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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1920
Page
11
General Alvaro Obregon was inaugurated president of Mexico at midnight. George T. Summerlin, the U.S. chargé d affaires, attended the ceremony with other dignitaries.
The provisional president sat at General Obregon's right as he was sworn in in the Chamber of Deputies. The diplomatic gallery was filled and Mr. Summerlin attended the ceremony in his personal capacity.
Delegates from Argentina Chile Italy Germany Spain Belgium attended the inauguration courtesy. Ambassadors from Japan China Sweden Uruguay Cuba Peru Great Britain and France represented by charges d affaires. Guatemalan Salvadoran Honduran Nicaraguan delegations also present. Obregon’s secretary of the treasury Senor de la Huerta took oath. City hosted midnight revelry with banquets cafes and parades.
Salt Lake City Utah Dec 1 Mrs Vina T Knight wife of a Plain City farmer gave birth to four children three boys and a girl last night. Mother and children are progressing favorably.
Captain Frank Frayser reported that several liquor sellers were indicted for giving and attempting to give bribes to Internal Revenue Bureau agents as federal probes found extensive efforts to corrupt officials. The arrests followed prohibition enforcement actions in New York on December 1.
The indictments charge money given to agents for liquor permits was really for sale in barrooms. Captain Frayser notes officers were offered cash as evidence of widespread corruption. He warns that crooked dealers stockpile funds to bribe officials.
Thirty airplanes from Langley Field will greet President-elect Harding as he enters the Virginia Capes on Saturday morning. The escort will accompany him as he lands at Old Point and visits Norfolk and Newport News. Fashions note spring shoes with strap effects and novel color combinations. Hats are larger with feathers and elaborate veils.
Mahlon Hamilton, a six foot tall matinee idol with brown hair and blue eyes, is in high demand as a leading man for prominent screen actresses. His latest Pathe release is "Half A Chance."
Antonio Moreno announces he will quit serials and act straight drama. His first film under the new regime is Three Sevens. He is on location at the Arizona State prison shooting scenes.
Vitagraph signs Alice Calhoun a rising actress to headline Princess Jones marking her first major film role. Calhoun, a relative newcomer, heads the cast in the upcoming production.
A Cleveland film company plans to produce a series of two reel poker party comedies likely to appeal to male enthusiasts of the so called indoor sport and possibly some women as well.
Betty Blythe stars in Nomads of the North at Gordon's Olympia Theatre this week. After the film she was given a cub bear and led it to the Hollywood Hotel where she resides. Hotel guests declined to meet the animal and management declined to admit it. Blythe's husband Paul Scardon greeted the pet with limited enthusiasm.
Will Rogers jokes about a supposed new hero type and asserts his own presence in the scene. The quip questions contemporary literary trends and underscores his enduring public persona.
American beauty Katherine MacDonald has completed her eighth First National picture tentatively titled Conscience and has left the coast to visit her mother and sister Mary MacLaren in New York.
True to Life notes that Shorty Callahan, famed as a clown, stars in Booth Tarkington's Edgar comedies. He has a rich circus pedigree with a father known as a leading clown and a mother who was a wire-walker. Shorty spent years in Australia as a circus clown.
S. T. reports Billie Burke is 3% years old. Her two latest pictures are The Frisky Mrs and another unnamed role.
The article notes changes in marriages within the Barrymore family. John Barrymore wed Mrs. Leonard Thomas, Lionel Barrymore married Phyllis Rankin, and Ethel Barrymore is known in private life as Mrs. Russell Colt.
Sixty to eighty steamers sail monthly from Naples for America while Palermo crowds await passage as 70,000 people seek to emigrate to the United States. Only about 1,600 can sail each month amid the congestion.
Funeral service for Annie M. Twigg held at Our Lady of the Presentation Brighton with 25 priests and numerous relatives. Survived by 11 children including Rev. P. Twigg of Roxbury and Mary Twigs, with long Brighton residency noted for her devoted family life and charitable nature.
An ad describes dental film and pyorrhea as major problems and promotes Pepsodent toothpaste with pepsin and starch digestant. It claims the 10 Day Tube offers quick results, whitening teeth and preventing decay by polishing teeth and neutralizing acids.
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