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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 18, 1922
Page
6
A contest offers a fully equipped Fourth car given away daily for the best work of reporting by a Post reader. Submitted items may include incidents, unique happenings, clever news, or remarkable action photographs. All items pay one dollar. photographs with brief descriptions pay two dollars. The Ford-a-Day editor’s decision is final.
In Milford the summer resident sought to buy land from a feeble farmer. After the farmer died, a $50 bill exchanged for land disappeared. A grave search revealed the bill in the coat pocket of the deceased, linking to Nichola s J. Cardon of Main Street Milford.
In Fitchburg a touring car left its rear plate misaligned with the guard. A woman's light coat was suspended from the plate, dangling into the street as traffic stopped. Ben Pierce of the F. and L. Street Ry. Co. retrieved the garment. the driver denied ownership as a passerby approached with questions.
Harold S. Litchfield of Beckwith Street Auburn Rhode Island reports a small, shed like barn in Washington South Attleboro housing a horse. The animal stands with its head out, eating hay from outside while kept in a so called box stall like space.
Bar Harbor’s young resident, a Wellesley student, found a Beebe Hall vacancy on returning for term. She had arranged rooms earlier, but a plan change required substantial funds and her father, a well known wit and leader, sent a telegram: If you favor Beebe, I be.
Violet H. Hill of Old Colony Trust Co. rents a home and increases payments to 26 dollars monthly after her grandson is born. She had paid 20 dollars previously and says she now considers the rent fair, reflecting two years of occupancy and change in circumstances.
A Foxboro Mass reader describes a long standing hardware and sporting goods shop in eastern Connecticut run by a man who has never taken stock. The cramped, cluttered store overflows with items from dog collars to auto tires and even mail in a front display. Despite an orderly shelf display, long passageways and outdoor stock create chaotic storage, yet the owner is honest and popular.
A Gloucester girl lacking eggs on a Wednesday afternoon sees a hen on the steps. She collects an egg from the hen, enabling muffins to be made. The note is signed by Miss Mara E. Rundlett of 8 East Main Street, Gloucester.
Mrs L Reeve of Mattapan Massachusetts recounts finding a damp tooth swallowed by her friend while sharing taffy apples at Revere Beach. After hours of searching among many apple cores a final recovery revealed a clamp tooth valued at sixteen dollars, easing her friend's concern.
A California visitor showcases a customized galvanised steel suitcase about 18 by 12 by 6 inches. It includes removable rods along the cover to form a clothes rack, can double as a washing tub, and features a durable cloth cover with snaps and straps.
In Cambridge a large apartment house suite has been idle for three years. The occupant moved nearby yet continues to pay sixty dollars monthly rent. Anna I Hicks, 80 Porter road, Cambridge. Sign That Brought Results A Water town boarding house near Hood Rubber Company displays two signs opposing discussions of ball games religion politics or prize fights at every table. Mrs Norman D Conrad, 55 Sargent avenue, Somerville.
Anna Hicks receives a Ford car for today amid findings that the party maintains two separate residences he seldom visits. The investigation confirms the understated nature of the report and notes the ongoing arrangement.
Christian Jensen of State Road East Acton recalls losing two dollars, searching the house, then doing laundry at Chinaman's. Returning home he found the two dollars washed and ironed in a paper inside his shirt pocket, suggesting the money was laundered by mistake.
Patrons at a Malden restaurant on 66 Summer street found no drinking water Friday morning as pipes froze to about 70 degrees. The owner showed customers the thawing pipes behind the counter, aided by hot water, with a refrigerating plant cited as the cause. Signed Robert P. Oakman, B and M Railroad, Summer Street, Malden.
The passage notes continued celebration from day and the congratulations of scores of people, many of them boys, who look forward with pleasurable anticipations to rides in the new car.
In Roslindale the well known Gramp Hodgkins receives a Ford touring car after Post staff deliver the prize at his home. He leads a 62 boy club, mentors hiking, archery and nature, and recalls reading the Post since boyhood while sharing joy with neighbors and a clam and gull story that won him the contest.
The editor invites readers to observe unusual events write them up and mail to the Ford a Day column. Contributions receive careful attention. Ford a Day stories are paid one dollar each and photographs two dollars each.
A six year old Brookline girl who often goes to the movies alone disappeared after 1 pm on a Saturday. Her worried father sought help from a police officer who located Mina Hogan at the theatre and she obediently went home with her father C M Nelson of Overbrook Station Wellesley.
A water department worker in Winchester tested a hydrant then returned claiming it was broken. He poured a quart of castor oil into the hydrant and it then operated. The report names WIM A. NOWELL of 19 Winchester Place, Winchester.
A bride and groom filed intentions and were married for a fee paid to the officiant. Days later a letter from the groom explains a mistaken payment, requesting five dollars returned, saying the money came from his wife. The note references the wedding and the fee.
E A Kennison of Newport Vermont recounts unusual incident at Barton county fair on a Wednesday. He spots a Massachusetts registered touring car with a three foot black snake asleep in its front wheel spokes. He frees the snake with a yard stick and the creature escapes. No precedent noted.
An 81 year old American woman born in Virginia works seven days a week as matron at the Washington Theatre in Boston. She is the last of her family and determined to carry on to the end. E. B. Ford. 67 Welm Avenue, Wollaston.
Advertisement touts MEN WHO KNOW USE PETROLE with Noonan's Hair Petrole. It claims the barber sees dandruff-free scalps and healthier hair, noting stimulating effects and growing popularity. Available in barber shops for 15 cents per applica tion or by the bottle.
On Sunday evenings on Star Island the Isles of Shoals lanterns are lit on the hotel piazza after dark. Guests file out, take a lantern, march to the tiny church, hang the lanterns, and pray for about 15 minutes. They silently return to the hotel and retire without further speaking for the night. Miss Ethelinda Tucker, 2 Poplar Street, Ipswich.
The mother of a 10 year old boy in this town boiled an egg for his lunch at school. The boy trades the egg at a local grocery for candy, the grocer unaware the egg is boiled. The purchaser is puzzled by the egg condition, leaving the housewife with no solution. Mrs Ethel F Drew Richmond Mg.
A Worcester clerk recalls a humorous order from a customer who asked two spools of white thread be sent only at 4 o clock because she was washing stockings and could not answer the door until they dried. Marion L. Allen, 194 Dewey Street, Worcester, Mass.
A Boston Post reader Merry Cummings located his sister after over three years by reading the paper. She won ten dollars in gold in a Daily Headless Photograph contest for identifying her own body, and the Boston Post paid her the prize.
J Albert Levin of 2 Bay Street Brockton claims rain bubbles formed by raindrops reliably predict three to four days of steady rain. He asserts heavier cloud moisture in three day rain causes the bubbles and says the test has never failed in his experiments across hundreds of trials.
Robert A Hamden of 77 Clifton Street Dorchester notes the Uphams Corner Market at 9 Columbia Road uses an artesian well in store to supply water and, after installing an ice machine, produces its own ice at low cost, eliminating water bills.
Postal authorities no longer allow window envelopes with isinglass inserts for foreign mail. Envelopes bearing the salutation sufficing as the address are returned unmailable, wasting a five cent stamp. Nora Joyce, 177 Heath Street, Roxbury.
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