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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1920
Page
4
Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer living in Capri, won the Coolidge chamber music prize of 1000 dollars for a string quartet. Five jurors awarded him. four voted his work best. His opera Sette Canzoni drew controversy in Paris but now gains international acclaim.
After a varied career Mayor Peters aimed to consolidate harbor institutions. City Councilman James A. Watson shifted his stance, casting the fifth vote needed to pass the plan yesterday.
More than a year ago the mayor proposed merging penal, infirmary, children, registration, and other departments into a single institutions unit led by a $1600 commissioner. After two failed votes, Watson joins Ford Collins Lane Hagan to secure five votes amid clashes over control of island facilities and reforms.
An old advertisement promotes Father John’s Medicine as a safe puré tonic for infants claiming to provide essential food elements. It emphasizes absence of drugs and positions the product as suitable for babies.
Boston suffragists expect Tennessee ratification within days and organize a mass meeting in Faneuil Hall to celebrate the 19th amendment. Bells will ring nationwide on the day the secretary of state proclaims ratification and Carrie Chapman Catt and Governor Coolidge are invited as speakers.
Fall River reports a surge in marriage licenses as the city clerk anticipates surpassing the 1000 mark. Applicants arrive at about two per day despite high rents, scarce tenements, and historically high groceries and living costs.
Mrs. Annie Cohen secured a $250,000 attachment on the real and personal property of Davis H. Cohen in Probate Court after filing for separate support for herself and three children. A separate equity suit to enjoin Cohen from pursuing a Reno divorce libel continued in the Superior Court’s equity session, with the judge noting the case as the wife seeks relief amid alleged extreme cruelty. Cohen describes himself as a quiet man distressed by discord and contention, while his wife accuses him of sulking and nagging amid disputes over visits to fortune tellers and an aborted Boston University course.
Arthur H. Douse, a Dorchester builder, was committed to Charles Street jail after contempt proceedings for failing to pay $642 in alimony to his wife, Mrs Lillian A Doomse, following a divorce granted May 26 1919 by Judge John F Brown.
Puzzles of women voters registration troubling town and city boards in Massachusetts are being solved by experts in the Secretary of State's office. Divorce separation and marriage queries are answered daily as fast as asked.
A reader asks if a foreign born woman who became a U S citizen through marriage retains voting rights after divorce. Officials in Greater Boston report four common questions at registration booths, clarifying that divorce voids citizenship gained by marriage, denying voter registration.
Government experts clarify who may register in marriage and citizenship matters. They say a wife may not register if both spouses are citizens by marriage alone, while a Boston born woman with citizen parents cannot register unless specific conditions apply. Cases vary with divorce, death, and residency, and registrars decide individual circumstances.
Advertisement touts Gertrude Lamarre of Sanford Maine saved from fits by Dr True Elixir a family laxative and worm expeller. Letter from mother praises relief and urges others to use the herb laxative available at all dealers with a long standing reputation since 1851.
Sugar sold generally at 22 cents a pound in most stores, with some grocers offering 19 to 23 cents. Buyers note the average price around 23 cents a pound, about a half cent below the wholesale cost, reflecting varying retail quotes.
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