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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1920
Page
25
A garbled clipping lists various bonds and yields from global issuers and U S issuers. It mentions Argentine, Japanese, West Indies, and New York area bonds, with references to series, debentures, and 4s 4% 5s notes, plus company names and places like Ann Arbor, Chicago, Long Island, and Armour Co. It captures a snapshot of bond pricing activity and issuer names amid a chaotic OCR fragment.
The Union Market House in Watertown, once famed, lies in wreckage and has been sold for junk after owners faced heavy taxes of about $20,000. The long idled property is described as a white elephant by local observers.
Workmen tear down the Union Market House in East Watertown after its sale for 1000 dollars. The long time cattleman resort near the Brighton stockyards was owned by Boston and Maine railroad, with last year’s tax listed at 20000 dollars.
Maplewood N H September 23 Speakers at the National Association of Cotton Manufacturers semi annual meeting attacked the present tax system as unfair and class biased arguing that surplus capital and intelligent enterprise are hampered by excess profits tax and high income surtaxes William C Cornwall of New York urged a fair simple universally distributed system to replace the current revenue method
New Englanders named to the Ireland 100 Committee formed at The Nation's invitation include Senator David N Walsh Miss Alice Stone Blackwell Mrs Agnes H Morey George W Coleman Edward W Quinn Peter F Sullivan William A Neilson Irving Fisher William Horace Day George B Quigley and the Rev Watson L Phillips. The committee will appoint a five member investigative commission within ten days to hear evidence and prepare a report on conditions and atrocities in Ireland.
Chelsea's tax rate rose to 27.80 per thousand from last year's 25.60. The town's budget needs for the year total 1,005,070, up more than 250,000 dollars.
In a cryptic scene, Sangster lips a sealed envelope bearing a name and pockets it before leaving to post, alluding to a melodramatic plot twist involving a wife and unseen marriage complications. The fragment hints at drama surrounding a character known as Mrs Jimmy.
Jimmy Challenor, a poor London man of town, loves Cynthia Farrow who spurns gifts from others. Christine, his new love, hides a tangle of deceit as suspicions rise about Cynthia. An auto accident, a move to Upton House, and a web of rival loves unfold in a dramatic melodrama.
Sangster wrestles with duty and doubt as he writes to Christine Challoner about Jimmy Challoner's illness. Christine's drive with Kettering edges toward a delicate future while questions of love, marriage, and responsibility hover over their paths.
Christine reads a letter from Jimmy’s friend Mr. Sangster noting Jimmy is ill. Gladys questions the trip to Heston at 2 with Mr. Kettering as Christine wrestles with memories of the hotel night and Jimmy’s shameful departure. The scene ends with a cliffhanger to continue tomorrow.
A brief excerpt reveals Irving R. Bacon delivering a concise prose piece titled In Your Hand with note of copyright held by Public Ledger Co for 1920.
The article links a Saturnian personality with career paths based on finger phalanges. A long first phalanx implies quick wit in a calling, exemplified by Abraham Lincoln. A long second phalanx clues science, while a long third hints at mining or farming. It notes comedians often come from this sober type and tragedians from the Venusian cheerful type.
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