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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1919
Page
11
Auditors reviewing Liberty bonds stolen in the South Station safe robbery report the loss will not exceed 75000, about 25000 less than first believed. Paymaster W. R. Holt of the Boston and Albany says final figures will take days to determine.
Boston police led by Captain Ainsley C. Armstrong report over sixty thousand dollars in bonds checked and telegraphed to detective agencies banks and police departments nationwide. Government secret service agents join the hunt for expert safe breakers with no solid clues by last night. An arrest in Boston yesterday proved inconclusive as the suspect, an old safe cracker, was released after officers confirmed he had no knowledge of the theft.
Elliott Flower crafts a witty feature on the advertising industry in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece lampoons the craft with sharp humor and a breezy insider tone.
Seven civil suits filed yesterday in Middlesex County Court at East Cambridge seek a total of 65000. William Boyce of Somerville sues Boston Elevated for 15000 after Ruth Boyce died from injuries in a Somerville streetcar incident.
Laurie S. MacDonald, superintendent of Thompson Bros. shoe factory in Brockton, was sentenced by Judge Morton to 15 months in Plymouth jail after being convicted of conspiracy to defraud the government in the army shoe program. The court noted the conspiracy had not progressed far when halted by army intelligence. A motion for a new trial was overruled.
Two men in a canoe voyage along the Shelburne amid low waters and ragged rapids. They fish for trout and perch, enjoy birds and a mother partridge with her brood, and worry about missing guides and dwindling supplies until they must build fire and cook from uncooked fish.
The narrator describes gathering dry bark and branches from under logs and rocks to build a careful fire. A hollow is dug for draught and layers of dry bark twigs and limbs are arranged to form a large fuel heap ready to light on the windward side.
Two brothers Charles and John W. Keveney, ex army captains, form a general stock brokerage with offices at 53 State street. Charles, discharged after two years in the Coast Artillery Corps, led Keveney-Sawtell & Co. John, previously with J. R. Williston & Co. in New York, earned Croix de Guerre citations for gallantry. Their father Charles Keveney Sr. was a longtime Boston Stock Exchange member.
Pinelli, third baseman for the Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast League, acquired by the Yankee management. Hitting .250, he has 87 steals, ranking third best in the league.
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