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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1920
Page
3
The new Notre Dame de Pitie church on Middlesex Street in North is under construction. The project to build the church at the corner of Rindge and is estimated to cost 150000.
Cambridge parish outlines a brick and terra cotta Romanesque church costing about 150000 dollars. The main nave seats 1000 with a side chapel for 200, on a three acre plot measuring 164 by 68 feet, tower reaching 112 feet, designed by architect Charles R. Greco of Boston. Work began April 18 with 200 parish volunteers digging foundations.
Edith Kelly Gould seeks separation from her husband Frank Jay Gould. Supreme Court Justice McAvoy orders summons by mail at his Paris address. Mrs Gould, divorced by Versailles court in 1919, accuses cruelty and intoxication and says it is unsafe to live with him. They have lived apart for over a year.
The executive board of the Republican State committee was named by Frank B. Hall. Mrs. Charles Sumner Bird chairs with a slate including Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer Mrs. William Lowell Putnam Mrs. James D. Tillinghast Mrs. Paul Keene and others from Boston Cambridge Brookline Worchester Lawrence Springfield Haverhill and Malden. Remaining 29 seats to reach 40 members to be named within a week.
In New York on April 23, James Larkin Irish labor leader acts as his own attorney in a Supreme Court case on criminal anarchy. He cross examines himself admitting sympathy for Third International doctrines and stating the Soviet government as the ideal world system.
New York April 28 Henry Watterson publisher of Kentucky declines invitation to the New York Press Club annual dinner at the Astor on May 1 in a courteous letter to FE.
Five hundred striking railroad switchmen in Cleveland after a Department of Justice call said they would accept prison rather than return to work. DOJ agent John Lawken revealed arrests would follow if 1500 workers did not report by Saturday. Leaders urged mass defiance as the crowd shouted they would all go to jail. Lawken then went to District Attorney Wertz.
Lawken warned Frank J. O'Rourke, head of the Cleveland Yardmen's Association, provoking a loud demonstration as workers gathered. O'Rourke warned that only leaders would be arrested if the men did not resume work, before the scene shifted with the crowd.
Bangor Maine April 23 Deeds pass to Passamaquoddy Land Company formed by Eastern Manufacturing Orono Pulp & Paper Dead River Timberland and E B Draper to take over 360 000 acres in Penobscot Washington Hancock and New Brunswick valued at 3 000 000 ownership split pulpwood and lumber duties Eastern vice president D A Crocker elected president of Passamaquoddy Corp
Judge Nathan Goff former United States Senator from West Virginia died suddenly at his Clarksburg home on April 23. The longtime jurist and political figure passed away at home after a brief illness or incident prompting immediate report from local authorities.
Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Company announces reduced Lynn fares starting today. Tickets cover 16 rides for $1 with no transfers, as city officials push jitneys out of Lynn causing the concession. Mayor Creamer orders police to arrest any operating jitneys starting Sunday, likely in effect as fares drop.
The Census Bureau reports Westfield Massachusetts population at 18 603, up 2 559 from prior count. Clinton Massachusetts shows 12 964 residents, down 111. Portsmouth New Hampshire population to be announced tomorrow at 10 30 a m.
Flames shot high in the air from two cars at the Clarendon Hill car barns in Somerville last night drawing hundreds. Two alarms were sounded. Damage estimated at 1000 dollars. Cause unknown. The report also notes many foreign-looking flowers used on millinery.
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