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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1922
Page
6
The Marcella street playground was renamed yesterday to honor John J. Connolly, a World War hero who lived in the district for years and played there as a boy. The dedication was held under the auspices of the John W. Connolly Club.
James M. Curley Jr delivered an oration on The Flag with John F. Dowd Martin Killan and Representative John Englert taking part as speakers. Foot races and sports were held and ice cream distributed. An International Pageant directed by the Hawkins Twentieth Century Club featured 76 participating girls representing nations. A Kansas woman oversaw car distribution for a railroad company.
A Boston Post reader recalls buying a 2 cent tire from a junk dealer for an old truck. The same tire blew out on a return trip and rolled into the dealer’s cellar, where his wife claimed the shop knew its origin. The note also mentions a 10 pound turtle that laid eggs in Derry New Hampshire.
A neighbor finished planting a flower garden one evening and found the next morning that a turtle had moved in and occupied the beds. The unlikely intruder caused curiosity and mild amusement among residents.
A passerby dressed in fine clothes asks two nuns what keeps their skin clear. The nun replies simply soap and water, prompting the woman to stare and walk away. Report from Portland, Maine.
A stray cat chose a dark cool corner under a safe in the Melrose health and charity offices to give birth. She timed her arrival with a conference of infant welfare staff and city leaders including the Board of Health chair and city physician. The charity chair, under the mothers aid law, seeks a home for the deserted mother with five dependents. The cat has adopted a stray kitten whose mother has reportedly gone on vacation.
Edward F. Sullivan reports a woman in a Wakefield pond using two one gallon rectangular oil cans tied with rope as improvised wings. She made fairly good progress swimming, illustrating creative improvisation with everyday objects for flotation.
On a front porch near Boston two Pomeranian dogs receive tooth brushing from their mistress. She uses a toothbrush from a tumbler to carefully brush each dog's teeth in turn. The note is signed by Mrs. Theodore P. Berle of 126 Ash Street Reading Massachusetts.
Paris July 4 The reparations commission notified Germany it must not pay or release 400,000,000 marks to Ukraine without commission approval. The notice reminded Germany that it may not pay any foreign claims not arising under the Versailles treaty without the commission's consent.
Tonight's program features The Queen of Sheba Gounod Overture Morning Noon and Night in Vienna Waltz Women and Song Fantasia Cavalleria Rusticana Mascagni Prelude to Lohengrin Wagner Pomp and Circumstance andante cantabile Strauss arrangements and Sousa marches plus Sibelius Invitation to the Dance and Storey-Smith Stare and Stripes Forever in a finale night.
Harvard Summer School offices open for enrollment to handle expected large turnout. Classes start Monday, but advance registration is offered to accommodate students.
United States Senator William E. Crow has relapsed and is in a greatly weakened condition according to his physicians in Uniontown Pennsylvania.
At Phillips Andover Academy the Unitarian Ministers Institute held its second day with debate on whether ministers may remarry divorced persons and how mental moral and physical fitness should affect marriage. Speakers included Dr. Harry F. Burns and Rev. Nichols. Dr. Vedder and others addressed religious education salvation and current religious tendencies amid rain and camp routines.
In Montpelier and Harvard, Rev. William S. Nichols and Rev. George Kent urged radical views on remarriage after divorce. Some supported the stance while others protested, and the session paused for lack of time. The day included further remarks by John Huston Finley.
Samuel Safran a 21 year old of 11 Grove street Haverhill drowned in heavy surf at Salisbury Beach this afternoon as a crowd of over 100 watched. Ernest Blanchette of Lowell was with him and also struggled to reach shore. A brother of the victim was among onlookers.
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