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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1922
Page
14
A ten cent tin horn helped 18 month old Frank Porti after he swallowed candy at an Italian Mission party. Patrolman John S. Collins urged him to blow the horn, which dislodged the candy and saved the child from harm.
Worcester reports Maurice W. Somborn once a German anti American propaganda figure is now an inmate at Worcester State Hospital. He figured in Ambassador Gerard’s expose My Four Years in Germany for attacking President Wilson and the United States. Somborn is said to suffer delusions of importance and believes he is persecuted. He was first admitted to Northampton State Hospital from Pittsfield and later moved to Worcester after returning to the United States before World War I. He obtained German passports after apologizing to Ambassador Gerard and then disappeared until committed.
Harold H. Woolard seeks permanent custody of his 3.5 year old son in Norfolk County Probate Court with a hearing set for January 8. Prominent Boston Brookline businessman Woolard is at the center of a high society-angled dispute as friends predict society names will be summoned.
Mr. Woolard, treasurer of a large Boston headquartered firm with New England branches, wed Mrs. Woolard, formerly Miss Mary E. McGarry of Hull, at 44 Cortes Street, Boston, on June 22, 1918, after meeting in Hull.
In Norfolk County Judge McCoole ordered temporary custody of Harold Woolard to the father amid a child custody dispute. Mrs. Woolard received permission to keep the boy for Christmas, with the child to be returned to the father for the hearing on January 8.
Chief W H Moran of the United States Secret Service warns readers to examine their $50 bills closely as older half century denomination notes may be counterfeit. The alert urges careful checking of Federal Reserve Notes for signs of forgery.
In Cuicoppee Ernest Mowrey of Springfield and Mrs. Charles F Knight of South Hadley Falls were killed after a car driven by James Hayes of Springfield plunged over a steep embankment into the Chicopee river. Hayes, uninjured, faced two manslaughter charges and a driving while intoxicated count in Chicopee district court and was released on $10,000 bond. He declined to speak about the crash.
Worcester December 22 Prohibition Director Elmer C Potter reports considerable liquor entering the state for holiday use. He notes rum arriving from the coast and from the Canadian border with little estimate of total quantities before holidays end.
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