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Newspaper

Boston Post

Location

Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America

Date

Aug 16, 1922

Page

8

Wood's Son Killed in Mad Auto Race

Wealthy young Wood died when his high speed Rolls Royce crashed head on into a telegraph pole on a Reading Massachusetts highway race. Gardner and Rice of Shawnee Village were with him. Rice survived with minor injuries while Gardner and Wood were killed. Police pursued a rival racer identified as Arthur H. Earle. Wood had no license due to prior revocation for reckless driving. The crash left a string of wrecked vehicles and bystanders, with Wood's father, a Woolen Company magnate, arriving at the scene.

Reading Young Wood Reading Square Wood Gardner Paul Rice Canterbury Street Shawsheen Village Harvard American Woolen Company Rice Boston Earle Andover Lawrence London Edgerley-Bennson Undertaking Company William M. Wood Mr. Wood, Sr

Young Wood Groomed to Lead American Woolen Company

William M. Wood Jr., son of American Woolen Company president, aged 29, born in Andover, Harvard graduate, gained early fame for auto speeding. He faced multiple speeding fines, license suspensions, and arrests from age 13 onward. Married Edith Gainesborough Robinson in 1916. two children.

William M. Wood, Jr William M. Wood American Woolen Company New England New York State Wood Andover Frederick Ayer Lowell Cense Lynn Salem William D. Sohier State Highway Commission Edith Gainesborough Robinson Louisville Young Wood Calvary Episcopal Church

Gardner Well Known in Wool Trade Here

D. Alexander Gardner at 322 Main street North Andover, age 29, was a resident partner in Dawson & Company, English wool merchants. Known in Boston wool circles, he was born in England, served three years in the British army, and moved to the United States after the war. He married Mrs Dorothy Davis Simpson a year ago, daughter of George G. Davis of the Davis and Thurber Manufacturing Company, North Andover.

D. Alexander Gardner Main Street North Andover Dawson & Company Boston England Dorothy *Davis Simpson George G. Davis Davis and Thurber Manufacturing Company

Moratorium Granted to Germany on Reparations

The reparations commission has decided to grant Germany a moratorium of about two months on reparations payments. The decision follows discussions at the Allied conference and reopens the commission's consideration of the issue.

London United News Germany

Man and father of ten dies after fall at Washington Mill

Glennar Colletta, 44, and father of ten, fell from a second story at the new Washington Mill in Lawrence. He died at Lawrence General Hospital a few hours after being rushed there by fire department ambulance.

Lawrence Glennar Colletta New Washington Mill Lawrence General Hospital Fire Department

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