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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1919
Page
5
The piece notes big hats will draw pleased attention in Boston's L line but warn they reduce carriage capacity and worsen traffic. It mocks milliners for swelling hat sizes and hints at fare increases being blocked by wider hats.
Advance dope on the spring styles says picture hats will dominate the season with broader brims and higher prices. The piece mocks hat sellers as brainy traders who turn burlap and wire into luxury, noting the jokes, dangers, and showy prices faced by milliners and buyers alike.
Two boys Emmet Hickey and Edward Greer, aged 12 and 11, sought shelter at the Maine Central Railroad station after being driven from their Sandy Gully camp by cold. They were found asleep at 5:30 a.m. by night telegraph operator Samuel LaVallee and taken to municipal court on charges including carrying concealed weapons or vagrancy. Their Christmas home run led them to Massachusetts, arming with a shotgun, rifles, revolvers, knives, an axe and gear. Relatives were notified to attend the trial.
The Toledo Sunday Times, kept at one cent price during the war, announces a price increase to 7 cents beginning January 4. The move comes amid higher paper costs cited as the reason for the rise.
Dorchester residents protest a planned rise in land and building valuations. Harvard Improvement Association calls an indignation meeting for January 10 at Greenwood Memorial School Hall. Real estate leaders urge fair, statewide assessment, noting under assessment in-town areas and burdens on working people.
Paris reports Rhine floods and rising waters along tributaries are higher than in 380 years, causing extensive damage across the valley as relief dispatches describe the inundation and its impact.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine features H. C. Witwer with the first tale in his series about Alex the Great titled Introducing Alex the Great.
New York crowds exceed 3000 as immigrants cluster at Ellis Island gates. Immigration inspectors rush to process detainees aboard ships amid delays caused by radicals and undesirables. Italians form the majority among those held, with hundreds aboard Patria Giuseppi Verdi Taormina and other liners awaiting examination.
A temporary baggage and smoking car sits beside the East Lexington station after a Christmas Eve fire gutted the regular depot. Station Agent Henry W. Preston uses the car as his office while repairs or a new building are planned. Passengers sit in the car’s seats awaiting trains.
Mrs. Dolly Peck Bennett denied jealousy as factor in the killing of J. Stanley Brown. She was questioned by Sheriff Caldwell after arriving from Sandusky Ohio and held for further interrogation. Authorities sought two men, a taxicab driver and a soldier, whom she said threatened Brown.
The body of Jere D. Duggan, missing since Thursday, was found today in a creek at Plum Bush Downs near the Newburyport turnpike to Plum Island. The search party was led by Jere Duggan, the dead man’s son, aged 5. He leaves a widow and two sons. the father had been despondent after influenza losses in his family.
Constantinople dispatch reports Odessa civilians evacuating amid the rapid Bolshevik advance in Southern Russia, as relayed to the Exchange Telegraph Company.
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