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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1918
Page
4
A Horseheads woman describes pale complexion headaches backache and fatigue from anemia and credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with rapid relief within a week and six weeks of treatment. The ad urges readers with similar symptoms to try the pills and build blood with proper diet and light exercise, noting price and ordering details.
Mr. Frank Harbaugh of Cincinnati Ohio a barber with over forty years in the trade offers a home hair darkening mix. Mix half pint water one ounce bay rum a small box Barbo Compound and four ounces glycerine apply twice weekly until the shade deepens. It claims not to dye color scalp be sticky or rub off and can make a gray head look twenty years younger.
Attorney General Henry C. Attwill will lead the government in seeking the electric chair for Mrs. Bessie May Skeels charged with the murder of Miss Florence M. Gay of Andover. Skeels, who demands an early trial, will be arraigned on a first degree murder charge next Thursday at the Boston Superior Court, with Judge Franklin T. Hammond to decide detention location ahead of the February 24 arraignment.
Letter analyzes President Wilson to urge a Democratic Congress and cautions that his search for a peace dictated by the Allies risks unchecked power. It critiques his stance on conscription, German policy, notes exchanges, and cabinet picks while questioning diplomacy and wartime leadership.
In Boston and Walpole letters reflect distrust of an incomplete peace and desire for harsh victory over Germany. Fragments describe a town roll of honor in Walpole honoring service members, with dimensions, costs, and current names, urging other towns to submit photos for publication.
First Lieutenant Ivan A. Roberts of South Lee received the French Croix de Guerre for bravery in action with the Gimpers squadron of the all American Flying Corps. He took part in the Chateau Thierry drive and has four official enemy planes credited to him. He is 23, son of T Lee Roberts, superintendent of Ascension Farm School, South Lee. Roberts attended Massachusetts Tech and the State Agricultural College. His squadron was led by Vernon Castle with Quentin Roosevelt as a member.
Promotes Poslam for relief of itching inflamed skin and conditions like eczema pimples rash and scalp scales. Advises overnight application with morning improvement and notes availability everywhere and free samples from Emergency Laboratories New York City. Urges daily Poslam Soap use for clearer fresher skin.
Paul West journalist and playwright whose body was recovered from the River Seine in Paris after four days missing. He was a native of the city, educated there, and trained in newspaper work and as a theatrical press agent. He was in his 44th year.
Paul West, who aided press work for the American Red Cross in France, went to the front with Marines near Chateau Thierry. He was badly gassed in a dugout while aiding the wounded and was discharged weeks later. His father was Boston lawyer Paul West, once counsel for a street railway firm and admiralty attorney.
The obituary notes a man who supported his family after his father’s death, worked for the Lawrence American, Boston Traveler, Boston Record, Boston Daily News, and New York World. He penned Queen Oil a comic operetta read to Congress, produced songs and musical comedies, wrote verses and short stories, and starred as a press agent for Boston theaters. He married Jane V. Carrigan of Cambridge on July 18 1895. Mrs West and a daughter survive him.
A member of the Author's League of America and the Union Society of the Civil War is noted with a city residence at 17 West End Avenue, New York, and a country home on Long Island. The fragment mentions his affiliations and properties.
Washington reports the railroad administration postpones the Nov. 1 date to Dec. 1 for combining sleeping car charges with the extra fare on Pullman occupancy due to labor shortages from the influenza epidemic.
Cleek faces one of his toughest assignments as he tackles a cryptic problem in The Mystery of the 5 28. The Boston Post Sunday Magazine previews the next Cleek story with confidence and a promise of sharper clues.
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