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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1921
Page
8
The bureau urges action against plague germs including black death, endorsing an efficient transport system and a campaign to deter the hazard to American lives and property, describing the risk as real and urgent.
Eddie and Harold are dead and buried but may be exhumed as a campus mystery. At Simmons College fear spreads among students and watchmen as a late night disturbance involves cries from North Hall. An official undertaker orders the funeral halted amid questions of deaths and mischief.
Professor William Emerson of MIT addressed the Women's Municipal League at the Boston Public Library. He argued the ideal tenement should occupy 20 percent of the lot with exterior windows for all rooms and a central staircase accessible from every space. He urged permissive housing legislation to attract investment and endorsed open country settlement plans and practical features for modest incomes.
A speaker warned that one of the greatest apartment house problems today is landlords failing to discriminate when selecting tenants from the intended class, highlighting housing design aims and the need for targeted occupancy.
Chicago February 10 endorsement of the Electric Railways Commission report to President Wilson as the basis for electric railways to join with the public in meeting local conditions. Key recommendations include flexible fare systems, fair valuations, voluntary capitalization cuts, labor agreements to prevent strikes, testing of the cost of service plan, and exemption of coaches from certain taxes. Private ownership is endorsed with removal of legal obstacles to public ownership.
LE. H. Robbins notes that Professor Todd's Used Car, hailed as one of the year's funniest stories, will appear in full in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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