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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1921
Page
29
William G Shepherd provides a third installment analyzing France and Germany. This edition describes the attitude of France's rich toward Germany and reparations, following a discussion of the middle classes.
An advertisement urges readers with catarrh head noises or hearing loss to try Parmint double strength diluted in hot water with sugar. Four daily spoonfuls are claimed to relieve inflammation of the eustachian tubes, open clogged nostrils, ease breathing, and improve hearing, suggesting a constitutional treatment over sprays or douches.
Paris observers note that wealth in the city is linked to large franc holdings, enough to preserve luxury even if the franc halves in value. The piece frames wealth as a standard of social status in contemporary Paris.
A observer compares wealth in France and the United States, noting higher luxury taxes, soaring prices for furs, gowns, and cars, and expensive Riviera travel. He cites a $15,000 car, $400 fur pieces, and $40 daily hotel rates, arguing French elites feel secure only through hopes that Germany will pay reparations.
Speakers denounced Justice Cohalan for anti British remarks at a City Club event. They urged unity of the English speaking peoples, praising a US Britain union over a League of Nations. Attendees included Lt Cols Brothers and Mathewson and other officials, with strong rebukes of Cohalan’s views.
An advertisement touts Grove's as the only genuine laxative with bromquinine, calling it the first original cold and grip remedy. The copy emphasizes to be sure you get Brom o.
Vice President and Mrs. Coolidge hosted their first official Washington entertainment at the Willard Hotel red room. Forty nations with diplomatic representatives attended, and the room was filled with spring blossoms as callers called in.
Mrs Coolidge wore pale gray crepe de chine with eyelet embroidery and a violets and lilies bouquet. The event welcomed foreign visitors with the State Department officials and a line of ambassadors and ministers from France, Spain, Russia, Chile, Argentina, Switzerland, Poland, Romania, Italy, Japan, and others in attendance. The elegant gathering featured Mrs White and Mrs Fletcher among hosts and notable naval attaches from several embassies.
The committee on public health yesterday reported against two bills. One from the Medical Liberty League would end compulsory vaccination for school children and allow attendance without vaccination if parents opposed it. The second bill to extend compulsory vaccination to private school pupils was also rejected.
Boston marriage license data show a rising average age for brides and grooms. City Registrar Edward McGlewen notes most applicants now are between 27 and 33 for brides and 30 to 40 for grooms, reversing the earlier trend due to unemployment and housing pressures.
Albert E. Churchill, bookkeeper for Dewick & Flanders, Milk Street insurance firm, admitted larceny estimated at least 24,000 with possible double that amount after two years of account juggling. President Frank A. Dewick said the firm was insured for less than half the loss by Churchill's bonds.
Churchill, 48, a bachelor living at 26 Evansway Back Bay, pleaded not guilty before Judge Parmenter in Municipal Court to larceny of 9200 and was remanded to Charles Street jail without bail of 15,000 for a March 29 hearing. Inspector Towle arrested him at the insurance firm where he worked after a ten day vacation. His employer, Mr. Dewick, said Churchill had 15 to 18 years service, was bonded, and handled cash in major transactions and bookkeeping.
A man reports uncovering wide losses linked to Churchill's accounting scheme. He notes the hidden nature of the method, its impact on multiple firms, and that Churchill confessed in writing to taking sums charged in a warrant. Churchill arrived from New Orleans and has no known relatives in New England.
The Pagan by Charles Cary Rumsey prompts a Supreme Court order for the Architectural League of New York to show cause why the nude sculpture should appear in the April Metropolitan Museum exhibit. Rumsey, linked to the Harriman family, is a famed sculptor and former 77th Division captain who says the league initially accepted the piece before a committee rejected it.
Frank T Brackett of River Street Hyde Park filed his will for probate in this county. He leaves the residue to his friend George Edwin Leason, praising him as a nature’s noble man. He notes a sister in Pasadena, Bertha B Holt, whom he disinherits stating she is not entitled legally or morally.
Dr James Sullivan former Bellevue Hospital physician says iron is a vital tonic for weak and ailing people when taken as organic iron mixed with daily meals. He notes pale thin blood weakens nerves and irritability, while organic iron can rapidly improve symptoms and vitality. He warns to distinguish organic iron from ordinary metallic iron.
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