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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1919
Page
12
Nathan Rodman of the Hotel Lenox barber shop in Boston says he can shave a customer in 1 minute 29 seconds and cut hair in two and a half to three minutes. He traces his start to Russia at age 13 and explains that his fast technique requires a swift, precise stroke with no redoing.
The Leyland liner Winifredian docked with 113 cabin passengers, including Miss Ethel Kershaw of Rochdale England, selected from nine applicants as a bride for a wealthy New Hampshire farmer. Missionaries from Belgium Congo and Cameroon, and Father F J Maguire of New York, also traveled aboard.
Miss Lillian Mabel Blakemore 23 of Gloucestershire England and Private Richard Seed 12th Company Mth Regiment M5SG plan on marrying in America. Seed a World War veteran served four years with the British army and fought at Ypres Somme Cambrai. He was at the pier yesterday.
The Greigs will return to Africa in about a year after visiting Berkeley. Included among the missionaries are Mr and Mrs Henry Richards from the Belgian Congo. The Winifredian docked in Boston after discharging 2114 Chinese coolies and seven imperial officers bound for Tingtsau China with several American citizens aboard.
Joseph P. Walsh of the bench and bar committee of the Irish Victory fund will speak at the George Washington branch meeting of the Friends of Irish Freedom. Joseph F. Mulligan, branch president, will chair at St. Cecilia's Guildhall Belvidere Street Back Bay. Reports on the drive will be given by officers as plans for canvassing are formed.
The drive aims to recruit several hundred members to the city branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom, a single metropolitan unit, with district offices facilitating the effort.
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