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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1921
Page
9
Chicago February 2 The city revenue committee raised license fees for the two major league clubs by 100 percent. The American League club will pay 4000 dollars while the National League club is assessed 3000 dollars. Clubs protested a proposed 5 percent tax on gate receipts.
The Rev. Joseph R. Hurley S J prefect of discipline at Boston College High School took his final vows in the Society of Jesus at a 9 oclock mass in the Church of the Immaculate Conception yesterday morning. The Rev. John J. Geoghan S J prefect of studies led the mass. Father Hurley, a native of Haverhill, has long been linked with the Boston College High School as the edifice was filled with priests attending the service.
M T Yamamoto will discuss The United States and Japan at Wesleyan Hall Copley square next Sunday afternoon at 3 30 under the Japan Society of Boston. A Tokio native and Yamaguchi College and University of Pittsburg graduate he will cover current China Japan and US relations. Miss Margaret Starr McLean will close with three original musical pieces.
Marcel Guillemot, Olympic 5000 meter champion from Antwerp, sailed from Cherbourg to New York on the Adriatic. He will run a special 3000 meter race at the Guarantee Club indoor meet in Madison Square Garden on February 19 and has a corporal’s army leave for the trip.
Revenue agents seized a 30 gallon still and about 700 dollars worth of mash at the home of Samuel Yol lek on High street Derry New Hampshire. The still reportedly produced two gallons per hour and waste drained into the sewer from attic to cellar.
A five legged calf born near Middlebury on the A. S. Crane farm is reported healthy by doctors. It has two hind legs where one should be and three hind legs with deformed parts of hoofs. The calf is expected to live and become a county wonder at the Addison fair.
A long list of marriage intentions appears, naming numerous individuals with ages, occupations, and addresses in Boston and surrounding towns. Pairs include S Wheeler and Florence Kendall, George Muise and Anna Dwyer, Edward Ross and Tda Berman, Stefan Neehefaraw and Taklea Kaputea, among many others. some pairs show statuses like widowed or divorced and one entry notes a five day waiver by Judge Murray.
The United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce ships an exhibit to Boston showing German use of seaweed and China grass in textile manufacture. Local textile men view materials at the Associated Industries Library, Kimball Building, with pieces for suitings, overcoats, linen, and underwear. The exhibit runs until Saturday noon and aims to spur domestic production and marsh cultivation of China grass in New England. A novel cotton matelasse quilted sports skirt is also noted.
The board weighs action on a January 14 fire at the school building, proposing $300 for committee expenses and $3800 for temporary school supplies and furniture for the children attending Quincy school. The committee will report at the April annual town meeting.
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