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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1921
Page
5
The Michigan Minimum Wage Commission orders the wage boards for brush, laundry, retail, muslin underwear, and Men's and Women's Clothing to reconvene. Rates set during peaks may be cut, with current scale as low as 87 cents an hour for women cleaners and 151 2 cents for brush factory workers. The commission seeks greater uniformity amid cost of living changes.
Boston health department statistics show July infant deaths under one year totaled 114, down from 125 in 1920 and well below 182 in 1919 and 204 in 1918. The four year comparison indicates a declining trend in infant mortality.
Waterbury Vermont officials report ten smallpox cases at the State Hospital for the Insane. A new patient is said to have introduced the disease to the facility.
A special summer school for rural pastors deaconesses and welfare workers opened yesterday at the Boston University Theological School on Mt Vernon Street with Professor M A Dawber head of rural leadership in the dean’s office. About 100 men and women are registered, mostly from New England. Courses in religious education evangelism church building and equipment recreational leadership and rural sociology begin this morning and run weekdays for three weeks.
The Canton school committee split four to four over paying Superintendent John C Davis twenty dollars a month for six months for car use. Davis filed a two hundred dollar contract suit in Stoughton District Court challenging the bill presented July fifteenth. Anna Lynch led the protest saying the bill lacked a majority signature and was not approved by the current board.
Brigadier General Arthur D. Musgrave in civilian clothes pursued John Whalen and an accomplice after Whalen allegedly dipped into his pocket at a ticket window near the North station yesterday afternoon. Railroad Officer Mullen assisted. Whalen was held on $2000 bond at Central Court.
Henshaw tracked five large eagles on a lake shore tree. A shot split the branch, trapping the birds by their talons. The limb broke, Henshaw rode the limb as the eagles lifted him, then fell into the lake and was rescued by Gardner. Henshaw recovered. The tree limb is under inspection.
Governor Cox began a tour to the Great Lakes to review shipping conditions and boost export business through New England to Boston port. He travels with Mrs. Cox, his brother Judge Louis Cox, and friends. Lieutenant Governor Fuller will act as Governor.
The court heard a case where an individual caused glass breakage injuring property and committed assault and battery while very drunk. A $25 fine for assault, $15 added for drunkenness, and jail time for property damage were imposed. Marchette claimed Bill caused the uproar and deserved more. Conway denied involvement and filed an appeal.
Salvatore Gutierrez his wife and six children arrive in New York aboard the Calamares to begin a two year circumnavigation of the world assisted by an Indian servant from Lima Peru The family includes three daughters and three sons with Isabel the eldest at twenty and Vicente the youngest at six They will spend days in New York then proceed to Chicago and Los Angeles before sailing for the Orient later this autumn.
Westfield today reports Benny Coughlin stubbed his toe on Court Street and found a diamond ring. The owner, an out of town visitor staying with Mr and Mrs Gowdy, will receive $20 reward after the ring’s return. The loss occurred several days ago.
The Smokers League Against Tobacco Prohibition, a membership corporation formed to defend citizens rights to tobacco use, was granted a charter by Secretary of State Lyons. The decision was announced in Albany on August 8.
William Deffendoll, 17, confessed to fatally harming his widowed mother Laura Def fendoll, 70, near Booneville Indiana. He said the initial strike was accidental and two later blows were deliberate to stop her suffering.
William Conway of Roslindale was sentenced to four months in the house of correction for actions last Saturday night in the fruit store of Pete Marchette in Charles Town where police say Conway succeeded within 15 minutes in breaking in.
London Aug 8 The release of John J. McKeown on Premier Lloyd George's orders clears an obstacle in peace talks with Sinn Fein. McKeown faced murder charges on a police inspector. De Valera conveyed mixed views on the action while warning negotiations could end if McKeown remained detained.
Miss Antoinette Louis of Hartford asks Hub police to locate her 22 year old brother Dan Louis who has wandered from home seeking fame and fortune. She says if he sees this he can return home by contacting Superintendent Crowley.
Rescue workers head back to civilization with the body of Dr. William Stone president of Purdue University found after a five day search among mountain ice crevices. Mrs Stone was rescued in critical condition after she and her husband had been missing for several days in the Banff area.
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