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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1912
Page
4
A letter from State Street commends current summer fashions as practical and modest, while others named Lowell and a business reader critique fashion arbiters. The writer argues that tight outfits are not harmful, praise on comfort and coolness, and notes short skirts aid women’s daily ease and cleanliness.
A letter from a State Street business man to the Editor of the Post offers a brief defense. He writes of practical nature and daily dealings, claiming to meet many people and drawing conclusions from firsthand observations.
A Lowell reader disputing Mrs E K H B's view argues that current women’s dress is neither comfortable nor modest. He cites hoop skirts and hobble skirts as uncomfortable and questions street and trolley car wearability. He adds that cosmetics may affect a man’s opinion but not a woman’s character.
A reader endorses modest dress for business girls, citing a case where a plain dressed stenographer impressed her mercantile employer. When the owner fell ill, she handled correspondence at his summer home and soon became his private secretary, effectively running the business. SHAWMUT.
A Brighton Board of Health member logged a call from an excited woman who warned that the town’s drinking water is polluted and germs are emerging from faucets. She urged immediate action to prevent a plague.
In Hartford on July 19 Judge James Platt fined 28 Connecticut milk dealers $40 each without costs for sending poor milk to Providence and Boston in violation of the federal pure food law. Bench warrants were issued for 381 other alleged violators to be prosecuted Tuesday after findings by the bureau of chemistry in Washington that the milk shipped was dirty and decomposed.
At Paine Memorial Hall yesterday afternoon colored Masons elected John G. Jones of Chicago imperial potentate and Johnson J. Burrill of New York imperial deputy potentate J M Maddox of Williston chief rabban with J C White Boston as assistant rabban White was taken by Inspector Loughlin on a charge of using the fraternal order’s name without authorization arraigned before Judge Burke and freed on $300 bond for Monday hearing
Andrew Carnegie funds a Mark Twain Memorial Library in Redding Connecticut, established from Samuel Clemens lore. The gift endows a public library once housed in a small chapel and later expanded as a memorial to Clemens daughter Jean. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch contributed the bulk of the remaining Clemens volumes.
The battleship Wyoming surpassed all previous records during standardization trials off Rockland Maine on July 19. Naval experts aboard affirmed a speed of 22.045 knots, the fastest ever by a battleship carrying 12 inch guns, surpassing sister Arkansas which logged 21.493 knots in her trials last month.
The Wyoming broke the full speed record with an average of 21.3823 knots, besting Arkansas at 21.153, despite a firemen strike that reduced speed. Standard runs and top-speed trials were conducted under naval trial board oversight as builders and officials viewed the results. The ship, 26,000 tons, is near completion and slated for commissioning mid August.
Haverhill July 19 Work began today on a complete wireless outfit for St James High School roof to enable wireless telegraphy studies in the physics course. St James is the largest parochial school in the Boston archdiocese and will open its term next September.
Joseph Steiner of New York and Joseph J Moran of Roxbury were arrested on a street car near Massachusetts avenue and Boylston Street after a passenger, David Gordon of Roxbury, alleged a pickpocketing incident. Police say the men acted together among baseball fans bound for Fenway Park.
The Boston school committee urges creating a central national bureau of educational information for teachers. It would be run under the National Association of School Accounting Officers to centralize reports and data on public school education across the country. The annual report notes current demands and inefficiencies in supplying information.
The plan reduces class sizes gradually to reach about 40 pupils per teacher in all grades above first by 1916. The target implies a steady scaling of staffing across schools to improve instruction.
Mrs Clara E Worschendorf East Bridgewater sued her son William I Worschendorf for 44 weeks board in Police Court. Judge Warren A Reed ruled for the defendant. She said he left work in April 1908 and started a shoe business at Swampscott. She kept the piano and he now sought it.
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