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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1914
Page
8
The Sunday Post color section teases lively features as Gasolene Gas and Dolly Dimple return with familiar antics. Readers are invited to enjoy vivid illustrations and entertaining notes in the upcoming issue.
An advertisement urges a laxative as the first step in treatment for illness, claiming 95 percent of illnesses stem from waste in the lower intestine. It promotes the J B L Cascade internal bath system with testimonials from Mrs. Elizabeth F. Kettredge of Sharon Massachusetts and directs readers to Riker Jaynes Drug Stores for an informational booklet.
Sister Mary Maughlin of Skaneateles New York and about 50 Augustinian Sisters fled Willebroeck Belgium after German bombardment on September 29. They reached Antwerp then London and awaited transport home. Some sisters are elderly or disabled with no relatives. Sister Mary, the sole American there, praises the help of the British government and Women’s Relief Committee as arrangements are made for their return to America next Saturday.
We stayed at the convent as long as possible to protect the property, but shells struck our chapel and other buildings near the fort, shattering windows and wrecking the roofs. Driven out, we moved north to Boom, two miles away.
New York dispatch reports the British consul-general refused a gift of several dozen fine white handkerchiefs for front line use. The reply stated that British soldiers may not carry white handkerchiefs as enemies could mistake them for a signal of truce or surrender.
London dispatch from Epernay reports bombardment of Rheims continues. German bombs aim at the railway station causing destruction and panic. One bomb killed 14 people. the town endured enormous shell damage and residents fled through fear. Dead are burned at night. the stench haunts subterranean homes.
The Post notes German newspapers such as Berliner Tageblatt and Leipziger Neueste Nachrichten publish casualty lists and war updates. Despite sensational Allied defeat claims, reports focus on disputed Galicia fighting, French battles, submarine sinks, and German ship seizures with editorial commentary appended.
The poem portrays a confrontation between a Woman and the Harvest Moon over a twilight field. The Woman recalls birthing humankind and questions the Moon’s role in life and death while the Moon contemplates the earthward harvest and the cost of creation. The scene shifts to a silent field with lifeless, staring eyes and a distant, somber resolution as the Woman departs with the Harvest Moon remaining.
Turkish ambassador A Rustem Bey sailed for Naples aboard the Stampalda after reaffirming his Washington interview and saying he planned to return to the United States. He would not disclose his recent New York whereabouts, and Turkish consular staff denied knowledge of his location. He had been booked on the Santa Anna but cancelled.
London October 7 David Lloyd George chancellor of the exchequer said in a speech to a workers' national committee deputation that unemployment may rise as the war progresses and that the cotton trade would face severe distress the only trade to have completely broken down so far.
Refugees arriving on the Moana recount the German cruiser bombardment of Papeete Tahiti last month. Two lives were lost a native and a Japanese chauffeur, with two vessels sunk two blocks of business houses and residences destroyed and damage estimated at 2 million dollars.
A historical report describes French bombardment on an island, the Zolee and Valkyrie involved, and heavy eight inch shellfire that wrecked the waterfront while the Moana noted German wireless chatter. It notes the fort fires first, ships withdraw, and the Zelee and Valkyrie fate. Then a shift to Seaport news and a promotion for 1915 Chalmers Light Six with emphasis on quiet operation and durable construction.
A Rome to Vienna telegram reports a sudden violent Asiatic cholera outbreak in Tarnow Galicia with forty cases noted on Tuesday. Tarnow, a 35 000 population town on the Dunajec River, lies 135 miles west of Lemberg near routes used by Austrian and Russian forces toward Cracow amid recent fighting updates.
Refugees arriving in Folkestone from Malines Alost and Antwerp number over two thousand today. Most carry only bundles as their sole possession.
This ad promotes Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a gentle, vegetable liver and bowel cleanser that replaces calomel. It claims clearer skin, better breath, and improved mood after taking one or two nightly for a week, with prices of 10c and 25c per box from All druggists.
Leading doctors in France have used a prescription of vegetable oils for chronic stomach trouble and constipation that acts like a charm. One dose convinces, and severe cases benefit within 24 hours. Many people report surprising results, urging others with constipation and related ailments to try Mayr's Wonderful Stomach Remedy sold here by Riker Jaynes Drug Stores.
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