Liberty Bond Adverts Urge Saving From Trifles
The notice promotes buying Liberty Bonds by contrasting small everyday expenses with disciplined savings. It frames bonds as a secure investment that grows money while discouraging wasteful spending.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1917
Page
6
The notice promotes buying Liberty Bonds by contrasting small everyday expenses with disciplined savings. It frames bonds as a secure investment that grows money while discouraging wasteful spending.
An advertisement touts Poslam as a potent skin remedy for eczema and itching. It claims rapid relief and urges readers to request a free sample from Emergency Laboratories in New York City and to use Poslam Soap for daily care.
Official dispatches say Austrian navy mutinies and clashes with German submarine crews at Pola have turned deadly with officers from both sides killed. Further details awaited.
Despatches from Berne claim Austrian crews rebelled against officers over poor food and treatment, while German submarine crews clashed with Austrian personnel. Extraordinary measures moved the Pola flotilla south along the Adriatic to prevent further fighting. News of mutinies in both navies alarms American officials.
Despatches from abroad confirm American naval officers see the fleet as highly significant due to submarine crew drafting. The British policy of secrecy about captured or lost German submariners undermines morale by suspense. Clashes between German and Austrian crews intensify concern given Austria’s exhausted military state.
German dreadnoughts sunk the Russian battleship Slava off Oesel Island and forced the fleet to Moon Sound. Moon Island was captured, Russian guns silenced, and access to Moon Sound barred as German forces tightened their cordon near the Gulf of Riga. Mutinies stirred in the German and Austrian fleets while Belgian, French, and British lines pressed German positions on land with limited heavy fighting reported.
Pittsfield closed the second Liberty Loan drive with $4,815,100 subscribed from 11,415 subscribers, exceeding its $4,000,000 allotment by $815,100 amid enthusiastic reports from 2000 volunteers at the Boys' Club. The first campaign also topped its quota, with $2,315,200 against an $800,000 target.
The body of American aviator Julian Biddle who died in September on war service will be shipped home after the war in a leaden coffin at the family's request. Biddle, with the Lafayette flying squadron, vanished while carrying despatches from St Pol to Dunkirk and later washed ashore at Egmond Aan Zee.
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