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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1921
Page
10
The Boston Post issue from November 6 1921 presents advertising and subscription rates for Boston and Canada including daily and Sunday editions, foreign rates, and mailing charges. It notes postal guidelines and requests readers to notify dealers if the paper is not received and credits the Associated Press for news dispatches.
Editorial condemns both the milk industry and strikers for violent acts during a bitter dispute. Milk intended for babies and the sick has been dumped, wagons stoned, and small stores raided, illustrating a clash over a prime necessity and prompting calls to treat aggressors as public enemies.
A survey by the federal Children's Bureau finds nearly 1100 Colorado children under 16 employed in beet fields. Medical exams show 70 percent with postural deformities. over 40 percent lag 1–7 years educationally. Most workers are under 14, with a quarter under 10, and some not reaching age eight. The report condemns Colorado for this child labor practice.
The article argues that bread prices should fall as wheat in Chicago markets drops from six year highs. It notes costs include milling distribution and wages, and suggests farmers may bear the pressure. The piece hints at farmer discontent amid shifting supply and pricing dynamics.
Boston police plan a thorough crackdown on fake auction stores along main streets. Prosecutors charge seven proprietors with selling glass as diamonds and silver sets as value items under guarantees, risking consumer deception.
A history of flimsy rugs and cheap replicas tied to costly goods prompts a jewelers association to condemn deceitful sellers. The piece argues buyers deserve warning and reputable dealers deserve protection from fraudulent competition.
A reader rebuts an editorial on taxing expenditures arguing a flat 1 percent sales tax hits the poor harder. The letter cites two income examples, notes saving patterns, and contends the rich would pay more due to larger expenditures and higher income taxes, while small earners often save less. The author critiques politicians backing a soldiers bonus funded by a sales tax.
Editorial calls for practical supervision of motor truck loads to protect roads and bridges. It argues highway commerce is essential but urges tonnage limits posted at bridges to prevent destructive wear, comparing trucks with horse transport and stressing a middle ground benefiting taxpayers and shippers.
Marshal Foch travels through the historic French heartland as he enters Chicago after tracing the era of La Salle Joliet and Laclede. The visit is celebrated as a bridge between colonial memory and modern France and its wartime legacy.
An older couple argues over the status and value of the wife amid a back and forth with a heckler. The dialogue turns on her skirt length and the idea of selling or valuing a wife, ending with bids and theatrical auction-like banter.
The column muses on Guy Fawkes celebrations in London, Armistice Day rituals in Boston, and local happenings. It mentions Butler anniversaries, statues, parade grounds in reconstruction, a large gun project, and small-town anecdotes about residents, a fire club member’s illness, a long-serving House messenger, a Marshal Foch card, and the Arlington street subway nearing completion.
The Oldest Inhabitant cites official figures for Boston noting 17 and 29 as coldest readings on the 65th day of November in 1879 and 1878, and 67 as the warmest on this date in 1885. No rain was recorded on this date in 1915 1916 1918.
A note states items will be returned only if accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope. The instruction appears as a standard policy reminder in the text.
Miriam and her detective lover John Ralston chase the slick jewel thief feared for slipping past maids. Miriam stages a trap with a partner in crime turning the plan into a wife led sting that nets the Marston pearls and a half million in jewels.
A humorous verse about visiting friends and the social etiquette of calling ahead. The speaker mocks those who surprise friends with unannounced visits amid jokes about illness and aging relatives. The poem ends with a caution against intruding uninvited.
A compact verse fragment depicts a funeral procession past a churchyard stone with a carved epitaph. The speaker urges the reader to read the inscription aloud, noting it is laid under an aged thorn.
Readers submit inquiries about snow in Jerusalem and whether Niagara Falls power could reach Boston. They ask about Boxing Day origins Hamlet meanings and Chinese immigration prohibitions, with brief reader notes on etiquette and a luncheon observation.
Reader asks about last helping etiquette and city populations. Detroit ranks fourth by size after New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, with Los Angeles tenth, Cleveland St Louis Boston Baltimore Pittsburgh also ahead. Snow dates noted for Boston with traces on Nov 15 and more than a half inch on Nov 21 per Weather Bureau.
Stephen G Spottswood of A M B Zion Church Portland Me commends a Oct 28 1921 editorial titled Harding at Birmingham for opposing disenfranchisement of African Americans. He lauds the call for justice to every citizen and civic equality as a public service and Christian righteousness.
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