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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1921
Page
2
Conductor Thomas Cass, featured in a Boston author J Bernard Lynch tale, is amusingly described in A Whiff of Heliotrope to appear in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
Mayor Peters asked the council to petition the Public Utilities Department for a decision on repairing the Cambridge Street bridge. The council approved on second reading a $14 million loan to meet city expenses. Other orders referred or passed included staffing raises and budget moves.
William D. Trefry a long serving state official overwhelmed by a career setback, died by suicide at his Marblehead residence. He was 68 pending May 10 1922 and had previously held multiple state posts including auditor and taxation commissioner. Funeral arrangements were reported by Rev. Lyman Rollins.
In New York on April 11 Judge Everett B Holmes upheld a Federal Prohibition Commission decision denying Dr Donald McCaskey the right to prescribe liquor to patients. The ruling, joined by Director Charles R OConnor, deems the case a test of federal authority to revoke a physician's prescribing rights on a steamship voyage of the Trinidad line arriving from Spain. Each case held a dozen bottles with no owner aboard admitted.
At a hearing last week it was alleged Dr. McCaskey wrote 45 liquor prescriptions in a day before Christmas and that 82 went to hotel employees as tips. Mr. O’Connor ordered no prescription blanks for a year. Customs officers uncovered 75 cases of unopened spirits beneath bunker coal aboard the vessel.
In Springfield on April 11 attorneys in the Doris Folsy case agreed to blood tests of the infant and Thomas Crover to determine paternity. It would be the first such test in Massachusetts and he has denied fatherhood in California. The judge did not acknowledge resemblance claims. A physician will be selected to conduct the test, whether in state or outside.
At a recent meeting residents suggested paying 35 dollars monthly for post office quarters, scaling back from 25 to 50 dollars. If the offer is rejected they plan to appeal to the Mayor for new quarters.
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