This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 8 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 21, 1920
Page
20
Lawrence votes three to two to establish a local municipal coal yard. Mayor William P. White and Alderman Peter Carr opposed the proposition, which began after the Dyers and Finishers' Union petitioned the government as an emergency function.
Hyde Park Vermont December 20 The questioning centers on Arthur Mudgett 38-year-old lumberman of Johnson where he was between 8 and 9 45 pm on Saturday July 31. Amy Shonio 19 near motherhood was murdered on a hill near Johnson Cemetery and the state contends Mudgett cannot account for his movements during that interval.
The State presents evidence of intimacy between lumberman Mudgett and a murdered girl claiming the child was his. Amy is shown alive at 8 pm. Mudgett leaves his brother’s home. At 9 45 pm he is in Ila Atwell’s Johnson hotel room for an hour. The defense offers an alibi.
Dr Edward A Rumely former publisher of the New York Evening Mail and S Walter Kauf man and Norman Lindheim received one year and one day in federal prison in New York for conspiring to withhold German ownership details of the newspaper during World War I. Judge William I Grubb ordered sentences to the Atlanta Ga federal prison with bail set at 10000 each on appeal.
Washington December 20 The Fordney emergency tariff bill faced strong opposition in both houses as supporters planned to bring it up for debate. Minority views by Representative Rainey of Illinois condemned the measure, and the Senate Democratic steering committee moved to slow or resist quick enactment.
Chairman Fordney of the Ways and Means Committee urged prompt action on the tariff bill describing it as the best obtainable given conditions. The report notes a 10 month applicability, estimates $130 million in revenue, and lists duties on wheat, corn, beans, peanuts, potatoes, rice, lemons, oils, cattle, and wool among others. Opposition came from ten Republicans and four Democrats citing lack of manufactured goods protections and signaling upcoming debate.
The government sued John D. Rockefeller in Federal Court for 292,678 alleging his March 28 1916 income tax return hid 50 104 Illinois Pipe Line and 67 176 Prairie Pipe Line shares. The Rockefeller camp says the shares were stock dividends from 1915 and should be untaxable under a Supreme Court rule. they note 1917 return protested the ruling.
The four week drive for Harvard's endowment ended December 11 with 1,489,143 raised pushing total to 13,876,580 about 91 percent of the 75,250,000 goal. T. Nelson Perkins says 2,600 alumni contributed who had not earlier subscribed, bringing endowment rolls to 14,921 or 70 percent of graduates. Managers hope to raise the remaining 1.3 million before commencement.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.