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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 12, 1918
Page
2
The State Ballot Law Commission opened hearings in City Hall annex rooms to review ballots in the Tague Fitzgerald primary. Two precinct records were checked and nothing significant for Tague emerged. The probe resumes Monday at 11 a.m.
Attorney demands full display of used and unused ballots in Wards 5 and 6. A clash with the election board follows as records are sought. Officials report irregularities in ballot box mechanisms, with jumps from 10 to 100, blamed on faulty hardware rather than tampering.
John H. Lynch announces postponement of today’s entertainment for Amalgamated Coal Teamsters Local 68 due to influenza. Funds will be invested in Liberty bonds for crippled or incapacitated veterans. Regular Sunday meeting moved to the fourth Sunday.
Bishop Keating of Northampton Mgr Barnes and Father Martindale arrived in New York to attend the golden jubilee of Cardinal Gibbons in a ceremonial visit by the English hierarchy delegation.
A wartime appeal urges readers that buying bonds is as effective as bayonet thrusts against the Hun, stressing the bond drive as a key war effort and civic duty.
Dublin October 11 Captain R H Cone head of the American naval airship service was aboard the steamship Leinster when it was sunk by a German submarine He is reported to have a broken leg and to be among the survivors.
The shipwreck survivors include T. F. Denny of Gardner Massachusetts and Frank A. Martin. Others aboard Leinster who escaped are J. M. Rafferty D. J. Murphy G. W. Russell and Dwyer and Hogan. Captain Cone praised for maintaining order. Among 150 women and children, only 15 accounted for with some deaths. About 480 people perished from the torpedoing of the Leinster on October 11 1918.
Letter to the Post urges readers to line up with strong action against oppression. It cites John Hay’s quote Thy Will Be Done and frames resistance by sword, tongue or pen against tyranny. Signed by Joseph Holmes Wilson of 292 Ames Street Lawrence, dated October 10, 1918.
Chairman George A. Bacon of the Republican State committee sent a letter to Henry B. Endicott of the emergency public health committee offering cooperation to suspend political gatherings during the influenza epidemic. He asks Endicott for advice on postponing the Republican State Convention, which has already been adjourned from Oct. 5 to Oct. 19.
Dr Alexander Wekerle the Hungarian premier announced his resignation after meeting King Charles in Budapest via Basel on October 11.
In a deadly rescue attempt during a fierce gale the Otranto towed by the British destroyer Mounsey was battered onto Islay shores after colliding with the Kashmir. Of 699 American soldiers aboard the Otranto only 310 landed. 372 remained unaccounted for as many bodies washed ashore along Islay and adjacent coasts.
Allied forces including American, French, and British units press the German retreat from Verdun toward their borders. The Meuse line appears at risk as the 80 mile western front withdraws from Douai to St Quentin with limited infantry opposition and heavy cavalry and air activity harassing retreating columns.
A straightforward call to citizens to support the Liberty Loan by purchasing bonds, urging public participation in the war effort and highlighting the duty of every voter to back national finance.
Nearly 500 missing from the transport Otranto after a gale drove the ship ashore near Islay Island. Eight rescuers including doctors left for the scene with Red Cross supplies. A British destroyer saved hundreds of soldiers and sailors as 30 went overboard but many survived stranded on the destroyer. Private Raymond Simpson died aboard the destroyer.
The following Americans, survivors of the Otranto, privates all, have landed at a Scottish port on Oct 9. Charles E. Smithson David R Roberts George 8 Taylor Earle Garver Steward Early Noah Taylor William Cooney Robert F Schaun Thomas A. Kelly Ben Smith Robert Brown Joseph S Richards William Richards Emil Petersen Joseph M Tollock Sergeant Charles MacDonald from Fort Scriven automatic replacement draft and John E Wean Casual Company Camp Merrett N J
Samuel Gompers travels in the Italian war zone with his party. They are welcomed at Italian headquarters by the military mission and Major-General Treat of the American mission, attend a luncheon, tour the Montello front, and meet King Victor Emmanuel.
The Public Service Commission dismissed the petition of the Connecticut Valley Street Railway Company for permission to use one man cars on its Miller's Falls division in Montague and Conway street line in Greenfield.
The article analyzes Thursday and Friday developments in the German withdrawal after Cambrai and St Quentin. It stresses continued Allied gains yet notes German resilience, Laon’s defense as a key to the retreat, and the looming Meuse line as the possible final stand before spring offensives.
American soldiers north of Verdun acclaim President Wilsons note as the Paris papers reveal the reply. Soldiers shout and cheer as the document is read and questions show the army stands ready for a fight to finish and full restitution from Germany.
Paris October 11 The Argonne Forest has been fully cleaned by American troops No Germans remain in the large wooded area as reported by the Associated Press.
Mitchell Indiana reader Mrs Pearl Monahan credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with easing neuralgia during pregnancy and improving strength prior to the birth of her seven month old baby weighing 19 pounds. The ad cites multiple letters to Lydia E Pinkham Medicine Co. praising maternity health benefits.
Wartime appeal urges purchase of bonds to fund manpower and ship production. Public pledge to support the war effort emphasized alongside general calls for finance.
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