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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 08, 1922
Page
7
A watchman on duty was killed during a blaze that razed a shanty near Point of Pines. The Lynn Revere house nearby was damaged while horses and a red lantern were noted in the vicinity as work crews repair the site.
A car swerved from a new road to an old route, breaking barriers and collapsing a watchman’s shack named by police. The driver fled. watchman Christopher Boccuzzi died of injuries at Chelsea Hospital. Massachusetts plates tied to Mrs. Hester H. Shart. she said chauffeur Peter Cavanaugh was present at the scene.
A dying man on a road under repair was not taken to a hospital as about 100 parked cars blocked the scene. A chauffeur claimed there was a mistake and that no object was struck, while Officer Henry C. Finkler found the roadside congestion after the incident.
Rome August 7 AP—Burnings and bloodshed persist in Italy as the interior ministry orders harsh measures to quell civil unrest. In Bologna Fascisti destroy Socialist clubs and flag depictions, with captured Socialist standards burned in public. Violence includes arson against Socialist co operatives, bomb sounds, and clashes near the prefect’s palace. Senator Taddel, new interior minister, vows restoration of order.
James Kellette, author of the song Bubbles, died poor despite the hit later bought by Remick for 15000 dollars. He was 37, born in Lowell, worked as a linotype operator, then moved to New Rochelle and New York film work. Survived by wife, two brothers, two sisters.
A proposed settlement aims to resume coal production under the pre strike wage scales and create an advisory commission, approved by leaders like John L. Lewis and Alfred M. Ogle, to study industry issues. Union and operator groups from across the country met to join the conference as plans move toward breaking the strike.
Mrs. Mary Eleanor Willson, Civil War nurse, dies in Sawtelle California at age 90. She leaves two sisters, Mrs. Helen M. Burnell aged 92 who was with her at death, and Mrs. Fr. Bridgeman of Northampton aged 103.
Denver August 7 William Z Foster was forcibly removed from Colorado by State Rangers after arriving from Salt Lake City He was escorted in an automobile to the Kansas State line Adjutant General Hamrock said the move served the states best interests and found no law was violated Foster described as dangerous radical by the official was taken from a hotel and expelled to the state border
The Cunarder Elysia of the Cunard Anchor Line sails at noon from Cunard Pier East Boston carrying 59 cabin passengers bound for Liverpool with a large cargo headed to Glasgow. Notables aboard include Edith Douglass Ella Snyder and several Boston residents en route to India for missionary work. The cargo includes 80000 bushels oats and 49000 bushels wheat delayed by a railroad strike.
Prices realized on Swift and Company carcass beef sales in Boston for the week ending Saturday August 5 on shipments sold out ranged from 8.50 to 16.00 cents per pound and averaged 14.41 cents per pound.
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