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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1922
Page
12
Collectors chase vie prints as Parisiennes apply rouge lips and press a kiss onto a smooth album page, then sign their mark in ink. The scene captures a social fad as pages fill with intimate mementos and signatures.
One large black turtle became a recent arrival at the Zoo at Franklin Park. He wandered the golf links near his bachelor apartments, ignoring No Trespassing signs until Sergeant Gilman intervened and learned of his desire to join the zoo community, where many of his fellows live.
Advertisement promoting Noonan's Hair Petrole as a hair and scalp remedy. Claims include dandruff removal, improved circulation, and hair vitality with petroleum and antiseptic ingredients and a faint perfume. Barbers apply it for fifteen cents. sold in drug stores and department stores.
Despatches from Funchal report the former Austrian royal family will move to Switzerland within 10 days. The step follows allied governments granting Zita permission to settle abroad, as she wishes to avoid living in a country where her husband died.
Rupert Hughes writes The Wallflower a light romantic tale to appear in the upcoming Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece promises humor and charm as it unfolds.
The Anti Saloon League issued a formal call to prohibitionists to resist pro wet candidates in Congress elections. A proclamation signed by James Cannon Jr and others of the league’s legislative committee warns the 18th Amendment faces a real crisis in the coming primaries.
A letter warns that primaries between now and October aim to nominate 48 congressmen and 35 senators who will challenge Prohibition. It argues that while repeal of the 18th Amendment requires two thirds in Congress, a bare majority can weaken enforcement. The letter cites 34 national groups at work to discredit Prohibition and push for legalizing light wine and beer, predicting a return of breweries and a corrupt beer traffic.
The piece calls on voters to defend the constitution and national prohibition by defeating candidates who would weaken the act. It urges churches and religious civic groups to mobilize, sounding alarms in villages and cities, to maintain federal constitutional prohibition in Congress.
Mrs. Margaret Williams aged 34 of 18 Faulkner Street Dorchester died while being transported to City Hospital in a house ambulance shortly after giving birth to a child.
Lieutenant Governor Al van T Fuller labelled violations of Prohibition as a menace to law and order while speaking at Cliffondale Congregational Church. He warned that high officials abusing power threaten the state and that public service earns only opposition as punishment grows for those who serve.
Lucien Cary writes a timely piece titled Waking Up the Old Home Town to be printed in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The story explores local memory and community life with a reflective tone.
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