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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1920
Page
3
A 1920 nature sketch details the red headed woodpecker J Hammond Brown. It covers size plumage range migration and its drumming as alarm clock and love song. The piece extols its wood destroying bill tail and tongue aiding pest control and calls for protection.
William H. Hastings of Malden presided at a Slayton campaign meeting in Cambridge with William W. Davis Judge Robert Walcott and others from Boston a strong Republican group. Slayton argues 33 years as a Republican and business experience qualify him for the Governor's Council while noting duties lie with the legislative branch. He cites wartime work with the national food administration and the Boston Chamber of Commerce and Fruit and Produce Exchange. Hastings promotes Melrose as the banner Republican city and says he is carrying the campaign into every district precinct.
Boston baby carriage dealers report waning carriage sales while City Hall records show births increasing in the last six months. Experts say high living costs push mothers to reuse old carriages or skip carriages for bassinet or go cart options. Some call baby carriages old fashioned amid changing ideas on child care.
Today features a New England Order of Protection pilgrimage to Provincetown aboard the steamer Dorothy Bradford at 9:39 a.m. A 2 p.m. Republican club outing occurs at Norumbega Park with Governor Morrow of Kentucky slated to speak. At 3 p.m. the U S submarine S-21 launches at Quincy Works Fore River. An 6:30 p.m. open meeting of United States School Garden Army and friends at Dorchester includes talks on Bugs Blights and Plant Diseases by Lt Col F G Bauer and entomologist Carroll. At 8 p.m. Thomas Mott Osbourne speaks Tremont Temple on I'm Going to Jail Are You.
Alvin L. Dudley of Andover Vermont writes that in June 1920 his Ayrshire herd produced 288 quarts of milk sold to C Brigham Company for 157.68 dollars, about 51.5 cents per quart, after costs. He argues the consumer pays 17 or 18 cents while farmer nets far less once charges are deducted and contracts limit selling options.
Boston police sought relatives of two men who met misfortune in New York. Jerry Campalla died Monday. relatives listed at 241 High Street do not exist. Edward Murphy of 21 Spring Street was sent to Fordham Hospital for the Insane. no one could be found at 21 Spring Street in either the West End or West Roxbury.
A sale listing offers women's handkerchiefs in dainty colors pink blue lavender with borders and embroidery options, and a selected white corner embroidered variant. Also includes a range of high grade American taffeta umbrellas with stylish handles and carved effects, plus pure silk sun and rain umbrellas with Bakelite tips and decorative features.
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