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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1920
Page
16
George H. Lanen reports a fierce debate at the 35th annual Massachusetts State Branch, A F L convention in Lynn over the League of Nations and the Irish question. The afternoon session started early and extended late, leaving many voices unheard and an adjournment for the next morning.
An advertisement urges readers to buy Tiz at the drug store to soothe tired feet. It claims instant pain relief for coins, callouses and bunions, reduces swelling, and ends shoe tightness, promising glorious comfort for aching feet.
The meeting saw sharp attacks on Samuel Gompers and Senator Lodge over the League of Nations program in Montreal, with Boston delegates opposing the measure. Tension ran high as Chairman McCarthy faced questions over his ruling while Nealey warned against repeating Gompers’ afternoon jeers.
A convention adjourned at 6 to resume at 9 with a substitute resolution opposing any nation gaining votes in the League and advocating U S ratification. It endorses self determination for small nations, League procedures, and labor representation, while Massachusetts gears toward shelving a daily labor organ this year and forming a five member Allied Printing Trades committee to study the move.
Bridget Griffin of Boston sues the Catholic Cemetery Association to recover 5000 alleging another body was interred in her Mt. Benedict Cemetery lot and that grass on the plot was trampled.
The liner von Steuben, once the Kronprinz Wilhelm, was sold to Ferd Eggena of New York for 1,500,000 dollars. The announcement came from Shipping Board Chairman Benson in Washington.
Mrs. Thomas H. Murray of Roslindale gives birth to a second son Philip on August 3. She formerly taught in the vocal department of the New England Conservatory of Music. Mr. Murray, a World War veteran, served in aviation. Grandfathers Michael J. Murray of Dorchester and Philip OConnell of City Hall. great grandmother Margaret OConnell of Roslindale.
Boston girls dominate social life along the North Shore with Miss Margherita R Milliken of Boston and her sister Miss Marie Milliken active in August parties and garden fetes. They are daughters of Mr and Mrs John F Milliken and Margherita served as a Red Cross girl during the war.
The noted actor John Barrymore married Leonard M. Thomas of New York and Philadelphia’s former wife today in the city. The betrothal had long been rumored since reports of the bride’s divorce from her first husband in Paris last February circulated among society and stage circles.
Mrs. Thomas and Mr. Barrymore wed at noon in the Ritz Carlton apartment with Rev. Dr. Bullard officiating. Witnesses included the couple’s families and the Barrymores. Barrymore, 37, previously divorced in 1918, and Miss Thomas, 29, an author from the Colony Club, announced the marriage after visiting the city clerk for a license.
Today events include public markets at Stoughton and Hancock streets in Dorchester and Everett square Hyde Park from 6 am. At 10 am War Risk Bureau Director Cholmley Jones meets State Department Commander Edward L. Logan of the American Legion on leasing Rutland Sanitarium for soldiers. At noon Gundrill Massachusetts Humane Society at Francis B. Crowninshield residence Marblehead. At 8:50 pm New England Amateur Rowing Association meeting at Union Boat Club.
A long funeral notice roundup lists Aug 4 5 deaths in Malden Arlington Heights Dorchester Allston Chelsea Roxbury Everett Cambridge and more. Includes staggered funeral times church names and auto cortege details for relatives and friends.
The two programs at Boston Common today include marches and overtures such as Boston Commandery Overture Sixth Massachusetts Miseud and Independence Overture with operatic and light pieces like La Boheme arias and Nabue and Jack o Lantern selections. The noon and evening concerts feature multiple solos and ensemble numbers by Walter and other soloists.
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