16 Aug 1921
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1921
Page
1
Washington Aug 15 The administration tax revision bill was presented to the House after Republicans in conference altered it to delay repeal of the excess profits tax and the income surtax. The measure now awaits debate and votes on the House floor.
Three women were trapped in a doorway and two badly hurt when a tour car owned by Daniel McLoud collided with a Lynn truck at Munroe and Washington streets. The crash shattered a glass display at Max Linsky & Bros. The injured were taken to Lynn Hospital. McLoud and his wife endured shock. Police to probe the blaze at 12 Farnham street Roxbury after a later fire gutted the ice cream shop with suspicions noted by Fire Chief Walsh.
Fabrian Farcia and Martin T Quinn, Harvard Summer School students, were rescued from the Charles River after their hired canoe capsized at DeWolfe street Cambridge. Patrolman Joseph Dailey, off duty, saw the incident from a passing car and used a ladder to reach them. They were towe up and dried at Weld Boathouse before returning to campus.
Della Manning a 13 year old resident of 3 Reed Terrace South End was brought to City Hospital by a passerby after a fight with a gang of boys. She refused to name the attackers but said one kicked her knee and she is kept for observation.
Fire at a bakery and embers from a Union Steel Company roof at 38 Gerard Street sent sparks across nearby wooden tenements. Acting Deputy Chief M J Kennedy ordered a second alarm as a two story brick gutted structure owned by Columbia Ice Cream Cone Company faced danger. Six families evacuated from 73 Reading Street and three from 6 Alther Street though no homes were damaged.
New York August 15 residents including authors singers and actors complain of New York noise so Walter Guzzarin owner of the Hotel Belleclaire opens an 80 by 60 foot roof room shielded from city sounds where guests may read think or write a piano is installed but played only to suitable levels to avoid distressing noise.
Frank P. Cormier of 7 Winthrop Street Brockton started a 360 mile trek from the Harvard Bridge to Montreal to pay a $300 debt after betting on Carpentier to beat Dempsey last July. He is 40 and has never hiked such a distance before.
Briand aims for a high level Washington meeting to command world attention and elevate diplomacy. Officials gauge impact on the international stage as Paris seeks to shape responses to critical global issues.
Washington reports France will participate in the disarmament conference sending its premier Aristide Briand to engage in diplomacy. The move boosts hopes for a high level diplomatic gathering and stronger U S French cooperation on arms reduction.
President Harding, with Secretary Christian, wandered through downtown Washington and bought a small tissue wrapped item from a jewelry store. Onlookers recognized him and speculated a wedding gift for his father. sale details remain private.
A reader in a letter to the editor encloses a 250 dollar check to protest the closing of Baby Hygiene stations. The writer asks the Post to forward the donation to the appropriate authority to keep the services operating.
The Phillies beat the Mets 2 to 1 in the National League with a late run. In the American League Cleveland edged Chicago 3 to 2 while St Louis defeated Detroit 3 to 2.
Mile. Suzanne Lenglen, famed French tennis star with black hair and slender build, is praised by critics for her brilliant stroking and technique as she opens play tomorrow against Eleanor Goss in the first round of the women’s national singles championship at the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills.
In class by herself MH6 Suzanne practiced with Hardy for two hours during two sessions this afternoon focusing on drills and technique for upcoming events.
In Malden Court yesterday Mrs. Mary Kelley of Medford said she would forgive her son Vincent Kelley and his wife Catherine Cleary after the marriage certificate, signed by Justice J. T. Busnach, was shown. Judge Stover continued the case to Thursday as the couple’s attorney I. C. Bresnahan helped negotiate the surrender and potential dismissal of the charge that the son is “a stubborn child.”
The Rev. Dr. Percy Stickney Grant plans to marry Mrs. Philip M. Lydig despite Bishop Manning’s warning that the union would violate church canons. Warned by the bishop, Grant proceeds, risking his position and potential fracking with charges upon the bishop’s deliberation.
Nine year old Joseph Adamkofski of Medford Court South End evades confinement after weeks with a broken leg. He climbs to a four and a half story roof with friends at 40 Rowe Street and falls fifty feet into a rubbish chute, landing on the cellar floor. He is briefly stunned but unharmed. A City Hospital team reports no injuries.
Harry Roy Willson, 32, a mail clerk aboard the U S S Black Hawk at Guantanamo Bay, surrendered in Baltimore after four months of eluding authorities. He confessed to stealing $8000 from the ship’s safe and claimed to have evaded police in many cities.
Within a day or two another chapter will be added in Boston to the marital troubles of the one time Princess Nadejda Vasilievna Troubetzkoy when her husband Victor A. Turin through his attorney Nathan Allin of 18 Tremont street brings suit for divorce.
New Bedford yachtsmen report the schooner Arethusa at her old stand off No Man's Land peddling liquor. Police officer Charles A. Stanley with a party of fishermen observed the vessel eight miles southeast of the island and could read the name on her stern.
Bright and fair conditions are expected to persist through today and tonight with temperatures about as warm as yesterday. Expect light winds and no significant changes in the outlook.
Yesterday's readings at Thompson's Spa show 8 p.m. 61, 6 p.m. 58, 8 p.m. 63 with an average of 20.24. The record notes 75 and 76 in the sequence and compares to an average yesterday last year of 17-24.
London August 15 The Associated Press reports optimism in London opinion on the Irish question. The general view is that Eamon De Valera, leader of the republicans, having sought but failed to win better terms, is in a position no worse than days earlier and that negotiations remain conducted with consideration.
The Irish republican parliament will convene in Dublin tomorrow but no decision on the government's peace proposals is expected for several days as the assembly awaits full debate of the issue.
Landing of British expeditionary force in France noted as a 1914 event and a Russian advance recorded for 1914. A year ago, Moscow was beaten back. The American steamship Snug Macbairn sank off Montauk Point and Ray Chapman was killed by a pitched ball at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Forecast from Washington shows Northern New England fair Tuesday and Wednesday with moderate temperatures. Southern New England expected unsettled Tuesday and Wednesday with showers and moderate temperatures. A western disturbance moving east will bring showers across most sections east of the Mississippi, except New England. Northeastern states stay fair Tuesday with little temperature change. Sandy Hook to Hatteras sees moderate to variable winds and partly overcast conditions Tuesday.
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