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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1919
Page
9
Readers praise the Post series One Hundred Condensed Novels including Ben Hur as a modern stage and print hit. The condensations renew acquaintance with beloved book folk, spark teachers and parents to guide youth, and are credited with boosting literary merit and wholesome reading habits.
A reader asks for the automobile distance from Boston to Dixville Notch and the best route. The answer places the trip at 230.4 miles, via Portsmouth New Hampshire, Portland and Bethel Maine, with 49.1 miles between Bethel and the Notch. A separate query traces the origin of the word dun in debt collection to Joe Dun, a Lincoln bailiff in Henry VII’s era, whose name became proverbial for adept debt collection.
IMEN states the phrase was common among Italian monks in the Middle Ages. BOOKKEEPER notes bookkeeping entered England from Italy by Peele in 1569, derived from an algebra system published by Burgo at Venice.
The discussion notes watches were made in Nuremberg as early as 1477 though early models varied greatly before the spiral spring balanced by Hooke in 1688. It then answers that the University of California sits on the north slope of the Contra Costa hills about five miles from Oakland facing the Golden Gate.
In Roxbury, a question about the Great Wall of China is answered with a statement that the wall extends about 1500 miles in length.
Mean barometer 29.94 inches and mean temperature 54 degrees are recorded. Relative humidity 97 percent and a maximum 56 and minimum 51 degree range are noted with trace precipitation. Data provided by J. W. Smith, meteorologist.
May calendar notes the day count in the war, lunar phases, and evening star positions. Eight fishing vessels arrived at South Boston pier with large receipts of scrod pollock and halibut. cargos included 200-pound sturgeon from the Tideon Georges. Prices for haddock cod pollock hake are listed. vessels include Roseway Surge Wave and others with varying tonnages. The Lake Felicity arrived from Cienfuegos with 16,400 bags of sugar amid foggy harbor conditions. The Guano cargo from Frey Bentos was moved by the Fred W Thurlow after Calumet’s leak incident. Young Arthur Cheyne returned from Barbadoes aboard a New Bedford whaler. Congressional intervention secured return. Carleton S Nye resigns Canal post to join US Shipping Board Halifax. Major Value to run Canal post. The Landsman.
Shipping reports list steamers and schooners arriving at various ports including Wake Felicity Cienfuezos Cuba Key West Belfast Decker New York Pawnee Oliver Cto J H Devereux Keene Perth Amboy City of Gloucester Larsen and others. Barges towed include 742 785 754 795 Clenfuegos Cocalico Glendower Tuckhoe Paoli Radnor Strafford Shamokin Pequest Wildwood Gheap and more. Sailing ships include Guilford Venice Merrimack Jerusalem etc with tugs Murrell Norfolk towing Edith Sea King Pequest and other barges.
Miss Gladys E. Nason, 18, Brookline choir singer, secretly wed Irwin F. Wilson, 27, a former Aviation Corps mechanician, after a two day police search. She had planned to elope on Friday but misread the plan and left at 3 AM Wednesday. the couple married at 5 PM last night at her parents' Brookline home.
A reception for Mrs Charles Sumner Bird vice president of the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage Association and delegates to the annual meeting was held at the Hotel Tuileries on Commonwealth Avenue last night. Ushers introduced about 200 guests including Mrs George W Perkins Mrs James Purden and Mrs Hollis Shaw in Worcester. Bertha Cushing Child sang with accompanist Caroline Hunt King.
Five year old Saul Zidel of 568 Main street Medford was knocked down on Bow street yesterday afternoon by a horse attached to a delivery wagon. He suffered a broken left arm and cuts about the face body and eye.
Denver, May 21. The Northern Baptist convention condemned President Wilson for urging repeal of war time prohibition. It motioned to draft resolutions in strong and dignified terms. A committee led by FE L Tuskin will write the resolutions. The body also debated a League of Nations with backing by goodwill, urged by W H Faunce of Iowa University.
A Mobile fire in a riverfront residential district burned twenty blocks, destroying about 200 structures and causing $500,000 in property damage. Some 1500 residents were left homeless as docks and shipyards escaped the blaze. A citizens relief organization was formed to aid the displaced.
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