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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1921
Page
7
Albany and Troy faced a paralyzing blizzard as strike breakers failed to operate street cars buried beneath heavy snow. Jitneys filled the streets while 1200 United Traction workers remain on strike. Drifts over a foot halted all transit and a rise in temperature was not anticipated to restore service for days.
The body of Ben Campbell, a Black man, was found hanged from a telephone pole after a mob took him from the city jail. He was accused of attempting to attack a white woman and was killed by bullets as well. State authorities opened an inquiry into the mob action.
A Barre Vermont resident endorses Dr Williams Pink Pills as a tonic to combat winter weakness. She cites improved energy, reduced dizziness and stomach issues after use, and notes it helped a niece so much she believes it saved her life. Pills priced sixty cents per box with mail order available and a free book offered.
A veteran account by Captain Tuohy debunks myths of secret wireless plants. It details how Marconi doubted such systems in 1918, how Allies decoded German signals from Nauen, and how Zeppelins relied on wireless. It recalls call sign theft, bluffing codes, and a British misdirection at Ypres and Jutland with clever camouflage.
A Boston born screen actor who studied locally first appeared on stage with Julia Arthur in More Than Queen. He entered films in 1916 with D W Griffith and now stars opposite Constance Talmadge under First National. His recent titles include Dangerous Business and Mamas Affair. He is six feet tall, weighs 185 pounds, with brown hair, blue eyes, and is unmarried.
Marjorie Daw, once opposite Douglas Fairbanks and later in Marshall Neilan films, signs with Famous Players-Lasky to play the role of Love in Experience. Richard Barthelmess will portray Youth, the part previously played by William Elliott on stage.
Anita Stewart works on The Invisible Fear while Alice Lake shoots The Woman Who Went Away. Norman Kerry stars with Marion Davies in Buried Treasure and Hoot Gibson directs two reel western Assorted Nuts. Louise Glaum completes I Am the Woman with Walton Hamilton as lead.
Muriel Ostriche signs with Salient Film Corporation a new company to star in ten five reel feature pictures during 1921.
A mixed batch of film notes lists actors, studios, and locations: Tom Moore with Goldwyn in Culver City and Crieghton Hale in New York. Updates mention A Message From Mars and The Half Breed, Julian Eltinge filming The Fascinating Widow, Fannie Ward in Paris, and Ethel Barrymore not active in pictures.
Harry McFadden of 5 Tremont street Boston was taken to Cousens Hospital in Waltham after being hurled from the seat of his auto truck through the windshield and into a trolley car. He suffered severe head cuts and contusions and injuries to his body.
The 46 members of the Veteran Fireman's Association of Waltham push to recruit more veterans and raise a new major hand tub corps to chase the state championship. The $1000 purchase by the Waltham Sporting Club aims to field a 150-man team and keep Watch City atop hand tub contests.
The Fish Pier saw six vessels, led by the Cormorant with 9500 pounds of flounders and the James Burke with 8100 pounds, while trawlers from Georges reported solid groundfish trips. Prices for haddock, cod, hake, flounders and other species are listed. the American steamer Santa Isabel arrived with Cuban sugar, and the tug Keshena returned to commission at the Army Base from Halifax. The item appears in The Landsman column with astronomical notes and vessel movements.
The steamers Nitonian and Winifredian sailed from Boston with cargo and passengers to multiple ports including Charleston Jacksonville Norfolk and Portsmouth with tugs Keshena Norwood and other vessels aiding in towing barges Pohatcong Canisteo Shamokin Neptune Pateman Searsport and more noted among the listed destinations and participants.
The Post Marine Record lists incoming steamers with their routes and statuses, including Haven from Port Lobos Mexico, Sabine Texas overdue, New York to Delaware, Norfolk and Baltimore origins, plus multiple European calls. DUE SUNDAY and DUB MONDAY entries appear, with notices of departures and diversions, and an Ocean Forecast noting steamers from Boston and New York to Europe with strong northwest and west winds.
In Manchester 63 leaders from farming, banking and business gathered to discuss state marketing problems and form a statewide organization aimed at delivering New Hampshire farm products directly to local tables. Governor Albert O. Brown spoke alongside H. W. Tinkham and J. C. Farmer. Major Frank Knox invited guests. An association with $100000 capital was formed, 60 percent owned by farmers and the rest by bankers and merchants.
At 11 30 a m Wellesley College campaigners meet at Boston College Club. 12 30 p m reception to President J Nichols of National Shoe Travellers Association at Hotel Essex. 1 p m Massachusetts School Masters Club at Boston City Club. 1 p m Judge Sullivan on Lincoln at 20th Century Club. 1 30 p m Field and Forest Club hike. 2 30 p m New Riding Club show. 6 p m Middlesex Club Lincoln night at Hotel Somerset. 7 16 p m Castine Alumni Association Riverbank Court Cambridge. 8 p m Boston Masonic Club ball Copley Plaza.
On a Friday in New York United News reports a shy diffident Thomas Edison celebrating his seventy fourth birthday. He appeared awkward in new party clothes yet enjoyed a perfectly wonderful time.
Thomas Edison comes across as a shy, energetic youth at 74 as he works in his vast laboratory. He says sustained activity keeps him going, defying retirement talk, and hints synthetic milk could become a future possibility. He contrasts with older statesmen while stressing monastic focus on making things over impression.
Federal health officials believe current precautions are enough to prevent European typhus from spreading to the United States. Secretary Tumulty informed Dr. Copeland that there is no justification for banning immigrant entry from typhus-infected districts. Surgeon General Cumming warned outbreaks could occur in unsanitary urban slums, noting lice spread the disease.
Brigadier General Rafael Crame recommended the dismissal of Captain Herbert C. Page, American commander of the Philippine Constabulary Barracks, for the December 15 riots in Manila in which 11 people were killed. Crame charged Page with urging constabulary troops to act without police oversight and failing to report unrest to authorities.
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