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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1921
Page
18
The Master Painters Society of Massachusetts reports the old apprenticeship system is dead and a shortage of skilled help worries painters and decorators. Speakers urge widening public education to include paint trade training and vocational schools should provide skilled painters.
A thousand Bostonians will dine at Symphony Hall for $100 a plate to aid 3,500,000 starving European children. Gov Cox, Herbert Hoover, Mayor Peters, and Brown University President Faunce attend with civic leaders. Red Cross volunteers serve. Charles Weed coordinates seats at 166 Devonshire Street.
A C H Nyland, passenger agent for the Holland America Steamship Line, died today from pneumonia. He served the company for more than 30 years in New York.
Dana Raps Veterans Choice Act as he denounces special treatment for World War veterans. Civil Service Commissioner Payson Dana, speaking at the 26th anniversary of the Massachusetts Civil Service Reform Association, argues against veteran preference in civil service appointments.
A speaker urged women to oppose new legislation for veterans. He claimed the American Legion seeks veterans' preferences yet is divided and not a political power, warning that several senators fear its influence.
Fire at the C. F. Adams Shoe Factory in South Seabrook, N. F., destroyed the plant this afternoon, with losses pegged at $200,000 and 100 workers left idle. The blaze was found at 12 30 PM as many employees were eating lunch, and flames spread quickly forcing dramatic exits.
The White Star Line steamer Cretic departs Commonwealth Pier at noon for Naples and Genoa. She will carry 22 saloon 20 second and 150 third class passengers with several hundred aboard from New York. The ship left New York yesterday afternoon and will dock tomorrow to embark Boston passengers.
Brooklyn judge hears Patrick Gribbin, a sailor of two and a half years at sea, seek divorce from his wife. He claims women frightened him and that a trip with one woman led to an unwanted marriage, insisting this was his first and last encounter.
Washington Jan. 5. National Wholesale Grocers Association urged ICC to issue restraining order blocking packers from shipping non perishables in refrigerator cars. They warn otherwise a monopoly in wholesale groceries could form.
Three armed bandits locked the West Side Detroit bank manager and clerk in the vault and escaped with 18000 dollars. The pair remained imprisoned for about two hours before the robbery was noticed and the crime discovered.
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