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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1919
Page
14
A Chicago judge sends speed offenders on a tour of relief stations and morgues to witness traffic violations. Defendants return and are paroled on a week long written report on how automobiles should be driven for mutual safety. The piece urges similar court procedures in other areas for better traffic conditions.
The Health Board urges washing all fruit from markets and stands due to dust and handling. Some fruit is coated with arsenical spray, so housewives should rinse and pare before eating to protect families and avoid medical costs.
In Chicago, a practical argument against extortion suggests publishing a list of retailers who overcharged for food. The district attorney plans to reveal names, starting with a grocer charging $4.80 per bushel of potatoes and another at 19 cents a pound for sugar. Consumers would avoid profiteers, pressuring reform.
The editorial argues the President’s veto of daylight saving repeal stood, praising farmers as the true backbone of the nation. It rebuts city bias, noting urban views misread rural impacts on farm work and efficiency.
The passage notes disruptions that hamper workers and reduce efficiency, highlighting collective dependence on smooth operations. It emphasizes the impact on daily output and the need to minimize disturbances to sustain productivity.
An editorial urges citizens to prioritize duty over rights showing how collective obligation to neighbors and the public could curb profiteering strikes unrest and speculation. It argues the United States offers exceptional living conditions and urges calm practical action to restore happiness and prosperity.
A White House session on Tuesday featured Woodrow Wilson answering cross examination by six or more senators and lawyers. The President remained poised, recalling facts with perfect memory and defending his positions without faltering or confusion.
Army officers below brigadier general must take exercise under a war department order. The piece argues walking outdoors benefits health, warns against excessive riding, and suggests exercise could save lives and improve civilian fitness too. It mocks complacent habits and extols sun and air as life extending.
The piece notes a Sunday golf dispute moving toward a Supreme Court decision after a test game at Brae-Burn and a Newton court hearing tomorrow. Eminent golfer lawyers are expected to appear to argue whether golf falls under the law against Sunday games. If classified as a sport, golf may lose one day each week.
Francis Ouimet of our locality defeated Chick Evans of Chicago to win the National Amateur Golf Championship in Pittsburgh. Despite serious illness days earlier, Ouimet fought through and demonstrated remarkable grit and skill in the final match.
Despite a tough handicap Francis Ouimet faced a master and played in top form. He won by a single hole through supreme will power, provoking pride across Boston and New England. He promises to do more in the future.
The article explains the shift in exchange rate from five dollars per pound to about four dollars. British and other European buyers now purchase less, limiting American exports. Governments prefer a larger discount to spur domestic production, potentially easing high US prices in the long run.
The famed Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont, nearing age fifty, will visit the United States and fly as a passenger in modern aircraft. He plans to take pleasure trips escorted by pilots as acquaintances and admirers hail his contributions to aviation history.
A collage of brief vignettes features James R. Mann on horticulture and army habits, Archbishop Cerratti’s expected red hat reward, Conductor Corcoran’s Albany ties and prayer habit, Tschaikovsky’s London appeals against Bolsheviks, the Moroccan Rasull’s chivalrous demeanor, and quips about Senators Williams Borah Fall and prose versus poetry, reflecting a lively cross-section of political and cultural personalities.
The longtime resident notes that official figures show Boston’s first day of August peaked at 91 degrees in 1916 and 88 in 1883. The coldest on this date were 52 degrees in 1882 and 1911, with no rain in the past decade except 1914 and 1917.
A Wisconsin man wearing a popular celluloid collar on a Sunday morning had his collar burst into flames after a pipe spark, a neighbor doused the blaze with a blanket, and the collar burned away. The piece warns wearers of the risk and suggests insurance and a vest-pocket extinguisher.
Owing to various reasons the owner offers a nice place for sale. Viewings scheduled Tuesday and Thursday afternoons. No brokers or middlemen. See TM.
A Lancaster area farmer claims potatoes grow underground while tomatoes appear above in one plant. A letter writer rebuts the scheme and taunts the inventor, then threatens a boxing match if challenged.
Poem fragment speaks of beauty as a comforting gift that endures through ruin and wreck. It claims beauty reveals love and lifts hearts from darkness, guiding thoughts toward brighter possibilities.
The 1905 Brazilian aviation pioneer Santos-Dumont built a box-kite like aeroplane and stunned crowds at Bagatelle by flying 80 yards on a 23 October 1906 test. He then set a 230 yard world record a month later and remained airborne for 21 seconds. France lauded him as the first motor driven pilot before the Wrights.
The old State House on Washington Street will be restaged at the Springfield fairgrounds this fall and dedicated in September in the presence of New England governors. A. W Lombard of the State Department of Agriculture oversaw the plans, aiming for a faithful exterior replica viewed by passersby.
A letter to the editor answers several reader questions. The old powder house at Powder House Hill built before 1720 served as a magazine after 1747 and linked to the 1774 British seizure. Yerkes Observatory sits at Williams Bay Wisconsin housing the large refractor and other skyward instruments. August is suggested for gathering pine needles with balsam fir needles favored for pillows.
The record notes the first American involvement in battle in France on an unspecified date. It records the first American shot on October 28, 1917 and the first American deaths from a German trench raid on November 5, 1917. It also mentions a query about the origin of the term monkey wrench and a machinist attribution to Charley Moncky.
Household hints advise coating a wire clothesline with white enamel to double its life and prevent rust. Make a table pad from 18 to 20 sheets of newspaper covered with muslin. Cracked cups can be reused as gelatin and custard moulds. Peach stains respond to camphor spirits. Turn worn tablecloths into kitchen roller towels. Fill linoleum holes with cork and glue to slow enlarging. Keep sinks grease free and weekly flush with potash solution. Mrs Harold Coates Lasbon NH.
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