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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 16, 1920
Page
2
Governor Coolidge proposed that all motion picture theaters screen pictures of American soldiers' graves in France on Memorial Day. The idea came from Myron T. Herrick, former American ambassador to France, who leads a New York movement promoting such displays to teach the meaning of Memorial Day and the heroes of World War I.
Dorchester yesterday a youth dangled from the end of a rope tied about a flagpole at Shawmut Engineering. Firemen from Ladder 7 and Engine 17 brought him down safely after spectators prompted an alarm. The climber earned $1.50 for his half ascent.
John D. Rockefeller Jr and party arrive in Boston for a noon address at Copley Plaza and an informal gathering at Hotel Vendome. The day features meetings of the Convention Executive Association and Wholesale Grocers of New England at Hotel Brunswick and related sessions at the Twentieth Century Club and City Hall.
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