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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1922
Page
12
Jack Durand, adopted son of Mrs and Mrs Scott Sloane Durand, a Chicago society figure, has accepted a job as a truck driver for a wholesale grocery house. He plans to return to Lake Forest on Sunday to wear his society clothes and play golf, calling the job fine.
Fitchburg news reports four candidates in the mayoral race with a possible fifth entrant. Mayor John B. Fellows files for re election. Dr Joseph N Carriere secretary of the State Board of Dental Examiners runs as an independent with a soap box campaign. Mrs Mary Bosely has filed nomination papers. Joseph H Delaney defeated by Fellows two years ago expected to lead the independent progressives.
Boston mayor curley blocks Isadora Duncan from performing at the Boston Opera House amid censorship decisions by City Censor John J. Casey denying a return engagement. The ban cites costumes described as flimsy and the dancer’s alleged Bolshevik ideas after her Symphony Hall appearance.
After a municipal court trial of Leah Williams and Frances Barr over an objectionable book, Best Booksellers report long time secrecy in barring New York books. Williams pleaded nolo contendere, claims no knowledge. Barr fined 100. In six months about 11 books have been returned to publishers via trade notices, as Boston dealers vow to finish the fight.
Muftis serve as civil and religious officials in towns, overseeing church property and settling most legal and private disputes within the empire.
Interesting ideas on proposed consolidation of New England railroad systems were presented before the Massachusetts Railroad Committee in Springfield. Traffic managers from local concerns expressed opinions, some favoring consolidation for their companies, others seeing no benefit to New England or its manufacturers. Some suggested financing and improvement systems as a cure, not consolidation, and noted manufacturers considering moving equipment to other plants.
A humorous exchange features a cinema director asking a bathing beauty applicant if she can swim. The beauty replies that she is applying for a bathing beauty role, not a fish, in a wry tone. The quote notes author William J. Locke is 59.
Fire destroyed eight cottages at the Hedding campground in Epping New Hampshire causing about 70000 dollars in damage. Among the losses were summer homes of Professor Edgar Barker Lowell George Wilkins Salem and Edward H Pinkham Lynn.
Representative Kitchin of North Carolina Democratic leader returns to Washington after illness to attend the opening session on Monday.
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