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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
8
The article reports Maria Thompson Davis as a champion of provocative fashion urging clerical reformers to abandon dress codes. She argues femininity sells men on domestic happiness, saying attractive attire prompts home life and marriage while intellectual women race toward bachelorhood.
Miss Daviess argues women should emphasize femininity through dress, praising beauty and allure as essential. She notes her novels on Southern girlhood address the “what to wear” problem and critiques limiting fashion ideas that hinder young men.
Edward F. Houghtaling of The Alps near Pittsfield is held on larceny charges after allegedly stealing a horse valued at $9.20 and resold for $30 to Walter Tapp. Police say Houghtaling claimed Tapp owed him $9.30 and argued he had rights to the animal. The case will test the legal notion that ownership of $9.20 of a horse and possession of the entire animal are not nine points of the law.
Washington May 21 Reported plans call for a fleet of scouting dirigibles to back the American navy as part of a broader peace-time aerial policy. General board recommendations to Secretary Daniels are expected within days and may extend to all naval branches.
Washington May 21 announcement from the Shipping Board confirms Waldo S. Read a former New York banker is elected vice-president in charge of finance for the Emergency Fleet Corporation and will continue as treasurer of the organization.
Major General Enoch H. Crowder departed Havana for Washington to discuss his ongoing revision of Cuban election laws. He plans to return after conferences in the United States.
The Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association held its annual meeting in a lively session led by Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird after news reached the group that suffrage had passed in the House. Miss Alice Stone Blackwell urged ratification as the year’s aim, while Miss Margaret Cleary pressed for help for working girls and shorter hours. Lieutenant Charles L. Furber shared battlefield tales and praised the 101st Doughboys, and the group planned officer elections with a contested clerk position.
Tonight at Capital Hall 121 Cambridge Street Boston the West End Y M H A hosts a boxing smoker with leading New England fighters. Expected to appear are Chick Hayes Finney Boyle Paddy Owens Howard McRae Freddie Williams Johnny Buckley Johnny Donovan LaBelle Jerry Gardner Young Bonnie Phil Christie and many others plus Terry Brooks who is scheduled for Fenway A A Monday night.
Clifford A Blackman, night editor for the Associated Press in Boston, died suddenly of heart trouble at his Brookline home after returning to work Monday. A veteran correspondent, he covered major New England stories including Boston Chicago world series games and shipwrecks. He leaves a wife and three sons.
Concord High School tennis team captained by Leif Nashe will play several matches this season. The second match is against Middlesex School on Wednesday afternoon May 28 at Middlesex courts, followed by Huntington School in Boston later in May. A match with Manchester High School may be arranged for early June.
At a Hotel Thorndike dinner meeting the Retail Credit Men's Association of Boston voted to incorporate under Massachusetts law. President William Brown of C F Hovey Co chaired the session on credit information methods while Secretary William J Starr was ill at home and received members’ sympathies.
The Boston registrar of births and marriages reports 44 marriage intentions registered yesterday. Entries include Samuel Katz and Eva Epstein of Mattapan, Joseph Mahoney and Emma Farrell of Roxbury, and many others across Dorchester Watertown and South Boston, detailing ages, occupations, and home addresses.
Rengh manager at 6 Woodward Park Dorchester and Alex McIntyre 21 ship builder 167 Washington Dorchester along with Mary E Hill 21 waitress same address. John R Griffin 36 police officer 81 Clarks on Dorchester and Anna M Allen 23 stenographer 170 Bowdoin Dorchester.
George O Smith director of the Geological Survey outlined a national power system at the National Electric Light Association meeting. He described a vast high voltage main with thousands of steel towers from Boston through the Eastern States to supply homes railroads public utilities and manufacturers. He linked peacetime expansion to wartime power demands and urged preparedness for peace.
BELFAST Maine May 21 The body of Charles Laffin of Frankfort who was drowned while fishing in Swan Lake near Belfast Tuesday night was recovered tonight He was years old son of Mrs Pierce Laffin of Frankfort and unmarried He had worked the past 12 years as a traveling agent for the Bangor Daily News and was well known in eastern Maine He is survived by his mother five brothers and one sister
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