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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 18, 1922
Page
9
On the 66th anniversary of entering candy making Dudley L. Page distributed 24000 peppermint sticks to Lowell schoolchildren. Each wrapper bore his greeting and note that he began in 56 years ago, promising more candy for future generations.
Thomas L. Lynch of Roslindale and Harold P. Barnell of Roxbury were injured yesterday afternoon when the staging they were working on at 163 Colberg avenue gave way. They fell about 25 feet to the street below and are at City Hospital.
A youthful Romeo on the Atlantic sent a kiss by radiophone to his sweetheart. While whether the distant Juliet received it is unrecorded, several thousand radio receivers picked up the wireless kiss.
Radio engineers and experts who chased radiophone messages from the steamship America reported what is likely the first kiss transmitted across the Atlantic to the United States. The event drew thousands as questions spread to newspapers and broadcasting stations about the so called sweetie talk.
A radio operator aboard the America sent a kiss to his partner via radiophone testing from Deal Beach New Jersey to a land line audience a thousand miles away. The broadcast attracted listeners as fate, timing, and proximity to the audience’s receivers shaped the test. A voice distortion device protected secrecy, and the trial did not prove future use cases but showed long distance voice linking is possible.
All former tenants have left the old Hotel Harvard at 140 Harrison avenue as wrecking proceeds for a new building to house Blodgett Ordway and Webber. The Standard Neckwear Co. will not move from Essex street. reports of a December relocation were denied. Simon Aronson has no connection with the neckwear firm. Blodgett Ordway and Webber will locate on the old Hotel Harvard site.
George H. Mc Caffrey of the health department presented several alleged ordinance breaches before the Dorchester court. The Eastern Lion Stock Company at 48 Beach street was fined 50 dollars for selling unplucked carcass poultry and appealed. Abraham Greenberg of 11 Lewis street East Boston was fined for selling dead unplucked poultry to Morris Goren of 1145 Blue Hill Avenue Mattapan. Goren was fined 10 dollars and appealed for exposing unplucked poultry for sale.
Miss du Pont, star of Foolish Wives, speaks at Park Theatre about keeping husbands. She claims many wives fail by treating marriage as a one sided task and urges wives to keep men guessing to sustain lifelong interest.
Features a Boston interview about Miss duPont emphasizing eyes as expressions of emotion and mystery. Describes her beauty, mysterious aura, lack of a given name, and her Hindu bodyguard Alam Ibram.
Joseph Fontaine, 63, a lodger at 109 Saratoga Street East Boston, was found dead in a stairway seat by fellow roomers. Peter Folger reported passing him two hours earlier and not recognizing distress. Police deem death due to natural causes. Fontaine had been in poor health and had relatives in Jamaica Plain.
The London String Quartet offered two Beethoven works in Jordan Hall last night the op. 130 in B flat major and the C sharp minor quartet played without a break. The performers showed deep feeling and devotion making the music eloquent with the final concert of the series to follow this afternoon in Jordan Mall.
Letter to the editor contends the Barber case rests on notes from a firm with three partners, one deceased, and no witnesses or tangible evidence. Rathvon denies liability and cites the Statute of Limitations to bar action.
A Newburyport labor case before Judge Carroll questions the legality of a vote calling off a strike and resuming a new one. Local 101 argues the vote ended the strike and spurred a fresh one to open shop. The shoe company may admit some workers back but not all, as the court seeks evidence on good faith.
The committee on State administration voted unanimously for a bill to raise the state constabulary from 60 to 140 officers. It provides 60 new recruits this year and 30 more next year. The measure follows a recommendation by Colonel Alfred L. Foote.
The commissioner of public safety requested an instant increase to 140 percent, arguing for expanded resources and urgent funding to address safety concerns.
Color in cheeks and pink skin promised by Dr Edwards Olive Tablets described as a vegetable liver and bowel stimulant. The copy touts improved appetite, clearer complexion, and buoyancy with no calomel side effects, urging nightly use and noting millions of boxes sold at 15c and 30c.
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