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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1912
Page
3
Toothpicks are permanently banned from Hutchinson Hall at the University of Chicago College Commons due to student carelessness and perceived vulgarity. Complaints by professors and post meal habits prompted removal from the cashier's desk after the issues were raised by sensitive observers.
A Boston Post reader defends current street and theater fashion among girls aged 14 to 16, arguing that urban fashion trends in New York show narrow skirts and low necklines among society, chorus, and working girls alike, challenging critics to distinguish between types of young women.
A Post editor letter from Nixola Greeley-Smith criticizes young women racial and fashion extremes, noting 16 of 40 school and college age girls displaying bold rouge, ostentatious hats, amethyst jewelry, and revealing necklines. She questions mothers influence and warns against costly allure.
Funeral services for Daniel Sullivan, a leading American exponent of Irish music, will be held today at St. John's Church Roxbury with a high requiem mass by Rev. Dr. P. S. Supple. Burial follows at Holyhood Cemetery Brookline. he died Monday on Blue Hill Avenue. He and his son Daniel Sullivan Jr. co authored music for the Cadet show Miss Pocahontas. He leaves a widow nine children and twelve grandchildren.
$18 worsted suits cut to $9.75 as Harrison's Great Clothing Sale proceeds. Large stock of $15 and $18 suits reduced to $9.75 with fine blue serges Scotch cheviots and fancy worsteds. S H Harrison Company at 662 Washington St. adr.
In Parliament, George Lansbury denounced Premier Asquith and the government in vitriolic terms over the forcible feeding of imprisoned suffragettes. He was ordered to leave the House after shouting that the women cannot give any undertaking to be released, accusing the ministers of torturing and murdering innocent women.
Mrs Rose Dworkin of Lawrence Massachusetts was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary by Judge Neff after pleading guilty to manslaughter for killing Jacob Horwitz a contractor last November She said Horwitz told her husband stories of their Poland acquaintance which led to her husband deserting her Prominent society women helped move her from the county jail to a hospital four months ago so her baby Joe would not be born in jail.
About 20 000 United States navy yard employees nationwide will be laid off July 1 unless Congress provides payment of their wages. Acting secretary Winthrop announced the plan at the White House.
Mrs. Etta Lawson of 38 Harlow Street was overcome by fright after a street car she rode collided with a wagon at the corner of East Concord and Washington streets yesterday afternoon.
Harro offers three thousand summer and mid summer suits with hand tailoring. Compare price at $12.50 each versus higher costs elsewhere. S. H. Harrison Company advertises at 662 672 Washington Street.
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