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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1922
Page
8
Report notes Curley and Tague to discuss the navy yard issue. The piece questions closing the Charles Town yard, arguing it is the oldest, best equipped and politically powerful. The article also references the Leviathan that moved to New York.
The Charlestown yard, key to Atlantic coast shipbuilding with the Whitney and other destroyers idle, may close as naval cuts press all yards except New York and Norfolk. Secretaries and officials weigh leasing or selling shore plants while 2,500 civilian workers face layoffs.
The football team of the Irish Republican Army captured at Dromore has been ordered released by the Viceroy. Michael Collins, head of the Provisional Government, has assured the release of additional kidnapped loyalists.
A regular dog story titled The Passing of Pincher by Humphrey Jordan will be printed in full in the next Boston Sunday Post Magazine.
The Welsh Associates of Boston gathered at King's Chapel for their annual service led by Llewellyn Arnold Owens from Tufts College and Priestley Phillips of Harvard Divinity School. An offering was taken for the Home for Aged Welsh in Cleveland. Local Welch leaders T Phelps Jones John Williams William J Griffiths Thomas J Phelps John W Davies and Edward D MacDonald assisted.
Reported engagement notes Mrs Edith Rockefeller McCormick’s approval following a divorce from McCormack. Miss Mathilde, heir to John D Rockefeller and Cyrus H McCormick fortunes, has lived in Switzerland for years. The fiancé is rumored to earn about 10000 dollars yearly. details remain sparse.
Miss Mathilda McCormick, 17, daughter of Harold F. McCormick, engaged to Max Oser, 48, Swiss riding master. Oser runs a riding school in Zurich with stables and a lodging quarter, rents horses and carriages, and once held an artillery major rank. The couple, seen in Zurich and Chicago, keep mostly to themselves at Rush Street mansion.
Quincy police and Boy Scout troops from Wollaston Norfolk Downs Montclair and nearby towns scoured woods and dragged ponds in the Wollaston area for 14 year old William Moore a Wollaston grammar school eighth grader who disappeared Saturday night near 61 Brook Street. The search extended to Boston police after scouts aided in the effort with no sign found.
A Massachusetts governor might be vacationing incognito in New Hampshire with bodyguard Edward Horrigan and Dartmouth classmate Bernard Pond. The group, including wives, enjoys snow sports and a public reception at the State House on Wednesday, amid playful heckling from locals.
Reverend Martin F Reddy reported a church intrusion as Charles Benson 39 of Ridley Park Philadelphia was found hiding behind the altar. He faced breaking and entering charges with tools, a typewriter stamps and pamphlets suggesting a mail order safe courses in Los Angeles. Benson disputed the identities and Los Angeles authorities will be consulted.
Emily Sousa a 17 year old patient at a state institution for communicable diseases is involved in a chaotic attack by her husband John Sousa and her relatives Manuel and Joseph Sousa at the Attleboro hospital. Police later detained the family as officers stopped the escape attempt and arraignments are set before Judge Hagerty.
Luigi Scibele a 30 year old Malden father of four was shot in the abdomen and leg during an argument with Salvatore Veno after a christening at 238 Pearl Street Malden. Veno fled, leaving a description as police searched the area.
Mrs. Ella M. Fisher joins five women recently approved by the Ohio State Bar Association to practise law in the state after completing all her studies in a night school.
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