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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 04, 1921
Page
11
A sales pitch claims rubbing St Jacobs Oil into the back cures lumbago sciatica or strain with fast relief. It promises harmless use, no skin burning or discoloration, and asserts 60 years of recommendation after a single trial bottle.
The Massachusetts branch of the reorganized National Women's Party elected officers for the coming year. Katherine Morey became chairman. Mrs. Thomas H. Gray Jr. is secretary. Gertrude B. Newell is treasurer. Vice chairs include Alice L. W. Movius and others, with district supervisors named: Eleanor Calnan, Josephine Collins, Mrs. Walter Sayward, and Camilla Whitcomb.
Prices swing with butter up to 60 70 and 80 cents for prints while eggs vary by origin from 50 to 65 cents a dozen. Imported Swiss cheese returns at 1 a pound Roquefort 1.10 Parmesan 1.50. American 35 to 50 cents. Meats trend higher with sirloin 50 cents and rib roast 28 to 45. Fresh fowl 45 to 60 cents, Western 50. Vegetables show Southern bargains with spinach 40 cents per peck and tomatoes 40 50 cents per pound. Fish list includes roe shad 65 cents and cod 10 cents a pound. Live lobsters 65 cents, boiled 75 cents.
A Boston linked death report from St Augustine Florida says John J Flynn age about 52 a painter was found on a beach with throat cut. A memorandum in his pocket asked that his brother Frank Flynn of Worcester be notified. Relatives may live in Dorchester Massachusetts and Worcester investigators search for kin in Boston.
A vintage advertisement extols Allen's Foot-Ease antiseptic powder for feet, claiming widespread wartime use and habit formation. It argues footwear friction causes smarting and bunions, urging readers to shake the powder into shoes for cleaner, healthier feet.
Plymouth Rock to be moved from Town square canopy to its waterfront base as contractors restore the 1620 appearance. The top portion broke off in 1770 and will be reunited with the old base, cemented to stand as a national shrine once more.
At 2 30 p m New Thought Forum meets at South Congregational Church. A real estate brokers rally is scheduled for City Club. At 7 30 p m Professor A W Calhoun discusses Industrial Democracy at Tremont Temple. An water color exhibition opens at the Boston Art Club at 8 p m.
Mrs Marie Tudor Garland widow of Boston millionaire James A Garland and mother of Charles H Garland married Swinburn Hale socialist lawyer in Paris on March 1. Hale’s second marriage, Mrs Garland’s third. Garland heirs’ estate reduced by 333833 after inheriting in 1912, then divorced in 1914.
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