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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 21, 1912
Page
10
A Boston reader reports that in the Hanover Street police station area more than $46,000 was taken from arrestees this year and later given back with receipts. The note mentions other city observations including pests, Harvard student directorates, Auto dealers’ meeting antics, and remarks about several officials and visitors.
Paragraph notes mohair wear glossy hairstyles and a normal waist line. It highlights velvet roses with taffeta leaves, jet and porcelain buttons, new sash ribbon shoulder throws, numerous changeable taffeta millinery models, black and silver gown pairings, porcelain button embellishments on gowns, ample spring frocks, silk street gowns with frog fastenings, colored veils in Paris, black mousseline yokes, velvet or silk wraps, wide black patent belts, and filet lace embellishments in lingerie gowns. It also mentions small crown-like ear coverings, checked vests, bow ties, legible French lace veils, collarless luncheon gowns, short skirts, and khaki silks with white taffeta vents embroidered in metal.
Herbert Ralston and Marjorie plot a tactful ruse to mend a romance at Islington, pairing Dorothea Gale and Count Vigny with their own friends. The scheme backfires as both couples drift apart and the two planners admit their plan failed, joking that they are diplomats.
Democratic members propose a general parcels post system in the appropriation bill with a 12 cent domestic rate and 11 pound max. Rural parcels would be 5 cents for one pound and 2 cents for each extra. A rural zone variant was discussed. international rates would apply on general routes. MacVeagh asks Congress for 400,000 for postal savings banks plus 500,000 unspent last year.
Mr and Mrs Walter S Watters announce the engagement of their daughter Helen Farrington to Samuel Hale Pillsbury.
President Taft at the White House searched for assistants after buzzing calls went unanswered before 9 am. He found a shorthand man in a remote corner suffering indigestion or insomnia and had him accompany to his private office to dictate for an hour and a half.
In Lewiston Maine on February 20 the Republican caucus nominated Elwin L. Hodgkins for mayor. Hodgkins has served in both branches of the city government.
At a Missouri Democratic State convention in Joplin a brawl followed David A Ball of Bowling Green challenging the party slate. Eight at large delegates with half votes were chosen, plus two from each of the 16 districts, to Baltimore. They were instructed to vote for Champ Clark on every ballot before the Baltimore convention.
Mayor Patrick J. Duane of Waltham and Miss Mary J. Flanagan of Watertown married at 7 30 last evening at the Church of the Sacred Heart Mt Auburn. The ceremony was conducted by Rev T W Coughlan. They left for New York after the wedding and the two are first cousins requiring a dispensation to wed.
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