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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1919
Page
4
Harvard professor T N Carver predicts little chance of a commercial panic next year. He told a Post reporter that the United States will enjoy three years of strong foreign trade, sustaining maximum productivity.
In Cambridge last night, Professor Carver cautioned no crisis is evident despite a fragile economy. He dismissed periodic theory of inevitable panics and predicted continued U S growth with strong demand from Europe. The Federal Reserve’s Actions in unrest could influence any future crisis.
Madrid introduced Scissors becomes the latest dance in Paris with dancers attempting the fad. Instructions describe a couple's steps and turns yielding about four yards per circuit, a five to six minute round, noted as easier than the tango after practice. Nobles such as Vicomte Decazes and Marquise di Castilla are among devotees.
Marie Cheilly Burnett, a French war bride, is hospitalized at Carney Hospital with a cold that may worsen into pneumonia while facing deportation after a Washington immigration ruling. Her husband, "Mile. Cheilly" Burnett, a Yankee sailor, is at sea and unaware of the decision.
Services at South Congregational Church organized by the Unitarian Laymen’s League featured Dr Myles Standish speaking on The Pilgrims. He recounted the Pilgrims fight for religious truth in Holland and England amid constant opposition. The day marked Forefathers’ Sunday with a 30-voice professional choir and special music.
City park and recreation department under Chairman James P. Shea reports thousands of new geranium cuttings are being grown at the city greenhouse for spring planting. Other species including rubber plants coleus and digitals are propagated indoors to ensure a ready supply for gardens and parks across the city. Pansies remain dorman under cover until the rest are moved outdoors.
In Burlington Vermont sugar jumped to a new price level from 11 cents a pound last week to a higher rate. U S District Attorney Vernon A Bullard says he has received many complaints about sugar pricing and will prosecute any violators of the food conservation act after inquiries in Washington. He wired Washington last night and expects developments within 48 hours to clarify sugar profiteering concerns.
The sun parlors of St. Mary’s Infant Asylum in Dorchester were filled yesterday as the Sisters and friends who recently held a Christmas sale for the home’s children gathered for an informal entertainment session at Upham’s Cleaner parlors.
Rabbi Harry Levi of Temple Israel urged in a sermon that America cannot return to its prewar state. He said new responsibilities face the nation and that once foreign relations are set, internal troubles can be addressed. He asserted Americanism is worth fighting for and must endure with faith and action.
In Ashmont All Saints Episcopal Church Rev Grieg Taber ordained on the 19th celebrated his first solemn high mass yesterday in his boyhood parish home. He is the son of Mrs Emma S Taber of 23 Beale Street Dorchester.
New York December 28 Thirty two thousand employees of the Western Union Telegraph and Telephone Company will receive a salary increase totaling five million dollars on January 1. Employees with more than one year of service will get 15 percent increases and those with more than six months but less than four years will receive 10 percent. Only workers earning less than twenty five dollars a month are affected.
Nearly 700 dollars was added to the campaign fund for a Polish church through a benefit concert at St John's Hall on Moon Street yesterday afternoon. About 14,000 dollars has been received toward the new church and a total of 40,000 dollars is needed for its erection. Polish residents of the North and West lands worship in the basement of St Stephen's Church on Hanover Street under Rev. Walter Sikora.
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