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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 22, 1921
Page
9
The third of a series by William G Shepherd analyzes the attitude of France's wealthy toward Germany and reparations. This installment follows his prior piece on the middle classes and their views, outlining the perspectives of France's rich in the current tense.
A promotional cure claims to treat catarrh and related head noises with Parmint mixed in hot water and sugar. It warns against sprays and douches and urges readers to obtain Parmint double strength, take a tablespoonful four times daily, and promise relief by reducing Eustachian tube inflammation.
Paris financiers note that true riches hinge on large francs saved, ensuring luxury even if the franc dips to a cent in value, highlighting a paradox of wealth amid currency volatility.
An American observer compares wealth in the United States and France noting high luxury taxes and prices in Paris. He describes car upkeep costs, couture prices, Riviera living, hotel rates, and travel expenses, arguing even the rich feel insecurity about wealth in postwar France.
A dozen speakers at the City Club denounced Justice Cohalan for anti British propaganda and praised a united English speaking world over the League of Nations. Speakers included Lieutenant-Colonels Brothers Mathewson Durkee and Pringle with J M Beck and others vow unity of the United States and Great Britain.
In Washington on March 21 Vice President Coolidge and Mrs. Coolidge hosted the diplomatic corps at the Willard Hotel. Forty nations were represented as officials and ambassadors gathered in the red room with spring blossoms. Mrs. Coolidge wore pale gray crepe de chine with self colored eyelet embroidery and a corsage of violets and lilies of the valley.
The public health committee reported against both bills from the Medical Liberty League. One would end compulsory vaccination for school children allowing unenrolled pupils to attend public schools if parents opposed vaccination. The second would extend compulsory vaccination to private school pupils, and that proposal was also turned down.
City Registrar Edward McGlewen reports a decade survey shows marriage license seekers in Boston skew older with most brides and grooms in their 30s The fluttering 19 year old bride is now a rarity at the license bureau reflecting a shift in marriage age trends.
Figures show brides chiefly aged 25 to 83 with most grooms aged 28 to 40, a reversal of 1918 patterns. Mr McGlewen links higher ages to unemployment and housing pressures, noting the shift over the last year and across years.
Albert E. Churchill, bookkeeper for Dewick and Flanders on Milk Street, confessed to embezzling at least 24 000 and possibly nearly 48 000 after two years of accounting schemes that withstood expert scrutiny. Frank A. Dewick, company president, said losses were only partially covered by Churchill's bonds.
Churchill a 48 year old 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 hearing March 29. Inspector Towle arrested him at the insurance company's offices after a ten day vacation from work. Churchill owned a 4000 1921 model automobile purchased before his vacation and had long acted as trusted bookkeeper for the firm governed by Mr. Dewick and partners who said audits found no earlier wrong doing.
An auditor recounts investigating Churchill's accounts and a clever loss scheme. He estimates losses over 2.5 to 3 years at about 24.60 with Churchill’s bond at Royal Indemnity Company covering less than half. Details are scarce though Churchill admitted charging sums in the warrant. Churchill’s origin is New Orleans and he has no known relatives in New England.
The Pagan by Charles Cary Rumsey provokes a rumpus in New York art circles. Supreme Court Justice Newburger orders the Architectural League of New York to show cause why the nude reclining sculpture should not be exhibited at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in April. Rumsey, polo figure and son in law of Mrs. E. H. Harriman, asserts the piece was accepted then rejected by the league and has taken the dispute to court.
The will of Frank T. Brackett, a Hyde Park retiree, was filed for probate naming George Edwin Leason as sole residue recipient. Brackett cites “nature's noble men” Leason and regrets not leaving more, while disinheriting his sister Bertha B. Holt of Pasadena, stating she and her heirs get nothing.
An alert warns consumers to verify the Bayer name on tablets to ensure they are using genuine Aspirin prescribed by physicians for 21 years and proven safe by millions, cautioning against counterfeit products.
Dr James Sullivan promotes iron rich foods like spinach lentils and baked apples as key to red blood health. He advocates organic iron supplements such as Nuxated Iron and suggests a before and after blood count to prove improved red blood cells and vitality.
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