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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1922
Page
17
Senator McNary of Oregon introduced a bill to reimburse shipyard builders who suffered from the government abandonment of the wooden ship programme. The proposal seeks compensation for losses tied to the program's discontinuation.
Chicago April 19 United News reports Patrick J. Collins age 37 born in County Cork sat at South Chicago police station and said the attempt to assassinate his brother Michael of the Irish provisional government was all in a day’s work.
The article profiles Sergeant Collins who is shy about publicity and reveals he is brother to Mike Collins, a famed Irish advocate. Pat Collins, seven years older, says Mike faces threats but will defend himself, noting Mike stayed in Ireland for important work. He hints Mike’s future in America or Ireland.
The transport Cantigny left Portland today carrying the Third Battalion of the Fifth Infantry and units from Coblenz bridge head. The ship carried headquarters company of the first brigade ambulance company 56 Hospital company 57 Motor transport company 63 and service of supply company 20. Coast artillerymen were replaced by the fifth infantry and sent to Fort Fisher near New London and Fort Terry on Long Island Sound.
St Catherine's Church in Somerville filled to capacity as priests and women’s order members attended the high mass for Mrs Elizabeth Tattan of Belmont Street who died in a Sunday automobile crash. Rev Thomas J McCluskey presided with deacon Rev James Cronin and other clergy assisting. burial followed at St Paul’s Cemetery Arlington with further rites by Rev McCluskey.
Jersey City officials dismissed Miss Mona King from the Isolation Hospital service after witnesses testified she kissed Dr John O Neill while on duty. Mayor Hague, sitting as a public affairs commission, ruled the conduct unbecoming a nurse and removed her from service. The case arises from an August incident at the hospital. In Pratt Kansas two Rock Island trains collided head on, killing two engineers and injuring six passengers.
Sacramento officials announce a formal order to require policemen and firemen to grow whiskers for the days of 49 celebration next month. City Manager Clyde L. Seavey says railway workers entering the city will also be asked to grow whiskers. The Whiskers Club rules require members shaving whiskers before May 1 to shave their heads.
Donation of 190 acres of valuable city property to complete the site for the national cathedral here was announced today at the annual meeting of the National Cathedral Association. Canon and Mrs. J Townsend Russell were the donors of the property which had been successively home to Admiral Dewey, Senators Dixon and Brady, and Secretary of War Baker. The tract had been valued at upwards of 400000.
A granite cross fell from Christ Episcopal Church in Montpelier Vermont striking steeple jack J W Huguley of Burlington ten feet from the roof. The cross crashed into the main auditorium roof and floor. Huguley suffered one broken rib and minor injuries.
The 18th annual meeting of the New England Federation of Natural History Societies will be held Friday and Saturday in Cambridge at the Museum for Children in Jarvis Street. Public invited to attend meetings and exhibits. John Ritchie of Malden is federation president and James H. Emerton of Fenway Studios Boston is secretary.
Federal Judge Cooper ordered the eviction of Mrs. Julia Baylan and Mrs. Anna Sevier Moyer from 32 acres in Oneida city. The decision restores land to Three Oneida families, holding that their ancestors did not surrender 82 acres ceded to the tribe by a New York treaty with Iroquois five tribes.
In Lock Haven on April 19 Judge Eugene H. Baird dissolved a restraining order preventing Kettle Creek Coal Company from evicting about four families of soft coal mine workers from company houses at Bitumen. Miners had been refusing to work. sheriff and state police will enforce the order tomorrow.
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