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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 1918
Page
3
The War Department announced that enlisted men with physical defects may apply for commissions in the staff corps and departments where physical soundness is not essential. Applications should use the standard commission form and go through military channels.
An advertisement touts a French pain reliever sold in the United States by Thos. Seeming & Co. It claims the product maintains strength through repeated applications and relieves headaches, lumbago, rheumatism, and similar pains, noting it is a famed non cure reliever for 25 years.
Mrs. Lizzie Courtney of Oskaloosa Iowa testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound eased years of misery from weakness and pains It is urged that women with displacements irregularities inflammation ulceration backache nervousness or going through the Change of Life try the remedy The pamphlet letters are presented as proof of the product's merit.
Boston transit users may endure unheated cars as two large turbines intended for summer installation will not be ready until February 1919. The company cites war conditions and internal delays for the serious power deficit.
Officials warn that overworked generators and turbines may fail during winter, risking loss of service as a 35,000 kilowatt turbine remains unrepaired after last year’s accident. A 9,000 kilowatt turbine ordered from Westinghouse will not arrive until Feb. 1919, forcing reliance on Edison Electric Company and existing capacity with no reserve power.
Adjutant-general notes a draft call within days that would exhaust all class 1 medical group A registrants prior to Sept 12 in the state, based on telegram from General Crowder. Provost marshal general says Massachusetts will receive calls totaling 24 050 men from ages 19 to 36, with division allotments on a pro rata basis and about 200 men per division.
Washington news that General March set a 60 percent minimum general average for promotion under the army efficiency rating. The score encompasses all qualities of an officer and will guide recommendations for advancement.
London October 25 figures published today show the British fleet including auxiliaries expanding from 2.5 million to 6.5 million tons displacement and personnel from 146000 to 406000. Since the war began 21.59 million soldiers have been carried by sea with 4391 lost. over 6 million tons of stores transshipped and 24 million tons taken overseas for allies. convoys organized since March 1917 have logged 75929 sailings with only a few hundred losses.
American officers trained this year in France will replace British instructors at balloon corps fields. The War Department said the British government requested release from duty to return home for war service, freeing them from initiating the instruction system.
Washington reports the war revenue bill will not reach the Senate before the November elections. Senator Simmons said the finance committee cannot finish revising the House draft by October 29 and recess Congress until November 12. It is expected to be submitted to the Senate after reassembly with right of way. Horlick's Malted Milk promoted as a recuperative influenza diet.
The National War Labor Board granted a wage increase of 30 to 49 percent retroactive to July 17 for about 14,000 Lynn General Electric Company employees. The ruling reinstates 12 discharged union organizers, cuts the workday to eight hours, and grants a shop committee to handle grievances with a general joint committee of union workers to oversee enforcement.
Palamede Raggi, renowned artist who painted many Boston churches and St John’s Seminary in Brighton, was buried from his Dorchester home at 74 Mayfield Street after dying of pneumonia at Carney Hospital. He studied with his brother Professor Raggi at the St Michele Art Institute in Italy before emigrating to the United States.
Representative Rogers of Massachusetts left Washington for Camp Zachary Taylor Louisville to serve as a private in the Field Artillery. He will not resign his seat. He is 37, inducted by Lowell draft board. his wife serves as a nurse locally.
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