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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1920
Page
3
The Boston Post announces a daily series featuring world famous landmarks with a prize program. Prizes range from 10 to 50 dollars, totaling 500, for correct identifications and descriptive paragraphs.
A directive instructs withholding any identifications from the landmark editor until the full series is finished. The instruction emphasizes completing all parts before sharing names or related data with the editor.
Eight battlefield sites in Belgium and France will become permanent memorials honoring Canadian arms. Sites include St Julien Passchendaele Observatory Ridge Bourlon Wood Vimy Ridge Drury Crossroads Courcellette and Hospital Rows. Brigadier General Hughes arranged plans and a fundraising campaign will follow.
Joe Mitchell Chapple publisher of the National Magazine will speak at the American Forum in Faneuil Hall tomorrow night on What is It We Want A patriotic topic The program ends the short talks period and dedicates the time after the address to questions There will be music and community singing Meeting opens at 7 30 PM
PROVIDENCE R I Jan 9 The Senate today passed in concurrence a resolution to submit to popular vote a proposition to issue state bonds for a veterans bonus. The measure calls for public approval before the state sells bonds to fund the bonus program.
Plan calls for bonds totaling 2 500 000 dollars to fund a 100 dollar bonus for each Rhode Island man serving in the United States military or naval forces during the war.
Bread prices will jump Monday, with 10 and 15 cent loaves replaced by 11 and 16 cent cash and carry options. Credit and delivery grocers will charge 12 and 17 cents for the former loaves.
Representatives of several Boston grocers announced last night that bread prices would rise following a nationwide surge in flour costs. Providence also reported a 1 cent per pound wholesale hike, with retail loaves moving from 10 to 12 cents for a pound, and 15 to 18 cents for a pound and a half. A major producer plans a rye-wheat loaf at the old 10 cent price to aid price pinch.
The House passed the annual Indian appropriation bill totaling 12 816 013 dollars, about 2 500 000 less than last year. The Indian Bureau estimates expenditures at 17 471 763 dollars. The 75 000 dollar liquor suppression appropriation, removed in committee, was retained after debate.
Police Commissioner Curtis refused to answer Samuel Gompers assault questions before the Chamber of Commerce. He said with a smile that he is a chamber member and Gompers was their guest, so that should be reason enough to drop the matter.
Chicago January 9 The estimated requirements of the U S government excluding railroad administration were set at 5 25 billion by Congressman James W Good of Iowa as he addressed the Illinois Manufacturers Association. He called the figure a 47 per capita tax and urged a budget system noting government departments excesses and a lack of real business acumen.
Rose Croix Council No. 1331 Knights of Columbus will exemplify first and second degrees for 75 candidates at Palladio Hall Roxbury tomorrow at 1 30. The third degree will be at St Marys Hall North End on Thursday evening January 15.
"Snow in the face" buffalo at the Boston Zoo attracts many visitors as his shaggy winter coat draws attention. The animal nods for apples from grateful visitors and lingers near the fence watching the sun set behind the Blue Hills. Keepers say he recalls the plains days when he roamed with his sires in search of tastier food.
The 782 ton cargo carrier Clontail Hog Island's 80th vessel was launched in Philadelphia today. It was named by Mrs. Woodrow Wilson and sponsored by Miss Dorothy Wood of Baltimore, daughter of F W Wood vice president of the International Shipbuilding Corporation.
John Hautala sues Carnegie Steel Company in Suffolk Superior Court seeking 70 000 for the death of his wife Lempi Sofia Hautala who he says was shot during the steel strike near New Castle Pennsylvania on September 22 last.
Examinations for West Point and Annapolis by the 11th district at the custom house. Temple Israel service with a sermon on A Positive Religion. Luncheon by the Twentieth Century Club with Reginald Heber Smith. Republican State committee meeting. Massachusetts Horticultural Society inaugural at Horticul tural Hall. Frank P. Walsh speaks on The Church and Labor at Notre Dame Fenway. Railroad and Steamboat Agents banquet at Young's Hotel. Technology Alumni Association banquet at Walker Memorial. Harvard Improvement Association protest at Greenwood Memorial School Hall against higher tax valuations.
Mrs Sarah J French widow of Austin B French and a former Boston Randolph business figure died yesterday at the Hotel Nightingale Roxbury. She had just turned 92 and had been ill with pneumonia for a week.
The Bouton Transit Commission and Old Public Service Commission endorse electrifying the Midland and Old Colony divisions and Shawmut branch to extend elevated trains beyond Andrew Square to the Milton line. A $25,000 state appropriation is needed for studies, with Forest Hills circuit deemed less urgent and West Roxbury delayed until Dorchester is resolved. No insurmountable engineering obstacles are reported.
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