Prohibition Letters Clash Over Liquor Ban Criticism
A collection of readers in Boston respond to Prohibition through letters to the Post Editor. Contributors argue whether the ban is a blessing or a hardship, with appeals to liberty, work, and public morality. Names include E. J. Smith Sherborn and George E Huestis Beachmont, among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satan
E. J. Smith
Sherborn
the Post
United States
Medieal
South End
West End
North End
Sir
Cuba
John Barleycorn
Canada
Prohibition
Friends of Prohibition
Isaac Newton
Mexico
George E. Huestis
Crest Avenue
Beachmont
Mass
Boston
Search Is On For Raffles In Longwood Burglaries
Widespread search for a masked burglar dubbed Gentleman Jim follows burglaries in Longwood. The latest at Winger Training School for Girls involved a daylight heist while three pupils slept in nightgowns. A pretty accomplice is suspected as Miss Olive Foster assisted in dialogue to secure jewels and money before escape as motorists arrived.
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Jim
Longwood
Winger Training School
Autumn Street
Winsor Training School
Alice B. Foote
Gandhi Arrests Shake British India Policy Debate
Mohandas K. Gandhi is placed under arrest in London. The India office announced the move with no details on location or method. The India secretary successor and the Earl of Reading's viceroyalty future dominate press discussions as Montagu faces resignation fallout and cabinet dissent.
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London
Associated Press
Mohandas K. Gandhi
India Office
Edwin
Montagu
India
Andrew Rbsonar Law
Earl of Reading
Secretary of State For
Home Government
Cambridge
A Patroness of Art in The People in Our Square
Samuel Hopkins Adams continues his series The People in Our Square with A Patroness of Art to be printed in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece explores a benefactor shaping the arts scene in a provincial community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Our Square
Boston Sunday Post
Legion Posts Delayed Returns On Daisy Drive Fund
Forty American Legion posts across the state have not filed final returns for the Daisy drive. Dr. Eugene McCarthy reports about 330 000 raised at state HQ, with 40 percent of totals covering expenses for daisies sashes and coin boxes. Six posts submitted 816.45, including Malden Post 200.94 and Wellesley Post 206.15. A Somerville widow appeals for aid for her ex soldier husband’s family.
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American Legion
Eugene McCarthy
Legion’s Welfare Committee
McCarthy
Malden Post
Wellesley Post
Somerville
Somerville Post 19
True Family Laxative and Worm Expeller Ad
Mothers warned of child worm symptoms and internal disorders urging quick checks of breath, tongue coating, teeth grinding, appetite changes, pains, and constipation. Promotes Dr True's Elixir a vegetable laxative and worm expeller backed by a Maine doctor with four generations of use. Prices 40c 60c and 1.20.
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Dr. True
Maine
Ex‑serviceman seeks aid amid layoff and debt
A South End ex serviceman writes detailing 19 months in the Army and 17 overseas. He cites severe hardship after being laid off and limited wife income and lists recent job loss and small earnings in various towns to repay debts for clothing and boots.
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South End
Columbus Day
Middlesex Fells
Wellesley Coe
Beverly
Corel
Maynard
Wareham
Millbury
Burgin Quartet Delivers Milhaud in Boston Steinert Hall
The Burgin String Quartet gave its third Boston concert at Steinert Hall introducing Milhaud’s Quartet in C Major. The players performed with care and sympathy for a difficult work. Beethoven Op.18 No.2 and Brahms G minor piano quintet with Ignace Friedman offered strong piano support.
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Burgin
Steinert Hall
Boston
Darius Milhaud
Burgins
Ignace Friedman
Ulster Cabinet Denies Plot Against Catholics
Sir Dawson Bates denied Dublin reports that Orangemen planned a Belfast raid on Catholics. The Home Secretary called the claim a conspiracy aimed at destabilising Ulster and forcing acceptance of a united government.
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Ulster
Belfast
Associated Press
Dawson Bates
North Ireland Cabinet
Dublin
Dawson
Ireland
Evacuation Day Parade to Feature Coast Artillery and Army Units
Major-General Edwards orders nine tanks a Coast Artillery platoon and 600 Army troops from the Army Base for the Evacuation Day parade in South Boston on March 17. Edwards and many senior officers will attend. Units A through D of the 18th Infantry will participate under Captains Jackson Kent Howe and Mott. Tanks commanded by Lt. Glenn G. Holcomb. artillery by Captain Lawrence Mitchell.
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Coast Artillery Training Centre
Edwards
South
Boston
Marshall Edward Lennon
18Th Infantry
Jackson
Kent, Howe and Mott
Glenn G. Holcomb
Lawrence (. Mitchell
Expect Coal Foes to Meet Washington Conference Before March 31
Government officials and labor leaders say coal operators and miners will hold a general conference by March 31. Secretary of Labor Davis reports Eastern Ohio operators are willing to meet the miners, with the four-State group Illinois Ohio Indiana and Western Pennsylvania signaling support.
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Washington
United News
Davis
Ohio
Illinois
Indiana
Pennsylvania
Brighton’s McLaughlin Named Election Commissioner
Francis A. McLaughlin of Brighton, former House member, was appointed election commissioner by Mayor Curley yesterday to succeed Frederick A. Finigan.
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Francis A. McLaughlin
Brighton
House of Representatives
Curley
Frederick A. Finigan
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R.h.stearns CO
Raffles
Olive Foster
Winsor Training School For
Baek
Bayer
Aeplicn Ls
Adams
Legion
Griffin
Mallory Cravenette
Mallory Hats
Geo. L. Griffin & Son, Inc
Washington Street
America
Fiat
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NEW Spring Softs
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