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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1922
Page
9
Readers debate repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment and Prohibition. Letters urge stripping the amendment, praise enforcement, or call for reform, with varying views on bootleggers, health needs, and funding for veterans and taxes. Names include M. Mandeville and William H. Ler.
Letters from readers in Concord New Hampshire and Cripple Creek Colorado condemn or defend Prohibition. Citizens urge strict enforcement, jail terms for violators, and warn of social decay, hypocrisy, and crime linked to alcohol. Names include L H F, Harry Edgar, and J E Carr with locations Concord Methuen and Cripple Creek.
A Boston reader lauds the 18th Amendment as the greatest in history, claiming vast reductions in crime and widespread happiness in homes. The letter notes the amendment is two years old and questions what 20 years will bring, then discusses the reliability of statistics on arrests for drunkenness in 1918 and 1920.
A dated advertisement claims fatigue stems from thin blood and offers Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic. It cites Mrs George E White of Dover New Hampshire describing illness after grip and recovery after two boxes, with supposed benefits including appetite and sleep improvement. Pills sold by post or drug store, price sixty cents per box.
Letters discuss the rise in arrests for drunkenness in 1921 and projected yearly total under prohibition. Contributors criticize the 18th Amendment, urging organization against the prohibitionist program and arguing Christian ethics versus enforcement. George De A Furness and Peter Howard add perspectives from Boston residents.
Price Waterhouse public accountants at 60 State Street submitted the annual audit of the Boston Post Readers Santa Claus fund. The fund total is $24,357.54 with a remaining bank balance of $19.96 to be applied to next Christmas work.
The account shows income of 24,357.54 and expenditures of 24,357.54 for 1921. Expenditures covered toys, dolls, games, books, stockings, mittens, and related items with proper vouchers. The balance and cash in bank are 24,357.54 and 19.96 respectively.
The document notes wrapping materials express postage and related costs were covered by the Boston Post, not fund contributions. It states total contributions received and acknowledged by the Boston Post, and certifies the income and expenditures of the Boston Post Santa Claus fund for 1921. Signed Price Waterhouse & Co, Boston Feb 10, 1922.
Timothy D Cronin of Malden a well known Edgeworth druggist died yesterday at his home after a three week illness. Funeral services will be held Monday morning at Immaculate Conception Church Malden.
Mary OConnor owner of a West End near-beer bar faces another Central Court appearance after police report continued liquor sales. The raid marks the %th time her establishment has been targeted with three or four liquor convictions pending in Superior Court and the case referred upstairs with other indictments.
In East Cambridge Civil Court Eugenie E Dickerman sues for 100000 alleging alienation of affection. Testimony centers on love types and marriage intent as Robert E Dickerman admits funds spent in France and past loans to his wife. Over 150 love letters read. case to jury next Monday or Tuesday.
Judge Jenney refused to act on appointing a receiver for former Middlesex County District Attorney William J. Corcoran until Corcoran was notified and heard. The matter was adjourned to next Friday. The report notes that bleeding pine trees used for turpentine do not injure the wood.
Mayor Curley announced that Congressman Peter I Tague will accept the post of fire commissioner. Tague is in Washington and expected in Boston soon, likely not assuming duties until May or June after completing his service in Washington.
E. Mark Sullivan and B. Mark Sullivan of Brighton accepted the appointment as corporation counsel from Mayor Curley. Sullivan is a former Assistant U.S. District Attorney and yesterday took the post.
Secretary Hoover brands over 200 Russian relief organizations in the United States as frankly communistic committees. He cites the Soviet Russian Medical Relief Society and affiliates under Dr Jacob Hartman directing aid to communist authorities in Russia.
Newton Centre churches plan a union service Sunday at 7 15 pm at Trinity Church. The program features addresses on Abraham Lincoln life and work by ministers Edward M. Noyes Chas N Arbuckle H E Davis and George L Parker from Congregational Baptist Methodist and Unitarian churches.
Governor Cox and Lieutenant Governor Fuller attended the funeral in Concord for Henry Dingley Coolidge longtime clerk of the Massachusetts Senate. State Senate members and a House committee were present. Burial took place in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery family lot.
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