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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1922
Page
4
The Ford-a-Day editor offers prizes for items printed at one dollar per item and photographs at two dollars each. Contributors must accept the editor's final decision on all matters.
A Brookline resident reports his unique mt Molike pear tree, the sole surviving specimen after 11 ships to the U S died. Botanists and interested visitors may view the tree near Kenwood Street in Brookline on travel through Co and Hingham.
A woman with a small dog returns from the market and a duck escapes its owner by the street. A keeper chases the duck issuing a quip about catching it by the wings. The duck ends up as a planned roast dinner. Reported by William H. Loud.
A fragment notes a physician named Charlotte G. Johnson of East Cambridge praised as the doctor who never bills patients for professional duties. It extols loyalty and repayment, claiming the poorer class benefits from this policy in a Boston area context.
A guest at the Phillips Inn explains a clever removable umbrella handle to avoid loss. In a Mount Washington trek, a porter at Tip Top House allows borrowing and tipping for a Boston Post paper, with the porter earning up to $2 per evening from a single copy, as observed by Joseph B. Kahill.
In Third District Court Cambridge a one arm defendant pled guilty to assault and battery and paid a $15 fine after an attorney questioned the lack of evidence. The court noted the defendant was represented and the attorney spoke as the man left smiling. Related notices from Herbert E Halliday and Mrs H E Herbert accompany the dispatch.
In a Roxbury office the head bookkeeper sharpens clippers and jokes about trimming his four children’s hair. He later cuts the assistant’s hair on an overturned waste basket, starting a biweekly in-office haircut ongoing at 18 Centre Street, Roxbury, as noted by MISS 8S. A. MACCONNELL.
Williams Human of Cambridge bores a hole lengthwise through a common pin from head to point to allow a wire to pass through. Mrs John F O Neil of 119 Hampshire Street Cambridge reports the feat in today’s note.
A Boston resident loses nose glasses from a ninth floor office window and a passerby returns them unscathed, claiming the specs landed on his new felt hat rim. Both new items prompt a shared laugh and a note that the tale would make a good Post story.
In a vacant summer cottage, a man finds his collar button missing after tidying up. He suspects his aunt swept it away with rubbish. He spots a tack, carves a wooden piece, and uses it as a makeshift button head to fasten his collar before departing. MARJORIE M STONE. 46 Wilson street Providence.
Letter writer notes girls request short telephone wire for styling. A student admits using loose wire to crimp bobbed hair, claiming wire works better than a commercial crimper. Entry by Ray Fe Baker from West Somerville.
An elderly woman washing clothes remarks she is nearly done as her dog Ranger rushes in with his master's socks and tosses them into the tub. She laughs and quips that old sayings persist, ending with the line Never Say Finished. 822 Fifth street, Fall River.
A lady customer finished her purchase and placed her leather bag and a long bundle of dry goods on the ribs of an umbrella rack to keep them dry while rain fell. The scene describes her careful arrangement as the rain continued.
A Rochester New Hampshire physician told a story about his cat and a robin in the Post Ford a Day Contest. The charming tale earned him a post Ford automobile yesterday.
Dr. Verrill of Rochester New Hampshire received a Ford a Day car from the Post after a robin and a cat posed on the car hood for pictures. The tale began when the robin was rescued from a tree and later raised at home with a large cat, growing tame and forming an unlikely friendship. The presentation was arranged with Crossley Motor Sales, and readers who contributed stories were paid for their reports and photos.
Mrs Mattie A Lewis writes from 347 Commercial Street Provincetown detailing her daydreams about Ford travel and humor while noting a recent voting scene. She mentions a portly woman voting and signing her ballot, and ends with well wishes to the winners.
An afternoon street conversation among three boys mentions a nine year old with roller skates. One boy wears a bag tied around him containing grass to cushion a fall, explaining it would hurt less if he falls. The dialogue raises safety concerns about injury risk.
The item was investigated and found correct. The driver of the car was officially dismantled for her extremely slow speed. Edna G. Nunez, the item writer, is awarded the Ford car for today.
A reader from Pittsfield New Hampshire recalls the Wedding Cake House in Kennebunk Maine. The captain builder designed a wedding cake like exterior by carrying wood decorations aboard his ship and placing them section by section on the flat roof. He later sailed with his bride for a year’s voyage as a wedding surprise.
A writer recalls a patrol trip through New Hampshire where in Osippee a gate painted as a flag with a blue field and stars in one corner and red white stripes along the bars draws attention. The note is signed by Alice M. Brown of 94 County Road Ipswich.
Gladys Chesworth of 56 Alumni Street Fall River reports a dog mounted on a truck that barks when passing streets. She notes the dog acts as a horn while the driver operates the machine.
Edna Springer of 242 Fifth Street Fall River reports a white watermelon found by her aunt. The fruit yielded black seeds and a ripe taste, though the flesh appeared not to be pink or red at first cut.
A letter from H. S. Holbrook of Vanceboro Maine recounts a man who treats sawing wood as a practiced art. The worker sits, smokes, and enjoys the task, shifting his chair after each cut to slice the next stick with method.
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