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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1921
Page
5
Nearly 450 attendees filled First Baptist Church of Arlington as William BE Wood marked his 60th year as organist with an afternoon recital. The longtime musician has served the church for six decades, drawing a large crowd for the milestone performance.
Miss Eleanor Wryllis Allen of 1925 Commonwealth avenue sails on the Lapland to Belgium for study at the University of Brussels as Radcliffe College exchange student.
Mrs. William Kindey of Dayton writes to Tyrrell Hygienic Institute praising the J. B. L. Cascade for relieving insomnia caused by constipation. The cascade cleanses the intestine and claims to free the body of poisonous waste, with testimonials of relief from constipation indigestion stomach troubles biliousness and headaches. Liggett’s offers practical information for obtaining the treatment and asserts its certainty in results.
Boston Local 9 of the National Postoffice Laborers Association met at Phoenix Hall 724 Washington St to endorse the Rossdale bill. The measure would place laborers in first and second class post offices appointed before 1916 into the classified service and replace the title laborer with third grade.
Benjamin F. Brown outlines a drive for classifying laborers and urges Boston locals to press for enactment of the Rossdale bill. Ex Mayor James M. Curley supports the measure as just and beneficial, offering to travel to Washington to aid passage. Thomas F. Feeney notes Postmaster Baker backs employee organization talks on wages and conditions.
D. J. Collins of Scranton Pennsylvania and Walter M. Chase of Chicago international officers of the Railroad Employees' Brotherhood spoke to the System Federated Shop Crafts meeting of New Haven railroad workers at the American House. They urged members not to join sporadic strikes and to stay on the job while awaiting official word from headquarters and the Railroad Labor Board decision on working rules.
An advertisement praises Malsified cocoanut oil shampoo as a pure greaseless formula that cleanses hair and scalp with two tea spoons of shampoo, rinses easily, and leaves hair fine silky and manageable. It claims most soaps are too alkaline and warns against harsh cleansers. Available at drug stores, inexpensive and long lasting for families.
Readville Blacksmiths Union meeting discussed rule 222 of the United States Railroad Labor Board on working conditions. They endorsed actions from the Faneuil Hall railroad shop crafts meeting held the prior Wednesday night.
The United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees held a largely attended meeting at 724 Washington Street yesterday afternoon. Grand Vice-President A. H. Planten spoke on the labor movement and the railroad situation affecting wages and working conditions.
A Boston Navy Yard Blacksmiths' Union meeting adopted a resolution protesting wage cuts for yard mechanics and will send a copy to Secretary of the Navy. The group approved a $300 donation to striking workers at Moore Drop Forge Company's Springfield plant, where workers walked out a year ago over alleged move to individual contracts. General VP Fred C. Boles and International Rep. Walter M. Chase spoke to members.
Representatives of steamship lines and three local longshoremen unions will meet at 11 a m at the Boston Chamber of Commerce to discuss a proposed wage cut and changes in the agreement expiring Saturday. About 1800 deep water longshoremen, 100 percent organized, seek to maintain current working conditions and oppose the New York style terms.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine begins a Sunday serial of the renowned Miss Lulu Bett tale in a combined novel stage and photoplay triumph. Start it next Sunday.
Miss Mildred Hanan died after a shooting outside a mutual friend’s apartment on Schermerhorn Street Brooklyn. John Borland a Dartmouth graduate and the shooter’s companion was at her bedside. Police suspect jealousy but motive remains unclear with letters and threats cited by Miss Hanan.
The steamboat King Philip completed its final voyage to the fishing grounds. Passengers fared well with Morris Flower of the West landing the largest cod at 43 3 8 pounds and John Kiley of Roxbury a close second at 40 1 2 pounds.
George M. Porter who died in Arlington on September 9 leaves 10000 to charity in his will. Five gifts of 2000 are directed to Children’s Hospital New England Moral Reform Society Home for Incurables Infants’ Hospital and Nursery for Blind Babies. Old Colony Trust Company named executor.
Roscoe Arbuckle, charged in the death of Virginia Rappe, spent a quiet Sunday in jail as prosecutors prep witness list for the Police Court session resuming Monday In attendance were Arbuckle's relatives, under his counsel's orders he will not discuss the charge The prosecution will call Mrs Bambina Maude Delmont Miss Alice Blake and Miss Zeb Prevost to testify about the Labor Day party at the Hotel St Francis San Francisco September 25 1921
More than five thousand residents of East Cambridge gathered at Cambridge Field to welcome Dr Walter E Holloway of Chicago who arrived to deliver lectures on the Irish question. Resolutions denounced the Penrose bill urged Ireland recognition deplored unemployment and called for reduced armaments if England withdraws troops. The meeting was hosted by the O Rahilly Council A A R I R with Mayor Edward W Quinn presiding. speakers included Thomas M Nolan James T Barrett and Martin J Mulroy.
A letter to President Harding from J A H Hopkins proposes that the United States offer to cancel France England and Italy debts if those nations agree to disarm at the upcoming arms limitation conference. Hopkins is executive chairman of the committee of 48 which campaigned last year.
John Warnock Jr., 18, son of John Warnock of 155 Pearl Street Cambridge, was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when his bicycle collided with an automobile driven by John A. Mather of Hillsboro Terrace Medford on Lowell Street near Westmoreland Avenue Arlington Heights. The bike reportedly struck an obstruction, ejecting the rider, who suffered a broken leg and bruises.
New York reports Miss Bessie Coleman a 24 year old African American woman who began as a Chicago manicurist and studied in France. After ten months abroad she sailed home on the Manchuria as a full fledged aviatrix, reportedly the first of her race. She plans exhibition flights in the United States.
The passage notes that the gap between mine price and retail price covers freight charges and distribution costs, which the anthracite producer does not share in, leaving those margins to others in the supply chain.
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