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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 19, 1920
Page
7
Boston shoe man Elmer J. Bliss tells American Magazine readers that buying fewer shoes is not saving money. Use two pairs alternately with shoe trees to extend life. foot size varies, so do not assume both feet or all manufacturers use the same measurements.
Advertises Freezone to lift corns instantly with no pain. Claims a tiny bottle costs a few cents and removes hard corns soft corns and webbed toe corn without soreness or irritation. Promotes its effectiveness as a failproof remedy with no humbug.
Plymouth report states Dr. William McAndrew associate superintendent of New York schools denounced the educational tradition of the Boston Latin School as designed to produce a superior class at the closing session of the state conference on immigrant education.
Dr. McAndrew argues the Boston Latin School reflects English aristocratic tradition, opposing the equality centerpiece of government and public schooling. He says public education at public expense trains citizens for free government, not an aristocracy, and urges language and Americanization work to help immigrants. The conference adopted a State program emphasizing funding for immigrant education and a non compulsory, welcoming Americanization.
English papers hail Norah Saunders as the best tempered girl in London and an interviewer for American passports at the U S consul general office in London. A Daily Mail sketch praises her cheerful nature and resilience against harassment.
The Malden court judge Bruce returned from a camping trip in Maine and New Brunswick with a clean shaved face. Friends hardly recognized him and he joked about feeling years younger.
Sally and John Kaufman present prize dogs Jen Fei the Pekinese and Quand Meme Qualite the French bulldog at a charity dog show nextWednesday on Mrs. Larz Anderson estate to aid the South End Day Nursery. Other entrants include Mrs. Jaicy Highlands two Scottish terriers and many Brookline Boston pets. The event marks the fifth annual Ladies Dog Club show, led by president Mrs. J. H. Seagrave with a steward committee chaired by Miss Jean G. Hinkle and members including Mrs. Humphreville Mrs. Louise Lichtenheim and others.
More than 6000 people attended a Weymouth Field Day at the Weymouth fair grounds to aid the South Weymouth tornado relief fund. Events included horse races field events and running races plus a ball game between a South Shore all star team and the Weymouth Council K of C team. the all stars won 15 to 2 with Jack Fitzgerald pitching. Ogden West of Chicago and Pittsfield wed Perry Melville Shepard of Chicago in a ceremony at the West estate shrub garden conducted by Dr Norman Hutton and Rev Stephen Keeler.
In Hornell New York Charles D Emery's garden an old fashioned English primrose opens its flowers promptly at 8 o clock each evening according to Emery. The display matters as a local curiosity in a quiet garden scene.
An article from Philadelphia discusses a free prescription from Dr. Lewis promising 50 percent eyesight improvement in a week. It recommends Bon-Opto tablets dissolved in water and used as eye baths twice daily, with testimonials of restored reading ability and reduced watering and pain.
An evening curfew at 9 PM rang two minutes early, but a primrose remained unfazed and closed its petals exactly on the hour, observed by a stopwatch. The plant’s timing matched the intended moment despite the discrepancy in the curfew.
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