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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1918
Page
8
Melbourne reports Henry Y. Braddon, recently named Australian commissioner to the United States, will visit the U S soon. His recommendations will form the basis of working trade arrangements to be approved by the Australian government. Braddon left Dalgety Ltd to take the post.
Advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle liver and bowels cleanse replacing calomel. Claims include clearer skin after several nights, improved breath, energy, and elimination of pimples and dullness. Cost 25 cents per box.
Mrs L H De Weese of 605 Alcatraz Ave Oakland Calif reports irregularities and sleep issues after a failed medical treatment. A friend recommended Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and she says it helped her and would recommend it to friends. The ad touts the remedy as helping women for over 40 years and cites letters from women nationwide as proof.
Cardinal O Connell issues a pastoral letter asking clergy to seek permission for open air services if churches must close. He praises public health efforts and urges cooperation with authorities, praying for divine guidance and protection for the faithful.
The mother and two sisters of Arthur E. Johnson are ill with pneumonia and cannot attend his funeral at Costello Chapel Monday. Private Johnson, 24, died Thursday at the Syracuse limited service camp and was active in the First Methodist Church of Boston. He leaves his mother Mrs. Emelie E. McNamee and two half sisters at 177 Washington Street Dorchester. Burial is in Woodlawn Cemetery.
A Charlestown resident requests guidance on where to drop tin foil for the government war effort. Letters say a pound and a half is ready, with a pound left at a closed Red Cross mail box. Contributions may be sent to Red Cross headquarters in Boston or Red Cross branches.
Dr. Sedgwick of Technology will begin his regular courses at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health next Monday. His Baltimore lecture will cover The Rise and Progress of Health and Sanitation.
Wartime rallying note urges investment in Fighting Fourth bonds to fund anti submarine operations. It highlights heroic crews vs U boats and frames savings as a direct contribution to naval success.
On the Macedonian front General Franchet d Esperey vowed to press the blow toward Constantinople and force Turkish defeat. The armistice clauses with Bulgaria began to be enforced, and Saloniki residents welcomed the Allied victory with resolutions praising d Esperey and Venizelos. Venizelos forecast decisive world war outcomes and pledged readiness for any sacrifice.
From prisoners the Germans are said to be rushing to evacuate the dune country along the Belgian seacoast behind the German lines in Flanders. Dugouts are being blown up as the country behind them burns.
Belgian and French troops reach 2000 yards south of Hooglede while civilians flee Courtrai. British forces push east of Lens as Mericourt falls. Germans retreat under heavy pressure along the Beaurevoir line with trains and roads congested, and a New York division fights with Australians near St Quentin in heavy casualties.
Lt. Albert Russell Ringer 28 of Natick Mass an assistant aviator at Eberts Field Arkansas died in Hot Springs after his machine fell here last Saturday He died at the army and navy hospital last night Buy Liberty Bonds to aid the war effort with $50 bonds funding rifles and ammunition for frontline troops
Dr Frederick M Bischoff convicted of trying to blow up the Gould and Eberhardt machinery plant in Irvington during war work is sentenced in Federal Court to 25 years in Maryland penitentiary. Associates Henameyer and Reichtel receive 15 and eight year terms with Bischoff’s 10 year sentence running concurrently.
A call to action urges taking part of this week’s pay to begin buying a bond. One dollar is enough to start, tied to supporting service members overseas.
Lifebuoy soap cleanses with a strong antiseptic lather that reaches every skin area and leaves the skin aseptically clean. Its distinctive hygienic odor signals thorough cleansing and protection, sold by Lifebuoy through Lever Brothers in Cambridge Massachusetts.
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