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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1919
Page
2
George Fi McCaffrey argues in Current Affairs that approving a two platoon system for Boston firemen would cost 626200 dollars. He says the price would make an easy job easier and urges defeat via referendum. He accuses firemen of breaking a two year old pledge to desist from efforts for shorter hours.
The Boston Community Players held their season opening meeting at the Elizabeth Peabody House and outlined plans to present several new dramas during the coming season. President Mrs John Pratt Whitman and Professor Robert Rogers urged community support and cooperation.
Mrs Tevelin Wiles of Williamstown was struck on the State road while pushing a baby carriage with two young children. She shielded the children as two cars approached, a vehicle driven by A G Robare struck her, injuring a hip while the carriage toppled but the children were uninjured.
Hanover street station officers raided a West End hostel at midnight and found 29 couples registered with mis-spelled names. The incident sparked a brief stir while participants faced likely interviews in Central Court today under pseudonyms.
William Roscoe Thayer will deliver a lecture titled Some Interesting Incidents in Roosevelt's Career to Harvard undergraduates Wednesday at 8 PM in the Harvard Union living room. A two reel movie, Through Roosevelt's Country With Roosevelt's Friends, follows the talk.
A citywide canvass begins today as patrolmen from 19 stations urge citizens to sign petitions for reinstatement and vote for Richard H. Long for Governor. Labor leaders say Long will be friend of labor and reinstate the police, opposing Calvin Coolidge. Telephone operators and recruitment efforts unfold at Kingsley Hall with a later push by female staff to influence training at East Armory.
Reports of delegates to Worcester convention will be read at Post 48 American Legion meeting at the State armory in West Newton tonight. Final plans for the ball on Nov 10 will be announced and the entertainment committee will present its program for the season. After the meeting an entertainment program including boxing bouts vaudeville and other features will be provided.
Eastport Maine October 26 Charles Suddy of Charlotte 18 miles away uses a large auto truck to haul vegetables from his 20 acre farm and reports a second cabbage crop on original stocks after first cutting. His photo shows nine heads on one stock with eight visible and the freak drawing attention at Wood's local market for several days. The technique could boost profits as several heads form per old stock when left in ground.
Dr. R Kendrick Smith told Wesleyan Hall Forum that sugar shortage is a blessing and that current high consumption fuels serious diseases. He argued sugar is solidified alcohol and warned Americans consume ten times more sugar than a century ago.
Thomas Best of 107 Arnold Street Prospect Hill was killed at 6 30 tonight in a collision between an automobile operated by Harry Aronson of 150 Prince Street East Boston and the car Best rode in. The crash happened at the junction of Scott Street and Lonsdale Avenue with the Boston car coming from Woonsocket along the avenue. Five other men rode in the Boston car. Aronson was not detained by police.
The Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann praised Cardinal Mercier as the noblest figure in the Roman church during a report to Trinity Church. He cited Mercier's address at the Episcopal convention in Detroit as exemplary and noted the deputies represented a forward-looking, hardworking body with fairness and restraint.
A letter from H. K. Garhart of Boston dated October 25, 1919, argues the press tilts toward capital and urges a national referendum plan. He contends labor and capital each draft programs and that Congress should enact referendums funded by popular vote to enforce balance.
Westfield reports Professor Lewis B. Allyn analyzed 250 prohibition beverage samples since July 1. He finds many home brews and bottles carry a detectable kick from 0.5 percent to over 90 percent, challenging the belief that soft drinks are harmless.
The article discusses Professor Allyn classifying soft drinks and home made beverages by their alcohol content. It lists gin ger ale grape juice and various fermented drinks with their measured strengths, noting small percentages of alcohol in many items and odd mixtures like kras from stale rye bread.
A list catalogs alcohol percentages in common beverages including Coca Cola syrup 1.02 percent and home made root beer 2.65 percent. It includes beer 2.72 percent sweet cider 4.12 percent and wines from dandelion 14.35 percent to grape wine 16 percent. Jamaica ginger 92 percent and Detroit whisky 96 percent are noted.
The article notes a beverage described as very intoxicating, praised for its effects and appeal among drinkers. It emphasizes its potency and popularity in social settings, signaling notable interest from the readership.
Mrs Minnie Falk, 70, of 6049 South Shore Drive Revere visiting Boston with her husband and daughter collapsed on a boat to Rowe's Wharf likely from heart trouble and died en route to Relief Hospital.
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