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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Jun 01, 1922

Page

10

Matrimony Described as The Great Ad Venture

June is favored for marriage as women take happiness in hand and embark on matrimony. The piece calls matrimony a great ad venture where chance may add appeal.

Cross Wedding Gifts Three-fola design bill pocket

A wedding gift item named Three-fola features a full length bill pocket at the back lined with gilk. When folded the item measures one lot of pigskin or assorted wiolse leathers. Specially priced at 2.50 formerly 5.75 to 7.75.

Harvard to Change Admission Method and Racial Balance

Harvard plans a major shift away from scholarship tests toward selective admissions. The move could tighten the student body, crowding out immigrant and Jewish applicants and provoking alumni debate about quotas and the college’s cosmopolitan tradition. Officials cite classroom and dormitory limits as the immediate reason.

Harvard Poland Russia New England

Governor seeks funds to save Old Province House relics

Governor Cox asks the Legislature for 1500 to preserve a Tudor brick chimney and a fireplace from the Old Province House. The chimney is noted as one of America's finest Architecturally. The fireplace stood in the main room where the council met for nearly a century and receptions were held. He urges quick action and suggests displaying the relics in the State House, a new library, or the Supreme Court building.

Cox Old Province House America State House State Library Supreme Court

Kellogg's Bran Promises Constipation Relief

An advertisement touts Kellogg's Bran as guaranteed to relieve severe constipation through regular use. It claims health benefits beyond digestion, including energy, brain function, and growth in children, and encourages daily consumption and wide availability at grocery stores.

Kellogg’s Selon

Mrs Potter Denies Working To Fund Son Harvard

Indignant denial from Mrs Florence Brooks Potter of Boston society status that she worked at Crosby's on Dartmouth Street to support Brooks Potter at Harvard. She says she is employed out of financial need after stocks failed, and notes Brooks paid his own way previously by working in Camden shipyards.

Brooks Potter Harvard Florence Brooks Potter Boston Crosby's Dartmouth Street Brooks Camden Penelope Penelope Potter Sewing Circle Vincent Club Arlington Street Tillie the Teller Potter Guarantee Trust Company Chicago

Brush Fire Rages On 2 Mile Front Near Randolph

Fire departments from Randolph Canton and Stoughton with volunteer bucket brigades battled a brush fire along a two mile front five miles from Randolph. The fire, burning for three days, was pushed toward Randolph by a stiff breeze threatening several country homes. About 500 men arrived by auto to fight the flames as water supply was scarce and bucket brigades and chemicals were used.

Randolph Canton Stoughton

Reparations Commission Grants Germany 1922 Moratorium

The Reparations Commission fully approved Germany's reply to the ultimatum and decided to grant a provisional moratorium for 1922. The unanimous decision, issued after a lengthy session, followed a late-night meeting with the French delegate joining despite opposition from a chamber faction.

Paris Associated Press Reparations Commission Germany Wirth Chamber Commission

World’s Greatest Cock Fight Reported In West Springfield

The world was staged last night in George Richardson’s chicken yard in West Springfield. Police, unaware of game cock customs, left 60 captured birds in a pen at the Richardson place and departed, ignorant of what would unfold.

George Richardson West Springfield Agawam Richardson Place

Fighting cocks die in chancy arena as police seize survivors

Police recaptured over 100 gamecocks after a grand bee turned deadly. Forty birds lay dead in the yard while twenty survivors are kept apart on chains with the state set to execute them unless clemency is granted. Jersey Blue, a New England champion, toppled nearby foes amid the carnage.

Jersey Blue New England Mrs. Richardson John Alden

Alleged Murderer Sought in Boston

Manchester New Hampshire May 31 local police seek Hausen Hardin proprietor of a coffee house at 162 Lake avenue believed to be hiding in Boston after the murder of Abraham Ramadan May 17 Boston police asked to watch for his appearance though no definite trace had been disclosed.

Manchester N. H Hausen Hardin Lake Avenue Abraham Ramadan Boston Hardin

Argentine Wagh Earners Majority Are Women

A majority of Wagh earners in Argentina are women, reflecting shifting labor patterns and expanding participation in wage work across urban and rural sectors.

Pantries Ravaged by Wild Man Near Templeton

Edward Savage dubbed the wild man, armed with dynamite and a carving knife, raided farm pantries near Brooks Village Massachusetts, eluding state police who vow to shoot him on sight. A bedroom window at Mrs Joseph Kidder s Phillipston road house was pried open, raising fears of further harm to women in the area.

Templeton Brooks Village Edward Savage Joseph Kidder Phillipston Road

Guard Families with Guns as Fugitive Savage Probed

Farmers and lumberjacks guard homes and supplies while hunting a fugitive named Savage who has reappeared in daylight. Authorities plan starvation pressure to force surrender after alleged poisoning of Merkle family and cattle. Kidder reports the fugitive begged for food and is exhausted, with locals fearing dynamite and a carving knife.

Kidder Savage

Savage at Large Threatens Merkle Farm After Theft

Sheriff Warns Citizens as fugitive Savage steals food from Merkle's farm. A ham and two chickens vanish while Merkle's hired man is accused of theft and threatened. Poisoning of a cow brings five animals harmed. Nellie guards the home with her baby sister Veronika nearby as tension rises. Lord Astor and Lady Astor linked by a birthday note.

Merkle Nellie Veronika

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