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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1922
Page
8
University opens today with class numbers higher than last year across College Arts School of Education Graduate School. Law Art and Business Administration begin first sessions while evening division transfers adjust to new conditions. Summer job placements are discussed during assembly in College Science hall.
Ellis Parker Butler, author of Pigs Is Pigs, offers his views on marriages in The Tenth Mrs Tulkington. The complete story appears in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
A high pressure fire hose demonstration on Atlantic Avenue ends with Fireman Michael Foley injured by flying plate glass after the hose disconnects. Major Paul Vanginot overseeds the event as engines, a fireboat, and equipment respond. water tower units deliver 6000 gallons per minute from 10 nozzles.
A driverless car owned by Dr. Morris Ringold injured nurse Mrs. Olive Wells and companion Mrs. Bessie Buysch on Binney Street Roxbury. The vehicle rolled downhill after two boys released the brake, knocked the women down, and crashed through a fence at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital.
Two young volunteers raced to Massachusetts General Hospital to donate blood for John Grimms of Medford, a wholesale produce dealer, as he fights tope fever. John Crimmins of Medford and Daniel Martis of Somerville, both active youths, offered to be transfusion matches after learning his mother sought a younger brother.
For decades Harvard students earned tuition by waiting tables in college dining halls. Memorial Hall employed colored workers, and Foxcroft Hall ended student waiters three years ago with a cafeteria system. The Harvard Union announced it will hire colored waiters in place of student employees, provoking protests from students who sought reemployment and claim no redress.
Washington September 19 final action on the 50 million rivers and harbors bill struck out provisions to buy the Cape Cod and Dismal Swamp canals. The measure now goes to the President with no further conference. Senate chairmen said reworking would be useless.
The Rev. Arthur Edward Wilson will be formally installed as minister of the Third Religious Society Dorchester Lower Mills in the Richmond Street and Dorchester Avenue church tonight. He comes from Belfast Maine to serve the Dorchester church and the installation sermon will be delivered by the Rev. Minot Bimona D D of the American Unitarian Association. Ministers from Greater Roaton Unitarian churches will speak.
Daniel Colwell, a Knights of Columbus incorporator and long serving secretary, died at his New Haven home in his 74th year. Known as Uncle Dan, he led the order for 27 years and served as historian at his death. Bay State Rifle Team sets world record in Herrick match. Massachusetts National Guard scores 1775 of 1900 to top 30 teams. Team includes Capt James Ploughtin Stoneham and other Infantry officers.
The article notes kapok or silk floss and cotton derived from trees in the Dutch East Indies Straits Settlements Brazil and India. It references Ellis Parker Butler and a forthcoming Boston Sunday Rest Magazine discussing the topic as a not easy addition to future reading.
A compiled OCR fragment lists numerous battery service shops, storage firms, and related garages across Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Vermont, and beyond. Entries include named towns such as East Milton, Pepperell, Gloucester, Quincy, and Norwood with various businesses like Battery Service Co, Auto Battery Service, Storage Battery, and Garage facilities.
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