Biddeford Votes Against Daylight Saving Time
In Biddeford a special election today rejected daylight saving for the year by 964 to 733 votes, a 231 margin. Saco will also observe standard time this year.
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1922
Page
14
In Biddeford a special election today rejected daylight saving for the year by 964 to 733 votes, a 231 margin. Saco will also observe standard time this year.
A driver identified as Pat Wallet of 48 Monroe Street Chelsea was seriously injured yesterday afternoon when his auto truck from Spencer Avenue collided with a heavy truck at the junction of Spencer and Webster Avenues. The Wallet truck was demolished with its front torn away.
Rhode Island officials and the attorney general plan a full probe into the Gottschalk divorce affidavits after Post disclosures reveal discrepancies. Judge Barrows urged action, and Dorney vows to investigate the mysterious Myers and Benson connections and the 68 Whitmarsh Street address.
A Hartford woman recounts an elopement to Boston in November 1920 with John Johnson, later revealed as Le Clair. She describes marriage at Charles Town’s Flist Parish Church, deception, and multiple wives. Federal officers urged prosecution, but she hopes to avoid court action.
Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University spoke at the Hotel Somerset night session describing a desperate race between destruction and rehabilitation. He assailed Washington lawmakers as unrepresentative, noting one speech serves public welfare while six favor “some particular group.”
The speech extols President Grant and Harding era virtues before Massachusetts Republicans. It argues the party must govern on American principles, safeguard core values, and resist destruction to protect national and moral fabric. The piece ends noting Ben Ames Williams’ new whaling story in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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