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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 31, 1922
Page
4
In Richmond Massachusetts a group of women trekked through snow and bitter cold to collect 20 signatures for Mrs. Mabel Fee to qualify as a candidate to oust her husband in the town clerk and treasurer race.
An advertisement touts Kellogg's Bran cooked and krambled as a permanent constipation remedy for all ages. It claims daily use of two tablespoonfuls provides lasting relief, improves breath, skin, and overall health while warning against laxatives. Grocers stock Kellogg's Bran.
In Berkshire Sleepy Hollow, Mrs. Mabel Francis Elwell Dorr campaigns to put her name as town clerk and treasurer while her husband Herbert A. Dorr remains on the ballot. Both caucuses endorsed him. she leads a sticker campaign amid winter hardship and local resistance to women in office.
A compiled list names Tait Bros and numerous ice cream plants and dairy companies across Connecticut Rhode Island and Massachusetts including Springfield Taunton Worcester Providence Bridgeport New Haven and Waterbury defining a network of co operatives and private firms with varied plant locations and corporate links. The roster lists firms such as Co operative Ice Cream Co Laurel Ice Cream Co Main Creamery Oak Knoll Ice Cream Co and New Haven Dairy Co among others.
The Brookline Board of Selectmen voted to abolish the house day custom in the police department and replace it with four patrolmen who will regularly handle station duties. Patrolmen Toura and McManus argued the old system was unjust and imposed hardships on patrolmen, requiring one day in eight to perform house duty.
Louis Exter of 56 Harvest street Dorchester collapsed at 49 Charles street while visiting friends. A physician arrived to find him dead. Death is believed to be due to heart trouble. He was 60, married.
Omar Kaldah once posing as a mystic and blackmailer fled abroad to Switzerland as grand jury probes in Massachusetts loom. Corcoran, ex district attorney of Middlesex County, agreed to testify against old associates in Boston. The special grand jury session and Cosmopolitan Trust Company probe are to report. indictments of prominent figures expected.
The report tracks a fugitive Egypto-identity seer tied to extortion schemes in New Hampshire and involvement with officials of the International Service Company. He evaded New York searchers and reportedly sailed to his homeland after letters postmarked Berne. The case also connects to the Tufts district attorney removal and disbarment actions against Harry E. Levenson.
An advertisement promotes Pape's Diapepsin tablets as fast relief for upset stomach gas, indigestion and acidity. It claims the tablets neutralize acidity, stop heartburn and belching, and let you eat favorite foods without regret. A sixty cent case is advertised for immediate purchase.
General Prohibition Agent Edward A. Ashe of Somerville and a member of Major Haynes' flying squadron leaves Massachusetts after weeks of inspection and supervisory work to begin immediate activities in the Middle West.
Richard J. Lane opposed building a wooden four room portable in West Roxbury stating there are over 200 wooden schoolhouses. The board voted to use over $80,000 from last year’s unexpended balance for a substantial building instead. The committee also supports daylight saving in the Eastern time zone. Myron T. Pritchard of Everett district retired on a $600 pension after 42 years and 11 months in school service.
Prominent Roxbury and Brookline residents plan a concert and ball tomorrow evening at Whitney Hall Brookline to benefit the Grove Hall Station of Baby Hygiene. State and city officials are expected to attend. Boston theatre talent will perform. Committee members include Mrs 4 H Rubin Mrs Abraham Myerson and Mrs Elizabeth Bernfield.
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