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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1919
Page
6
A Boston luncheon outlines Harvard’s funding crisis as faculty pay lags. Leaders plan a citywide drive beginning Oct 1 to boost Harvard’s Boston share, detailing committee heads across Law, Medicine, Education, Manufacturing, Finance, and more.
A Boston style show at Symphony Hall signals a sharp 1919 fashion season with extreme silhouettes and new fabrics. Paris import vibes mix with Eden like gowns as waistlines shift and backs plunge while high heels and shoulder straps define evening wear amid a lively crowd.
Models dominate last night's fashion show with emphasis on tricotine fabrics and blondes drawing many votes from the audience. The piece notes models rival the goddess Venus in looks, while men show a preference for blondes as women favor tricotine garments.
Judge Hammond of the Superior Court modified the injunction obtained by the Thomas G. Plant Company against Locals 7 and 15 of the United Shoe Workers of America and the Allied Shoe Workers Union of Greater Boston. The original injunction was issued by Judge Lawton. The unions are no longer restrained from supporting the strike or paying strike benefits to former Plant Company employees on strike, from interfering with the Plant Company's business with nonmembers, or from affecting the remaining workers at the Plant factory.
New York, Sept. 5. United States Commissioner McGoldrick dismissed six crew members of the steamer Castle Wood after ruling that a personal quarrel with a ship officer does not constitute mutiny. Captain Alexander Mitchell, commander of the vessel, had charged the men.
Rumors say the Finance Commission expose on the supply department oil deal, marked as fraud and phony bills violating the city charter, has sparked an internal explosion leading to possible ouster of several high salaried officials.
The Boston Board of Election Commissioners will send one member to the Fitzgerald Tague contest hearing on September 1 in Washington. Initially all members were expected to attend, but it is now arranged that only one member will attend. Congressman Luce notified the commission of the change.
A compiled record shows numerous individuals from Boston and surrounding towns proposing marriage. Entries include ages, occupations, and street addresses for pairs such as Micchalacos and Whitlock, McHugh and Brennan, and Hippler and Wilson, among others.
I staggered across the island with Eddie and Del in a failed hunt for tiny calves. Our efforts on the dumping ground of nature yielded none, as the calves vanished or swam away. The scene ends with Nature teaching a silent lesson and the narrator fearing arrest by museum people.
The narrator and Eddie struggle through a thicket then reach an open grove of pines. They see a pool with trout and a breeze as they near sunset. They reach Little Tobeatic Lake and plan to resume the tale in tomorrow’s Post.
The Middlesex grand jury at East Cambridge returned indictments covering 27 breaks in Cambridge and other Middlesex towns. Suspects include George La Normandin with six breaks in Stoneham and Medford, held on $4000 bail. William Allston and Charles L. Russell with four breaks in Cambridge, held on $10,000 bail each. Harry Berwin with ten breaks across Cambridge Belmont Watertown and Newton, held on $20,000 bail. Edward J. Welby with two breaks in Medford, held on $5000. William R. Weich charged with bank larceny in Somerville Woburn and Framingham. James Frazier held on $2000 bail for breaking and entering after capture at the Harvard cooperative store by Patrolman Robert.
An explorer recalls camping among swamps and spruce thickets near the Tobeatic lakes. The journey features brutal mosquitos and mooseflies, hard travel, and a cold spring rivulet offering rare refreshment as they push toward the upper lake.
Springfield jury bound Miss Jennie Zimmerman over for the September grand jury after a preliminary hearing. Eye witnesses testified including Bernard Feldman who named Sarah Feldman as Dr. Henry Zimmerman’s companion on the day of the shooting. Dr Zimmerman and Jennie Zimmerman allegedly had prior engagement denied by Feldman.
The treasury announced an additional credit of 17,000,000 to Italy, bringing its total to 1,618,975,945 and the allies’ total to 9,684,272,567.
Three Boston actors of reputation William Chick Harrington Frank Graves and Frankie McDonough will leave today for Halifax to rehearse for a special performance for the Prince of Wales either at Ottawa or Toronto just before his departure for Canada. The Boston troupe had been touring with leading musical comedies until theatres were shut by an actors strike. They accepted offers from an English manager who sought notable performers for engagements in Canada.
The supreme council gave a hearing today to Premier Paderewski of Poland and R. Wv. Dmowsky, the Polish representative in Paris, on the Teschen mining district dispute between Poland and Czecho Slovakia. No decision was reached.
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