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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 15, 1919
Page
11
At the 10th annual dinner held in the Copley Plaza Hotel Chamber president John R. Macomber announced plans for a new Chamber of Commerce home. About 600 members listened as directors expressed enthusiasm for the project.
Governor Coolidge praised national resolve and faith in institutions while economist Taussig defended the Paris Peace Treaty. Judge George W. Anderson urged radical railroad changes, advocating a federal run system with labor in initial management and illegal strikes.
An advertisement touts Poslam as quick relief for eczema and skin troubles. It promises itching stops, pimples and rashes vanish, and skin improves with a little product. Free sample offer from Emergency Laboratories at 243 West 47th Street New York City.
Questions about how many former Massachusetts governors are buried at Tremont Street's Old Granary Burying Ground list seven names Bellingham Dummer Hancock Adams Bowdoin Eustis and Sumner. The Craigie House in Cambridge Longfellow’s home is open to visitors on Saturdays 2 to 4 pm. A railroad crossing rule requires drivers to slow and proceed cautiously with fines from nineteen to fifty dollars for violations.
A wogshead equals two barrels. In auction bridge if three players pass the fourth may or may not be required to bid. An authority advises not bidding with six sure tricks and to withhold with an average hand. Massachusetts law allows marriage by minister, ordained clergy, abbé, or a justice of the peace with clerical or registrar duties or governor designation.
Practical kitchen tips and home remedies from Addie Graves of Plymouth New Hampshire include writing lists, bread method to clean wallpaper, heat to expand tight shoes, lime to thaw buried pipes, vinegar with plaster of paris, saltpetre to preserve flowers, baking powder to lighten bread pudding, and repurposing a tea wagon as a typewriter desk.
A loose steer from Brighton abattoir escaped as it was detraining and roamed Brookline Village for two hours. It stopped trains on the Albany line, chased pedestrians, and evaded police and State Guard before finally being captured near Harvard Square and sent back to Brighton for death penalty.
The Rev R Marshall Davis resigns from Fourth Presbyterian Boston to lead First Presbyterian St Louis on November 9. The Rev Clarence MacKinnon will preach Nov 30 at Scotch Presbyterian Warren Street for a 24th anniversary. The Rev Daniel Nicholson leads the church. Rev William van Allen lecturing series Olive-drab Experiences continues all winter Fridays at 7:30. Also noted are Trinity Church sermons by Rev W H P Hatch and Cathedral Church Bible class, with next Sunday's preacher line-up at St Paul and Our Saviour churches.
A sixteen year old asks whether to seek her father’s permission to date a boy she knows. The columnist argues fathers are stricter and wiser about dangers, and urges the girl to avoid going out with a boy without her father’s consent, warning that disobedience harms her safety.
A dozen women of Greater Boston are expected to testify for the government in the federal trial of Herman J. Boos of Haviland Street Bay Head Florida former president of Bay Head Orchard Company charged with using the mails to defraud in a scheme begun yesterday in Federal Court.
Court sessions stretched all day as women testified and were sworn but not called. They are alleged investors in the Florida project tied to Bay Head holdings in the South. Government contends mails communications claimed the investment would be of greater value than life insurance. Assistant U S Attorney Garecelon opened with Hilbridge G. Davis, Boston attorney, as receiver and trustee of Bay Head.
Davis testified he traveled to Florida and located personal property valued at about 2000 to 2500 dollars including peas beans sweet potatoes crops and several small buildings plus three horses oxen and an auto truck. He noted a state receiver was appointed there and admitted uncertainty about property removed by the receiver. Buffum, counsel for Bay Head, said incorporation forms were legal based on Boos and colleagues information.
Fitchburg plans a formal welcome for a large majority of its 200 ex service men on November 11 with a joint celebration by the American Legion and Mayor Foss. The City Council has appropriated 8000 for the event featuring a parade unveiling a victory arch community dancing and a banquet.
Mabel Herbert Urner portrays the couple’s exit from London in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine series Married Life of Helen and Warren. The piece advances the ongoing domestic tale with period tone and social observations.
John L. Lewis acting president of the United Mine Workers returns to Indianapolis from the failed Philadelphia wage conference. He will decide by tomorrow whether to meet with Secretary Wilson in Washington as the order to draft a strike on Nov. 1 proceeds at the union headquarters.
The day features Mass at Carmelite Convent Roxbury at 6 30 am and services at 9 am and 5 pm. Advertising Association convention runs all day at Copley Plaza. Park Street Church hosts prophecy and the Jews talks at 10 am with repeats at 2 30 and 7 30 pm. Metropolitan Park Commission rules on police rehearing at 2 45 pm. Womens Press Club meets at 8 pm with Frans P Sibley speaking. City clubs discuss labor limits at 5 45 pm. Special town meeting at Canton Memorial Hall 7 30 pm on electric car operation with Stoughton and Sharden.
At St. Pauls Church Dorchester Catholic Women host Rev Corrigan on The Church and the Industrial Crisis. Boston School Committee holds salary hearing. Harvard Co operative holds secret meeting and election. Ralffon Brotherhood presents a concert and smoker at Pilgrim Hall. Rail road Jazz Sextet appears at 6 4 Washington street. Hibernian Hall Roxbury stages The Drive Irish American play for Irish freedom fund.
This passage extols the Waltham Watch as a proudly American product. It highlights domestic manufacture in American factories, labor and wages supporting American pockets, and seventy years of history as a record of American achievement. It claims unmatched principles of manufacture and superiority not matched by European or American rivals.
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