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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1919
Page
2
Beaded bags rise in popularity this Christmas and winter season with petal-pointed designs mimicking flower shapes. The new trend pairs bags with hats like a peacock velvet broad-brimmed style, using green blue tones, coordinating cords, tassels, fringe, and beads for a coordinated costume look.
Rome reports Monsignor Bonzano, papal delegate in the United States, will remain in Washington. The Vatican denied he was set for a new post, noting his knowledge of American affairs keeps him in the capital for several years before any elevation.
Mayor Peters will urge Washington officials to award the Squantum shipyard the destroyer contract to avert 8000 layoffs from a pending shutdown. The contract is near, and Squantum workers push for their plant’s win as current contracts finish in the spring.
A vintage advertisement notes Venus Pencils are unavailable or unable to perform. The brief item signals product suspension or halt in supply.
A reader notes how daylight color choices spoil gatherings, and offers a guide on color shifts under electric light. Bright light makes light red become scarlet, scarlet turn orange, orange to yellow, and yellow to paler. Yellowish and bluish greens lose their greenness, ultramarine and violet appear more pure blue, and purple turns redder.
The passage notes how light red shifts to purplish, scarlet to red, orange to brown, and yellow to olive. It explains color adjustments needed for a gown, stressing careful material selection to suit the wearer's complexion and achieve the intended becomingness of the model.
Erna Freiberg an 18 year old blind student at the College of Liberal Arts Boston University is named beneficiary under the Augustus Howe Buck scholarship the award covers four years of BU study two years of graduate work and one year of travel He is the son of Mr and Mrs John Freiberg of Watertown.
Dr Eugene R Kelley Massachusetts health chief warns that Boston area has used about 80 percent of its water and a new source must be developed. He says pure water supplies may soon be limited and cites housing sanitation problems in the North End. Ralph Adams Crain calls for abolition of motion pictures as harmful to public taste.
The Smith Company of St. John’s Newfoundland sues in Suffolk Superior Court for 3760 dollars for 100 casks of Labrador codfish sold to G Jaris Company of Boston and shipped on the Stephano after a German submarine torpedoed the steamer off Nantucket shoals in October 1916. The suit alleges delivery occurred in St John’s and seeks payment including freight and insurance charges of 240 dollars with no war risk clause. Trial starts this morning.
Governor Coolidge departed Boston seeking several days away from state duties to rest and aid his recovery from a recent serious illness. He hopes this pause will speed his convalescence and ease ongoing health concerns.
Attorney for Effie B Hewins and Eugene P Hewins deny all items in Louis M Rodriguez suit claiming he will introduce over 300 letters showing Mrs Hazel Kussmaul referred to him as Dear Papa Lou Loo and similar endearments in the Boston case.
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