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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1920
Page
10
Arthur Griffith, held at Mountjoy by Britain, sends a George Washington quotation urging Irish unity. Through the Labor Herald he declares Ireland faces a Valley Forge today and Yorktown tomorrow, urging patriots to stand fast.
Senate rules panel opposes immediate action on a $284 raise for Boston teachers while approving House passage. If advances, the measure faces a smoother path in both chambers, aiding efforts to revise general laws during the Beacon Hill special session opened yesterday. The House also votes to admit a constitutional amendment on limited town meetings for towns under 12 000 residents.
The session divided 282 chapters of the revised laws between the Senate and House, with 132 to the Senate and the rest to the House. The liquor law chapter, 188, moves to the House first. An ovation honored Speaker Warner, while President McKnight skipped the opening. Sen Silas Reed presided. A hearing on women candidates in city elections is set for tomorrow with suffrage groups encouraged to present.
A special commission urges a law providing free nursing and educational services for mothers and infants with extra state aid for homes unable to provide confinement care. The report notes 40 percent of maternal and infant deaths in early 1920 were preventable due to hygiene ignorance and seeks a $500000 first year appropriation.
A man identified as Willers, a former Willers Company officer, admits to being a German spy sent to infiltrate the American army. He describes training at a cadet camp, enlistment in Albany, rapid promotion, and orders to feign loyalty until wartime. He explains a plan to lead a company to slaughter if he reached the front.
The 48th Infantry at Camp Sevier armistice ended his spy activity and deserter path. He fled to Chicago where he married an American woman Crawford, roamed the U S seeking a passport to Germany, and used heavy eyeglasses as part of his disguise. Authorities at Governors Island pressed for details of his confession.
In the House of Commons Joseph Devlin pressed Sir Hamar Greenwood on a possible Christmas truce with Extremists. Greenwood said no truce while arms remain or arrests occur, denying a declaration of war on Ireland. Devlin cited suppression of liberty and jailed editors of the Freeman's Journal amid government actions.
There is a good deal of character revealed in a pair of old shoes if one wants to study them. Shoes worn away on the outside denote a dis orderly and unsystematic mind. The shoe worn away at the toe before it has commenced to go anywhere else denotes conceit and self satisfaction but a hard headed business person apt to get along. The heel worn away and the toe turned up indicates a tinge of vulgarity.
Pure coincidence saved the Blake Drug store on Commonwealth Avenue near Brighton Avenue from disaster on Monday night. Leslie H. Ohmart, a clerk in the store, narrowly escaped fatal harm as luck intervened, preserving both lives and the cash in the shop's coffers.
Shortly before closing two men entered a deserted store. One moved to the cigar counter, the other to the soda fountain. A Brighton officer arrived to buy cigars and the suspects fled, leaving behind a loaded automatic. The officer’s unknowing presence prevented a planned crime. Pompens of ostrich are used on evening slippers.
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