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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1922
Page
6
Quincy Mayor Bradford schedules a Wednesday night council meeting to consider compensation for the widow and child of Patrolman Joe T. Connors, who died Christmas from rabies contracted while subduing a mad dog in Squantum last August.
Massachusetts has no coal to seize or commandeer as state officials urge. James J. Phelan says commandeering would not lower prices and could raise them. dealers are delivering coal to those in need. Everett Morss questions whether seizure would apply to yards or private bins.
Louis Novak 18 of 4 Maybrook Street Dorchester was badly crushed yesterday afternoon when caught between an electric car and an automobile truck in front of Harrison Avenue. He was taken to City Hospital in serious condition. The truck belonged to American Railway Express Co, operated by Martin C. Flaherty of 456 Medford Street Somerville. Novak was attempting to board the electric car.
Manchester New Hampshire December reports State Grange Master Herbert N Sawyer defending a 48 hour movement. He condemns labor bodies for withholding industrial votes to affect tax reform favored by farmers. He warns the 48 hour state law could drive industry from the state and raise milk and farm product prices.
The captain and crew of the two masted schooner Gordon Fudge of St Johns Newfoundland were rescued by the British freighter Menominee after five days adrift in a violent storm. The schooner was waterlogged, sails shredded, and life boats crushed. 14 days into the struggle Captain E C Fudge said. Pat Hickey the able seaman kept morale aboard, smoking a cheroot as the Menominee came to aid and took the crew aboard.
In Brockton two shots fired at Vincenzo Pelaggi left him fatally or permanently blind if he survives. Gennarino Pelaggi, a shoeworker and brother, fled to a friend's home and was arrested after a citywide search. He faces assault with intent to murder in district court and is held for hearing January 2.
Five years after surviving a torpedoing of the S S Oronsa Nahas, now a Post Millionaire, entertains Ralph Culver Bennett, a doctor of law and teacher, at Plaza and Ritz Carlton events. They tour Famous Players studios on Long Island with Bebe Daniels greeting them.
Walter Hampden and company stage Macbeth as the second Shakespearian offering of the season at the Boston Opera House. Hampden reinterprets the tragedy with modern sense, portraying Macbeth as a real driven figure. Mary Hall shines as Lady Macbeth, with a strong sleepwalking scene and pivotal force in the tragedy. The supporting cast is adequate, and the program notes mention Merchant of Venice and Taming of the Shrew on subsequent bills.
The Boston and Albany railroad announced that the Christmas movement in passenger traffic ended with Christmas Day. From Dec 18 to 25 inclusive, 148 extra sleeping cars and 4 extra parlor cars were used on West-bound trains, compared with 123 sleeping cars and 15 parlor cars the previous year.
Former Dorchester senator and last race opponent of Congressman Gallivan, J J Carey, has been appointed an elevator inspector in the Building Department at a salary of 1900 dollars yearly. Carey will begin the provisional post today.
A wool load on a truck owned by T. Libby & Co touched overhead wires under an elevated structure at Beach and Oxford yesterday afternoon. The resulting fire caused about 200 dollars in damage and prompted an alarm from box 1483 at 3 30 o clock.
Judge Frederick W. Fosdick of the superior court signed an order removing the power and authority of Bartholomew F. Costello and Abraham Winick to act as bail commissioners in Suffolk County after December 30.
In WoonSocket R I on December 940 nel Trinque aged years old drowned this afternoon when the sled broke through ice on Social Pond. His playmate Gabriel Carpentier also fell in but escaped. firemen and police recovered Trinque's body.
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