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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1921
Page
12
The Boston Post lists subscription prices including daily and Sunday editions. Rates cover postpaid options for domestic, Canada, and foreign deliveries with monthly, quarterly, and yearly terms and separate postal charges. Rates vary by duration and region with a surcharge inside the Boston Postal District.
Chairman Hultman argues bulk milk could be cheaper than bottled milk by avoiding bottle costs and delivery. The piece warns bulk sales threaten public welfare due to unsanitary containers brought by customers, often of poorer means. It advocates better bottled milk at a fair price over tank milk with hidden dangers.
The death of John Burroughs, renowned naturalist, author, and philosopher, ends a long life of vivid writing and clear thought. He remained vigorous in mind and body, beloved for his love of birds, nature, and the mountains, leaving a lasting, intelligible record of his affections for future generations.
President Harding appoints a distinguished panel to study expanding War Risk Bureau work, vocational training, and care for wounded veterans. General Charles G. Dawes heads ten other authorities in a bid to clarify policy and guide Congress and the administration toward a long-range plan.
A practical plan proposes attaching portable shower fixtures to hydrants with canvas screens to create improvised bathing pavilions. No limit is set on how many may be erected, aiming to provide children in large communities with access to showers during hot weather and promoting ideals of city life.
The piece urges nurturing the next generation through urban renewal and safety. It notes surplus detectives, advocates using back streets and unused squares for play, and praises Mayor Peters for opening the Frog Pond on the Common, providing pleasure and cleanliness to thousands of children. It argues Boston does much but more is needed for citizens in embryo.
A Boston committee warns against local sales tax and a retroactive one percent increase in the state income tax. Opponents fear double taxation, higher prices, and harm to business, urging economy and avoidance of new levies to protect local industry.
A discussion of enforcement difficulties beyond bootlegging includes limits on alcoholic stimulants prescribed by physicians. Under current rules, licensed dispensers fill orders for any pint per patient for ten days. The piece questions whether this cautious system truly risks dangerous excess.
The piece denounces peonage as an intolerable practice exposed by the murder of Black laborers on a Jasper County Georgia plantation. It traces peonage to Mexican era roots, notes Congressional bans by 1857, and warns that evasion persists in Mississippi Delta cotton regions under local laws, urging an end.
The excerpt notes the Williams plantation incident and anticipates official action. The District Attorney asserts most Georgians condemn the events, yet stresses that civilized government requires more than sentiment, signaling forthcoming legal measures.
A London Morning Post letter from Reval argues no contracts with Russia are kept, citing a £2,000,000 cloth deal halted when the second shipment was refused for late arrival. Litvinov is said to be cancelling contracts as the Soviet state runs short of money, while merchants grow wary of trading until funds are secured.
A 1920s review surveys current tastes in fiction. It highlights Main Street by Sinclair Lewis and Moon Calf, notes demand for realistic and impressionistic works, and contrasts conventional love stories with experimental titles like The Noise of the World by Adriana Spadoni and The Narrow House by Evelyn Scott. It discusses themes of love, socialism, and modern disillusionment.
A 1921 verse by the Bentitown Bard urges shedding heavy coats and burdens as Nature shifts to a azure sunny sky. The poem invites readers to cast off rigid forms and wear lighter garments as freedom, joy, and dew return.
The oldest inhabitant recalls Boston’s coldest March 30 as 10 above in US4 and 14 in JSST, with a warmest 71 in 07. No rain on this date in the past decade, per official figures, according to a local weather note.
A jokey All Sorts piece celebrates spring tidings and playful hints of baseball while a contributor scolds a prior square doughnut idea and imagines a clever all-whole donut patent. The exchange mocks promotional schemes and envisions a post hole company profiting from discarded interior material in a lighthearted, satirical tone.
An exploration of motion depiction from the Bayeux tapestry to the Wheel of Life toy. It traces early attempts at animating history, noting inscriptions as precursors to titles, and marks 19th century shifts toward real photograph-based motion with a 1861 patent milestone.
The column covers a centennial birth, Pilgrim tercentenary reflections, Harvard and Yale figures, Cherry trees on the Potomac, a Boston theater anecdote, Venus sightings by patients, teachers’ training statistics, and a pipe smoking etiquette question.
A whimsical verse by Walt Mason about a whale sighting that turns into reflections on whaling and gone generations. The piece contrasts past whaling daring with modern cannery and machinery, ending with playful imagery of the whale leaping in a silver sea.
The account explains that Peary did not claim a feet precise pole position. He estimated his location within five miles using instruments and traced routes within that radius. He likely passed directly over or near the pole, though he did not assert exact coordinates.
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