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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1920
Page
2
The city finance commission endorses the school committee's petition to the 1920 Legislature for a 9 cent tax levy increase per $1000 to fund higher teacher and staff salaries. It urges maintaining standards and prevents teachers from leaving for other jobs, while trimming over $137,000 from the bill request.
In Lewiston Maine Sheriff Fred E Stevens appoints 11 women deputy sheriffs to enforce the law. The story notes that criminal suspects, regardless of looks or charm, will be arrested if these deputies confront them.
Sheriff Stevens appoints 11 women as deputies in Androscoggin county making history and expanding rights for women. The line includes Harriet Spiller Margaret Coombs Myrtle Pease and Laura Sanborn among others with Sanborn the only unmarried recruit.
Sheriff Stevens announced appointments of women as deputy sheriffs in Androscoggin County. He stated the commissions, bonds, and sworn-in plan for January 1, noting that friendship bonds suffice and that women can perform ordinary duties, improving polling booths and local law enforcement. The deputies, mostly wives of officers, will staff duties away from Lewiston.
An unidentified man about 50, taken ill at Roxbury Crossing, died at City Hospital. The body lies at the South Mortuary awaiting identification. A gray coat bears the name Charles Morse and the order number 9013.
James Ruffano died in Providence hospital after being shot on December 1. He told Deputy Coroner Appleton that Niccolo Corrella shot him following a quarrel over a girl. Corrella fled the scene and remains at large.
Yale University in New Haven announces a new Sheffield Scientific School program titled science as applied to industry. The course will open to sophomores next fall for the first time.
In Greenwood South Carolina five cotton mills resume full time production after prior curtailment. Except for one, plants run day and night shifts. The report notes fashion shifts with high collars and bright linings and lace trimming gaining popularity over feathers or fur.
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