Jury story contest invites submissions from readers
The Boston Post seeks jury stories from readers and offers prizes totaling $500 $250 $100 $50 $28 and ten $10 prizes. Entries must be under 250 words on one side of the paper and sent to Jury Story Editor Boston Post. Lawyers welcome. judges include Hon. Gov. Metal Boston University Law School officials and a City of Boston official.
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Unusual Verdicts From Curious Jury Tales
Anecdotes recount surprising juries across regions. A Maine case ended Not Guilty due to an alibi about Sunday chicken dinners, while other jurors’ inexperience and odd ballots sparked astonishment and dismissals.
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Neponset
Cumberland
Maine
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John McCormack Schedules Sunday Boston Concert
Unexpected travel plans pull McCormack from final spring concerts in several cities. He will still perform in Boston on Sunday April 23, in what is described as his last appearance in the city this season. He is reported to be in fine voice after a recent cold.
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McCormack
Lady Astor Heads to Baltimore for League Convention
Lady Astor sailed on the White Star liner Olympic for New York and will travel to Baltimore to attend the League of Women Voters convention opening April 20.
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Lady Astor
New York
Baltimore
League of Women Voters
Radio wedding announcement at Home Beautiful Exposition
Chester I Campbell announced by radio that Miss Meriem E Ball of Swampscott will wed Russell Babcock Palmer of Utica New York at the Home Beautiful Exposition opening in Mechanics Building Saturday. The expo will feature lectures on domestic science and savings protection led by Mrs Eisie K Chamberlain and Miss Alice Denham with Mrs James J Storrow and other prominent supporters.
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Meriem E. Ball
Swampscott
Russell Babcock Palmer
Utica
N. Y
Campbell
Medford Hillside
Eisie K. Chamberlain
Home Service Bureau
James J. Storrow
Eastern States League
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Spooners clog the highway in Westfield
Westfield residents report that automobile spooners on upper Western Avenue block roads by night. They claim the highways are too narrow for both traffic and spooning couples parked along the roadside.
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Grand Army of the Republic votes to oppose Lee birthday holiday
At Faneuil Hall the Massachusetts Grand Army of the Republic unanimously rejects making General Robert E. Lee's birthday a national holiday on par with Lincoln's. The encampment also endorses a stand against reducing the army and navy per the Washington Conference.
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Morritt
Somerville
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Curley
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William N. Hogan
Charles H. Coley
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