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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1920
Page
12
An early 20th century advertisement urges New Yorkers to use Bitro Phosphate for fatigue weakness nervousness and anemia. It claims four in ten need more phosphorus and positions the product as a non patent medicine prescribed by physicians with a basic health guide and $800 guarantee.
Augustus Drum Porter former third deputy police commissioner said he was at home with his wife when two detectives testified he was found with another woman in a West Side raid on November 2. He denied knowing the detectives Hilbert Wheelwright and Fred Sorger and disputed their testimony. He recalled Armistice Day events with his wife arriving from New Jersey.
Bandits attacked a train carrying Queen Victoria and her brother the Marquis of Carisbrooke between Madrid and Seville. The assault aimed to seize the royal plate with the Queen aboard, but the mission failed.
New interest in the matrimonial difficulties of Dr. Frank J. Flanagan of Angell Memorial Hospital and his wife Mable C. Flanagan of Winona Minnesota grows as she is expected to testify today to refute her husband’s claim of infidelity.
Cross examination revealed claims of condonation for alleged wrongdoing by Mrs Flanagan. Detective Veader testified about Feb 13 1919 events at 10 Castleton Street Jamaica Plain and Feb 18 1919 visit. Ambulance driver Delaney described Nov 27 1918 discoveries at 111 Warren Street Roxbury and the appearance of Crossman and Mrs Flanagan during a later search. Trial to continue.
Miss Edith W Benham social secretary to Mrs Wilson and Rear Admiral J M Helm were married at Miss Benhams home in Washington on April 20. Mrs Wilson attended alone with the bride's family present and had previously joined Miss Nancy Lane and Philip C Kauffman at another wedding in the city.
William Biros was sentenced to life imprisonment for second degree murder in the December 1918 killing of Mary B. Lavoie in Salem. Antonio Ingemi pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of Salvatore Salvo and received six to eight years in State prison. Prices realized on Swift & Company beef carcass sales in Boston for week ending April 17 ranged from 15 to 24.17 cents per pound, averaging 21.5 cents.
Norman Selby known as Kid McCoy wed dancer Carmen Browder stage name Dagman Dalgren at Broadway Christian Church in Los Angeles. McCoy age 41 and bride 19, marking his ninth marriage and a boastful note about beating Nat Goodwin.
King Gustave of Sweden lands in Nice on April 20 his first Riviera visit since the winter of 1913 14. The royal party tours the French coast and leads to a busy social season with French and foreign society watching his stay.
Fred A. Rogers of the State Grange says daylight saving and new train schedules push farmers toward a crisis where the public may run short of food. He will meet with Ernest Butterfield and Richard Pattee to discuss an injunction against Massachusetts daylight saving law and Boston & Maine schedule changes.
An Omaha wireless expert Dr Frederick H Millener announced plans to detect signals from Mars this week as Earth and Mars near their closest approach. He described wireless signals as invisible light waves and said rhythmic mathematical signals might be received by radio apparatus on Earth.
The text states instruments so delicate they can interpret sounds inaudible before. It warns that weather conditions, atmospheric effects, thunderstorms, and other natural phenomena could prevent long distance communication from being received. Under fair conditions, unusual sounds in the United States will be observed.
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