South End Vacation School Teaches Arts and Crafts
Under Walter Brackett and Isabel Winslow the South End Vacation School at Wait Schoolhouse Shawmut avenue educates over 200 pupils daily in weaving rope ham mocks raffia baskets sewing drawing and related home making subjects. Younger groups enjoy paper cutting and color work while older boys learn Lloyd tasks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Brackett
Annie Pascarelli
Hattie Burkin
Freida Berrenson
Annie Barénberg
South End
Shawmut Avenue
Iss A. Isabel Winslow
Lloyd
Bitro-Phosphate health ad promises strength and relief
A New York advertisement targets readers feeling weak and nervous, urging phosphorus deficiency as the remedy. It praises Bitro-Phosphates as non patent medicine, prescribed by physicians, with health rules and a $300 guarantee, sold by druggists everywhere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Former Mayor John F. Fitzgerald Returns Home
Former Hull mayor John F. Fitzgerald came home from Carney Hospital after knee-cap surgery by Dr Bottomley. The operation involved 43 stitches and he expects to walk with crutches soon and be fully recovered in six to eight weeks. He thanked friends for their calls and updates on his condition.
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John F. Fitzgerald
Hull
Carney Hospital
Bottomley
Fitzgerald
Strung Up by Wrists 50 Minutes by Mate
Portland Maine July 14 Charged with stringing up Alvaro DeCarvallo a Portuguese coal passer for 50 minutes by cords from an awning spar while his toes brushed the deck Chief Mate Oscar V Atkinson Jr of the steamer Polar Star held in 500 bail for the September grand jury DeCarvallo said an arm injury in a steam launch left him unable to work and he was struck and strung up as punishment by the mate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Alvaro DeCarvallo
Oscar V. Atkinson, Jr
United States
DeCarvallo
Librarian as Missionary Drives Community Outreach
Miss Adeline B. Zachert, Rochester public library official, urges librarians to engage with mothers’ meetings and clubs to widen library reach. She says librarians should connect readers with engaging books and seek help from individuals and organizations. Conference speakers include Miss Clara Hunt and Miss Lune R. Donnelly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Hunt
Children’s Department
Brooklyn
N. King
Springfield City
Lune R. Donnelly
Simmone’ College Library
Massachusetts Residents Pay Over 302 Million in Income Tax
Massachusetts residents paid 302,170,679 in income taxes to the United States government this year, announced by John J. Mitchell, federal internal revenue collector. The figure marks an increase of nearly 100 million from 1919, with total federal tax collections in the state at 350,928,233, averaging more than a million dollars daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
United States
John J. Mitchell
Internal Revenue Collector
Uncle Sam
Tax receipts show surge in consumer items from 1919 to 1920
Receipts reveal large rise in spending on automobiles, accessories, musical and sporting goods, with excise tax climbs from $2,246,634 to $8,851,000. Soft drinks tax increases to $2,252,000 from $209,000, and theatre and entertainment admissions rise from $4,234,000 to $8,046,000.
Swiss Firm Unveils Airplane Engine Silencer
A Geneva based firm announces a new airplane engine silencer developed by its chief engineer. The device will be demonstrated on the Geneva to Paris air service and is claimed to mute engine noise entirely, with potential military significance.
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Geneva
Switzerland
Geneva-Paris
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City Men’s Union
Harold and
Edith
Harold
Carl Wilmore
Boston Sunday Post
Sade
Rlerr
Gadow
Dayle Dealers
Elece Ceteal
Secessory Sporting Goods
Don Prine
American Ever Ready Works of National Carbon Company, Inc
Long Island City
Eveready
Rae Beshiige
South End School
Howe
Tiffany
Howe Tires & Tubes
Boylston St
Boston
Mass
Boston and Vicinity
R. Zretmne
Unt
Lenox Enery Co
Ring
United
Pon Tata Oe
Bay State
Cape Cod
New England
Johnson Educator Food CO
Cambridge
Educator
Conrad
Navy
Belgium
Taupe
C.O. D
Winter Street
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