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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1921
Page
12
The Boston Post details subscription rates and mailing notes for Daily and Sunday editions. Rates cover U S Canada foreign and Canada mail with various term options and postage caveats. Postal district supplements and payment instructions are also listed.
Margaret Deland, Boston author and philanthropist, will speak at the Chilton Club on the Negro problem in a paper titled Debtors of the Past. Deland discusses her personal shift from viewing the issue as secondary to recognizing its paramount significance after experiences in Hampton Institute and France.
An incoming ocean liner carried 18 languages from passengers including Czecho Slavs Jugo Slavs Croats Cypriotes Egyptians Persians Albanians. The piece urges newcomers to value opportunities, avoid discrediting others, and learn to live better by mutual respect and assimilation.
A compact exhortation argues that those who break free from coercion deserve honest industry as reward and that liberty and equality are available for adoption. It questions what greater benefits could be offered to encourage pursuit of personal and civic betterment.
The Supreme Council reopens debates on Germany’s reparations after two years. It argues a definite sum should be set to accelerate world recovery. France hopes for partial reparations. Germany’s resources and paying power complicate figures. A prompt fixed amount could speed payments and economic normalization.
The House approved 360000 dollars for free seed distribution by members of Congress, 120000 more than last year. The Post notes reformers failed to end the practice, arguing city residents cannot distinguish pumpkins from produce. The piece laments the persistent seed graft and questions its benefit to farmers.
The Boston Chamber of Commerce plans a Convention and Tourists Bureau to act as a clearing house for tourism and events. An experienced manager will run it to attract conventions and visitors, study visitor psychology, and enhance lasting goodwill for Boston and New England.
A House inquiry is urged to investigate the Mohawk Indians as the present Congress winds down. The piece traces their decimated numbers from a once large eastern Long Island domain, noting 30 in 1830 and about 75 four decades later, and urges a committee to hunt for a survivor during its long vacation.
A fragmentary line hints at a tribe mislaid or forgotten by scholars, raising questions about origin and provenance. The bold phrase suggests uncertainty about historical record accuracy and the tribe’s true location or existence.
The Senate passed a bill creating a Federal Live stock Commission of three members to regulate the livestock industry. It would require access to packers books and allow orders, information dissemination, and supervision of packers, stockyards, and commission men. Supporters cite anti monopoly aims. opposition cites Republican liberals.
The Rev Clifford G Twombly of Lancaster Penn told Episcopal Club members that some films pose a subtler danger to the country than liquor. He warned that one bad film can ruin morals nationwide, appealing to youths everywhere. He praised decent films but urged producers to curb vile ones or face stricter film supervision.
A collection of reader inquiries and answers on poultry varieties Plymouth Rock, time zones at noon across U S cities, Pilgrim visits to Boston before its settlement, naval strength of the United States and Japan, brain weight comparisons, and where to apply for a Carnegie Hero Medal. The letters cite dates and figures and name institutions and places such as Plymouth, Boston, Pittsburgh and the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission.
The Quincey Patriot-Ledger argues Washburn, seen as a reformer of reformers, faces a bind seeking a government post and explaining a bank loan tied to his influence. It notes his links to the discredited Tred Burrell and mocks his limited public speech. The piece advises him to retreat and reflect.
Facts and fashions describe French kid gloves trimmed with cut steel beads and lace appliques. A dinner gown in black crepe satin features a low neckline and long transparent sleeves with black net embroidery. A new cotton jersey arrives in jade green and other colors for spring.
In a Scottish tale set near the Clyde and Calder, Tammas Tamson, a respected tailor, loves fishing over work. On a sunny day he forgets his spectacles, casts by a tree, and a bird snatches his worm. The bird is ensnared, and Tammas reels in an unlikely catch, exclaiming at the end what kind of fish it is.
A column recalls a zero Boston thermometer from a year ago and wryly links the recent rise in alcohol use to radiator cooling. It discusses ice thickness in suburbs, a Asia magazine wild man of Borneo claim tied to Greater Boston, and poll tax politics for women in Maine. Lectures for Children’s Museum youth and West Roxbury High poultry class are noted with farm placement merit for local boys.
A quotation explores human tendency to resist or condemn what could help us. It cautions against judging things by imagined notions rather than their true nature.
A local paper quotes a humorous digression about all calfs being fresh and lively. The item briefly notes a Fresh cow and calf for sale in Withheld Wyoming with contact by H. T. at Livermore Falls, Me. The excerpt mockingly celebrates farm life and calf behavior with a playful narrator.
A. Grazier of the Boston Post notes 1920 was among the paper's best years overall despite late-year business slump. He cites gains in circulation and advertising, while acknowledging labor newsprint and transportation challenges and expressing confidence for 1921 after adjustments.
The article recalls Emily Marshall, famed in 1830 Boston as the continent's beauty. It notes her modest life, public adulation, and notable anecdotes from Franklin Place and Philadelphia audiences. Born 1807 in Cambridge, she married William Foster Otis in 1831, died in 1836 after bearing a son, and inspired poetry and admiration from contemporaries.
Sir Your editorial entitled Fire Proof Coal in Saturday s Post hit the nail on the head Not considering the high prices for coal it is dishonest to sell coal with 25 per cent rock and slate as it is for milk to deliver mills with 2 per cent water If a standard of quality exists for milk why not for coal dealers William Thomas Charlestown Mass
The oldest inhabitant recalls Boston weather on January 26 as official records show 0 degrees in 1874 and 1920. The warmest for this date was 66 degrees in 1510. No rain or snow has fallen on this date for ten years, except in 1911 and 1914.
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