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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 09, 1920
Page
9
The navy surplus supply store at 175 Devonshire Street announces a morning sale of blue broadcloth and melton woolen goods for suitings at 5.25 and 6.25 per yard. Kitchen utensils and culinary containers will be discounted. wholesale offers available with bulk savings.
Major Preston M. Farrington of Franklin, 96, was recognized as the oldest Civil War veteran at the Grand Army encampment that wrapped up in two days. He attributed his health to abstaining from alcohol and tobacco, recalling his three years and 23 days in the field without army rum.
The elderly veteran credits his fine health to abstaining from tobacco and keeping well. At 96 he appears physically remarkable with a ruddy cheek and no signs of aging wear. He climbed stairs at Faneuil Hall and attended all encampment sessions, while fashion exaggerations seem fewer.
At the 18th annual American Wine Growers Association convention in New York on April 8 resolutions called for modifying the Volstead act to permit manufacture and sale of wine cider and fruit juices and opposed saloon rehabilitation. The mismanagement of the saloon was cited as the reason for the 18th amendment and the Volstead act.
Charles Coro aged 56 died in a Waterville hospital after cutting his throat following an assault on his wife with a hammer. Police say jealousy caused the attack. Mrs Coro suffered non serious injuries.
Six hundred building laborers who have been striking to demand higher wages from 55 to 75 cents an hour voted to return to work today and leave wage readjustment to arbitration.
Concord announces James H. Hunt of Nashua was today chosen commander of the New Hampshire department of the Grand Army of the Republic. He succeeds the previous leader and will oversee G A R activities statewide.
In Brockton on April 8 Harold Washburn 24 was found guilty of assault for dipping Lloyd Crozier a boy in Washburn ice pond on April 1. He was fined 15 dollars in municipal court after claiming the boy had no business there and that fear of arson at the ice house existed. The charge came from the boy's father and Washburn appealed.
The Rev. Arthur L. Howe pastor of the First Methodist Episcopal Church in Fitchburg died after weeks of illness at age 52. His first New England conference pastorate was in Winchendon in 1897 and he previously served in Chelsea. Funeral services will be held in Malden.
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