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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1917
Page
3
A large group of reserve officers in France has been divided into intensive schools to supplement their U S training at Plattsburg and other camps. They are learning every detail of war operations and will be assigned to divisions as they arrive. A Liberty bond at a dollar a week is urged to support the effort.
Mrs. Blanche Jefferson of Des Moines credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with saving her life from a serious female ailment and enabling her to do housework again. The ad touts forty years of proven value and urges women to try the remedy.
St Patrick's Church Cambridge holds its annual reunion Thursday in the Elks ballroom Central Square. The event aims to be the parish's largest, featuring patriotic tableaux marches and an expanded musical program. Rev John A Butler and assistants Rev John J Mack and Rev David B Waters lead committees to organize children’s entertainment tableaux dancing and refreshments by parish women.
A censored Prussian Diet budget committee report reveals a poorer food outlook than the government claims, noting only the potato crop as promising while other foods lag. The session occurred behind closed doors in Copenhagen on October 21.
A report to Secretary of War Baker by the terminal port facilities committee urges using Commonwealth lands at South Boston for immediate war storage. The lands would be leased for the war duration and two years after for a nominal fee to build warehouses, with Commonwealth Pier tied to overseas shipments.
Fritz Kreisler drew a full audience at Symphony Hall with a luminous violin tone and flawless technique. He performed familiar pieces alongside new or rarely heard works by Carl Friedberg Edwin Grasse Tartini Bach Bruch and Smetana and even his own Polichinelle. Encores multiplied as the virtuoso extended the concert.
A Liberty Bond is described as more than a loan to government, serving as the insurance of life liberty and the pursuit of happiness under a democratic government for citizens and their children.
The article notes uncertainty over bread lasting the year, with surrogates used to maintain ration quality as flour is milled to 94 percent. Bread and potatoes will form most of the ration while meat? allowance is likely cut. milk and butter stay scarce. Socialists push for open debate on food in the Diet. Budapest reports franchise reform bill faces slim chances due to Count Andrassy’s opposition. Wekerle cabinet risks collapse tied to the measure.
Hundreds of Borden Farm Products milk wagon drivers ending a strike since Friday agreed to return to work tomorrow morning after a conference in New York. The settlement followed mediation by state and city officials and granted virtually all the drivers' demands.
Washington news reports that the Red Cross War Council approved $900000 for winter food supplies for war sufferers in western Asia, bringing total funds to $1,800,000 entrusted to the American committee for Armenian and Syrian relief. The message urges Liberty bond purchases to support the effort.
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