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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1921
Page
6
The Massachusetts Branch American Committee for Relief in Ireland reports strong support. Daily contributions from all sections of the state arrive, with about 20000 dollars received so far.
The Chinese relief bazaar at the Atlantic Monthly building features a play Will O The Wisp by Emerson College's Zeta Phi Eta Society led by Eleanor Williams Kathryn Smith Myrl Rodney and Marguerite Hall. The event runs 2 to 10 30 pm with ticketed entry and sales at many city venues.
Sheriff John A. Keliher of Suffolk County led a push to close Charlestown Massachusetts State Prison, opposing Commissioner Sanford Bates plans to consolidate state and county institutions. Dr M F Champean discussed the State maternity bill. Questioned on high heel legislation, Champean said it is a matter of common sense and not for law.
Police believe an incendiary fire damaged one cottage on Bayview Avenue in Hough's Neck early last night and risked spreading to surrounding summer cottages. Listed injuries unknown as residents evacuated and units battled the blaze.
Dublin Feb 11 The official survey of conditions in Ireland for the week ended Feb 5 reports the campaign of outrages against Crown forces continued with intensity. It notes 35 casualties among Crown forces during the week, including 21 mortal injuries.
The survey details an ambush at Dram kean in County Limerick where 11 police died, and notes cold blooded killings after wounds. It reports bomb attacks in Dublin with seven incidents, one child killed and 14 injured among crown forces, and Sinn Feiner assassinations of four civilians.
The Rev Thomas A Becker will preach Lent sermons at the Church of the Most Precious Blood Hyde Park each Wednesday evening during Lent. The Pope’s charity collection, Peter's Pence, will be taken in archdiocese churches tomorrow. A Forty Hours devotion starts Friday morning Feb 18 in St Francis de Sales Charlestown Monastery of St Clare Bennet Street and Church of St Leonard of Port Maurice North End.
Antonio Pettrelli aged five of 33 Malden street Revere was taken to Massachusetts General Hospital last night after his physician reported the boy had been sleeping for three days and appeared to suffer sleeping sickness as police were asked to remove him to the hospital.
In Washington on February 11 Senator Borah Republican Idaho said he had received suggestions that Great Britain was circulating propaganda in the United States to deter American naval building. He said he believed the Navy Department held the facts.
Senators Borah and Poindexter spar over a six month naval halt and what the Navy archives reveal about British propaganda. Borah pressed for access to documents, warned that without a US–powers accord capital ships risk obsolescence and war. Labor witnesses testified on apprentices, wages, and contracts amid cost of living concerns.
George T. Thornton of South Boston, second vice president of the Bricklayers Masons and Plasterers International Union, testified at a Chamber of Commerce hearing on building inactivity. He said the union grants each subordinate unit authority to enact apprenticeship laws.
Patrolman Cyril Montgomery of the Last Dedham street police station was shot in the abdomen by his own revolver after slipping on snow while pursuing several youths on Sharon street near Albany. He was removed to City Hospital in stable condition.
William J. Flaherty of Boston was appointed yesterday by Attorney-General J. Weston Alen to act with Assistant Attorney-General Hurwitz in the prosecution of the cases against the directors and agents of the Old Colony Foreign Exchange Company, which will be heard in the Superior Court March 7th. Mr. Flaherty has been acting as counsel for John E.K. Hannigan, receiver for the Old Colony Exchange Company.
Senator Swanson of Virginia proposed an amendment to the post office appropriation bill to provide 100 million dollars to help State road building in the 1922 fiscal year. He indicated he would seek a special rule next week to ease passage, noting difficulties in obtaining a separate enactment for the funds.
The first snowstorm of the season covered Portland Maine ground to a depth of nine inches this afternoon as it began to diminish. There had been less than two inches of precipitation since New Year’s Day and very little before that date.
Besides Dean Rousmaniere two notes Speakers are set for services at the Cathedral Church of St Paul tomorrow. The dean preaches at 11 a.m. Rev Edward T Sullivan rector of Trinity Episcopal Church Newton preaches at 4 p.m. Rt Rev Theodore I Reese bishop coadjutor of southern Ohio preaches at 7:30 p.m. James D Dingwell initiator of Pawtucket Civic Theatre speaks at Eliot Church Newton on Wednesday Feb 16 at 7 45 p.m. Donald B Aldrich delivers Lincoln Day address at noon today at St Paul Cathedral.
The health department announced the death of Sigmund Klatatouskas aged 30 of 140 Bowen Street marking Boston's 10th death from sleeping sickness. A South Boston case, Albert Thayer 25 of Matta Pan, was also stricken, bringing the year’s total to 26 cases.
National Union of Railwaymen executives voted to have J R Thomas raise in Parliament the shooting of Irish railway workers at Mallow last month. The case prompted a call for a full public inquiry and measures to protect railway staff on duty amid a threat of a general strike if ignored.
Lieutenants John Henry Heitz Heitz Menken and John Frederick Wolfer of the U S S N were killed near Guantanamo Cuba when their airplane wrecked during a practice flight for radio instruction. Menken hailed from Garden City Kansas while Wolfer came from Lancaster Pennsylvania.
Advertisement touts Gude's Pepto Mangan as a blood builder that increases energy and nourishes the body. It claims the tonic enriches blood and grows red blood cells after a few weeks, available in liquid or tablet form and sold by druggists with the Gude's name on the package.
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