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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 29, 1915
Page
5
Postmaster Murray urges early Christmas foreign mail and outlines packing standards, sender details in ink, and proper country naming to avoid domestic ratings. He notes Newfoundland parcels require customs declarations and directs parcels travel on direct steamers to the destination seaport, with letters on faster routes, to prevent delays.
Steamers sail for Denmark on Dec. 7 at 3 00 p m and Sweden the same day at 3 00 p m Norway sails Dec 10 at 3 00 am Italy at 8 00 pm Dec 10 Great Britain at 5 00 pm Dec 10 France 3 00 pm Dec 10 Netherlands 3 00 pm Dec 13 Newfoundland 5 00 pm Dec 18 Postponements possible on short notice.
Emilio de Gogorza baritone offered an unusually varied program in Jordan Hall featuring works by Gluck Granados Debussy Elgar and others. He displayed intelligent interpretation and the ability to shift styles, though occasional upper tones spread and lower tones veiled, the performance pleased a large audience and drew enthusiastic applause.
The Rev Dr Samuel McComb assistant rector at Emmanuel Church Newbury Street has accepted a call to the Cathedral of St Barabas and St George Baltimore. He will become a canon of the new cathedral now nearing completion.
The author explains a lifelong fondness for animals in film noting dogs cats and other pets as natural comedians. A stray pup shared with a child becomes a memorable on screen moment and the piece recounts multiple animals in her prior pictures and how they shaped performances.
The narrator describes a growing puppy entering the house and rapidly enlarging to resemble a spaniel or spitz, joking that without the picture finishing in time he would have grown to a wolf-hound. The studio then declares no growing puppies need apply.
G M McD from Portland writes that theater workers are not corrupting influences and that stage life can be uplifting. She notes extras earn about five dollars daily with gowns and makeup on them and that progress comes from starting at the bottom. Mary Pickford's talks will appear in the Daily Post five days a week.
Melvin Bragdon of Blanchard was bound over to the grand jury on a charge of negligently shooting Mrs Reuben Bartlett, who was mistaken for a deer and killed on Thanksgiving Day at Blanchard. He furnished bail.
Attorney Eugene B. Hagar of Back Bay challenges the City Council plan to establish quiet zones near private hospitals. He argues the ordinance would infringe on elementary rights by banning piano music and similar sound near those facilities.
Boston citizen Mr. Hagar warns that an ordinance banning instruments within 100 yards of hospitals would jeopardize annual concerts at Symphony Hall. He notes the hall lies near the old Children’s Hospital on Huntington Avenue and argues the rule could criminalize Sunday hymn playing in private homes.
The ordinance committee approved a measure marked as sound and City Council delayed final vote to a later session to allow protests. Mr Hagar pledged to attend in person, saying he could mobilize hundreds to join him as a citizen critic.
Harry W. Swift, current Bridgewater chief of police, will become Norwood police chief on January 1 at a salary of 1500 dollars a year. The appointment follows a two hour conference between Bridgewater town officials and Norwood selectmen.
A Groton School committee will seek an army officer from the War Department to head a new military training department as part of preparedness efforts.
Mayor Chester J. Campbell opened his re election bid in Quincy and accused Republican nominee Gustave B. Bates of being gagged by the Republican City Committee. Campbell cited a report that Bates must submit all speeches and literature for committee approval before delivery. Dr Alfred H. Gilson, secretary of the committee, allegedly confirmed the censorship.
An early promotional note extols Uneeda Biscuit as the best cracker baked and soda crackers. It claims the product is the most nourishing food made from flour.
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