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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1919
Page
3
A committee of MIT alumni led by General Coleman du Pont forms to raise 6 million dollars. Theodore N. Vail and other prominent backers join as the effort seeks 4 million more from other sources before January 1. The group aims to exceed the milestone by 2 million to secure the gift.
The House committee investigating the United States Shipping Board arrived in Bellingham Washington from Washington D C. Chairman Joseph Walsh of Massachusetts led the group. They will inspect the Pacific American Fisheries plant tomorrow then visit the Anacortes Shipyard Everett and Seattle.
Charles W. Wentworth a Portland real estate dealer and former grammar school principal was held for a grand jury under $3000 bail on a four count forgery case alleging he forged the name of Norman True register of deeds to a deed document.
In Nagasaki harbor the crew learns coal must be unloaded only with Governor permission, delaying departure. After a two day delay and a forged coal statement, police intervention, and a Norwegian consul inspection, the captain faces a government probe and contemplates slipping away at night with Chilean flag ready as a workaround to reach the whaling season.
The Holyoke Street Railway Company filed with the Public Service Commission a petition to replace the current zone system with a six and seven cent zone fare, effective Sept. 20. Zone rides will be shortened under the proposed plan.
G A Lamack of 97 Dakota Street Dorchester adheres to the motto The better the day the better the deed. He caught a 35 pound pollock last Sunday on the Jimmie L a small boat that sails from City Point near the Boston lightship down the harbor.
7 30 a m Richard H Long announces a daylight tour of Cape Cod with a stop in Provincetown. 10 a m a convention of the National Grand Lodge I O C F Manchester Unity meets at Odd Fellows Hall Manchester New Hampshire. 10 a m army food sale runs at city stations except West Roxbury and Charlestown where sales start at 1 p m. 10 a m Parochial Teachers Institute final sessions at Boston College High School Hall.
The American Chamber of Commerce in London reports that post September 1 Britain will retain import restrictions only on aniline dyes and optical glass.
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