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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1921
Page
10
The Boston Post issue details subscription rates for U S Canada and foreign deliveries. Prices cover Daily Sunday and combined Daily Sunday options with varying durations. Rates include special Canada and local postage adjustments.
The Republican Club of Massachusetts marked its 30th anniversary with four speakers reminiscing about its early days. Curtis Guild Jr. was named among fourteen others, though none of the other speakers spoke of him. Guild had founded the club and given much of his energy and devotion to it during his influential political work.
A New York Tribune note proposes a fund of 25000 dollars yearly for the person judged to have performed the greatest service to humanity. It suggests later creating a definition contest for what constitutes such service, to be used when Woodrow Wilson defines the standard.
A prominent writer asserts that once the master of phrase completes the task, no further words will remain to argue over. The comment frames the act as a decisive completion that settles dialogue.
The editorial argues current federal tax collection harms business and calls for a simple sales tax. It cites expert disagreement on tax due, notes how a one percent sales tax would clarify liabilities, and links tax simplicity to lower prices, better roads, and employment through road projects and municipal works.
A New Jersey man killed a woman under revolting circumstances and, though Black, faces rapid proceedings. He is indicted in five minutes, arraigned next Wednesday, and his trial begins immediately with expectation of a swift conviction and sentence. The piece endorses New Jersey’s expeditious justice model for the nation.
John J. Mahoney states that prior efforts were a crime and praises new state support for books and instructors. In three years immigrant class enrollment rose from 3,000 to 18,000 while the state provides 97,000 dollars this year, reflecting a strong link between schooling and good citizenship.
Officials urged immediate attention to highway repairs and road construction. Although winter caused less damage due to mild weather, urgent work remains and must proceed without delay.
On his 87th birthday Charles W. Eliot remains vigorous in mind and spirit and advocates bold, practical reforms. He supports vocational study for all education stages, utilitarian courses, universal physical training, social hygiene teaching, and cultural skills like reading aloud drawing and singing.
The review lauds Ella Lyman Cabot’s Seven Ages of Childhood as a conservative yet accessible synthesis of current ideas on child development. It highlights the need for informed parents and teachers, praises J Arthur Thomson’s Natural History Studies for adults seeking clear life science, and recommends two new juvenile tales Trish Fairy Tales by James Stephens and The Children of Odin by Padraic Colum, noting Rackham and Pogany illustrations.
The old resident recalls Boston coldest records for March 21 with official figures 8 above in 1872 and 7 in 1885. He notes the warmest 68 in 1913 and mentions no rain or snow on this date in the past decade except 1912 and 1913.
The piece critiques verse creation like road building with smooth paths and terminal rhymes. It contrasts tight structured forms with free verse and notes that poetry may lack a clear idea yet rely on balanced word clusters and line endings.
A lighthearted Observant Citizen column notes square doughnuts from a New Jersey baker delighting a Boston tester. The writer jokes about post hole factory plans to mass produce square doughnut holes, then shifts to seasonal notes from spring timing in Boston, local prices, and quirky anecdotes from Mayor Peters’ tour and Maine tales.
Newton Newkirk writes that edibles, not minerals, cover the matter and proposes a dozen doughnuts daily for two or three months in exchange for a signed certificate detailing their merits. He leaves his address the same as for the first dozen.
Edward H Crosby notes George Arliss in The Green Goddess at Booth Theatre New York as a vivid portrayal of the Raja of Rukh in a modern adventure play. The plot follows three English travelers stranded in a Himalayan temple state facing royal execution and a ritual threat. The major dies heroically after failing to warn India, and the lovers seek a path to escape as the Raja concedes to civilization. Tomorrow Miss Lulu Bett at the Belmont Theatre.
Parents died when he was nine. tales recount his stubborn music study despite a brother’s jealousy. He traveled on holidays to Hamburg for organ music, once earning a coin from fish heads tossed from an inn window to fund his return. Bach’s genius led to recognition and poverty’s end, much of his work lost after his death in 1700.
A reader asks about why U S sailors call themselves gods, tracing to Asiatic waters and a Chinese term. He inquires about fishing schooner lengths, mentions a Shelburne build at 138 ft 6 in, 2 ft 2 in beam, 12 ft depth. Also asks if transatlantic wireless telephone was done in 1915 and notes disputes over wave lengths. Other items cover Salem versus Boston age, and what Grand Trunk railroad is, noting Britannica on related Pacific connections.
Uncle Walt muses on a cold desolate day by the bay. He cites Poe and Tennyson to frame melancholy. He contrasts bleak winds and rain with shelter and a desire to sing. Longfellow and Mason reference rain, sunshine, and resilience in verse.
Readers submit inquiries on Canadian railway funding openness, trout fishing in Massachusetts from April 15 with a 6 cent licensing rule, malt meaning barley steeped in water, whether Bunker Hill monument sits on Breed's Hill, and the definition of moot as subject to argument. It also notes a practical cold weather estimate to freeze a charged automobile battery around 10 degrees below zero with a specific gravity, stating the battery condition.
A fragment notes a discharge value of 1.160 and an expected freeze at 13 degrees above zero. The disconnected detail hints at a technical measurement and a temperature forecast or threshold without broader context. No additional entities or dates are provided.
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