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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1918
Page
20
A Paris report notes overcrowded hotels and high prices for attendees of peace conferences. The writer recalls a recent surge of visitors from the Rhine and urges reasonable charges, reminding locals of responsibility to travelers and shared experience.
The Pershing war report to the War Department is read in New England highlighting the Yankee Division, especially the 25th Division, as part of the Meuse Argonne campaign. It notes their endurance and repeated frontline service under difficult conditions.
Nomination of Congressman Carter Glass for Secretary of the Treasury is likely to pass without opposition. Glass has long shaped banking and currency policy and helped create the Federal Reserve system. The successor will face wartime funding needs and plans to retire bond issues when due.
The text notes sinking funds and serial retirements will precede the new secretary. It stresses restoring finances from war to peace and claims Mr. Glass is well qualified to meet this demanding test.
Samuel Abbott Green dies after a long public career in Boston. A physician, Civil War assistant surgeon with brevet lieutenant colonel rank, he later served as mayor in 1882 and led the health department and school board. He was a trustee of the Peabody fund and an overseer at Harvard, prolific author, and librarian of the Massachusetts Historical Society.
The text argues Admiral Mayo overstated the impact of a stronger navy and universal training on preventing World War I. It notes Germany did not weigh the United States as a factor in 1914 and contrasts Mayo’s view with a former president’s claim that Germany would not have started the war if he led in 1914.
The article argues a future building boom in New England may follow a wartime dip. It notes 1918 year to date shows record low volumes, driven by war prices and material controls, with demand rising as population grows and material prices ease. If 1919 matches 1916 levels, activity would surge.
The Senate foreign relations committee votes unanimously to report unfavorably the Cummins resolution proposing a senatorial smelling committee to pursue crumbs from the peace talks in France. The committee deems the measure futile and silly and urges the full Senate to reject it.
A terse report notes a person was killed and not buried, with the process described as effective. The wording suggests an adversarial report on the handling of the death, focusing on the outcome more than the method. The text emphasizes finality and procedural sufficiency amid adverse reporting.
The Society for the Protection of Native Plants calls for conserving mountain laurel used in holiday decorating. It notes laurel flowers appear only on last year’s growth, so cutting shrubs destroys flowering next year and harms the plant.
Governor McCall announces retirement to private life after January 2 to focus on literary work and his law practice. He is unlikely to seek elective office again though an eventual autobiography of his public service is expected by friends. The move ends a near 30 year public career and will remove a prominent figure from current affairs.
The piece urges Senators to be patient as President Wilson is expected to articulate his fourteen points at the peace table within weeks. It argues his interpretation will clarify terms of peace for Americans and the world, and praises patience as a virtue for all, including Senators.
A fragmented collection of quotes and playful lines attributed to Bill Hohenzollern and various authors. The text mixes verses from Tennyson Omar Butler Shakespeare Pope Cowper Goldsmith and Franklin with interjections and notes. It reads as a light collage of classical lines, modern mockups, and witty inscriptions.
A witty quip notes that every fare increase by the Elevated reduces ticket size or value. The remark reflects public skepticism toward transit pricing and the perceived impact on riders.
A medical authority argues Americans should bathe less often noting Eskimo health without baths. The piece follows a cold plunge enthusiast, tracing seasonal habits from July to January and ending with a fond shift to weekly hot baths.
A brief verse note names Wilson, White House, Bliss, and Lansing as figures who will meet him abroad. Poet Bertie Bertram references the voyage and expects key individuals to convene over there.
The writer praises wartime songs and notes Irving Berlin as an army officer who champions the Star Spangled Banner. He recalls Boston newspaper men on Newspaper Row, reflects on the old elm near Frog Pond, and records St Nicholas Day customs, Red Cross needs, Belmont School pupil efforts, and Taunton Townsend fish market decline.
The letter from a corporal son describes an American surprise attack on a German band, the prisoners singing The Star Spangled Banner as they marched into a prison cage. French Senate president M Antonio Dubost recalls a balloon voyage 48 years earlier. Mrs. Sarah Stepanian resists Kaiser era sidewalk rules in Berlin. Theodore N. Vail earns compliments from Burleson on universal wire service. Judge John W. Goff, born in Ireland, rose via Cooper Union and Lexow Committee. Actor William Farnum pledges three education grants for orphans, naming them after his brothers.
A Boston reader from L. N. Crosby shares quick home tips. Rub cold boiled potato on paper to make a glue like moisture. Erase bag letters by kerosene then boiling in suds. Clean a spider by absorbing grease with Indian meal or flour.
The passage recalls Boston weather data showing coldest readings of 9 above in 19 and 10 in 1908 for December 6, with a warmest mark of 6 degrees in 1912. It notes no rain or snow on this date in the past decade.
Velvet sashes suit satin skirts with side and accordion pleats. A strong trend favors draperies and ostrich trimming on hats. The three tiered skirt remains popular, and small hats dominate millinery. Limousine wraps increasingly use velvet.
The Latona fountain at Versailles features marble figures and spouting water amid a park display. Parisians, fond of the fountains, crowd the gardens in summer and even skate on the Grand Canal on rare winter days despite a 1849 ban.
Thomas Ingoldsby born in Canterbury England later Richard Harris Barham. He lost his father at seven and inherited part of the Tappington manor. A childhood accident crippled his arm directing him to study and church life. He wrote for Blackwood's Magazine and created the Ingoldsby Legends under a pen name.
Letters discuss pronunciation airplane versus air-shin and airplane usage. Questions cover presidents traveling abroad while in office Taft and Roosevelt, sugar tastes from sugar cane versus beets, long distance telephone two wire system efficiency, and Boston to Montreal railroad distance passport requirements and fare.
Poem notes how modern life dulls reaction to sensational news with jokes about prices and common concerns. The speaker mocks public desensitization to royal collapses and violence while lamenting rising costs and the loss of perspective at the Blue Front store.
A reader asks about the oldest burying ground in Boston and the Old Granary’s rank by age. The Old Granary has been called the Common and Middle Burying Grounds and once Franklin Cemetery. A 16 3 4 statute mile sailing distance is given from Long Wharf to Minot’s Ledge. Remedies for brittle nails suggest nightly cold cream application.
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