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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1920
Page
3
Several hundred guests at the Breaden Cheese Inn on North Qohasset south shore road were startled when a federal prohibition enforcement officer during a raid allegedly fired a revolver shot into the ceiling.
Early morning raid at a Cohasset inn sparked a riot after Officer Keefe failed to show a badge. Prohibition officers arrest Thomas Soracco and his sons Fred and Rilex on assault and Volstead charges. Keefe wounded, treated, and later released on $6000 bonds.
The Rev. Albert E. Dunning urged not pitying or fearing old age while sharing anecdotes about Martin Van Buren and Robert Louis Stevenson. He cited a college president advised to retire and encouraged embracing a calm, honorable path toward a green and blessed age.
The annual outing of the New England Ayrshire Club will be held August 12 at Glen Hill JC in Sharon. Invited guests include former Senator John W. Weeks, Lieutenant Governor Cox, Cox, and William A. Gaston.
Former Indiana governor and 1916 prohibition presidential hopeful J Frank Hanley died in a wreck near Dennison Ohio when the auto he rode in with Mrs C M Baker and Dr Baker was struck by two Pennsylvania freight trains. The Baker car crossed the tracks and the collision fatally injured all three occupants. Hanley was en route to Carrollton to speak.
Rosie Szubzda, age two, of 1 Endicott Street, was run down by M. Libby & Co.'s wagon on Cooper Street in Somerville. She died four minutes later in her mother's arms at the Relief Station. Driver Daniel Balboni was arrested on a manslaughter technical charge. She was walking with her sister Felicia when the wagon wheel struck her as she tried to dodge across the street.
Tokyo dispatch in Nippu Jiji says the Japanese cabinet will adhere to Viscount Uchida's plan to occupy northern Saghalien and Nikolaevek despite protests. The note states Japan will notify Great Britain and France of the necessity of occupying eastern Siberia, per the report.
A report from Pemberton square states Mar tin Balenta, 80, of 200 North Harvard Street Brighton, left home to go to town early Saturday and has not been heard from for 24 hours. He is described as five feet five, gray hair and mustache, wearing a blue suit with gray cap and a soft white shirt.
The Sheehan National Family Association met at Daniel W. Sheehan’s farm in Harvard for its fourth annual reunion. About 806 of 600 enrolled members attended. Timothy Sheehan was elected president, Mrs. Catherine Mannion treasurer, and Miss Julia B. Sheehan secretary. Next reunion set for Worcester in August 1921. D. J. Sheehan of Amsterdam, NY won the prize for traveling the greatest distance. Jeremiah Sheehan, 86, of Concord, received a prize as well.
The oldest member and Timothy F. Sheehan, months old, win the prize for youngest member. A Sleuth Calls Shorty features plain and fancy sleuthing in Sewell Ford's famed series in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
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