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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1922
Page
8
All items printed will be paid for at one dollar per item. Photographs with short descriptions will be paid for at two dollars per image. Contributors must agree that the Ford-a-Day editor’s decision is final in all cases.
On a New York to Boston run, the 4:34 express was sidetracked at Stonington after Bradford engine trouble. A passenger donned a bathing suit, swam about 25 minutes near Wadawamick Club, then returned to the baggage car before the relief engine arrived. note from Mrs. B. Coughlin of Stonington dated Aug 17.
A Nantasket Beach anecdote shows two mothers placing their two year olds in waist‑high sand pits for safe swimming while they bathed nearby. Each child was secured in sand then washed off in the ocean after swimming. The tale is shared by Frederick E. Cox of Nantasket Point Road.
A student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology awakened by taps on the ceiling discovers fly paper and a wire mechanism. The culprit is Theodore Edison, son of the famed inventor, who is punished after his feigned sleep is exposed. This item appears in a wartime era notice by Walter Livingston Hinman of Veterans Hospital No. 44 West Roxbury.
In Boston, Mr A J Croll of 68 Essex street says a pair of silk hosiery bought 40 years ago remains in good condition. He has worn them at least once a week for dress over the decades. W D Hanly. 14 Milk street, Boston.
While dining at Mary Elizabeth's Tea Room in Boston a woman sat at a nearby table and, while the waitress was away, produced a full dinner service including napkin ring plate cup and saucer knife fork and spoon. Identified as Mrs Martha A Aldrich of 64 Winthrop Street Everett.
Mr Cain received a new Ford touring car yesterday afternoon as a prize for a 92 word gem of repertorial wit. The award appears to honor concise clever writing in local entertainment.
The 52 word tale won Mr Cain a Ford car as cheers erupted at Quincy Post Office. Pete Connors is noted for a stone wall in Quincy Square and the prize winning tale credits his wife for the push to enter. Cain is hailed as man of the hour by colleagues.
An auto accident at Oak Grove crossing in Malden drew 20 calls to the Ford a Day desk within one hour. The first caller, a train passenger hit by a light truck, phoned ten minutes after the collision, illustrating the contest’s strong interest.
Mr. Cain, a Quincy resident and Boston postal district employee, wins the Ford a Day contest featured in the Post. The news spreads fast as workers read the Post and congratulate him, while Ford cars come from Cambridge and dealers near winners handle delivery.
In Somerset Vermont a single resident holds all town offices. He issues hunting fishing and marriage licenses as town clerk, presides as justice of the peace for marriages, acts as selectman managing funds, road commissioner hiring workers, town treasurer paying bills, constable maintaining order, and represents the town in Montpelier annually. Maud Macteer. Box 224 Wilmington Vermont.
In a Maine town last month a shopkeeper warned customers to blow a tin horn to summon the proprietor. The horn was stolen by a touring party days earlier, leaving the owner to travel to Wellsworth’s in a distant city to obtain help and rely on customers for service.
A groom at the South Hamilton M. E. Church asks the minister to omit the customary bride kiss in exchange for more pay. The pastor notes the bride often receives two kisses, and keeps to standard practice.
A village resident wrote to a matrimonial bureau and found a partner he has yet to meet. He bought a burial plot and built a monument bearing both names, dug two graves, and placed a capstone, intending to receive their bodies when they die. The couple are not married and have never met. Jeann Jordan, 38 Pawcatuck Avenue, Westerly, R. I.
In Somerville a family bends the law by keeping hens in a back yard enclosure partly in Somerville and a bridge-like extension places the rooster in Cambridge. The house on Gilman Street is the source location for the scheme attributed to Kathryn Profit.
Lieutenant John W. Monahan of the Aerial Service and Staff Sergeant Young set a new aerial record today. They departed Mitchell Field at 9 45 a m and landed at Framingham airdrome at 11 98 a m after two minutes taxiing to the hangar. Monahan piloted a PD H4BB 14 horsepower liberty motor aircraft for photographing work for the First Corps Area Headquarters.
A Portsmouth woman preserves a mystery package sent nearly three years ago by a service member, refusing to open it despite pressure to reveal its contents. The unopened parcel bears a November 1919 postmark and is kept sealed to honor the sender’s instruction. Names Miss Mary Jordan and Mildred A Lane appear as residents connected to the case.
The investigation confirmed the claim and Miss Lane is awarded a Ford car for today.
Mrs. Mary J. Barrell recalls a man who asked for a life size statue of himself to gauge public opinion. The monument stood on his cemetery lot and, at its unveiling, he learned what people truly thought of him from their remarks.
A 90 year old Ferlin New Hampshire man entered City National Bank demanded his savings, then after 15 minutes counted the funds in a secluded spot and returned the money saying all was correct. The treasurer smiled and thanked him. Mrs Di Oscar Demers Caro of Northern Auto Company Berlin New Hampshire.
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