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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1921
Page
3
After a conference with Mayor Peters, the City Council committee reported the mayor remains opposed to a $4 a week wage increase for city printers. No plans to vacate or dismantle machinery, rent continues, and private firms are handling the printing.
Six bandits held up the People's Trust Company in Wyomissing suburb, Reading, seizing cash and Liberty bonds totaling about $40,000. No injuries reported as the group fled with the loot.
Mayor Roger E. Keith ordered Brockton coal dealers to supply enough coal to fill all household orders and cut prices amid a small city stock and an upcoming cold spell. He, the dealers, and city fuel administrator George W. Alden met in a conference to address the shortage and rising hardship.
Newport RI February 4 Allen Littlefield a 67 year old farmer was found guilty of killing his neighbor Leon Tabbutt at Block Island over a mortgage dispute last October. He was sentenced today to 12 years in State prison.
Reno report says a new amendment to Nevada divorce law requires six months residency before filing. The measure bars short term divorces and now goes to the Governor for signature. It applies to all applicants seeking dissolution of marriage within the state.
Elmer St. Dodde of East Orange an auditor at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York confessed to stealing three $10,000 bonds from the bank. He said he needed money for doctors' bills at his home and was released on $1,000 bail.
The private stock of whiskies brandies and wines seized last May at the Margin street home of Michael Anderson Haverhill was ordered from Washington to be returned making Anderson the only New England resident to recover wet goods seized by federal officers since the Volstead act.
The Anderson matter, viewed as a test case, saw Attorney Thomas I. Hogan press federal courts for four months with Judge Morton voicing displeasure at government conduct. After staff return, court actions will be dropped. Anderson was arrested in May for alleged possession of a pint of moonshine and $6000 of private stock seized. later, Internal Revenue Collector Mitchell seized it again. Anderson claimed several quarts vanished while in custody, and Hogan said the whiskey should be returned to Anderson's cellar.
CAUSed Her Own Death. Maud Tabor Virgo died from an anesthetic self-administered to relieve pain during childbirth. Her mother, Mrs. Sarah Tabor, stated from her sick bed that Maud had a premonition of death and asked not to have the body taken to a cemetery. The body was later found in a hope chest in the Tabor home, with chloroform noted as the cause.
Belfast February 4 Eight men arrested October 29 last on the Kingstown mail boat wearing Irish Volunteer uniforms to attend Lord Mayor MacSwiney’s funeral in London were sentenced to six years penal servitude each, but three years were actually to be served. Three men found with revolvers at a recent Kingstown dance received ten years, five remitted.
Hartford Conn Feb 4 unemployment in Connecticut has probably passed its peak figure. The industrial situation shows improvement over a fortnight ago when the State labor bureau reported 80 000 workers idle.
Dred cases said to contain 18 percent alcohol and shipped to one man were seized last night at Lisbon Falls. Four arrests were made. The tonic was valued at over 4000 dollars at current prices.
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