04 Feb 1922
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1922
Page
1
Traffic officers and a Post reporter with a cartoonist conclude two facts about Boston streets. First, Boston has more jaywalkers than any other major city. The findings come from interviews and a desultory city investigation.
Dublin readers learn that plans to apply pressure on Ulster to join an all Ireland parliament were postponed. The move aimed to secure a friendly arrangement with Sir James Craig, Ulster’s premier, to avoid direct forcing. Free State leaders warned they may press anew if talks fail.
Charley Brick, football star, begins practical training at the Thompsonville mill plant under Overseer Will. He will board with Maurice Sullivan at 7 High Street near the Thompsonville White House and will work across departments to gain general business knowledge. He follows a path also taken by Theodore and Archie Roosevelt.
The United States and other nations move toward formal adjournment of the arms conference. Tomorrow the plenary session will approve remaining treaties and resolutions and chief delegates will bid farewell in speeches. On Monday treaties will be signed and President Harding will deliver a valedictory address.
In New York on February 3, John D. Rockefeller Jr. spoke at his annual Bible Class dinner and lamented his poor attire. Camera crews chased him yet failed to recognize him as he walked by, he admitted, joking about dressing better and his fading affection for some ties and pastimes.
Vatican cardinals continue balloting for the successor to Pope Benedict XV as smoke signals fail to announce a result. Observers note hours-long efforts and a thick plume of sulfur-hued smoke indicating no decision reached.
Milk producers and agencies hold talks at headquarters focusing on pooling plans and February milk pricing. No decision was reached. conference to continue today as producers weigh contract values and market conditions.
In Lancaster New Hampshire February 3 a New Hampshire husky team faces a harnessed Quebec pack for the Eastern International Dog Racing Championship tonight.
At Northbridge on February 3, Richard C. Whitin and Gordon B. Berry clung to a locomotive after their auto was struck by a northbound passenger train. Both were carried about 400 yards. Berry escaped unscathed while Whitin suffered a scratched nose and the auto was destroyed.
Cohasset mourns as Mrs. Alice Shuebruk wife of Representative Walter Shuebruk dies in Palm Beach Florida from typhoid fever while on a southern automobile trip with her mother Mrs. F M Linnell and ten children. Her death came as a sudden tragedy after a December departure from Cohasset.
The murder of William Desmond Taylor draws in film stars including Claire Windsor Mabel Normand Mary Miles Minter and Edna Purviance as investigators seek the motive. A party invitation at Miss Windsors mother home sparked new attention in the case.
Page note mentions a routine illumination event at 5 32 tonight in Fr M area 4134 Sun Seso. Also lists anniversaries including Joshua Quincy born 1772 and a 1915 note of the Asama wreck with 500 men. Mentions Turks north of Suez routed by British and an earthquake on the Jethmus of Tehuantepec a year ago implying a recap of events.
The forecast calls for a fair to slightly colder Saturday in Boston and vicinity with similar conditions Sunday and fresh to strong westerly winds. Across New England expect mostly cloudy conditions, slightly colder Saturday, then fair Sunday. Snow flurries possible in the Lake Region with northerly coastal winds and generally fair weather elsewhere.
The readable text alludes to a cooler, potential precipitation and changing conditions with mentions of timing and expectations. It references people and places indirectly, suggesting disturbance or talk of a forecast without clear specifics.
Average yesterday's temperature 40 degrees. Morning readings show 41 to 42 degrees and evening lows near 40 with daytime highs around 44. Year ago average was 87 degrees.
Investors who withdrew loans from the Ponzi scheme before the Post's Aug 2 1920 expose can safely count on retaining their amounts and not be pursued by trustees. The article discusses liability and the dissonance between belief of insolvency and withdrawal actions amid the bubble era.
Mrs Marion Buckingham Ream Stephena, 45, a Chicago heiress, married Anastase Andrevitch Vonsiatskoy-Vonsiatskoy, 23, a Russian workman from Philadelphia, at St Nikola's Russian cathedral in New York. The ceremony was kept private with a small wedding party and plans apparently changed without public notice. The couple left for Thompson, Conn., after the service.
Louis Lezallee a storekeeper in Rochdale was held up tonight by five armed masked men who escaped in an automobile toward Worcester with 800 dollars stolen.
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