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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1922
Page
9
Philomena Donato 13 of Lynn left home to visit grandmother in Carbondale Pa. She was found in New York City last night. She took eight dollars saved for her father’s life insurance policy to pay train fare. Her mother reports the girl threatened to run away to find her grandmother.
A Boston tone describes New York shoppers embracing longer skirts for Easter, with ankles visible over knee lengths replacing earlier styles. The piece notes hats with cherries and currants, leather trimmings creeping in, and stockings with open work under new long silhouettes.
The Women’s Relief Corps of Massachusetts presented twelve flags to ten high schools one academy and one college as the 45th annual convention opened at Shawmut Congregational Church on Tremont Street. Department officers were installed with Mrs Carrie F Loring of East Braintree presiding assisted by Mrs Agnes H Parker and others. greetings came from the DAR and affiliated groups. New York plans a 3 million dollar hotel for women.
Miss Miriam Scott of Leicester was elected president of the YWCA organization at Boston University College of Secretarial Science at the annual election yesterday. Ruth Ridyard of Worcester was named vice president, Laura Gale of Medford secretary, Adele Brant of Melrose Highlands treasurer, Elea nor Hill of Winchester undergraduate field representative.
April 12 report from Armagh states a farmer’s son, named Kelly of Lister Kelt, was ambushed on the road by a motor car. He was questioned, abducted, blindfolded, and fired upon. Found wounded, he was taken to Armagh infirmary in grave condition.
W. AM April 12 Chief of Police H Smith denied accusations of stealing two prisoners from Marion Constable P C Blankinship. The case involved Henry Davis and Sam Russell held in Wareham lockup for theft charges. Blankinship claims Smith moved the prisoners to Wareham before court.
Captain S. N. Morwick and his three man crew on the derelict barge Bristol were rescued after reaching a small island in Penobscot Bay. Two lobstermen rowed to the mainland with the exhausted sailors, who had navigated five miles. The Bristol, towed by the Gypsum King, was en route from Windsor, North Carolina, to New York with two other barges.
In Boston the bakery club held a meeting at 144 Bowdoin with Eli Hubbard as vice president and Mary A. Reeden retiring from the presidency. The group elected new officers and extended hospitality to the American Haucational Association during its July convention here.
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