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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1921
Page
5
Pierre Monteux conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a stirring performance of Weber's Euryanthe overture in Symphony Hall. The piece revived Weber's youthful knightly spirit and romantic glow, with especially imaginative middle passages noted.
Jean Bedetti, premier cellist, starred in Haydn's D major concerto and impressed as a musician beyond a gifted technician. The Boston Symphony, under Pierre Monteux, delivered precise, refined orchestral playing with superb pianissimo textures, illustrating renewed vigor after multiple rebuilds and earning loud audience applause.
Washington March 11 The Interstate Commerce Commission seeks power to oversee railroad rates within states while Wisconsin and 42 states challenge the act as undermining dual government and constitutional spirit. Railroads defend ICC authority saying delays by states harm interstate commerce and create unfair state advantages.
Airdale named Laddie Boy qualified as White House messenger today carrying papers to President Harding at breakfast. The airedale had trained for days and this morning delivered the papers without a hitch, becoming the proudest pup in Washington.
Gloucester March 11 Allan S Rowe president and general manager of EB IL Rowe & Son Corp sail makers and manufacturers of the Gloucester bed-hammock hanged himself in the ship chandlery building at his plant illness is cited as the likely cause he was 59 survived by his wife and daughter Lois 19 employed in Boston Sanitary shipyard plant context implied.
Immigration authorities apprehend David Low and Mrs Isa bella Jarvis, alleged elopers who fled Scotland with Muriel Jarvis. They lived in Methuen under assumed names and await deportation. Low left his wife and children penniless to accompany the Jarvis woman.
Dr. William M. Bryan of the U S Public Health Service announces a partial quarantine at Deer Island. The measure affects 1100 aliens detained for 12 days on arrival from Europe, while 217 male prisoners on the island may receive unrestricted visits from relatives and friends.
Advertising copy touts Musterole as a clean white ointment replacing mustard plasters. It claims relief for sore throat bronchitis tonsillitis croup stiff neck asthma neuralgia headaches and chest colds with no blistering and notes 85c 65c and hospital size priced at $3.
Mabel Chen Fong, a petite Chinese maid and bookkeeper in Boston, says American dress and customs are wonderful and that binding feet is no worse than corsets. She notes younger Chinese women discard corsets, dislikes high heels, yet wears them herself. She plans to sail for China soon.
John Rowe, a leading Boston merchant, records early March 1776 as British authorities move to seize his warehouse on Crean Bush and plunder from Long Wharf. He notes goods worth 260 pounds sterling taken, daily firing from ships, and widespread destruction as private homes suffer. Rowe’s Pond Lane home and Rowe's Pasture mapped the local area.
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