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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 01, 1920
Page
6
The Boston Post invites readers to identify a daily picture of a world landmark. Submit one solution per image by number, with brief descriptions. No photo clipping needed. Answers go to Landmark Editor, Boston Post, Boston Mass, and the editor’s decision is final.
A continued sports feature outlines how the big name player known as Big Bill dominated the Millionaires, detailing pivotal plays, team strategy, and key moments that influenced the outcome on the field. The piece highlights his athletic prowess and the impact on spectators.
The narrator recalls cruising with colonels and magnates, courting big game targets on ocean voyages. He details bankrolls, lavish gifts to captains and staff, risky scams with lawyers and real estate men, staged meetings in hotels, and a pattern of trimming unsuspecting victims for thousands, then lamenting the failed turn to legitimate business.
A compiled list of engaged pairs shows ages, occupations, and addresses across Boston and neighboring towns. Entries include Jay Rutherford with Edith Kimball, Milton Schoenfield with Rebecca Frank, and many others, detailing occupations from electrician to stenographer and residences from Roxbury to Dorchester.
Instructions warn against forwarding any identifications to the L Landmark Editor until the entire series is completed. The note emphasizes timing and process discipline.
Melbourne reports indicate Prime Minister W M Hughes secured re election with a large majority. The Nationalist party formed a wartime coalition under the slogan Win the War leads the House with more seats than Labor's 27. Farmers party adds 10 members likely supporting Hughes.
Allison G. Catherton resigns as chief probation officer of the Suffolk superior Criminal Court after three years to join a local law firm. The post paid a modest salary, with indications that the judges' probation committee has been weighing an advance in pay.
At the closing session of the 21st annual meeting of the Society of American Bacteriologists in Cambridge Massachusetts Dr Charles Krumwiede of the New York City Health Board research laboratory was elected president succeeding Professor S C Prescott of MIT. President F C Harrison of Macdonald College was elected vice president and Dr A Parker Hitchens of Indianapolis was re elected secretary treasurer. Dr L A Rogers of the Bureau of Animal Industry was made delegate to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr C G Bull of Johns Hopkins and Dr F P Gay of the University of California were named to the society council.
Masses for night workers and Feast of the Circumcision observances at St. James Church and all Catholic churches. American Legion drives for clubhouse headquarters at Old Brighton Court. Episcopal services at Cathedral Church of St. Paul and other churches. Citywide checkers finals at Wells Memorial Hall. Governor Collidge to unveil Burns statue at Back Bay Fens with dedications at Hotel Hemenway. Unity House opening in Park Square with afternoon and evening programs. Y M C A open house on Huntington Avenue. Sailors’ Christmas Festival at Charlestown. Highland Dress Association event at Odd Fellows Hall. Chandler Owen lecture on The Negro Problem a World Problem.
A brief ad notes a 5c bottle of a product named Heal a Coon and TMALING HONEY. It presents a compact price point and product claim in a file-ready newspaper style.
The notice lists multiple pairs in Cambridge and nearby towns, listing ages, occupations, and addresses for each couple as they appear in a parental consent context. Names include Gilbert Reising, Elizabeth Murphy, James Shoulder, Fivelyn Quinn, Joseph Lacour, Ida Avis, Manuel Macedo, Mary Roke, Edward Wynne, Louise French, with origins in Summershade Kentucky, Somerville and Springfield details.
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