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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1920
Page
2
Washington reports a nationwide farm home survey of 10 015 typical homes in 33 Northern and Western states. It finds farm women work long hours, lack vacations, and shoulder most household and labor tasks, including milking, washing, sewing, and kitchen chores, with limited time for rest.
The advertisement proclaims Unequalled Value with better quality for the price than comparable merchandise elsewhere. It promises weekly recommended values with strong emphasis on quality and assortment.
Calvin Coolidge Jr., 12, shows a talent for handling runaway horses near the Coolidge home on Massasoit street in Northampton. His target is Brownie, a stubborn colt owned by a local physician, who breaks free from any hitch. The boy relishes the challenge and is seen as determined as his father.
At Pilgrim Congregational Church Adams Corner four youths were commissioned for foreign service. Three women and one man will pursue missions in Japan India and Turkey. Another candidate is to be commissioned Thursday evening. Alden H. Clarke presented the candidates and Rev. James Barton spoke. The commissioning prayer was led by Rev. Edward D. Gaylore.
Dr Henry K Wingate returning from 30 years in Asiatic Turkey describes 1916 17 Armenian sufferings and 3000 orphaned children aided by American relief. He notes abundant grain yet a Turkish allied blockade restricts exports and drives prices down while food remains available. He criticizes Turkish governance and says prohibition is more sentiment than law with widespread strong drink among officials, especially brs ndy and raki.
An advertisement touts Horsford's Acid Phosphate as renewing stomach activity and promoting digestion to restore appetite. The copy emphasizes digestive benefits and renewed hunger as a selling point.
Amherst June 2 Political, economic and social disturbances in the United States result from disillusionment after the armistice, says President Butterfield of Massachusetts Agricultural College. He cites extravagance, profiteering and a rudderless government as signs of moral apathy. He urges unity under a worthy ideal and constructive aims. The sermon followed by cornerstone ceremonies for a memorial building to fallen agricultural college men.
About 70 youths from Boston South End join Morgan Memorial Troop to help Sunderland farmers. Thirty five older boys 14 to 16 begin work this afternoon, with 35 younger boys 12 to 14 arriving soon. They camp under Scoutmaster Walter S Woods and assistants and will stay all summer handling tasks from farming to weeding.
A Morgan Memorial program will place boys in a camp with strict Boy Scout discipline. A cook will be attached and daily roll calls observed. Each morning the group travels by motor truck to farms, returning each night. Wages are paid and deposited in Boston for the boys.
The popular democratic Night at the Pops selects a 12 piece programme for the Symphony Hall concert. Top requests include Second Hungarian Rhapsody and On the Beautiful Blue Danube with various orchestral numbers and operatic selections, voted by the public.
The Rev. Alfred W. Treen of St. Alban's Superior Wis will supply St James Episcopal Roxbury for the summer season He is a former Boston man and was formerly lay reader at St John's East Boston.
At Parkman Bandstand Boston Common yesterday 1000 attendees heard condemnations of Attorney General Palmer and the British empire through the labor movement. Speakers attacked Irish Republican delegates and quoted Sian Fennism as Sovietist. resolutions condemned Larkin imprisonment as English propaganda and a Lusk committee outrage.
Collections for the Negro and Indian missions will be taken up at all masses in all Catholic churches of the diocese next Sunday. The drive aims to support missionary work and outreach programs across communities.
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