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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 30, 1921
Page
2
Five men in a high powered car battered the Perkins and Rollins fur nishings store on Main Street in Brockton at 6 this morning. They loaded about $1000 worth of goods and some money, then fled. Patrolman Charles Rowley was nearby but the crime went unreported to police.
An advertisement promotes Blue Jay liquid or plaster as a gentle corn remover. It claims instant pain relief and that the corn loosens and comes out after application. Users are urged to stop paring and try the product, sending for it at the drug store.
More than 500 Jewish young men and women from Greater Boston travel next Friday to Hartford for the ith annual convention of the Associated Y M H A and Y W H A of New England. A special train, hotel receptions, leading speakers, and an election of officers mark the program from Sept 3 to Sept 5 with 50 constituent groups and over 20 000 members.
Mrs. Dora Novick seeks reasonable alimony and counsel fees before Justice Cropsey, as her husband Harry Novick objects to her bobbed hair. He testified of alleged abuse and that she left with the baby, returning with gifts he cannot explain. Decision reserved.
A pigeon carried a message from Chicago Mayor Thompson to President Harding in sixteen hours actual flying time covering 6141-2 miles, setting a world record, the Department of Agriculture announced.
Benjamin H. Swig treasurer of the Tremont Trust Company files two more suits totaling $600000 against Bank Commissioner Joseph C. Allen as Tremont is being liquidated by order of the bank commissioner.
Judge Louis Swig sues the bank commissioner for 500000 alleging libel and slander. Simon Swig,银行副总裁, plans to present evidence of a conspiracy to wreck Tremont Trust with Boston bankers aiming to raise depositor interest.
Wilmington August 29 The board of E I Du Pont De Nemours and Company announced a ten percent reduction in all salaries effective October 1, affecting positions from the president downward.
Arthur Crabb writes a lively romance to be printed in full in the Boston Sunday Post Magazine. The piece promises a charming narrative about love and fate in a lighthearted tone.
Ruskin praised May Alcott and her copies of Turner paintings including Approach to Venice and The Fighting Temeraire in the home of Mrs Frederick Alcott Pratt of Concord. The room also held Fra Angelico, Raphael and a Saint Catherine panel with Madonna of the Chair, plus association books, highlighting the collector’s taste.
The passage notes several inscribed works including Emerson essays with dedication from R. W. E. to A. Bronson Alcott dated 1844, a copy of Society and Solitude with Louisa M. Alcott’s name, Hawthorne’s Our Old Home inscribed by the author to Alcott, and Dr. C W Holmes Poems with similar inscriptions, illustrating the rich literary heritage in that house.
Washington reports an audit of expenditures by the army navy and war risk bureau in compensation to service men was ordered. The move aims to verify payments and ensure proper use of funds.
Controller General McCarlL Baley said unsorted cancelled checks evidencing payments have been stacked in several rooms without checking. He estimated the work would take four months to complete.
John W. Leahy, wounded while attempting to break a drug store at Oxford and Peacon streets, Somerville, appeared in court on crutches. He pled not guilty to the charge and was held in $2000 for the grand jury. He has been a patient at Somerville Hospital since the shooting.
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