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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1920
Page
8
City Council members met yesterday to discuss a boxing bill and extended an invitation for a private conference with Mayor Peters on municipal business. Topics likely include erecting a new police station and rescinding a $400,000 East Boston ferryboat vote.
An advertisement claims Noonan's Hair Petrole, an antiseptic stimulating preparation from T. Noonan & Sons of Boston, quickly combats dry harshness caused by salt water. It promises softer fluffy hair and a healthy scalp after several applications, available for one dollar per bottle at drug and department stores or direct from the Boston firm.
An article notes the Warbling Vireo with the Hammond Brown reference, describing its size as smaller than the English sparrow and its ashy olive-green plumage. It notes the bird’s inconspicuous dress, habit of feeding high in trees, nest as a small pouch suspended from a low fork, and varied nest materials from spider webs to grasses.
The city seeks women for precinct clerk roles at 221 polling places to advance political participation. Positions pay $11 for clerks and daily rates for wardens and inspectors, with ward chairmen naming their own crews. uniforms are described by the text.
A series profiling enterprising newsies in the Greater Boston area. The article notes familiar faces among readers who buy the Post each morning.
Harry Cohen runs a morning paper stand at Massachusetts and Huntington in Back Bay. He and his older brother work daily from daybreak until 9 o clock delivering newspapers, riding the cars along the avenue. He is 16, a junior at English High School, living at 1 1 2 Columbia Road, Dorchester.
Dr A 8 Levine was appointed yesterday by the Mayon to act as an expert diagnostician in infantile paralysis for the next three months. The disease has shown an increase recently and Levine will be paid 100 dollars a week. The appointment kicks off a series funded by a ten thousand dollar council appropriation for city health work.
A newly appointed Costa Rican consul in Boston reports to France pat Rance that Costa Rica enjoys prosperity under President Aguilar. He arrived on the United Fruit Company steamer Limon and says the country is expanding commercially and the people are thriving.
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