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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1922
Page
11
Anonymous piece titled The Loom of Life appears in The Watchman Examiner. The poem describes life as a loom with tiresome wheels, threads of love and sin, fate, and a final judgment. It ponders time, eternity, and moral choices, urging to spin a beautiful thread rather than sin.
Readers discuss the idea of health certificates for marriage and the impact of laws on society. Letters argue that physical health alone does not determine suitability, and warn against overregulation. A mother offers reflections on family life and the value of love.
A playful poem describes nightly rhymes in a park scene with a peaceful sunset. The speaker feels happy amid trees and river views as a biting insect and lamp troubles interrupt the muse. Wilhelmina Stitch signs the closing line with a dramatic twist.
The engagement of Jane Norton Grew, second daughter of Mr and Mrs Edward W Egglesworth Grew of Boston, to James Waterhouse Angell son of James Rowland Angell president of Yale University, has been announced here by Miss Grew s parents.
The narrative chronicles Columbus as a teen cabin boy, his Mediterranean travels, and visits to Chios and likely Constantinople. It notes Europe’s blockade after Turkish conquest spurred by the fall of Constantinople, spurring Columbus to seek a western route to the Indies. It cites 1476 to 1477 travels via Gibraltar to Lisbon, Bristol, Galway, and Ultima Thule, proposing Iceland or the Faroe Islands as likely Thule sites and suggesting he met Arctic pilots.
Elsie and Melissa discuss Mr Roberts a hypocrite after a routine lie told to hide a delay. Roberts demands absolute truthfulness from staff while he hides small evasions himself. The pair reflect on office ethics and the gap between talk and action.
John Coyle age 19, believed leader of a 15 man bootlegging gang, was jailed at Poplar Street Brooklyn awaiting Adams Street Court Tuesday on disorderly conduct. Police seized two jackets with four pockets each, used to carry quart bottles of whiskey, taken during Coyle’s trips to the Ville D Orari steamer of the Ward Line between the United States and Cuba.
Wesley Townsend, 45, of 121 Waterstreet Newburyport, leaped into the Merrimac River at Perkins Wharf. Members of the American Yacht Club pulled him from the water and he was taken to the police station where he pleaded with officers to let him die. Townsend had been despondent recently, according to police.
Vice President Calvin Coolidge and Mrs Coolidge spent yesterday in Swampscott as guests of Mr and Mrs Frank H Stearns. They toured John Mason Little’s estate for moving pictures before brief Boston stay and a Friday trip to the Pacific Coast where he will address the American Bar Association in San Francisco.
A guide for home canners on selecting fruit. Avoid very ripe fruit and prefer firmer specimens. For peaches choose lemon or orange cling varieties or Crawford Freestone, pineapples should be yellowish with smooth skin, Hawaiian preferred. Plums can vary by taste but must be firm, cherries should be blemish free with stems, pears for pickling should be small Seckel pears, unbruised and not too soft at the core.
Recipes from New England housewives feature Beefsteak a la mode with butter flour lemon juice stock mushrooms and Bechamel sauce. New Orleans Potato Salad with eggs onions celery and mustard dressing. baked apples in slow oven. rhubarb dessert. milk custard with bananas. Recipes credited to Nellim Skinner Frederick C. Renziehausen Mrs John S. Rower and Edith B. Higgins.
Filmdom circles report Marguerite de la Motte will star in a series of features produced by J L Frothingham, a former Boston businessman. The teen actress has led in many productions and appeared with Douglas Fairbanks in The Three Musketeers. She is now at Thomas H Ince studios with Shattered Idols Finding Home and The Brotherhood of Hate in her recent credits.
The article notes a shift to authentic filming locales and large-scale staffing. Rupert Hughes uses 20 society women and charity-backed wages for a mansion shoot. R A Walsh employs 2000 Tahitians on payroll for a Tahiti shot. Maurice Tourneur films The Christian with mass London locations and Trafalgar Square crowd scenes.
Motion picture fans in Australia and New Zealand choose Rudolph Valentino, the Talmadge sisters, Richard Barthelmess, Lillian and Dorothy Gish, Gloria Swanson, Harold Lloyd, Mary Pickford, Chaplin and Ruth Roland as leading favorites. About 350 NZ theatres and 850 in Australia show films, with 90 percent of titles American productions.
Shirley Mason headlines the romantic "Youth Must Have Love" with Dustin Farnum in "The Yosemite Trail" planned next. Irene Rich is named as Farnum’s leading woman, while Charles Jones appears in two Westerns "West of Chicago" and "The Bells of San Juan" adapted from Jackson Gregory.
Bull Montana, film star, returns from Verghera Italy after a triumphal visit. He arrives in New York in time to witness the Leonard Tendler boxing bout and to be seen back in the squared circle media spotlight.
In Bull's estimation a screen idol ranks next. the actor, living in Italy, purchased a modern home for his parents whom he had not seen for six years, signaling a personal milestone amid rising fame.
PRUNELLA HALL notes gossip on Ans and May-Lucille Carlisle with Larry Semon at Vitagraph in Hollywood and their upcoming marriage. It lists Kenneth Harlan as a Talmadge leading man, two cent photo charges at Wollaston, and updates on Bert Lytell, Lowell Sherman, Agnes Ayres, Monte Blue, Danton in Orphans of the Storm, and Broadway Rose with Mae Murray.
The Literary Digest tabulates week three results on enforcement modification and repeal of the Volstead Act. Overall 224 766 favor some liquor form against 135 834 bone dry, with Maryland the wettest state at nearly 3 to 1 for modification or repeal. Kansas and Texas favor strict enforcement.
In Preston Connecticut on July 81 animals in several towns show poisoning by an unidentified person. In McClemon Bros pasture six cows fed paris green on a rock near their water, and three died. Cats dogs and poultry also reported poisoned in various areas of eastern Connecticut.
Funeral services for Julien C. Haynes longtime city employee and former assistant city auditor were held yesterday afternoon at his brother’s home in Hyde Park. City Hall workers attended and the Rev J W Grigham led the service. Burial was in Forest Hills cemetery.
Ob servations in terrestrial magnetism by Donald B. MacMillan’s Arctic expedition were successful. The Bowdoin radio outfit proved largely ineffective but sixteen field stations operated from November in southwestern Baffin Land. The party wintered there and plans for return were not stated.
Law removing all restrictions on women’s eligibility for public service positions in the Commonwealth took effect yesterday. Governor Cox signed the measure as the suffrage question lingered, but the new statute removes every restriction from state laws.
Stephen Tha ciuk nine year old son of Mr and Mrs Zemelis of 166 1 8 Lowell Street drowned while swimming in the Merrimack River opposite Merrimack Park He went beneath the water before rescuers could reach him Patrolmen Lyons and Sullivan recovered the body The destitute family has had no work for 18 weeks and includes two other children.
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