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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1919
Page
17
Shortage of coal cars persists in the Pittsburg district with supply about 1200 cars below the normal demand of 13 000. Railroads report the deficit affecting coal movement and regional supply as of December 18.
During the Christmas season readers are warned to avoid cold exposure and air changes from big stores. Doctors link this to higher sickness and pneumonia risk. The article promotes Father John’s Medicine for treating and preventing colds and urges avoidance of nerve-deadening patent medicines.
Umberto Chiarelli was arrested after his wife Lucia M Chiarelli admitted helping obtain a marriage license to wed Flora Moschara a 17 year old of Leyden Street East Boston Judge Sullivan heard the plea for his release in Central Court. The article shifts to unrelated notes about Boston Common 1804 and a 1601 tale of General Humphrey Atherton and cows on the common.
A packed schedule lists the 10:30 a m annual meeting of the American Association of Urban Universities in Cambridge at University Hall faculty room. Other events include a Boston City Federation session on state supervision of motion pictures, Red Cross home service graduation, a St Vincent’s Orphan Asylum whist party, and diverse gatherings across Boston venues culminating in a 8 p m forum at East Boston High School and a dance for the Santa Claus fund in Cambridge.
Saran Chase aged about 60 a nurse at 17 Broad street was badly burned when her clothing caught fire from a gas heater at 10 Chapel street where she was caring for Grace Bartlett daughter of J W Bartlett. Firefighters extinguished the flames but she was carried away fatally burned.
Rehearsal for the singing of Christmas carols will be conducted tonight by Miss Ida E Dow at the Huntington Chambers Huntington avenue. It is expected that several hundred men and women church and community singers will organize in various parts of the city to continue the custom of carol singing on the streets Christmas Eve.
In a dramatic hearing, Mrs. Chiarelli pleaded for her husband’s return as the court sentenced her husband to 18 months for adultery and one year for swearing a false marriage claim. The wife testified she learned of the affair and summoned police after his neglect of their two children.
A nostalgic sketch traces Boston Common’s early use as a cattle pasture from 1646 cow limits to the 1778 admiral visit. It notes a keeper and shepherd funded by inhabitants, Hancock’s milk aid during d Estaing’s fleet, and Doctor Hale’s memory of the Common as pasture and playground around 1826.
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