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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1921
Page
2
Winthrop residents oppose Boston Revere Beach and Lynn Railroad plan to end all night ferry service. Officials back the move but riders cite 20 cent fare for under eight miles and transfers between two systems. A concerted response is expected to seek a solution to Winthrop transportation woes.
Officials from the First Army Corps voiced strong objections to the proposed 10 year city refuse contract valued at 3,795,000 to Coleman brothers. Army engineers urged upgrades of Spectacle Island plant at 200,000 and improved inspection while Walter R. Meins and Dorchester trade leaders urged municipal takeover and caution over bond size. The hearing adjourned to next Tuesday for more protests.
Representative Garrett of Tennessee calls the Republican record in the extra session a disgraceful failure. The House Democratic leader says an extra will publish the record to accommodate members who want to revise and extend remarks from the recent session.
Ideal secretaries and ideal home makers describe the motto of BU College of Secretarial Science. The new five story club house next to the college aims to provide recreation and a homelike atmosphere with lounging rooms, dining space, sewing and crafts, reading and social areas, and calling rooms on the third floor where friends may meet before dances and theatre. Mother Damon welcomes guests.
The Leyland Line steamship Winifredian capt A W V Trant arrived a full day late from Liverpool, entering quaran tine at dusk and anchoring for the night. She will move to Pier 4 Boston Docks in East Boston to land 7 cabin passengers and discharge a 1600 ton cargo. Rough seas and easterly gales caused the delay.
Mayor Peters asks the Legislature to raise the tax limit above 6.25 per thousand for the coming year. He urges his successor to present full facts at State House hearings, noting the previous session failed to act on the request.
Elliot P. Frost captain of the 1911 Yale crew and his brother Donald Frost a Yale graduate, joined by George J. Fuller of Worcester and Roy Blaisdell, resumed mainland travel this morning from Milk Island after five days marooned by a storm off Rockport.
New England bank officials reviewed letters from savings depositors urging warmer, more helpful service. Writers advocate house to house solicitations, multilingual staff, ministerial outreach, and active follow up to compete with insurance firms.
Washington, Nov 90. The Post Office Department will decentralize detail work to ease Washington loads. State units will handle claims payments money orders distribution of supplies inspection instruction training and refunds at larger postoffices nationwide, Postmaster General Hays announced.
Jacob Goldstein freed after arraignment in municipal court on soliciting a bribe with Louis Kaplan his brother in law and former prohibition agent. Kaplan's charge was continued to this morning for disposition.
Dr Augustus Hopkins Strong former president emeritus of the Baptist Theological Seminary Rochester New York and eminent theologian in the Baptist denomination died in Pasadena California yesterday at age 60.
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