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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1920
Page
18
The Boston Post lists prices for Daily and Sunday editions, with rates for domestic and Canada delivery. It notes combined Daily and Sunday pricing and adds postal charges for the Boston district. This issue presents subscription terms and geographic postage details.
A persuasive critique argues that Britain should win Ireland through justice, generosity, and humane treatment rather than force. The author promotes nonviolent power as the strongest weapon for political change.
The Post commends D. W. Griffiths Way Down East at the Majestic Theatre in Boston. The film is described as clean sweet and beautiful with humor and thrilling photography worthy of public commendation.
Baseball is praised as America’s national sport shaping youth and nations with players earning between thousands and hundreds of thousands. A Chicago grand jury investigation probes crooked manipulations and graft in the sport.
The article urges removing every proven crook from the diamond if tests show any taint on the game. It argues the drastic measure benefits players and preserves public confidence and profits by preserving integrity in major league baseball.
The article critiques Senator Harding for denouncing Congress repeal of free tolls through the Panama Canal arguing the move betrayed a long standing treaty. It recalls Republicans like Elihu Root Henry Cabot Lodge Burton McCumber Choate Straus and outlets that supported Wilson era repeal and toll exemptions.
The piece blames rumors for slow runs on Boston banks triggering 90 day stay clauses on deposits after the Old South Trust closure last winter. It notes most banks remain solvent with strong reserves, and deposits would likely be returned if panic had not spread. A Ponzi-linked case is cited as the only clear risk among affected institutions.
The Reserve Bank notes the moratorium claim is just a rebranding of the 90 day stay clause to shield banks from runs. It urges a cool head and for banks to continue normal operations to weather the week of runs.
A New York banker quoted by the Boston News Bureau criticizes Henry Ford's latest motor car price cuts. He calls Ford a maker of good value but admits Ford has more mistakes than most men and notes the economist label does not fit him. The banker suggests the price cut is another misstep by a manufacturer, not an economist.
The veteran Chauncey M. Depew asserts in an interview that the federal reserve system keeps the nation on a sound money basis with no panic, improving labor conditions, and falling cost of living. He rebukes Republicans who claim chaos and failures under current administration.
A January 1893 Sunday sees Phillips Brooks at Hyde Park and Dedham before preaching in Readville at a small noncongregational chapel. The celebrated bishop of Massachusetts later dies of diphtheria within ten days, an act seen as fitting his selfless ministry. The Blue Hill chapel, near the old Readville drill grounds, also recalls Rev. S F Smith’s fatal stop there.
Birthday bio brief recounts Georges Clemenceau born September 28, 1841 in Vendée France. Notes his medical interest, Montmartre leadership of the Radicals, mayoralty after 1870, a stint in New York in 1865 at age 24, lifelong journalism, and peak influence at age 76 after political exile.
The Boston Sunday Post Magazine previews Ed Harmon's latest home-building adventures in The Merchant of Venus by H. C. Witwer. A humorous tale promises a light read as Harmon encounters quirky projects and comic mishaps.
A playful verse parodies a profiteer raising sugar prices and a stockpiled keg of home brew amid playful nursery rhyme refrains. The poem riffs on inflation and discontent in light-hearted couplets with references to Volstead and townwide reactions.
The letter comedy features P Olitik and N Newkirk proposing a Tea Party bid for the presidency. The exchange riffs on money, bear-portrait campaign fodder, and backers funding a hypothetical run. It jokes about past conventions and a fictional political alliance.
The record recalls Boston's warmest on September 28 at 90 degrees in 1873 and 1881. It also notes a cold of 38.9 degrees in 1914 and no rainfall on this date in the last decade except 1910 1914 and 1917.
A collage of brief items from a reader column covers straw hats in heat, music tastes favoring Sousa marches, alcohol as fuel speculation, Harvard observatory in Arequipa, Massachusetts vehicle capacity for mass transport, Irish police cooperation with Sinn Fein, a Warsaw postmark from James White, Charlotte Chase at 95 voting, Lafayette elm being cut, and a joke about Charles Ponzi reporting weight gain in jail.
The article recounts Vittoria Colonna born in Italy and her virtuous life from betrothal at four to Ferrante de Avalos, marriage, exile to Ischia after her husband’s death, and a lasting friendship with Michelangelo. Their alliance inspired poetry and art, with Michelangelo sending drawings and composing sonnets after her death in 1547, and a translated poem praising her enduring influence.
Henry Watterson compares love to a game where loyalty wins. Astrid Argyll, Harvard ’47 Workshop member, rises toward fame as a playwright with an ambitious adaptation.
The famed dramatist wrote the role for Sarah Bernhardt and the production will star Margaret Anglin in New York. The Prince of Wales enjoyed Waikiki Honolulu as a carefree visitor dancing, bathing, and socializing with locals, free from royal duties for several days.
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