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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1920
Page
13
Judge Prescott Keyes of the Concord District Court heard a street side case on Merriam Street in Lexington. The judge delivered a decision and the accused paid a fine.
Wesley D. Sanborn of Laconia New Hampshire faced a district court during a sidewalk session in Lexington after a policeman failed to appear. The four year old victim Jane E. Bentley sustained bruises and abrasions. Sanborn was found guilty and paid $15 costs.
Eight members of G company Eleventh Vermont Infantry attended a 50th reunion dinner at the Windham Hotel in Bellows Falls Vermont marking the 60th anniversary of the company’s organization in the town.
Carl Wilmore presents another amusing story of intimate doings in films in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine titled Hello Folks Here's May and Syd. The piece promises two more favorites brought right to readers at home.
Internal Revenue Inspector Kelley and Prohibition Agents seized $8100 in alcohol at Adelina Mastroianni's 2 Fuller Street Everett home. Corking machines seals and labels of whiskey brands were found as officers, with Everett police, investigated while manufacturers were away. Mrs Mastroianni said she had let the premise.
Two attic rooms rented to an unknown pair months ago revealed a full bootlegging setup. The listing includes 60 gallons of straight alcohol 2% quarts of made up whiskey and packing supplies such as empty bottles hydrometers sealing wax corks and related equipment.
A man who shot himself in Minneapolis left a photo of a woman and a girl, along with a long list of towns and notebooks. He registered as W R Pearson from Springfield and left clues including P J Boucher in Lafayette Square. The Post asks readers to identify the woman from the image.
Springfield councilman James E. Davis pledges to seek a city proclamation of a housing emergency and urge Mayor Adams to finance home construction from municipal funds. A stray anecdote about a boy and a neighbor's mother appears at the end as a humorous aside.
Miss Lulu A. Donovan and Miss Florence A. Smith finished a long 11 month trip across continents and coasts from Boston to Hawaii Mexico Central America Panama Cuba and New York. They recounted adventures from the Democratic convention to Hawaiian nobility and a 26 day sea voyage with stops at many ports.
A promotional paragraph claims Danderine halts hair loss and eliminates dandruff after a small purchase. It asserts that with use no hair falls out and every strand regains vigor brightness color and thickness.
Weather observers report an intense muggy spell across Greater Boston and most of New England. Temperatures reached the 90s with humidity magnified by damp air and scarce cooling winds, while Eastport Maine stayed cooler at 68 as storms moved across New York and Albany toward Massachusetts.
A 13 car float carrying a Western consignment sank in the East River. The National Sugar Refining Company owned the 1,000,000 pounds of sugar valued at 200,000 dollars.
Advertisements claim modern foods lack phosphorus and urge Euro-Phosphate and Bitro-Phosphate to restore health. Notes from Joseph D. Harrigan and Northern Dispensary officials describe fatigue, nerves, and ambition improvements with these products. Druggists report rising demand for an inexpensive organic phosphate.
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