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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 23, 1922
Page
4
Boston streets and downtown districts buzz with a Christmas shopping rush. Stores restocked after days of frenzied buying as Uncle Sam’s parcel post and rail transport face strain. Shoppers maneuver heavy crowds on Washington and Tremont streets with store clerks tireless and cheerful as a record Christmas season nears its end.
Boston business annals describe a massive Christmas Eve rush with a young army of last minute shoppers expected to flood stores. Crowds swell as trains bring snappers and high travelers head home for the holiday, urging readers to do late shopping early.
The freighter Menominee 1000 miles off the Atlantic coast picks up six of the Gordon Rudge crew from St. John's Newfoundland after their schooner foundered near Torre Vieja, Spain. The men are exhausted and without food and the Menominee heads toward New York, expected Tuesday.
Hartford Connecticut December 22 192? The Rev Herbert K Robinson new Trinity Church Meriden plans baby check system to allow mothers to listen to sermons. Mothers hold tickets while church ladies serve in the check room. A bowl room toys and nurse maids will be provided to amuse babies.
Anxiety over the Prince of Wales right hand grows as bandages return due to swelling and muscle strain from mass handshakes during his Eastern tour. The hand has troubled him since returning to London.
Dublin report of heavy street fighting with National soldiers attacked amid Christmas shopping crowds. One soldier killed another wounded along with a woman. Government buildings were assaulted by an unidentified force, which faced return fire.
International Mercantile Marine files brief urging that American ships may not be barred from serving liquor on the high seas under prohibition laws. The appeal challenges Judge Hand’s Daugherty ruling in New York.
The brief argues that banning liquor on American ships would harm national shipping policy. It claims foreign competition would curb U S flag steamers, forcing voyages to foreign ports to obtain wine and liquor and crippling transatlantic and Pacific passenger traffic.
A Roxbury kitchen gas stove exploded shortly before seven last night, injuring two adults and a two year old. Mary Bruno and lodger Clarence Lindbold suffered burns as fire blew out three kitchen windows and firefighters arrived quickly to prevent further damage.
Local officials and church groups press for a hearing as bans on Arbuckle films persist. Mayors Curley and Quinn oppose showings, while Secretary to Mayor Wilson notes reasons for lifting the ban. Some producers report ready Arbuckle releases but many cities, including Detroit, refuse to screen his films.
In Providence on December 22, officials and club women oppose Will Hays possible Christmas pardon for Roscoe Arbuckle. Mayor Joseph H. Gainer calls for Arbuckle to be barred from theatres. Clergymen condemn the actor as a disgrace and a disturbing spectacle.
Dr John Rh Mott general secretary of the international committee of the Y M C A of North America sent a telegram from New York expressing strong disapproval of Will H Jays reinstating Fatty Arbuckle films. The protest follows the lifting of the ban after Arbuckle, the comedian linked to the Virginia Rappe death.
George H. Burch longtime Race Point coast guard chief surfman died at home on 4 Central street at age unknown from heart trouble. He died on December 22 the same date as his wife three years earlier. Survived by son Arthur Burch local manager of the Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co. He belonged to the I C O F and Firemen's Association.
William J. Gibson, a New York lawyer credited with persuading Grover Cleveland to seek the 1892 Democratic nomination, died today at his daughter Mrs Lorne Campbell’s home. He served as assistant counsel to the U.S. Treasury during the Cleveland administration.
Workers on the Porton Elevated stage a wage increase of 2.12 dollars an hour per the United Building Congress Council report read by EB A Johns at Haregoo Avenue meeting. Current pay is 2.00 dollars per hour.
Representatives of over 60 motion picture theatres in Eastern Pennsylvania Southern New Jersey and Delaware voted not to exhibit or buy Arbuckle films unless public demand is overwhelming. The meeting was attended by members of the divisional branch of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners Association.
A Hilldale area dog owner fights for rights to bury her pet in local cemeteries after city and cemetery officials refuse. She meets with Haverhill board of health and Hilldale Cemetery Corp representative, then with Attleboro’s superintendent who declines to sell a lot. He notes Linwood and pet cemeteries elsewhere exist and recalls Civil War era pet burial at Linwood.
Miss Anna F Fee of Downer avenue Crow Point Hingham longtime chief operator of the Hingham telephone exchange and active in social and religious circles died suddenly at Massets Homeopathic Hospital after a brief illness of appendicitis. She leaves three sisters Mrs Mary McLoughlin Miss Alice and Katherine all of Hingham and two brothers Patrick H of Hingham and John P of Boston. Funeral from her home Sunday Dec 24 at 2 30 p m with interment in St Pauls cemetery Hingham.
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