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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1920
Page
6
Mrs. Florence L. Hadley of 50 St Stephen Street Boston won first prize of 150 dollars for the best submitted limerick. She is a billing clerk at a Boston seed house and has long followed the Post contest.
Judges award consolation prizes for the last lines of Limerick Number 21. Mrs James A. Ecker of Dorchester Massachusetts receives 50 dollars, John J. O Donnell of Holyoke Massachusetts receives 25 dollars, and Mrs Evadel M. Pitman of Winthrop Maine receives 25 dollars.
The prize winning Last Lines of Limerick No 22 will be printed in tomorrow s Post with the writer s name and other details.
The Boston Post invites readers to submit four last lines daily for a new Limerick with a chance to win 150 dollars. Consolation prizes total 250 dollars daily. Entries must be mailed sealed with Limerick number indicated and received by 5 PM four days after publication.
A Cambridge storage shed roof collapsed under heavy ice and snow Saturday night. The structure owned by Vacuum Oil Company of Boston at Sixth Street was used as an oil tanks storage and supply station for Cambridge. The rear walls fell into Broad Canal and the front collapsed onto Sixth Street. No damage estimate yet.
Two Everett Massachusetts youths George Courage and Charles Clark aged 16 and 15, left Boston for Washington on Saturday and were found hidden in the Washington New York express at Everett. Pennsylvania railroad police removed them to the central station where they await parental arrangements. They had $40 and said they wanted to see Washington after reading about national affairs.
Girls from Legion Post 29 organize a glee club at the Army Base with violins guitars banjos and ukuleles. Miss Théresa Magnuson leads beginner classes while Miss May White heads the mandolin group Miss Edith Sewall the ukulele troupe Miss June Doyle and Miss Helena Selshom run the banjo and guitar faction. Dorothy Forbes captains the group with Maizie F Birmingham as first lieutenant.
Mrs. Wm LePage of 428 Luhee Street East Boston says rheumatism once left her bedridden now grants her independence. She reports swelling pain and stiffness eased after using Weldona and urges others to request the free booklet Germs of Rheumatism from Weldona Co 132 Boylston Street Boston 11 and notes a representative will visit Houghton and Dutton drug dept daily to explain more.
A reflective column describes sunset beauty seen from a window and on the city streets and bridge approach. The author recalls a vivid scene of sparkling trees and a radiant sunset over the river, urging daily attention to beauty and happiness. It includes Alice Freeman Palmer's three happiness rules from her Life.
Officers from station 6 on Athens street South Boston arrested Francis O'Brien aged 1 years of 259 East Ninth street and fourteen others for gaming early yesterday. William E. Walsh aged 27 of 262 East Ninth street and three men were detained for being present. The game was held at the Gustin Club 133 A street.
President Kenneth C. M. Sills spoke at a Cambridge forum urging college graduates to enter politics and serve the country. He argued against older warnings to stay out, noted many graduates enter business, and called for better educational thoroughness and public enlightenment about colleges.
Seven Sinn Fein prisoners, tightly guarded, were sent from Queenstown to England today aboard two naval vessels. An accompanying airplane escorted the ships to deter any escape attempt.
A wireless message from the Cunard liner Mauretania reports the French steamship Vancouver has lost her rudder and is drifting about four miles from Halifax Nova Scotia, out of the transatlantic lane, and in need of assistance.
A mass meeting for union and nonunion engineers and firemen will be held Wednesday night at Paine Memorial Hall to act on a vital Massachusetts Morrse. The Locals install officers at the Department Store Drivers Union and a joint session of the New England Conference Boards of the International Moulders Union meets in Boston. Plasterers’ Tenchers Union Local 484 quits the Quincy cold storage project as plasterers plan action, while Bartenders’ Union Local 77 urges attendance at a State House hearing on House Bill 38 legalizing low alcohol beer and wine.
A Ford Hall Forum session erupted with charges and counter charges as George Creel called Judge Cohalan an infamous traitor. The crowd objected and Creel withdrew, apologizing after Coleman urged calm, averting a small riot.
The incident followed a lecture by the head of the committee on public information during the war. Creel asserted Ireland’s right to autonomy and criticized England, urging moral pressure through the League of Nations. He inflamed the hall, calling Judge Cohalan an infamous traitor before apologizing and defending his stance.
The speaker challenges Albert Rhys Williams and others who labeled the Sisson documents forgeries. He cites the New York Historical Society review as supporting authenticity and argues for American self determination and a League of Nations. He critiques hyphenated identity and calls for Irish autonomy within a democratic English peace.
An old advertisement asserts that neglecting a cold risks grip or pneumonia and promotes Father John’s Medicine as a energy booster and germ fighter. It claims a gentle laxative effect cleanses impurities and soothes breathing passages, guaranteed alcohol free after sixty years in use.
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