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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1919
Page
7
The Federal Trade Commission announced it has sent out several thousand letters seeking opinion on a guarantee against price decline system used by many manufacturers and wholesalers in the sale of foods. Business interests labor unions and the public will be sounded out.
The commission seeks input from producers manufacturers and consumers on a price guarantee plan. It will invite written statements then hold a Washington hearing mid March to determine representation and procedures.
Fair ice and a beautiful day drew thousands of skaters across Greater Boston. From dawn to dusk crowds filled Waltham and parks such as Franklin Field and Public Garden with both young and old enjoying the conditions despite air holes near the river.
The new two story red brick Broad Way post office in South Boston opens at 7 this morning with modern mail handling facilities. It features a large basement with headroom, a fireproof vault, a Universal cancelling machine, and a staff of 12 clerks led by Superintendent Daniel A. Crowley.
A new pair of razor-billed curassows from Venezuela adorns the Franklin Park aviary. The birds, about turkey size and valued as a table bird in their homeland, occupy the inside flying cage and react eagerly to visitors, showing keen curiosity and fearlessness.
A Welcome Home service at First Universalist Church Chelsea featured Rev. R Perry Fush delivering Fight the Good Fight. The church service flag was lowered and a roll of honor listing 30 church members was displayed. The church men's club will host a banquet for the veterans tonight.
Miss Irene A. McKinley of Dorchester and Thomas F. Sullivan, a government attorney in Washington, plan to marry January 1 at St. Peter's Church. They met in Meredith New Hampshire last summer after changed vacation plans and a brief courtship. Sullivan, a former Red Cross captain, will work with the Interstate Commerce Commission in Washington.
In Cleveland on December 28 Joseph Massecissa a police informer who aided detectives in two recent murders was shot to death at a party hosted by Giasca Strizza Strizza fled the scene and was later held for murder by authorities Lieutenant Fred Schlegel reported the arrest and ongoing investigation.
Advertisement claims bromine quinine tablets remove the cause of grip and influenza. Mentions a single product Bromo Quinine sold for 30 cents with a signature from E W Grove on the box.
Alfred W. Martin of the New York Ethical Society spoke at Steinert Hall last night warning that lavish dinners clothes and vulgar amusements reveal dangerous tendencies among the rich and seek to satisfy physical desires.
Mr. Martin denounces the money aristocracy as the most corrupt and unworthy of citizenship. He asserts that multi millionaires injure others to amass wealth and lack the energy or concern to address broad societal issues. He urges public-spirited men to lead and pursue practical public service.
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