Costume at Wentworth Masquerade Highlights Ford Display
Miss Edith Renouf wore a Ford themed costume at the Wentworth Hotel ball in Portsmouth New Hampshire. The ensemble used Ford parts to form the figure and carried a poster of a Ford with a large Boston Post Ford a Day inscription. About 800 attendees applauded. her aunt spent days making the outfit.
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Edith Renouf
Julia Cassidy
Copeland Street
Roxbury
The
Post
Boy Cleverly Dodges Balloon Game at Carnival
Allan Miver of 183 Sylvan Street Malden recalls a carnival scene where a boy used a sling shot to pierce gas balloons, stealing a kewpie doll prize while his companion distracted the attendant with a large pin and a loaded gun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean
Allan Miver
Sylvan Street
Malden
Enterprising bootblack helps foot with nail fix
A bootblack in South Boston offered urgent cobbler services in the Common. He produced a full cobbler’s kit, removed a nail, re-laced shoes and shined them while a gentleman read his paper. He earns daily from quick repairs like loose soles and worn heels.
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Teron
Daniel Flynn
Gates Street
South
Boston
Contagious Disease sign blocks shore access at Somer house
A physician owner along Province Bay shores posts Contagious Disease at his home to deter beach trespassers. The sign aims to keep people from bathing near the back water behind his residence on rer House Boulevard, Somer.
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Province‘Bay
Rival Candidates Meet in Maine District race
In Janceboro on September 8, 1922, a Republican state representative candidate encountered his opponent as his arrival was announced. Six prominent voters witnessed the moment, highlighting a shared long friendship between the rivals despite opposing campaigns. Laura P. Jackman reports from Maine.
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Janceboro
Laura P. Jackman
Sinceboro
Bird Hospital and Boarding House Run by Miss Dean
J Lewis Davy notes a unique bird hospital on Chandler Street run by Miss Pamelia Dean. The house holds cockatoos parrots and canaries, boarding birds when owners travel and treating ailments from stomach troubles to broken wings.
Cambridge Officer Receives Ford Car Award for Tip
At 7 55 p m in Cambridge a young driver confessed to inadvertently passing a stop car near Porter Square and asked whom to report to. Officer Harry Bagan of Police Station 4 confirms the claim and the Ford car prize is awarded for the day based on the tip and verification.
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Porter Square
Cambridge
Harry Bagan
Ford A
Bagan
Lawyer Wins Boston Bull Pups After Fee Dispute
A Connecticut lawyer visiting his nephew acquires a Boston bull pup as a legal fee in a dispute over a promised litter. A justice awards the pups but the lawyer takes one as his due, naming it Fee and it answers to the name. Barney L. Robinson, 8 Summer Street, Merrimac.
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Connecticut
Boston
Blackstone
Barney L. Robinson
Summer Street
Merrimac
Sugar brings sweet potato pie to Beachmont
A police official at a local restaurant realized the squash pie had no sugar and asked to replace it with sweet potato pie on the menu. He praised the revised dessert as delicious and invited several officers to sample the sweet potato pie. Ruth R. Hine of 9 Summer Street, Beachmont.
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Ruth R. Hine
Summer Street
Beachmont
Pleasure riding by a streetcar rider in Brighton
Sebastian Smedile recalls a well dressed young lady on a Brighton Newton and Watertown car who repeatedly uses her feet on both pedals to simulate braking and accelerating from Boylston street to Union Square Allston. He questions if the habit reflects driving reflex or a form of amusement.
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Brighton
Newton
Watertown
Boylston Street
Union Square
Allston
Sebastian Smedile
Tremont Street
Charles Butler
Farley
Maas
Sylvia
F. Ryther
Millers Falls
Mass
Maui
Kind to his horses on Massachusetts scene
A Jamaica Plain reader reports a man at the corner of Massachusetts and Huntington feeds two Metropolitan Ice Cream Company horses three doughnuts each from a wax paper parcel. He patted the animals and praised them as “two nice babies” before driving off.
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Massachusetts
Huntington Avenues
Carlton
Metropolitan Ice Cream Company
A. M. Ellsworth
Paul Gore Street
Jamaica Plain
Active conscience delays distant domestic placement
A Lynn employment agency sent a domestic to Swampscott for a job in a distant town. She declined upon learning the distance and repaid her car fare of 20 cents. Shortly after, she found local work and returned the fare to the house mistress, deeming it dishonest to keep it.
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Lynn
Swampscott
Willi P. Bangs
Humphrey
Manager With Brains on a Train Delays and Dares to Board Scenery
A theatre troupe cannot fit their scenery through the old arched doorway at a small town station. After delay, the manager arranges an unusual method with showgirls guiding the equipment along the tracks. The conductor relents and the train moves on with the troupe aboard. James H. Gilligan Jr. is named with an address in Cambridge.
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James H. Gilligan, JR
Harvard Street
Cambridge
Judge Logan Devoted Son Visits Mother Daily
South Boston District Court Judge Edward L. Logan, a 101st Infantry hero, makes daily calls to his mother in Dorchester even when traveling. He writes letters while away and greets her first on return, reflecting deep reverence from a respected jurist.
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M. C. Leblanc
Putnam Street
East
Boston
Edward L. Logan
South Boston District Court
Judge Logan
East Broadway
101St Infantry
Lottie Drozek
Harvest Street
Dorchester
Sandwiches One Cent An Inch At East Watertown Store
A local East Watertown shop near a large factory offers oversized sandwiches at a small price. Ten-cent sandwiches measure ten inches, while fifteen-cent sandwiches reach fifteen inches. The ad touts sandwiches one cent per inch. John Y. Faneuil, Chambers, Guite 5.
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East Watertown
John Y. Faneuil
Chambers
Guite
Ford a Day winner receives car through Millers River tale
A Bargeron family celebrates a fully equipped Ford touring won by a story on the Ford a Day page. Mr. Bargeron, a chair finisher, says he wrote the winning piece after submitting several stories and thanks Post editors for the prize.
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Millers River
Wich
Bargeron
Ford
Mr. Bargeron
Mra
F. E. Cormier
Orange
Cormiers
Stephen Smith Family Names His Children
A town man named Stephen Smith names his children Stephen Henry Smith Stephen James Smith Stephen Page Smith Stephen Mary Smith and Stephen Anna Smith. The two daughters write their names as Mary and Anna Smith. et : A. HOLDEM. Mulsboro, N. H.
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Stephen Smith
Stephen Henry Smith
Stephen James Smith
Stephen Page Smith
Stephen Mary Smith
Stephen Anna Smith
Stephen Mary
Stephen Anna
Mary
Anna Smith
A. Holdem
Mulsboro
N. H
Telegraph Mystery Trips a Maine Station to Los Angeles
On August 19 at Mt. Desert Ferry Maine operator O N Johnson heard a telegraph sounder call to ground wire 156 west for a wire test. He questioned the voice which claimed to be a wire chief in Los Angeles, saying the Mt Desert Ferry and Washington calls matched and a direct conversation existed from Los Angeles to Maine.
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Mt. Desert Ferry
Maine
O. N. Johnson
Maine Central R. R
Johnson
Mr. Johnson
Los Angeles
Cal
Washington, D. C
Washington
Novel Ear Trumpet Aids Worcester Man Hearing
Lewis T. Houghton of 997 Main street Worcester Massachusetts, who is hard of hearing, uses a novel ear trumpet involving a strip of isinglass between his teeth. He grips the isinglass with his teeth and pulls downward with his fingers, enabling him to hear well despite his deafness. Multiple witnesses report the method works for him.
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Lewis T. Houghton
Main Street
Worcester
Mass
Houghton
Ethel M. Rowe
Lovell Street
Moving Bee Causes Trio of House Trades in Town
Three families swapped homes in a single day last Saturday September 9 as No 1 bought No 2's house and moved in while No 2 took No 3's home and No 3 moved into No 1's former residence. Three moving trucks operated simultaneously with furniture shown in and out of each dwelling. James E Kelley Church Street Wilmington reported the event.
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James E. Kelley
Church Street
Wilmington
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Rer House Boulevard, Somer
Boston Post
Bessie A. Powe
Commercial Street
Provincetown
the Bird Doctor
J. Lewis Davy
Lonadale Street
York
California
H. H. Hanscom
Woodfords Street
Portland
KIND
Ford Auto
A. E. Bargeron
Erving
Old Deerfield
Sylvia Butler
Erving, Mass
Stephen
Thirety
ScotTissue
Scott Paper Company
Chester
Giase Apinos
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