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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1920
Page
7
Bishop Edwin Holt Hughes at People's Temple defends the American public school system calling critics liars and a cesspool of immorality. He urges a return to old fashioned domestic life and claims parents must take education of the child in spiritual matters and intellect, warning against outsourcing responsibility to institutions outside the home.
Post master Baker unveils a new plan to accelerate mail delivery in Boston by assigning each street with multiple stations its own distinct postal numeral. The measure targets sections with several branches to streamline routing and reduce transit times.
Postmaster Baker promotes a new numeral system to cut rehandling of about 125 000 letters daily. He spoke at Intercolonial Hall to Union of Postoffice Clerks officials and urged clerks to educate the public and adopt the scheme for faster, more efficient service.
Albert Spalding violinist and Neinald Werrenrath baritone headlined a Symphony Hall concert yesterday afternoon with Sophie Braslau delayed by rail. Benoist accompanied, and Werrenrath delivered an engaging program on short notice, elevating a mixed Brahms, Martini, Sarasate, Paganini, and Chabrier Loewe offering into a warmly received evening.
Assistant Secretary Franklin D. Roosevelt told Radcliffe Club members that money spent on wartime naval investigations could better serve starving wives and children of sailors. He faulted Congress for underfunding the armed forces and warned of an unprepared military in another conflict. He spoke at Copley Plaza after remarks at the Old North Church.
At 8:20 a m closing day of the Methodist conference and a full day of activities. A conference of committees of vocational training and a meeting of the Women’s Educational and Industrial Union follow. A City Club forum features Walter Gordon Merritt on social control of industrial welfare.
In Columbus Ohio on April 11 police say a nation wide campaign against four big lottery outfits began as 14 men were arrested for selling or promoting lotteries. Over $100000 in tickets were seized and the four companies named include Honduras Cuban Metropolitan and Alaskan with prizes up to $10000 and 20000.
Berne dispatch reports talks on repatriating 200000 Russian prisoners from Germany and 300000 German and Austro Hungarian prisoners held in Siberia Turkestan. Japanese ships will move the first Siberia prisoners to Hamburg and a French steamer will transport 2000 from Vladivostok to Trieste.
Seumas McManus lectured yesterday afternoon at Notre Dame Academy in the Fenway on Irish Wit and Humor. Ed ward F. McSweeney introduced him for an entertainment under the Notre Dame Alumni Association of Roxbury Academy.
A wireless from the Shipping Board steamship Mystic reports its boiler disabled fuel and fresh water exhausted and seven feet of water in the forward hold. The coastguard cutter Ossipee from Portland Me stands by. Mystic sailed from Avonmouth March 21 bound for New York.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine previews Ramsey Milholland in Booth Tarkington's clever serial Ramsey blossoms out as a debater extraordinary. The installment promises sharp wit and engaging dialogue within a fashionable urban setting.
In a smoker I meet a Connecticut manufacturing chief who challenges my advertising work and calls me a piker. We discuss Hoyt's Service, Inc. growth from zero to a sizeable agency and the need to clearly tell our story to potential manufacturers to attract bigger business.
A dense catalog of companies and product lines from various cities including Cleveland Boston New York Philadelphia and more. Entries include hardware textiles toys cosmetics furniture tobacco and consignment brands with taglines and brief descriptors. Notable names include Gilbert Toys O L Hinds Company Kryptok and Coco Bloom among others.
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