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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1922
Page
3
Mrs. Herbert W. Fay of West Boylston ends the practice of taking hundreds of daily calls. For 11 years she served as Central for the West Boylston telephone exchange, handling all business and town gossip around the clock, making her the town’s busiest woman.
Mrs Fay resigns from exacting duties and Mr Fay leaves New England Telephone after 17 years to start a business in Onset. The family, including Evelyn and Madelyn twin daughters Clarence their son and Henrietta Green became a local telephone dynasty with multiple exchanges and night service.
Boston man identified as H. Myers or H. A. Myers of Boston drowned in Renfrew Ontario. Constable H. A. Airth reports sending word to Hub relatives.
Rival co operative grocery emporiums in New England towns and resorts press the established country store. The old store faces a fierce battle as fresh, youthful competition grows along the south shore.
The article compares new chain styled stores with country shops, noting lower prices, neat shelves, red interiors, and welcoming managers from cities. It suggests camouflage by color, hints at a chain system with green and golden brown branding, and mentions cooperative language replacing old terms. Summer visitors and Bingville Bugle readers anticipate games around the cracker barrel.
A provincial town describes the rise of modern country stores with electric coffee mills and new goods lines. Shoppers note cheaper prices, new stock, and the allure of delivery and refrigeration, while lamenting the decline of the old emporium and its old ways.
More than 2000 students are expected for the six week Harvard Summer School session starting today. Over 140 courses span many subjects and a large number of women have already registered, with Standish and Gore Halls on the Charles River filled by female students for the summer term.
Belgrade July 9 King Alexander commuted the death sentence of Steitch convicted of throwing a bomb at the royal carriage during the coronation to a 20 year term with hard labor. The decision follows the bombing incident that shocked Jugoslavia.
Haverhill July 9 Supt Lila M Brackett of the General Stephen H Gale Hospital died early this morning from pneumonia She had just begun a new three month leave to regain health and had recently returned from Boston where she visited her mother and sisters Her death is believed caused by septic poisoning from swallowed blood after teeth were extracted Brackett was head of the City Infirmary and led the Gale Hospital since its 1916 completion Under her leadership the institution became one of the area’s best municipal hospitals.
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