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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1922
Page
16
A home made gray hair remedy details a simple mix to darken gray hair at home. The solution uses bay rum glycerine Barbon and water, applied twice weekly to soften and gloss the hair without coloring the scalp or rubbing off, claimed to make a person appear twenty years younger.
Brunswick Maine April 24 A bulletin with Bowdoin College Alumni addresses shows alumni in 48 states including Alaska and the District of Columbia, the Philippines, Puerto Rico and Hawaii, plus 19 foreign nations. The oldest living Bowdoin graduate is Rev. William C Pond of San Francisco class of 1848.
Worcester April 2 The Worcester branch of Field Brothers New York brokers was closed today by telegraphic order from the attorney for the main offices as the firm has been petitioned into involuntary bankruptcy.
Funeral services for Ferdinand Strauss, longtime Leopold Morse Company president, will be held tomorrow at 10 a.m. at 16 Prescott Street Brookline, with burial at Wakefield. He died suddenly of a cerebral hemorrhage at the Somerset Hotel, aged in his 70s, survived by wife Ada C. and son Leon, a Morse vice president. Born April 6, 1852, he trained at Brimmer and English High schools and spent his career with Leopold Morse Company, supporting numerous charities.
Mr. Strauss served on the Federation of Jewish Charities finance committee and chaired the Baron de Hirsch fund Boston branch. He was president of the Boston Elysium Club and acted as trustee for Boston pauper institutions, reflecting his long involvement in city charitable enterprises.
The third annual Jefferson Club ball will be held tomorrow night at Roughan Hall Charlestown with a grand march as the main feature. A concert precedes the march and many prominent public figures are invited including Governor Cox Mayor Curley Mayors Quinn Noonan Quigley Mayor Fitz Gerald District Attorney OBrien General Cole Congressmen Gallivan Tague Senators McDonnell Carey Green and others.
More than 1150 posters were entered in the Massachusetts S P C A poster contest with entries from 62 towns. Winners were announced by judges Walter M Rolands Margaret Fitzhugh Browne and William E Putnam, including Elizabeth Groves Newton Technical High School and Beatrice A Lord Somerville High School in Class I High Schools.
The humorist Ring W. Lardner pens The Swift Six a tale about a man and his first car. It will run in full in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
In Dallas on April 24 United News reports that a central political question in Texas is whether voters belong to the Ku Klux Klan. Opposition to the hooded knights is set as a major issue in races from U.S. senator to village constable.
The Dallas flap centers on anti Klan charges of vigilante violence and alleged Klan influence in Texas cities. Senator Culberson opposes the Klan while opponent Henry embraces it, tests show voters split on the issue and the elections loom as a Klan strength gauge.
The Housing Commission will relocate from 1 Beacon Street to the old Aldermanic Chamber at City Hall starting May 1. City Council acted after learning current funding would only cover salaries for three months, forcing the move to avoid service disruption amid rent and housing oversight. Philadelphia reports 263 women physicians and nine female clergymen.
April 24 report notes granite cutters strike makes securing granite difficult. Cast stone likely to substitute granite in the trim for the $80,000 addition to the local high school. The contractor seeks city consent, with decision awaiting the architect James H B Allen.
The City Council voted to appropriate $27,000 from the Parkman Fund for riverway improvements near Brookline Avenue and Audubon Circle after Deputy Park Commissioner William P. Long testified the work was needed.
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