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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1922
Page
3
The American College of Surgeons holds a national gathering at Copley Plaza Hotel with headquarters in Boston. More than 2000 surgeons from the United States and foreign countries are expected to attend to discuss the latest developments in surgery.
Beginning Tuesday Boston surgeons will perform operations at nearly all Greater Boston hospitals for convention delegates each morning. Former patients visit clinics each afternoon to show results. Dr. John B Deaver leads opening discussions on hospital standardization with Dr Harvey Cushing succeeding him.
An advertisement touts Noonan's Hair Potrele as a hair tonic that uses petroleum to remove odor and dandruff while strengthening hair. Barbers apply it for 15 cents per treatment, with $1 bottles available from druggists, department stores, or T Noonan & Sons Co. Boston.
Wayne B. Wheeler national legislative counsel for the Anti Saloon League campaigned in Boston to urge adoption by referendum at the November 7 state election of a legislative act enabling state cooperation in enforcing the Volstead act.
Morning sermon at First Baptist Church Cambridge and Dorchester Bible class speech led by Mr. Wheeler attack beer and light wines. He broadcast a 300 word address from Medford Hillside and planned a Springfield debate with Congressman Tinkham on the referendum. He warned voting against the code would empower bootleggers and impede federal prohibition, urging Massachusetts citizens to support law and order and denounce alleged press subsidies by liquor interests.
Miss Helen Buttrick of Concord announces engagement to William Duncan Van Dyke Jr of Milwaukee. She is a St Timothys School graduate and he a Princeton class of 1917 alumnus who served overseas in World War I as artillery captain with the 2nd division.
Temperate Sunday in Boston sees a wide fur parade as women leave Back Bay churches. Short and long coats dominate with jacquette styling and very wide sleeves. Skins range from tiger and leopard to lamb and beaver while beavers and seals attract attention in wraps and longer coats along Boylston Street and Commonwealth Avenue.
Observers noted a notably original display as animals whose skins had not previously been used for women’s attire appeared in yesterday’s event. The crowd found the procession less crowded and less gay than Easter Day, yet highly interesting for novelty.
President Cuddy of the St Joseph T A S announces a season opener with heavyweight bouts and two novices classes 112 and 118 pounds. Other classes include 126 135 and heavyweight action to prepare for the inter city show on November eighth.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine features Richard Connell sweeping humor in Off for the South Seas. The piece celebrates lighthearted adventure with playful exaggeration and a breezy, entertaining tone.
Representative Frear accuses Secretary Mellon of overthrowing Congress by ruling Section 22 does not apply to Standard Oil of New Jersey's projected 400 percent stock dividend. Frear sent a public letter in reply to Mellon's response urging the penalty provisions be invoked.
Mr. Mellon wrote that Section 220 had no relation to such stock dividends as that proposed by the New Jersey Oil Company, but added that there had been and would be no laxity on the part of the Treasury in evoking that section wherever there is any basis for so doing.
Mrs. Scott F. Fitz of 75 Beacon Street donated a memorial window to Arlington Street Church in memory of her mother. Rev. Paul Revere Frothingham dedicated the window, placed in the chancel east end, praising the act as love for God and humanity.
State Commanders William H. Doyle Edward F. Kelley and T. J. H. Bearce placed wreaths on the tomb of the unknown soldier in Arlington Cemetery. Senator Walsh spoke, saying the unknown typifies the spirit of giving in the highest and noblest sense.
The special train bearing New England delegates from the American Legion convention in New Orleans arrived hours late in the city. Senator Walsh joined the New Englanders after arriving from a Middle West speaking tour moments earlier.
The speech honors a fallen commander and all American service members as the unknown and known dead are remembered at a white marble tomb. Senators recall his patriotism and sacrifice, while Massachusetts delegates posted cheerful welcomes and talk of a return by train to Boston.
Court convenes to review evidence including furniture and 17 prisoners cards, described as depicting various colors and a lion. Observers note the display appears aimed at a broader purpose linked to a long standing pastime, with speculation about restoring city offices if furniture is seized.
A brief note on Richard Connell's Mr Pottle and the South Sea nibals as a light, good natured humorous tale featured in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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