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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
10
At a Boston League of Women Voters mock legislative night in City Council Chamber Mayor Peters denounced the city form of government as the worst violator of any system, accusing it of building political machines for personal gain and graft.
At Boston, a League of Women Voters gathering in the City Council chamber approved 19 bills, including extending the 48 hour law to hotel workers and others, boosting teachers’ salaries, and removing political disabilities for women. Alice Stone Blackwell was welcomed as a lifelong councillor.
A Christmas bazaar and sale to aid St. Mary's Infant Asylum Dorchester opened in Rowan Memorial Hall and runs this afternoon and evening. Mrs Charles E Cadigan chairs the committee and parish women run the booths. Whist was played yesterday afternoon and evening under Mrs M S Saunders.
In London the House of Lords defeated the government over the Irish home rule bill. Baron Oranmore and Browne’s amendment for a southern Ireland Senate passed 120 to 36 to safeguard southern Unionists. An allied proposal for joint southern and northern Senates was adopted 48 to 34, challenging the central council approach.
Wet tired and hungry three boys who ran away from the Union Training School at Walpole sought shelter in the Lynn police station last night after fleeing early yesterday morning.
Portrait bust of Graydon Stetson by Boris Lovett Lovsky shown at Grace Horne's gallery. The finely modeled piece marks early sculpture by the Russian artist in this country and is on display at Boston University with other works in the gallery setup.
The Grace Horne Galleries present the first U.S. showing of Boris Lovett-Lovsky from Russia. The exhibit includes nine sculptures and 13 drawings, with works like Memories and Resurgam highlighting his intense experience and tempered artistic depth.
At Unity House Hall and Emerson College of Oratory venues in Boston a series of talks and gatherings are scheduled. Mrs Maud Wood Park discusses repealing wartime restrictions at 11 a m under the Boston League of Women Voters. Dr Roger I Lee speaks on health statistics at 3 p m for the Massachusetts Civil League. Lothrop Stoddard and Charles H McIntyre discuss Ireland and the Irish Bill, under the Women's City Club program.
Edith H. Beard defends Japan’s wartime loans and naval role against a claim that Japan did not lend. She cites K. K. Kawakami's figures showing Japan's loans to England, France, and Russia, plus foreign bonds, and recalls Japan’s 1917 naval effort and Red Cross support during World War I.
A crowd of hundreds including pharmacists graduates and Boston business leaders attended the dedication and reception for the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy new building on Longwood avenue last night.
Michael McGovern was found guilty of manslaughter by a Superior Criminal Court jury for fatally striking Abraham Karpoff, a longshoreman, during a dockside fight on the Leyland Line docks in East Boston. McGovern struck Karpoff with an iron roller as the fight turned violent and Karpoff died shortly after.
Fifty candidates have reported to Captain Maxwell for Princeton's hockey team in Princeton New Jersey. The squad includes veterans and prominent candidates Haight Tallman Knox Chret Keyes Corcoran Cook Lincoln and Brooke. Practices will be at the Philadelphia Ice Palace with plans to travel to Buffalo over Christmas vacation.
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