assaults failed and divisions reportedly fled while the British pursued. This report marks the first Flanders front dispatch since wartime censorship.
In strong waves, German forces made five tries to seize British positions from the recent offensive but were repulsed at all but two small points. British shellfire and a large Haig-led array battered German entrenchments, leaving many dead and wounded and taking numerous prisoners.
President Wilson signed the Underwood tariff bill in 1913, marking a major policy shift. The note appears in a column listing anniversaries and historical milestones.
The forecast shows increasing cloudiness and warmth for Boston and vicinity on Wednesday, followed by fair conditions Thursday with light southwest winds. An official Washington forecast notes partly cloudy skies and warmer conditions across New England.
Temperature readings from Thompson's Spa show average yesterday of 54.14 degrees with earlier values around 46 to 64 degrees during the day. The note compares yesterday's average to last year's average of 55 degrees.
In the American League Washington defeated Boston 9 to 7 in 10 innings in the first game. The second game ended Boston 2 and MOVE RIAD 1 in extra innings. New York played Philadelphia with a 2 to 1 result. In the National League Boston beat Brooklyn 6 to 2 and New York defeated Philadelphia 5 to 2 in the first game at 12 innings. The second game Philadelphia 8 and New York 2.
The Boston school committee ends the strict no fires policy with a qualified stance. Chairman Joseph Lee states fires will be allowed only when absolutely necessary amid criticism.
Yesterday morning several schools lit fires to warm rooms but kept them short. Miss Cora E. Bigelow and Chairman Lee expect the committee to reinstate heating soon as conditions improve. Custodian Mark Mulvey notes janitors will start fires only when needed to keep rooms above 60 degrees, with many rooms at 64 degrees or higher.
Congress sent the great war tax bill to the President for signature after four months of work. The Senate and House adopted the conference report without a record vote. The measure adds more than two and a half billion dollars in taxes.
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