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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1921
Page
7
The poem complains laws seem drastic yet says the speaker still obeys. He jokes about drinking patent remedies and water from garden hoses while mocking prohibition era rules and state authority with humorous verse. He notes the conflict between defying laws and public order. Copyright by George Matthew Adams.
Readers weigh in on who should get the first kiss upon a husband’s return, with a $5 award for best view. The page also prints letters on chaperones, youth liberty, bobbed hair, and girlhood expectations from seventeen-year-olds and contributors.
The Leyland Lin steamship Winifredian from Liverpool is delayed and will not reach the lower harbor until 9 tonight. She will dock at Pier 4, B A Docks, Boston, tomorrow morning.
Three year old Joseph Warren fell from a shed roof behind his home at 13 Broadway. Booth Atte sent for help. Blans escaped with a cut on the head and was taken to City Hospital for observation.
Nashville boy Albert Roscoe began on stage at twelve with the Nashville stock company. He served in the Spanish American War, later returned to stock, and made his screen debut in Graustark. He achieved fame as Uncas in The Last of the Mohicans and later starred with Mae Allison before turning to Fox. He is happily married with a golf champion wife.
William Desmond appears in his own production Fightin Mad in New York as the star. The caption notes the veteran actor and the stage project on offer, highlighting Desmond’s screen fame and the New York engagement.
Anna Lehr wed to Edward McKinn. Pearl White divorced Wallace McKinnon McCutcheon and was once married to Victor Sutherland. Charles Meredith, a leading man, married Melba Messing, a non professional. Ben Wilson directs James Morgan and Neva Gerber in Arrow productions.
Alma Rubens returns to the Cosmopolitan Film Company and stars in the feature Find the Woman. The actress resumes a leading role as production moves forward.
Jackie Coogan is released from Glendale Hospital after removal of tonsils and adenoids. Four baby teeth fell out during the procedure. He jokes that he is not half the man he used to be and spends spare time watching Mary Pickford in Little Lord Fauntleroy.
An array of entertainment notes lists Wanda Hawley and Richard Barthelmess with studio addresses in Los Angeles and New York. Jackie Coogan, Harold Goodwin, Carmel Myers, Shirley Mason, and others are cited with current projects and affiliations. Valentino, Gloria, and Ruth Roland are named with career or personal status updates amid studio movements and serials.
At Provincetown Town Hall the sixth annual costume ball recreates a Spanish bull fight with Julius Caesar Cleopatra Othello and many other characters. New Yorkers Mr and Mrs Zorach organized the event with 6600 in the march and over 1200 in the hall. Numerous notable costumes include Admiral Davis and a wide array of historical and literary figures.
The Rev. Edward T. Sullivan will lead summer services at St. Paul’s Cathedral with a Pilgrim anniversary theme. Evening events include a reading of Coolidge’s Plymouth address, Mrs. Heman’s poem, and an address on early Boston settlement. Elgar’s Land of Hope and Glory will be performed by the summer chorus.
Wasteful tragedy at Stuartburn near Dominion City as a family of seven dies after eating mushroom toadstools mistaken for edible fungi. A six months old infant survives. Local report from Winnipeg states the incident occurred in August with victims all unidentified.
Armand T. Gaudreau a Lewiston college graduate faced mislabeling as a fanatic or beggar. He sold papers on State street and received offers of real work from downtown business men after public appeals for aid. He described selling 350 papers in two hours as a record and planned to visit offices Monday for employment.
A $50 000 suit filed in Suffolk County Superior Court claims Grace A Kinnicutt of Brookline derived Julius Latkowitchs attachment and estrangement of his wife Frances Latkowitch of Allston The Latkowitch marriage about ten years produced two children ages five and ten months Frances Latkowitch seeks separate support with the Probate Court case pending The National Shawmut Bank is named trustee for the defendant
John Mécciantuano attempted to shoot Michael Di Pallo in Di Pallo’s Dorchester Street store after a court sentence. A revolver was found loaded, and Mécciantuano faced charges of carrying a loaded weapon and attempting to kill. he was held on five thousand dollars bond.
Two bandits robbed a Baltimore & Ohio passenger train at Beecher City last night. They held up the express messenger and fled to Altamont with all sealed express packages totaling about 50 000 dollars.
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