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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1921
Page
4
A Boston Post and New York World investigation analyzes a Ku Klux Klan baptism parody ritual led by Emperor William Simmons. The piece outlines staged ceremonies, oaths, and a bombing rhetoric praising a supposed superior race while warning against imagined enemies.
The article exposes the Klan secret lodge rites, portraying baptism parody as a sacred ceremony inverted to fit the order. It details the recruitment process for candidates who claim native birth and Protestant heritage, the quadruple oath, and the guard’s test of loyalty with banishment as punishment for treachery.
Tomorrow's article will feature Emperor Simmons detailing the origins, meaning, and intent behind his incorporated crusade. The piece promises his own explanations and perspective on the movement.
Captain James H. Bogart of the Chemical Welfare Service at First Army Headquarters is ordered by the War Department to Washington as an addition to the general staff.
The Boston City Council forwarded an order to revoke firearms licenses to the city law department for legality review. If approved and signed by Mayor Peters, 95 permits issued to sporting houses pawnbrokers and secondhand stores to sell revolvers and pistols would be cancelled. The order cites Acta of 1811 chapter 495 defining firearms as pistols revolvers or weapons with barrels not exceeding 12 inches.
Letter to the editor argues to raise the single person's tax exemption to match the married rate, citing age and medical expenses. Urges readers to pressure Senators and Representatives, supports preserving surtax on $800+ incomes, keeps luxury taxes, and requests transportation tax reduction to 4 percent. Boston, Sept. 12.
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