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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1922
Page
2
Customers of the Edison Electric Illuminating Company face charges described as disputed. Details on billing practices and the public response are unclear in the fragment.
Healing Cream Stops Catarrh promotes instant relief from stuffy nostrils and head congestion. Apply Ely's Cream Balm into nostrils for clear air passages and free breathing, ending hawking and snuffling with germ destroying action. Relief is sure.
Arthur S. Knight, expert of the firm, testified before the Public Utilities Committee on a Boston rate petition. He said the company spends about one and a half times its investment expenses on lighting and energy used by consumers for cooking, refrigeration, and similar purposes.
Boston official Arthur D. Hill questioned Knight on how investment expenses are allocated among customer classes. Knight described the diversity factor in rates and admitted the board must decide if low rates for households are justified to gain public goodwill. Hill pressed on policy of selling at a loss to win future business.
William P. Kenneally Tammany district leader and Robert P. Brindell building trades labor leader were indicted for extortion in New York on February 16. Brindell is nearing release from Sing Sing for a related crime as the pardon board announced a good behavior pardon.
Richard Henry Dana of Cambridge aged 71 filed marriage intentions to marry Mrs James G Mumford a 61 year old widow of New York City. The engagement was announced last year and the wedding is expected in Boston. Dana a Harvard graduate class of 1874 and prominent Boston lawyer lives at 118 Brattle Street Cambridge.
Walter I. Wedger, state combustibles expert, told a legislative committee that careless smoking raised fires 6 percent in 1920 and 1921, with matches up 10 percent and electric wiring fires up 150 percent. Incendiarism also increased 10 percent in the period. Senator John Halliwell spoke during the hearing on fire prevention oversight.
The Babie Safety Commission aims to centralize fire control in its office. The Senator argued his city and many others can manage locally and that the State should stop trying to oversee city and town affairs.
The First National Bank of Boston sues in federal court to recover 85000 from the government over a shipment of hides from South America. The bank holds the bill of lading and seeks damages for alleged losses.
Indiana politics roars as Albert J. Beveridge announces his candidacy for the Republican nomination to challenge Senator Marty New. The contest, seen as a referendum on the Harding administration, begins with intense campaigning and predictions of a tight race through November.
New York dispatch says the Supreme Court grand jury returned two indictments against George L. Tex Rickard boxing promoter charging rape in the second degree assault in the second degree and abducting two 15 year old girls Alice Ruck and Sarah Shoenfeld.
James Monroe, 106, was arrested in Jacksonville Florida on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. Municipal Judge Beckham suspended the sentence due to Monroe's advanced age.
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