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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1919
Page
7
A vivid urban vignette portrays the drops of a glass container shattering on a café floor amid city life. The piece contrasts minor declines in mercury and stock markets with personal disappointments in a nightlife Boston setting.
Two crews from the British schooners Gigantic and Bianca, wrecked amid recent storms, reported to the British consul general for transport home to Canada. They had left by afternoon train for St John, New Brunswick.
In a dim downtown hotel late at night a party of six, three women and three men, becomes the center of a grim scene as a bottle shatters and alcohol spills. The head waiter calmly orders cleanup while the guests react with panic and laughter, marking a stark moment of unintended tragedy. The piece also recounts shipwrecks and rescues involving crews from Catalina N. F. and Carbonear N. F. with ships Bianca and Gigantic.
The Boston school department raises salaries for Secretary Thornton Apollonio and Business Agent William Keough by 740 dollars per year. Each assistant superintendent gains 500 dollars annually, janitors receive an 80 percent present-wage increase, and Mark Mulvey the schoolhouse custodian gets 300 dollars more per year. The superintendent’s pay remains unchanged.
Chiefs of the four railroad brotherhoods closed a two day conference in Cleveland. They discussed Director General Hines offer of time and a half for slow freight workers and settled routine joint business accumulated over three months. Plans were made for next Monday’s meeting of 500 general chairmen to consider the offer.
The House passed a measure authorizing an equipment trust to reimburse the government for 400 million dollars spent on locomotives and cars during federal railroad control and sent it to the President for approval.
Mayor Walter H. Creamer seeks re election after leading the five candidate field in Lynn primaries. He faces former mayor Asa T. Newhall as the top contenders. Four at large council seats were filled by William H. Cochrane Charles W. Ames Seymour J. Watson and Daniel J. Reardon. Four for school committee were Freeman H. Newhall Caroline M Engler Joseph W. Leary and Medley T. Holdsworth. There are two seats open on both bodies.
Robert C. Harris, president of the Somerville Democratic ward and city committee, filed papers for the Republican nomination for alderman at large from Ward 2 and is the sole candidate for the Democratic ticket. Two Republicans, James J. Comfort and William E. Musgrave, also seek the nomination. Harris is finishing his sixth term as Ward 2 Democratic alderman.
A vintage ad markets Hayes Healing Honey to stop the tickle and soothe the throat with a stated healing effect. It touts Grove's Open-Trate Salv for chest colds head colds and croup offering two free boxes with each bottle.
The piece argues URS are like diamonds bought on faith and asserts fur prices rise, making fur purchases at Filene's a profitable investment with clear knowledge of what is bought. It promotes Filene's as offering absolute certainty in fur purchases.
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