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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
10
Lawrence Massachusetts James R tier was nominated today for postmaster in Lawrence. Everard J Gove was nominated to be Postmaster at Biddeford Maine.
Mrs. James Miner of Providence reports persistent tiredness headaches indigestion and heart pains from anemia. She credits four boxes of Dr Williams Pink Pills for restored sleep strength and relief. The company offers a free booklet Building Up the Blood and notes the pills cost sixty cents per box.
Dr Jane E Bishop wealthy and famed for police cases died Sunday night leaving vast fortune. At 2 pm yesterday a small group of close friends accompanied her from the Longwood Avenue residence to Mount Auburn Cemetery for burial without service or prayers. She amassed wealth over fifty years of practice in the city and was linked to the Susan Geary suitcase murder case. Reports say she legally adopted many young men nationwide to aid them. One was present at her deathbed.
William W. L. Anderson of Camp 51 Jamaica Plain was chosen Division Commander at Tremont Temple. W. E. Choate Beverly and G. Wilbur Clapp Westfield were elected senior and junior vice commanders, with I. H. Palmer Melrose F. T. Waugh Somerville and T. L. Crawford Brockton on the Division Council. A resolution opposed using the American flag as a grave marker for non veterans.
A Suffolk county superior court jury found Margaret Proctor of 51 Dartmouth Street Boston guilty of performing an illegal operation on Alice Hall of Shelburne Falls. Charles Flynn former Boston police officer was found guilty as an accessory before the fact to the operation.
Construction on the new Louvain library in Belgium will start soon by an American firm using American materials and plans from an American architectural firm. The project is funded in dollars as a gift from American students to European scholars. The 1638 structure was wrecked by German armies on August 25 1914 with extensive losses of rare volumes and manuscripts. An American committee led by Nicholas Murray Butler began the drive to replace the building in 1919, selecting Whitney Warren of Warren Wetmore as architect.
Mayor Curley departed Boston for a short rest in the Adirondacks staying until Sunday. He will then travel to Washington to address the House Rules Committee urging federal subsidy for American ships at the request of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
In Woonsocket Rhode Island on April 12 workers at the Dunn worsted mill halted production for a strike that ended today through an agreement between the mill management and the workers. The resolution reopens the plant and sets terms for labor.
Nicola Sorrentino of East Boston was convicted by a federal court jury for selling narcotics to a drug addict serving as an informer for federal inspectors. The informer testified that inspectors briefly paid him to buy drugs from peddlers and he used some himself, a point admitted by Narcotic Inspector Scannell. Attorney John H. Casey criticized the practice in his closing argument, with Special Assistant U.S. Attorney Joseph W. Keith presenting the government case.
Joseph Infantini, held on $2000 bail in Central Court for breaking and entering and carrying burglars tools discovered at 38 North Bennett Street. He was interrupted by Joseph Lunadini who awoke to tapping on his wall and alerted Patrolman Mike Flynn. The article also notes a political fundraising committee aiming to raise $20,000 in memory of American soldiers with prominent officials supporting the effort.
Edward Gordon, ex Cambridge Police, faced Suffolk Superior Court on charges of stealing a car owned by Philip Ferrin of the Boston Fire Department and receiving the vehicle knowing it was stolen. He is the brother of Captain Herbert Gordon recently removed from the Cambridge police.
A Massachusetts led national push seeks to build a French memorial in Belleau for American soldiers who died there. It would replace the town with a rebuilt Belleau City Hall, school, church, and water system, honoring about 2100 buried at the American cemetery.
Checks may be made payable to Allan Yorkes treasurer and sent to the State Street Trust Company on State Street in Boston Massachusetts. Morton Prince serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee.
An ad promotes Musterole to treat a raw sore throat by topical application. It claims quick spot relief, loosens congestion, and draws out soreness without blistering. Sold in 35 and 65 cent jars and tubes, hospital size $3.
Louis Rubin, a former Yonkers police officer and fireman, was turned over to Yonkers officials by Worcester police on charges of stealing an automobile in Worcester on Thursday.
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