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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1920
Page
14
The Boston Post announces its daily issue for January 5 1920 with publication details. It lists subscription prices for U S and Canada domestic rates and foreign rates, including daily and Sunday combinations and postal charges for the Boston district.
The American born Lady Astor gains prestige by being chosen for a wax effigy at Madame Tussaud's in London. She will donate the suit she wore on election day to adorn the figure, joining a gallery of noted rulers, authors, and politicians.
England faces an excess of 1.5 million women and girls unable to marry due to the male shortfall and postwar unemployment. The proposal suggests offering transport to Canada Australia South Africa and New Zealand where homes and family life welcome women.
The Anti-Saloon League plans to raise 28 million dollars to enforce prohibition and educate the public as the dry amendment takes effect. The piece questions whether such funds are necessary for law enforcement and urges believers to consider whether education can succeed if alcohol remains unavailable.
The author argues against placing a new monument to the same figure near the existing St Gaudens work. It questions public sentiment and notes the problem of having two statues of one eminent man within a short distance. The piece suggests avoiding excessive duplication and absurdity.
Secretary Glass asks Congress for power to fund interest on Allied loans, while Sir George Paish urges billions more in European borrowing. The piece notes continued American restraint on new bond issues, criticizes Europe’s wartime excesses, and urges real reform before any large new loans.
Congress reassembles at noon to tackle unfinished work including ratification of the peace treaty railroad reorganization and natural resource development. The Milwaukee Socialist Victor Berger seat dispute will be considered early with a view toward prompt action.
The Chicago sheriff staged a lethal choking of a prisoner as a psychological experiment. Felons mocked the event with cries of When do we eat, echoing fears from historical public hangings that capital punishment brutalizes spectators and fails to deter crime. The piece argues the act will deter repeats and shocks the public conscience.
Report notes Bela Pratt's Phillips Brook statue now near the Museum of Natural History on Boylston Street. It compares the piece with the St Gaudens work by Trinity Church, praising facial likeness and posture but criticizing the latter's fussiness and confusing allegory.
The piece defends the deportation of Reds held at Deer Island and other detention sites as a compassionate government measure. It argues their own conduct created unbearable conditions and frames removal as a prudent safeguard against anti government plots.
The group has avoided open violence by using secret channels for dissemination and now faces relocation to the other side of the world. They hope for improved prospects and perhaps greater success away from where they began.
An opinion argues Boston Police Commissioner Curtis errs in banning press access to daily department records. Secrecy weakens morale and public trust, as transparency helps deter crime and informs taxpayers about police work. The piece urges rescinding the ban promptly.
Taft lauds Calvin Coolidge governor of Massachusetts noting his useful legisling and effective tenure. He praises Coolidge for courage in facing the Boston police strike and Gompers issue, calling him a national figure and likely Massachusetts choice for nomination.
The Queen of the Belgians, via Ambassador Baron de Corties, decorates Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt with the Order of Queen Elizabeth in gratitude for aid to Belgium. The item also notes hotel developments in London, travel anecdotes, and mentions figures like J M Bowman Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Clifton D Gray.
The excerpt recalls Boston weather on January 5 reporting the coldest official lows of 3 below in 1904 and 1919 and warmest highs of 60 in 1897 and 1909. It notes no precipitation in the date range except 1912 1916 and 1917, reflecting a dry streak.
The tale warns readers against premature conclusions about Stealthy Steve’s fate after a perilous ascent. It hints he may reappear unscathed despite evidence suggesting his death and teases a reveal regarding the Six-Eyed Sleuth’s status.
Stealthy Steve awakens in an upside down ship and realizes he is 15 miles above earth after an oxygen release. He descends toward Germany in the Loon, circling at dusk to avoid detection while listening for a distant Hun gun. He lands softly in a forested field and slips into the woods to investigate as a gun booms nearby.
The 1623 Plymouth episode features Winslow leading an embassy to Massasoit with interpreters Hobomok and a mysterious "Master John Hamden." The text questions whether this visitor was the famed English patriot John Hampden, noting lack of records in Plymouth annals and inviting curiosity about his true identity.
Boston columnist notes 1919 had an accumulated excess of 830 degrees above the five decade average with daily temperatures about 2 1 2 degrees higher than normal. He cites dental treatment anecdotes, War Savings Stamps 1920, a skull found at Wollaston Golf Club, and a new shorthand record of 324 wpm by Nathan Behrin.
A compact essay argues that bad laws should be changed, not broken, and that government empowers citizens to legislate themselves. It cites Texas horse theft hangings and asserts universal law obedience to ensure good laws and eventual reform. It also notes extremely low temperatures theorized for space and questions Cleveland’s streetcar fare.
Brookline police deploy large searchlights to guide night traffic at main intersections. Creosoted wooden ties allegedly last 200 percent longer. Mary Whittaker, Roxbury Red Cross officer, visits New Year veterans at Base Hospital No 10 distributing treats and receiving three cheers. Hull and Hingham discuss a municipal street railway co operative plan for one year with fare and deficit terms. John Carnavella, boy orator guide, impresses visitors at Old North Church descriptions.
The sour taste of vinegar comes from alcohol in wine or cider being oxidized by air to acetic acid. Ordinary vinegar is from slow fermentation. a quick process uses 10 percent alcohol trickled over beech wood shavings with air flow, using old vinegar as a starter.
After divorcing Mrs Bushman, actor Francis Bushman reportedly wed his film associate Miss Beverly Bayne in a romance that led to the birth of their child. The baby, named Richard Bushman, was christened last year following the summer nuptials.
The inquiry asks for the lowest temperatures measured or achieved. In lab physics, temperatures near absolute zero are reached using laser cooling and evaporative methods, with hydrogen gas cooled to fractions of a kelvin. Advances by ultracold gas experiments reached picoKelvin regimes in specialized setups.
The statement is incorrect. Pocahontas married Englishman John Rolfe, not Captain John Smith, and their marriage followed diplomatic relations rather than Smith's personal union.
President Wilson was a lawyer by training, later a college professor, and ultimately the president of Princeton University. He also wrote extensively on historical and political topics.
Readers ask which figure the old rhyme about flash and thunder refers to. The poem title is The Grave of Bonaparte with music by Lyman Heath. attribution of the words to Leonard Heath is uncertain.
The phrase Bloody Monday traces to a State Street clash in August 1806 between Charles Austin and Thomas Oliver Selfridge. Selfridge killed Austin during a political feud sparked by a dispute over seven roast pigs and ten bushels of corn, with the first Monday of the fall term later associated with the term.
A reader converts household measures to antique terms noting that 4 teaspoonfuls equal 1 tablespoonful and 4 tablespoonfuls equal 1 wine glassful. The guide also lists 2 wine glasses as 1 gill, 2 gills as 1 coffee cup, and 2 coffee cupfuls as 1 pint.
Oak is the heaviest wood among the options for furniture. The order from heaviest to lightest is oak, mahogany, maple, cherry, and walnut.
The text explains that one metre equals 39 1 3 inches and one kilometre equals one thousand metres, roughly five eighths of a mile. It notes that eight kilometres are about five miles, converting ancient measurements to familiar distances.
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