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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1920
Page
6
The Concord board will hold two evening sessions this week to register voters for the state primary. Sessions run Wednesday 7:30 to 9 at the Concord Junction fire station and Thursday 7:30 to 9 at the Town Hall.
An advertisement touts Noonan's Hair Petrole a petroleum based product with antiseptic properties. It claims to improve a clean scalp, restore vitality to thinning dry hair, and reduce odor. Sold by T Noonan & Sons of Boston for 15 cents at barbers or $1 per bottle by mail order.
In Verdun France Aug 22 the American Knights of Columbus attended mass. Supreme Knight James A Flaherty received a solid gold monstrance marred by shell impact. Marshal Petain hosted a luncheon and laid the corner stone of an ossuary for unidentified war dead. The delegation visited Romagne cemetery Verdun battlefields and the underground city before departing for Strasbourg.
In Provincetown on Aug 22 Rabbi Charles Fleischer of Boston joined in the centennial celebration of the Universalist Church on Cape Cod. He distributed the communion to several hundred Christian men and women alongside the local pastor and visiting Universalist and Congregational ministers.
A Boston rabbi explained sharing communion with a Universalist congregation as a symbolic act. The afternoon program celebrated the 100th anniversary of John Murray’s Provincetown book founding Universalism. Clergymen from Chelsea Orleans Lowell Plymouth and others spoke. a pageant reenacted the book’s discovery and founding.
John Peters and his wife Priscilla were arrested after a stabbing affray at 60 Sawyer street Roxbury. Samuel Chambers was cut and taken to City Hospital then held as a witness at Roxbury Crossing. Police say the trouble stemmed from the disappearance of Mrs Peters two weeks earlier.
Tennessee constitutional league says injunction blocks certification of the federal suffrage amendment and foresees enfranchisement delay for a year and a half. The group warns officials that any certification attempt could face contempt actions, potentially reaching the Supreme Court. Suffrage supporters insist actions by the House and Senate were justified despite questions of quorum.
Congressman Alvan T. Fuller of Malden will tour Essex county this week meeting workers at United Shoe Machinery in Beverly General Electric in Lynn and Ipswich hosiery mills in Ipswich He plans additional talks in Gloucester Newburyport Haverhill Manchester Rowley Lawrence Salem and Peabody to bolster his Republican nomination bid.
The Furness-Warren liner Fort Victoria docked at Pier 40, Charles Town, after an eight day and one hour Atlantic crossing from Liverpool at 16 knots. Three stowaways were hidden among the crew and passengers Manuel Enzaladr, Alexander Steel, and James Tewell. The latter, a former 47th Aero Squadron member, sailed with first class passengers and later faced a delayed reunion with his wife in America. British consul-general to Boston T. P. Porter was among the 205 first cabin passengers onboard.
New York August 22 Official announcement confirms the merger of International Petroleum Company Ltd and Tropical Oil Company controlled by the Beneum Trees Crawford interests of Pittsburgh. The deal totals about 100 million dollars and plans a new Canadian international petroleum company limited with 100 000 preferred shares at 5 dollars par and at least 7 118 138 common shares no par value.
Mrs Adele Shoenbaum of 651 Eastern avenue Malden said a youth robbed her of a handbag containing 45 in cash and jewelry. Police arrested Robert W Shepard 19 of 54 Stevens street Revere who is to face larceny charges in court today.
Two men were found unconscious on the street and taken to the East Boston Relief Station. Frank Gillis, 24, married of 189 Paris Street, is on the dangerous list. a second man responded to treatment and left the hospital several hours after admission.
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