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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 18, 1922
Page
5
President Harding asked the Senate for advance advice on reviving the 1909 patents treaty with Germany. The move would restore reciprocity in patents and reestablish the pre war status quo, within six months of ratification of the peace treaty.
An advertisement touts Dr Williams Pink Pills as a general tonic for general debility. Edward J Flynn of Roxbury Massachusetts reports rapid relief in appetite digestion and strength after using the pills and his wife also benefits. A booklet Building Up the Blood is offered free and the pills are sold by druggists at sixty cents per box.
The Cambridge YWCA annual fair at the First Parish Church parish house drew aid from eight churches and six other denominations, with food and fancy goods sold at tables. A luncheon ran 11 30 to 2 and an afternoon tea at 3. Doll displays by YWCA clubs and a Mary A Winslow led committee marked the event.
Washington reports a world trade balance highly favorable to the United States in 1921 despite sharp declines in exports and imports from 1920. The Commerce Department notes export values fell to 4.49 billion and imports to 2.50 billion, with 1920 unusually inflated by high prices.
Mayor James M. Curley will speak at a mass meeting of Boston Local 100 post office clerks at Faneuil Hall tomorrow at 2 30 p m to protest conditions at the Boston post office. Other speakers include Thomas Flaherty international officer from Washington and Frank McCarthy New England organizer of the AFL.
At a board meeting yesterday William H. Cliff of Cambridge was elected secretary to replace Thomas O. Marvin who becomes chairman of the United States Tariff Commission.
Catherine M Hanscom widow of Jacob Hanscom aged 92 years dies in Cambridge funeral from Rice Street home Monday February 20 at 2 PM John P Holland East Boston husband of Eleanor Holland nee Shawn past commander Lawrence J Flaherty Post American Legion No 80 death notice appears later on page 16
The first details of George R. White’s Boston property gift to the city were revealed. Located on Tremont Washington and Boylston streets, the land is valued at about 4.095 million with buildings at 778 thousand, totaling 4.873 million. Tenants include The Modern Theatre and several major firms, with trust terms likely keeping the property for 100 years for inhabitants.
Frederick Brown aged 45 of Roxbury will have the cause of death determined by the Medical Examiner Waters after being found unconscious in a South Boston room. Brown died at City Hospital after removal from 6 Sayward Place. Phillip Hannaberry of Dorchester, 38, found with Brown, is held on drunkenness charges at Athens Street station.
Mayor Curley urged the Dorchester Old Colony boulevard completion before the Legislature's metropolitan affairs committee. He said the project has been under consideration 10 years and asked the committee to invite Public Works Commissioner John N. Cole and the metropolitan district commission to testify, offering to attend to help resolve the issue.
Arthur K. McComb of Baltimore was yesterday awarded the Bacon Fellowship in Fine Arts at Harvard University. A Harvard graduate of 1918 and current graduate student, he becomes the first recipient as the fellowship is newly established at the university. The two year fellowship commences immediately.
Pastor H W Reed and his wife credit their recovery to The Inner Mysteries of Rheumatism by H P Clearwater. They urge readers to request a free mailed copy, claiming lifelong relief from rheumatism neuritis lumbago and gout.
Franz Schrecker's Prelude to a Drama for full orchestra received its Boston premiere yesterday afternoon in Symphony Hall by the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Schrecker, the focus of European controversy, has composed operas dramatic music and choral works and was born in Monaco and spent years in Berlin, now in his 44th year.
The program opened with Beethoven’s Egmont overture and Hofmann’s crisp Emperor Concerto. Schrecker’s Prelude draws mixed verdicts as overstated sensationalism, while Debussy Iberia captivates with vivid color and life like a master embracing the world.
The Italian News marks its first anniversary as a weekly English language paper aiding Italian citizens in the city and state. Edited by P A Santo suosco with Joe Di Pesa and Joseph L Porcella, it publishes a 12 page anniversary issue with ads and greetings. Women lawyers before Pittsburgh court ordered to remove hats while in court.
In Taunton a custody petition by Byram F. Hurder of Framingham seeks the four year old daughter Virginia. The child had been with Mrs. Harry L. Dolan after the mother’s death and shortly after birth. Dolan and her husband resist parting with the girl as Hurder’s second wife also requests custody. Judge Hitch reserved decision.
William Justin Mann details Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s early college days at Bowdoin. He lived in Parson Titcomb’s house in Brunswick and later in a dormitory with a marble tablet marking “Longfellow’s College Room.” Hawthorne shared the class of 1826. professors later praised their future eminence. Longfellow showed musical talent, drew, and wrote poems before age 19. seven of these early pieces survived in his published works.
Ex governor Samuel W. McCall and Mrs McCall sail from New York aboard the Adriatic on a Mediterranean voyage. The party includes Professor Felix W Taussig of Harvard and several Boston residents as they visit Alexandria Egypt and other winter resorts through spring.
South Boston widow Mrs. Sarah Bailey declared she will persist in locating her son George Bailey, who vanished four years ago after saying he would board a transport. Her trans Atlantic quest yielded no leads, and she plans to resume efforts from his prior base at the Exchange Club where he worked as a porter.
A former New Auburn resident recounts suffering in silence from pain, headaches, and poor complexion until she used Dr True’s Elixir True Family Laxative. She says her health improved, complexion cleared, blemishes vanished, and others noticed a better look.
Natalie Hammond daughter of mining engineer John Hays Hammond has completed 110 days in society scenes at a Los Angeles studio and debuted in an Elinor Glyn story. She is set to star in a Western mining play about incidents in her father's life during Colorado's famous miners strike with James H. Bailey featured.
David W. Griffith the renowned motion picture producer will be honored by Kentucky today and tomorrow. The ceremonies directed by the Louisville Art Club will be held February 19 in Frankfort with the legislature in session as the backdrop.
The law imposes a five dollar daily penalty for late state income tax returns filed after March first. Additional penalties include fines from one hundred to ten thousand dollars, possible imprisonment, and loss of the right to hold public office for delinquency or fraud. Omissions on information reports incur fines of twenty five to five hundred dollars. Refunds occur automatically for overpayments on non taxable items. Please file your return at the earliest date each year.
Alexander Howat, expelled Kansas mine leader, lost his appeal for reinstatement in the United Mine Workers of America. Unofficial roll call tabulations show the administration forces led by John L. Lewis winning by about 60 votes of 3900 cast.
Four gunmen in a stolen car held up two bank messengers on a crowded Manhattan street near Queensboro Bridge. They robbed $5000 in currency, shot one messenger, and fled amid police fire from a captain off duty. The crime occurred Friday afternoon.
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