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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1919
Page
8
A fashion note highlights how white and black pairings serve as strong choices for daytime and evening outfits. The article emphasizes contrast, versatility, and timeless appeal in wardrobe staples.
Dr Edwards Olive Tablets offer a light laxative effect for cleansing the bowels and liver. Marketed as a vegetable formula with olive oil, the tablets aim to purify the system and improve bad breath, available in 10c and 25c boxes at druggists.
Paris Feb 26 The United States Liquidating Commission announced that surplus American expeditionary force material stored in French warehouses will be sold to Europeans if cheaper than shipping to the United States. The commission, chaired by Senator Hollis with Homer Johnson General Dawes and Judge Parker among its members, began conferences to decide disposal.
Official statistics show that between November 11, 1918 and February 14, 1919 the War Department shipped 7658 airplane engines and 729 planes to army depots. Of the engines 4806 were Liberty 12s.
An advertisement touts La-may powder as purely new beauty powder, claiming it stays on longer than rivals without white lead or rice powder. It pledges medical ingredients for skin healing, promises fewer pores and pimples, and notes a $5000 reward for chemists who prove impurities.
Officials urged filing at 40 Court Street by March 1 with no extensions. Despite warnings, only a fraction of 200,000 expected returns had been filed by late last week. The report included bills on billboards, military relief, city borrowing, and department consolidations.
James Haloway, linked to prior thefts, is remanded from Central Court to Concord. A Roxbury woman, Bertha Cohen, crushed by a trolley wheel at Warren and Savin, is listed as dangerous. Police praise Adjutant General Stevens for guard duties protecting the President. Cambridge seeks two suspects in a street robbery of Malcolm McBride, son of the Cambridge police chief. Legislature approves $1000 for a 300 book portraits project replacing Who's Who. Mayor Peters to attend Washington labor conference with Secretary Wilson. Salvage efforts continue for the Port Hunter cargo. Somerville hosts police association grand march. Ensign Donald Wilson heads to Cuba for Atlantic maneuvers. Two-night production of All of a Sudden Peggy opens in Lexington. Governor Coolidge to attend unemployment conference in Washington. Lexington couple wed quietly. trip planned. Harvard sophomores hold postwar smoker at Union. Fire damages Wellington Hill garage, $3000 loss.
Members of Machinist Helpers Local 914 Readville voiced unanimous protest against New York New Haven Hartford officials plan to place workers on a five day week at a meeting held at 694 Washington Street. The ruling is set to take effect tomorrow and delegates were instructed to take the issue to the federated crafts council.
President Wilson submitted hundreds of postmaster nominations to the Senate on February 26, most being renominations. The move signals a broad effort to fill or reappoint postal leadership across numerous districts.
Drug gists report many people suffer kidney issues without knowing it. Dr Kilmer Swamp Root is praised for helping such conditions and is widely available in two bottle sizes. A sample bottle offer is available by mailing ten cents to Dr Kilmer Co. at Binghamton NY with Boston Daily Post mention.
Tonight Bowdoin Square Theatre patrons will receive framed photographs of General Foch the Marshal of France. The keepsakes are described as highly prized by all attendees.
The Rev. A Z Conrad announces March prayer topics at Park Street Church. The Rev Emory W Hunt resigns Newton First Baptist to become Bucknell president. A missionary pageant aids Italian mission in East Somerville. The Women's Presbyterian Missionary Society visits Brookline Presby Church. A YWCA pageant at Union Congregational Church runs 12 episodes Hands Across the Sea. Dr Earl A Brooks leads Boston Presbytery committee for the New Era movement.
The Bolsheviks opened the road from Turkestan to Moscow and a new flow of Russian refugees and Austro German prisoners moves northward. I A Frick head of the International Red Cross mission says uncounted thousands of Austrians and Germans in Siberia and Central Russia are trying to return home. Transportation conditions in Central Russia are poor. A party of 265 Germans from Ural and Volga regions left Moscow for Warsaw recently but only 45 arrived.
Diverse church events unfold across Roxbury and Tremont Street areas. A mortgage liquidation concert at Odd Fellows Hall benefits Church of Our Lady of Pompeii led by Rev. Pasquale Di Milla. Mont Vernon Street groups host a sale and dance with lace and embroidery crafts. A Lent program at St Marys Theatre features My New Curate on Mondays and Thursdays. St Johns parish organizes a whist party for St. Johns table at St Marys Infant Asylum bazaar with Otisfield hall event next Monday. Feast days listed for upcoming week include St Cunegundes St Casimir and St Thomas Aquinas.
Speakers against capital punishment outlined a broad slate before the legislative joint judiciary committee. Names include Cardinal O'Connell, Cardinal Gibbons, Mrs. James J. Storrow, Senator elect Walsh, Bishop Lawrence, Elihu D. Stone, John Bodfish, Mrs. Phillips, Mrs. Kimball, Mrs. Anderson, Edith Andrew, George Englemann, and Alice Stone Blackwell among others.
General Ludendorff has sent a protest through the German legation at Copenhagen announcing his return to Germany and asking for a court of inquiry to secure vindication. He addressed the message to President Ebert.
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