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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1920
Page
7
The Boston Post invites all readers to submit a single last line for each four-line limerick published daily. Prizes of $100 will be awarded for the best fifth line, with envelopes labeled for easy sorting and deadlines fixed four days after publication.
Night workers and others away when enumerators called must return census slips or face enforcement. Supervisor John F. Wardy of the sixth Massachusetts district threatens drastic action to enforce the law.
Supervisor Hardy announced after a conference on the seventh floor of the Custom House that tonight ends the census taking period in cities towns and rural areas with 30 more days to respond elsewhere. He noted Suffolk county is 90 percent complete and blamed lodging house staff for slow responses. Harlow reported 55 percent in the seventh district with rural areas still open for 30 days. Foreigners and farm data delay progress in Fall River as census records show roughly sixty percent foreign population and farmers lag on production figures.
The piece traces early Massachusetts shoemaking from Thomas Beard who arrived in 1629 to Lynn’s rise with Cordwainers in 1555 and later boom in 1750 led by John Adam Dagge. By 1790 Lynn housed 200 masters and 600 journeymen turning 300000 shoes yearly. Innovations include pegs in 1811 and Elias Howe and McKay sewing machines. Historic figures linked include Linnaeus and Roger Sherman.
Independence was a shoemaker and Whittier shifted from cobbling shoes to writing poetry. Henry Wilson became known as the Natick cobbler throughout his political career.
Jarvis Burrell aged 91, holder of the Boston Post gold-headed cane, died suddenly at his Bedford street home after rising to an adjoining room. His wife, 86, is bereaved and despondent after his death.
Ada Hannaford age 22 vanished from Manchester New Hampshire five years ago. Her sister Hattie Hannaford 474 Massachusetts Avenue Back Bay seeks information possibly in Massachusetts. Mother resides in Lynn. Ada described as light brown hair brown eyes five feet two inches 120 pounds.
New York January 15 William B Colver of the Federal Trade Commission warned at the National Wholesale Dry Goods Association convention that prices could fall too low if the foreign exchange situation is not corrected. He cautioned against over production unemployment and an artificial price structure urging reduced wages and capitalization to steady the economy amid postwar pressures.
Chicago January 15. H R Figg assistant attorney general warned that rising clothing prices erode purchasing power and idle industries. He urged retailer committees to coordinate with manufacturers to curb costs under the Lever act. Sidney Hillman of the Amalgamated Garment Workers of America backed shorter hours and higher production. Beads of colored glass and wood adorn gowns in current fashion.
A man died yesterday morning at St Ambrose Church Adams Street while attending an anniversary mass for his wife who had passed away the prior year. The incident occurred during the service at the Field's Corner location attracting local emergency responders and parishioners.
An old advertisement extols a lemon oil based cream that purportedly whitens and smooths skin overnight. It claims four creams in one and that the 50 cent jar suffices for daily use, urging buyers to ask for Noonan's Lemon Complexion Cream from T Noonan & Sons Co, 88 Portland St Boston.
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