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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1922
Page
8
The Boston Post offers prizes totaling 1000 dollars for the best twenty jury stories submitted by readers. Entries must be original, up to 250 words, one side of paper, and sent to Jury Story Editor Boston Post Boston. Judges include Massachusetts officials and Boston lawyers. several stories will be printed across editions.
A Boston letter discusses jury service, noting Masterman’s view of jury selection and historic shifts in verdict phrasing. It mentions a lawyer probing a witness who then counters with pointed remarks during cross examination.
A collection of brief courtroom vignettes and juror remarks. Notable lines include a horse trader witness praised for honesty, a Quaker petitioning to end capital punishment, and a prisoner lamenting a woman jury. The snippets capture humorous legal banter from various locations and voices.
Alumnae of Notre Dame Academy located at 2893 Washington Street Roxbury issue a formal notice. Details pertain to alumni events and contact information for former students.
At 9 o'clock today, a requiem mass will be held in the chapel of the academy for the late Pontiff Benedict XV. Officers of the alumnae request full attendance of members.
A meeting of state department heads launched plans for a co-operative bank for state employees. William A. S. Bazeley presided as commissioner of conservation, with Governor Cox signing up for 250 shares to launch the project.
Vice-Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the United States Railroad Labor Board, former Tennessee governor, told a Boston Chamber of Commerce luncheon at Copley Plaza Hotel yesterday that railroad rates would fall to restore normal business and lift revenues as spring traffic rises.
A group of upstate farmers visited the Bronx Zoo curator Ditmars asking for mountain black snakes to exterminate rats and mice threatening crops. Ditmars said the zoo has only a few dozen and the farmers should raise their own snakes. The Reptile Society of the World had none to spare and advised the farmers to raise their own snakes, noting snakes propagate rapidly when left alone.
Jan 27 report from J S Barber owner of a small grocery in the brickyard area confirms sighting a white deer in the Southampton road outskirts of Westfield city.
Former Mayor John F Fitzgerald urged Winchendon Board of Trade to embrace goodwill, reject isolation, and engage with diverse people to foster peace. He cited the Ulster border agreement as a hopeful sign and linked it to broader European peace, calling education a people contact process.
Commissioner of Conservation Bazeley issued a state warning after many rabies cases in Massachusetts dogs. He urged communities to seize unlicensed and uncollared dogs and keep them restrained. He warned tying up all dogs in the state may be required if the situation worsens.
The House rejected 28 to 45 a committee reported bill that would have let Boston pay a pension of 1200 dollars a year to J Alfred Mitchell who recently retired as city auditor.
The Storrs Experiment Station at Connecticut Agricultural College has developed heredity tests that reveal a chick's sex upon hatching. On March 1 the station will distribute birds of known sex to farmers. Dr. Leslie C. Dunn announced this, noting its economic importance for egg production or meat market.
Charles J. McCoy, a World War veteran from 314 East Street South Boston, was yesterday appointed by Mayor Peters as permanent inspector in the street cleaning service at a salary of 1400 dollars per year.
Dr Edwards, practicing physician for 17 years and enemy of calomel, offers Olive Tablets as a calomel free laxative. These sugar coated tablets soothe the bowels and liver without griping, promising quick, pleasant relief from constipation and torpid liver with one or two tablets at bedtime. Available in 15c and 80c sizes.
An advertisement touts Musterole as an easy to apply white ointment that does not blister like mustard plasters. It advises gentle finger massage for rapid relief and lists prices 85 and 65 cents, hospital size, and a $3 option.
Mr Hooper says the nation has passed the uphill grade toward broader prosperity and urges price relief and reduced profiteering in necessities He notes farmers will market products above production costs and warns against ratcheting up wartime risk His view condemns railroads for striking over labor rights and calls for balancing criticism of financial interests behind the transport system with recognition of their challenges
General police orders last night announced the appointment of two new patrolmen. John J. Lynch is assigned to Joy Street station and Franklin E. Gunning to Last Boston.
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