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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 16, 1918
Page
4
An advertisement touts Poslam as a soothing healing balm for itching skin and eczema. It claims rapid improvement with repeated use and offers free samples from Emergency Laboratories in New York City. The ad also promotes Slam Soap medicated with Poslam for daily skin improvement.
Final returns show 12,966,594 men registered for military service as of Sept 12, with Texas reporting 621,474 against an initial 546,187. The count excludes mail registrations and absentees. with incldues the total nears 13 million. Overall registrations since entry into WWI total 23,456,021.
For Uncle Sam's sake and the sake of your family and the boys over there, citizens are urged to subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan today. The plea emphasizes duty and sacrifice and calls for prompt action.
The first all-woman engineer corps sent overseas by the National American Woman Suffrage Association has landed in France to aid gas-victim patients on the front. Captain Mignonne Lore leads the unit with members Winifred Werder Eleanor Mellen Pauline Perry Gladys Brown and Dr Nellie Barness. Massachusetts suffragists raise 25000 for overseas hospitals under Mrs. Benjamin F Pitman.
A wartime appeal calls readers to subscribe today to the Fighting Fourth and back the aggressive units of Uncle Sam, including the Fighting Ninth, with renewed support for the war effort.
Miss Elizabeth Marbury, honorary president of the Women's National Committee of the American Defence Society, calls on American women to demand unconditional surrender as the only price of peace. She denounces pacifists and urges continued drive toward victory and the defeat of Germany, with the flag over Berlin.
Four year old Elizabeth Campbell of 8 Iola Street Dorchester has gathered more than 500 peach and plum stones over the past two weeks aiding in the manufacture of gas masks for American troops in France. Her uncle Horace Chesman, a navy veteran, accompanied her to the post with the contribution.
German newspapers cited by Swiss dispatches indicate the end of militarism. Frankfurter Zeitung notes possible return to arms if negotiations fail but stresses no illusions and urges true justice under Wilson. Morgen Post and Neue Landes Zeitung echo doubt that continued war would yield good results.
A fragment quotes a speaker arguing that the war was not waged with the agreement of the entire German people. The remark frames accountability as collective but not universal across the nation.
Rockland Maine October 15 Captain Warren J Atwood of Orrington master of the schooner Florence and Lillian died from injuries after being caught in the hoisting engine of the vessel. He was years old and leaves a family.
The notice calls for a fourth bond issue to back the war effort urging residents to buy one more Victory bond. Officials emphasize civic duty and strong national finance.
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