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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 02, 1920
Page
10
Trustees announce a Young People’s Concert at Symphony Hall on Thursday January 29 at 4 pm under conductor Pierre Monteux. The program aims to present simple, direct, high quality symphonic works to school age audiences, reaching settlements and Greater Boston schools.
Premier Clemenceau departed Paris last evening for Var in southeastern France to spend a few days away from the capital.
Palestine school system leaders study U S methods at the Intercollegiate Zionist Association conference in Harvard Union. Dr Nissim Turov, Palestine's education superintendent, urges applying American practices to boost educational cultural and economic needs and supports Jewish homeland aspirations. Benjamin Rosen notes student Zionist service gap while Simcha Rubinstein and Louis Hurwich participate. Henrietta Szold honored at a farewell dinner in New York before her Palestine trip.
New Year's Day was quietly observed in Washington with a series of official functions. Secretary of State Lansing hosted a luncheon for the diplomatic corps while Navy Secretary Daniels, War Secretary Baker, and Assistant Secretary Crowell held receptions. The White House watch party was skipped due to President Wilson's condition, but cabinet members issued hopeful national messages.
Rome January 1 New Year celebrations mirrored Christmas with present exchanges and social dinners. The King hosted high state dignitaries at the Quirinal Palace beginning with wearers of the Annunziata collar, his cousins. Cabinet members Senators deputies and officials followed. The diplomatic corps will be received by the King and Queen tomorrow evening.
Hancock New Hampshire January first nineteen twenty opens with a profile of Mrs Mabel Loomis who rejects postwar finery and urges women to work in farming. She is dubbed the lady of all work while noting the term farmerette carries a soft image in contrast to hard labor.
Mrs. Loomis manages a 65 acre farm alone after her husband died, doing milking, stable work, fruit sorting, and truck loading before dawn. She hires little help, relies on her 10-year-old son Melvin, and insists she is a farmer not a “farmerette” as she keeps the enterprise thriving with relentless hands-on effort.
Mrs Loomis runs a busy farm with 18 cattle, crates of blueberries, and a 20 foot ladder to reach apples. She tills soil, plants seeds, grooms horses, feeds pigs, and travels to town for farm management. Milk inspectors praise her hygienic stables as she urges 1921 women to take on real farming work.
Alfred Hallam former Chautauqua musical director dies in New York at 60. He directed school music programs in Mt. Verne and Tarrytown New York for over two years and compiled hymnal and choral works. Earlier he led War Camp Community Service music in Boston and directed Skidmore Conservatory of Arts at Saratoga Springs.
The 9th annual meeting of the Franklin Typographical Society re elected the old board and read reports of a prosperous year. Plans for Benjamin Franklin’s 214th birth anniversary were announced with Boston Typothetae at City Club Jan 19. Lieutenant Governor Cox and several figures will speak. Leonard Raymond was chosen treasurer for the 294th year. officers include Francis A. Corley president Weldon L. Crosman vice president Charles H. Phinney secretary Willam J. Thomas collector and John W Ballard librarian.
Miss Marian Hovey Nagle daughter of Mr and Mrs John Nagle of 92 Coolidge Street Brookline married John K Hunt son of Mrs Catherine Hunt of Belle Vista Road Brookline at St Aidan's Church. Rev Father John H Creagh D D officiated. A reception followed at Copley Plaza attended by immediate families. Bride’s maid of honor was Miss Alice M O'Hearn and brother Paul A Hunt served as best man. They left for a honeymoon and will live in Brookline.
North Wilmington resident Sylvester Carter, 65, a prominent local businessman, is on the danger list at St. John’s Hospital after a deep skull gash from a collision with an automobile driven on Middlesex Street by John E. Burns of Glenwood Avenue. The incident occurred this afternoon.
A suicide note found beside the body of Miss Agnegs Christie, who died by chloroform in Brooke House, outlines years of hardship and overwork. She laments lack of success, recalls missionary parents Dr and Mrs Christie, and her humanitarian efforts at Mt Holyoke, St Luke's, Mt Sinai, Forsyth, and as a governess. She expresses deep gratitude to friends and family while stating she can no longer endure misery.
The Highland Dress Association marked its 22nd annual New Year celebration with a Scottish concert and grand march led by the Highland Dress Pipe and Drum Band at Odd Fellows Hall in Tremont and Berkeley streets South End. Over 1000 attendees packed the hall, with William Alexander directing the concert and Pipe Major George B. Smith leading the band. The reception committee included William Alexander as chair, George B. Smith, John McLean, and Past Presidents Peter Niven and George A. Mitchell.
New York reports show twenty people treated for alcoholism and street fight injuries from midnight to eight this morning. Police logs record two deaths and five injuries in car crashes, fourteen fires with five false alarms, three suspicious fires, two shootings, and one drowning rescue during the New Year celebration.
London January first. Train service between Basra and Baghdad Asiatic Turkey will be established soon. Construction progresses at fourteen miles daily. Passenger trains will run daily covering the distance in three hours, later reduced to twelve. Freight trips take forty eight hours.
An advertisement from Buffalo New York states a man paralyzed on the right side since April 30 sought medical advice and credits Fruit-a-tives with improving his condition. It promotes 50c boxes with six for 2.50 and notes availability from Fruit-A-Tive Limited in Ogdensburg New York.
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