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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1922
Page
6
The Boston Post issues daily and Sunday editions with subscription rates for U S Canada and foreign destinations. It lists pricing for daily Sunday and combined subscriptions and notes postage and delivery details. Edwin A Grozier is editor and publisher.
The article suggests the effort to unseat Speaker Gillett is not advancing from the House floor. Proponents of the bonus bill push to report under suspension of the rules, risking rapid passage. Gillett appears unfazed, having weathered past challenges and likely to gain from any such political maneuver.
Viscount Burnham urges Lloyd George to periodically host journalists at Downing Street and answer questions. He argues such openness builds confidence, noting Washington success with reporters and warning against concealment. He says the people deserve information and journalists demand trust.
The text notes insufficient understanding of international and national laws around the schooner seizure and signals an upcoming critical test of these legal principles.
The article argues that despite fears of a flood of cheap German goods, Germany did not flood the U S market. Monthly imports from Germany were low, with 8 217 000 dollars the peak in a month, while U S exports to Germany exceeded that amount in the same month. Overall imports from Germany and January this year were about half of 1913 and 1914 levels, and Russia shows little trade beyond charity appeals.
A pair of New York burglars used a police uniform and staged officer tactics to gain access, seize and bluff residents, then split the loot. One thief would collar the other and march him to the station house, while Windy Squiggins led the scheme before fleeing.
The article notes Boston now has days longer than nights by four minutes and spring arrives at 4 49 am next Tuesday. It recalls Grover Cleveland’s 85th birthday, William Jennings Bryan’s 62nd, Edison as a questioner, and a tale about the Waustable Building. It mentions Vice President Coolidge’s humor, Postum cereal profits, Dr. Robert Kennedy’s 102nd birthday, Jordan Motor Car Company motoring study, and Boston police adopting visor caps.
A young woman longs for a home of her own and starts with a small acre and an old house. She hires Mrs Hanscom as adoptive grandmother and gardens into a porch and fence. At springtime Jack reappears, tests their bond, and the couple faces returning to the house with new love and promise.
Judge Morton of the U S District Court in Boston dismisses the petition of a law student who had not filed first papers before the war. The court held he was not attached to constitutional principles and thus cannot become a citizen or practice law in Massachusetts.
The Grace and Ruby, a British schooner seized by a U S revenue cutter over liquor landing law alleged violations, moves toward a court test. The U S district attorney seeks forfeiture of the vessel and cargo and sale, while Bahamian Distributors Ltd. of Nassau attaches $50,000 on Port officials in a tort action for conversion.
Chief Justice Taft told a Yale men reunion in Washington that large public athletic exhibitions harm academic life and should be curtailed. He argued universities exist to promote learning and that athletics draw student attention away from education. He welcomed reform but warned the trend favors growth of athletics.
Creditors of George P. Anastos a former Hanover street banker whose business was closed by Bank Commissioner Allen on February 21 1921 may receive a 16 percent dividend if the petition filed by Allen is approved by the Supreme Court. Allen says he can pay by April 3 if granted. Claims proved total 332360 with 77809 on hand for disbursement. The case is set for court next Tuesday.
Scituate voters cut the tax collector salary from 1900 to 1400 dollars per year at the town meeting. Albert L. Spaulding, who had held the office, resigned yesterday saying 1190 dollars is not enough to live on.
A historical poem stanza celebrates a ship named Flame built with care and oak ribs as hearts of men yet entrusted to a woman. The verse envisions prayers in sails and a steadfast voyage guided by female stewardship and seasoned pilots through perilous seas.
A letter asks if the North Star lines up with the North Pole as an astronomical plumb line. Calculations show the star would miss the pole by a wide margin, though NS is the plumbest visible star. The piece notes centuries of awareness without action to relocate either.
An irregular column fragment cites beliefs on intelligence, habit, competition, and profit, noting how quick decisions by capable leaders shape outcomes. It touches on politics, commerce, and social judgment with a sardonic edge attributed to Bob Quillen.
Secretary Gilbert of the Civil Service Commission reports to the American Legion that Revere has insufficient names on civil service lists to fill city positions. Veterans get preference, residents second. if insufficient local applicants, non resident veterans may be hired.
A Pakstani born American girl upends a rural church town with sharp humor. Vestry and gossip challenge the rector as the rich Jamieson family arrives, underwrites the minister’s salary, and leads to a planned marriage with the preacher’s wild nephew.
The oldest resident recalls Boston weather for March 18 with official figures showing the coldest reading five above in 1587 and the warmest fifty six in 1906. He notes no rain or snow on this date in the past decade except 1914 and 1918.
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