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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1920
Page
15
A fragmentary conversation mentions a mother pleased by compliments in a letter to the speaker, with a mistaken opening by the mother and a humorous aside about a husband. The text is oddly domestic and lacks a clear news event or identifiable entities.
Barbers report many thin haired men use Noonan's Hair Petrole with success and happy customers note dandruff removal and hair revival. The prep combines antiseptics with purified petroleum and stimulating ingredients to aid nature toward natural hair. Trial shows effects in one week, barber application 15c, or $1.00 per bottle from T Noonan & Sons Boston.
At a Margaret Brent Suffrage Guild meeting in Westminster the group voted to rename as the Margaret Brent Civic League to press Christian and moral standards in civic life. Catholic women oppose certain League of Women Voters positions and discuss issues like loaning to allies and birth control. The group plans to support the Irish loan.
Rob Danish Hing Copenhagen reports burglars ransacked the villa of King Christian on the Skaw northern tip of Jutland and stole valuable silverware and antiques.
Fire raged through a one story brick building in Allston causing an estimated $50,000 in damage. Fire crews fought the blaze, with the loss listed on the first page continuing note.
A major fire roared through a Commonwealth avenue block in Allston, starting in the Mitchell and Smith auto supplies store and spreading to eleven properties including a drug store, lunch room, tailoring, and tire companies. Firefighters battled shifting flames aided by a southwest wind. one firefighter injured by glass, others treated for smoke. The seven story apartment building next door housed 100 residents evacuated briefly as flames were checked by dawn. Building owner credited as Mrs. Max Strassel of South Boston.
Pennsylvania judiciary committee member argues that the term concurrent power requires joint action by federal and state governments to enforce the 18th amendment. He cites Rhode Island beer limits and warns that federal supremacy without state concurrence would nullify the provision. He cites court rulings and says concurrent power means joint action for enforcement.
The article notes the identification of Mrs. Seaver who drowned in Miami. Two women, Mrs. C. F. Bean of Boston and Mrs. F. B. McMillan of New York, joined them. Mrs. Bean is thought to be the deceased's sister and Mrs. McMillan a former schoolmate of Rose B. Crocker, registered as his wife in the same room with Mr. Seaver.
Reports identify Miss Rose B. Crocker as a 22 year old dressmaker living at 16 Copeland street Roxbury with Mrs. Miles F. Hanson. Mrs. Hanson ordered Crocker’s body brought to Boston. others claim Crocker may be Crockett or Croker, and some neighbors say she was Hanson’s niece.
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