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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1922
Page
14
The regular December Grand Jury investigating Ku Klux Klan activities in New York was discharged by Judge Mancuso of General Sessions. He said the district attorney's office had not gathered enough evidence to warrant the investigation, but another jury would conduct it.
Universal Portland Cement Company lowered prices by 16 cents a barrel from Chicago plants and by 10 cents a barrel from Pittsburgh and Duluth plants, marking a regional price adjustment.
A bill to establish a state prison on Long Island in Boston harbor was filed with the House clerk yesterday by Representative John H. Drew on petition of Mayor Curley. The measure seeks authority to locate the facility in the harbor area.
A long list of Curley bills includes a Boston site deal for the Long Island prison via a governor appointed three person commission, ballot printing reforms, pension tweaks, gas fitter licensing, and municipal year shifts. Other items seek MDC cost apportionment, police HQ borrowing, and tax and court-funding changes.
Washington December 29 President Harding expects to sign tomorrow commutations of sentences for 12 or more political prisoners but not a general amnesty. The commutations are described as a New Year’s gift. Earlier just before Christmas three commutations were granted but not for war crimes.
Mrs Nellie Grabo of 118 East Third Street South Boston received a four months jail sentence from Judge Murray after reports she had not returned the remaining six hundred dollars of the thousand dollars allegedly taken from her aunt. The case followed a prior municipal court proceeding where she admitted using five hundred dollars to buy a shroud a tombstone and a grave and her niece induced the bank withdrawal.
7oy in Nellies keeping. Mrs Grabel refused to hand it over and she was arrested. Mrs Lukass aged 68 and her husband 40 reside on Morton Street.
A New Year celebration begins at 12 o'clock tomorrow evening at the State Ballroom Massachusetts Avenue Boston. Vincent Lopez New York orchestra will provide music under Dell Lampe with Lampe conducting in person. Lampe has staged major New York shows including the Winter Garden and Bombo for Al Jolson. A historical note recalls a European torture trial banned in 1816 by a Papal bull.
Mayor Curley ordered extra shipments to 12 municipal yards as coal demand surged. Coke sold in penny bags, semi anthracite stock increased, and emergency Welsh coal sales offered at select yards including Medford Street, Charlestown Navy Yard, and 59 Albany Street.
Mrs John J Curley 53 of 49 Juniper Street Roxbury died suddenly at home. Lifelong resident and St Joseph’s church member. Buried tomorrow. Mother of seven children. survived by husband and three brothers including Special Officer Frank Kelly John Kelly and George Kelly. Husband owns Dane the Florist. Boll weevil destroyed cotton worth over 0 million last year.
Former Mayor John J. Mullen of Everett was petitioned into federal bankruptcy by Pennsylvania Rubber Company America for 2060 dollars for goods sold and delivered. The petition alleges transfers of property to his wife and others while insolvent.
The Massachusetts Girl Scouts express gratitude to the Boston Post for generous space given to their movement and activities during the past year and wish the newspaper a prosperous 1923. Signed by Ruth H. Stevens State Director, Dec 2.
Alma Bauer 21 of South End and Fred J Palmer of New York were not to wed. Bauer disappeared from her home the night before the expected ceremony and later explained she left of her own accord, having changed her mind about marrying Palmer.
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