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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1921
Page
11
In Pittsborg Kansas a sheriff's raid uncovered a wood plug in a hedge tree that hid a tube leading to an eight gallon cask of moonshine. The setup was exposed when a customer appeared as the liquid was pumped out.
An old time recipe for darkening gray hair is marketed as Wyeths Sage and Sulphur Compound. The ad claims a large bottle at low cost, with natural, even color that makes hair look younger and thicker after routine applications.
Boston College fundraising committee opens a slogan branch at 166 Devonshire Street for a May 8 to 12 drive raising 2 million dollars to build and equip a science hall library gymnasium and chapel. Prizes totaling 60 dollars awarded for three best 10 word or shorter slogans with broad and specific meaning.
The drive for funds for the Instructive District Nursing Association has been extended to next Saturday February 5. Contributions have come in but more subscriptions are needed to reach the $95,000 goal. Volunteers are canvassing business districts daily to explain the association’s work for the city’s sick.
Representative James J. Mellen of Charlestown filed in the House an order for a six member committee to aid the unemployed. The measure was sent to the committee on rules for consideration.
At the Copley Gallery on Newbury Street Mrs Beatrice Whitney Van Ness displays more than 50 oil paintings across both galleries. The former Museum student trained under Benson and Hale and has run a large Boston Museum painting class. The works span portraits landscapes interiors and genre pieces in many styles, with notable uneven quality across the collection.
The Armours Swifts Cudahys and other major meat packers top the U S bank stockholding groups and rely on extensive paper borrowings across the nation. Nina Wilcox Putnam, wife of Jack Sdin derson, writes movie scenarios for her husband to act in. Anetha Getwell, 19, a New York blonde, won a nationwide beauty contest and played the heroine in the Armistice Day pageant in Washington. Major Charles McDonald of Boston, Red Cross, views Siberia as rich with opportunity if stability returns, with relatives in Needham Mass. The Siamese prince touring the U S is 27, with a demure princess. she is 20. Sidney E. Donoghue, US consul at Vladivostok, now has top fur and wool stock in the service and heads to Singapore, seeking a Palm Beach outfit through Rev. Edmund J. Walsh.
Representative Roland Sawyer urged a bill requiring women seeking voter registration to merely claim they are over 21. He cited Ware's gossip lists as reason to ease age disclosure. Women at the hearing showed little support for the measure, opposing the concession to age sensitiveness.
Gloucester February 2 Municipal Council re-elected Tax Commissioner Richard I. Morey despite Mayor Wheeler's strong opposition. Council members voted with four Aldermen and the Mayor. Morey received the majority while the Mayor cast the sole dissenting vote. Alderman Silva spoke against the re-election and then abstained from voting.
Four policemen were ambushed at Dromoleague County Cork by a party of twenty. One constable was killed and another seriously wounded. The remaining two officers escaped unharmed.
The inaugural edition of the Boston University Law School Review released yesterday features articles by Simeon Baldwin of Yale Law School governor, William R. Riddell chief justice of Ontario, Melville Bigelow and Edward A. Harriman. The magazine is funded by the faculty, graduates and undergraduates with equal publication shares.
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