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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1918
Page
2
Allen Curtis signs a letter to the editor thanking readers for boosting the Fourth Liberty Loan subscriptions. He credits the Post with doubling up support and backing the loan to help it succeed. Executive Liberty Loan Committee notes the date October 14.
Lawrence, Oct. 16. Fred T. Houghton, 80, son of Joseph Houghton of 1855 Turnpike Street North Andover, died of pneumonia yesterday at Fort Ethan Allen Vermont. He was a member of the 310th Cavalry and last February married Agnes Taylor of this city. Mrs. Taylor has given four sons to the federal service. Private Houghton is survived by his wife and one child. One bottle of Adamson Cough Balsam is enough to cure almost any cold.
Paris Edition of the Chicago Tribune says 71 Americans escaped from Villingen prison camp in Baden. Two reached Switzerland: Lt. Isaacs of the S S President Lincoln and Corporal Harold Willis of Boston, who was captured in August 1917 with the Lafayette Escadrille and escaped on October 4.
An Associated Press dispatch from Stockholm dated October 14 describes ongoing Bolshevik red terror in Russia as Entente refugees led by R H B Lockhart report daily executions, forced jumps from cars, and bodies dumped in trenches with wet concrete to conceal them. The group, detained at the Moscow jail, was exchanged for M Litvinoff and eventually released after siege at the American consulate.
Private Edward J. Anderson of the 76th United States Field Artillery explains that German shells never hit him, yet he survived two serious wounds and has been invalided home to join the Fourth Liberty Loan drive.
Private Anderson of Rindge Manual Training School fame and boxing circles, now convalescing at Lakewood New Jersey, relates eight months in France. He recounts Belleau Wood and Chateau Thierry battles, the death of a fellow soldier, injuries from shrapnel, gas exposure, and the French troops’ steadfastness. He plans discharge soon at Lakewood.
Thomas A. H. ONeil formerly of Danversport is to be reinstated as a Treasury special agent. He will receive back pay from February 13, 1907 totaling over $20,000, per a President Wilson signed order reported from Washington. He had been removed by Assistant Secretary James B. Reynolds and had appealed the action.
Call to action urging readers to back the war effort by purchasing Liberty Loan bonds to back peace. Messages emphasize civic duty and financial backing as key to ending conflict.
Allied forces including Americans repulse heavy Bolshevik assaults on both banks of the Dvina 150 miles north of Ketlass in the Archangel region. Americans and Russians push forward toward Velsk northeast of Vologda in the northern fighting zone.
Amid heavy bombardment on both sides of the Dvina, Allied forces defend positions on river bluffs while Bolshevik gunboats shell the line. An American lieutenant and crew rescue a gun from a disabled tug but two soldiers drown attempting to repair tugs under fire.
An official Belgian despatch reports hundreds of thousands of French and Belgian refugees fleeing German forces may be housed in eastern Belgium. The Belgian relief commission is feeding and distributing evacuees as they move toward the Dutch frontier, with the Dutch government promising asylum if exodus continues.
Captain A. A. Mackintosh assistant military attache at the British embassy died from Spanish influenza and was buried with full military honors at Arlington National Cemetery. Colonel James Lockett attended as representative of Secretary Baker, with American soldiers and British sailors and marines joining the procession.
The message urges buying Liberty Bonds to back notional American troops and pressuring the United States to deliver a decisive knockout blow to Germany. It implies a weakened Germany and calls for financial support of mobilization efforts.
The notice extols remedies for impure weak iron deficient blood. It recommends Hood's Sarsaparilla before meals and Peptiron after, with Hood's Pills as a gentle laxative if needed. It claims combined use yields fourfold benefit and states availability from all druggists.
Washington reports Representative Meeker of Missouri has died. The House adjourned and Speaker Clark named a committee to attend his funeral. A separate note urges joining the "Fighting Fourth" and working hard by Saturday night.
An advertisement for Gets-It corn treatment promises painless removal of corns with a few drops. The product, touted as the only guaranteed corn remedy, claims quick action and a money back guarantee, manufactured by E. Lawrence & Co. in Chicago Illinois.
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