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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1920
Page
1
Fifty seven horses perished in a three alarm blaze at Benedetto Palataino livery stables on 335 North Street. Forty families in adjoining four story apartment building fled onto the streets as residents escaped in night clothes. Firefighters fought the flames through the early hours.
Captain Stephen P. Gerow of the Canadian overseas forces, in New York to buy material for knockdown houses for England veterans, disappeared after leaving the Imperial Hotel to go to Philadelphia on business. He planned 50 tons of house material from Chicago for shipment to Liverpool and left with $1000, a trunk of clothes, a uniform, papers, and jewelry.
At memorial exercises in nearly every American Legion Post in Greater Boston officers of the legion distributed commemorative certificates from the French government. They handed parchment rolls bearing their hero’s name to fathers mothers wives or other relatives.
Memorial services drew large crowds as mothers and fathers in mourning received the tribute memorials France sent to homes of Americans who died for freedom. The ceremonies recounted the shared sacrifice of both nations and the heroic story of their sons.
Miss Theresa Sullivan vice-president of the Telephone Operators Union and Miss Agnes Burns secretary lead 50 Boston girls and New York city members in efforts to organize city operators. A mass meeting is planned at Bryant Hall on Wednesday evening with Sullivan Burns and Julia O'Connor as speakers.
Sylvanus Thresher, 47, a jewelry worker, shot his 11 year old daughter Gladys and Miss Harriet Holland at a lodging house on West Westminster Street before killing himself. Police say he may have been temporarily crazed with remorse after his daughter's visit. Continued on page 19 fourth column.
Post staff correspondent reports in Gorham New Hampshire that visitors from New England and other states enjoy a carnival week amid snowdrifts from five to 30 feet. Hundreds, ages five to seventy five, seek winter respite from snowbound trolleys and delayed trains as they vacation in the deep snow.
Two hundred citizens including women and children joined with picks and shovels in South Portland to clear street car tracks closed since Thursday's storm. They did not reopen all lines but made solid progress.
Three girls found a blood stained cotton glove near the yard of the Somers Creamery where 12 year old Virginia Walker was slain Friday night on Orange Street. State detectives arrived to aid Springfield police as reports of other attacks surface.
Washington Feb 22 Arrests total about 1500 in enforcement of constitutional prohibition, according to estimates available at the office of Prohibition Commissioner Kramer.
Paris reports a combined X-ray and moving picture device by Drs. Lormon and Comandon. The apparatus can project animal anatomy in motion on a screen and may be adapted for human use with further refinements.
Thomas F. Pedrick long serving sergeant at arms of the Massachusetts Legislature died yesterday morning at his home in Lynn after a brief illness from pneumonia following influenza. He had served in that post for ten years.
Five steamers and five barges delivered more than 2 000 tons of coal to Boston yesterday. Officials expect rapid distribution to protect utilities and institutions facing shutdowns. Officials cited transportation as the primary coal bottleneck.
Samuel Gompers denounced the plan to form a political labor party as harmful to workers and aligned with those who oppress labor. He responded to a telegram from William Mitch of Terre Haute and Indiana State Labor leaders supporting a party aimed at opposing a national federation call to elect friends and defeat enemies.
A list of observances includes Margaret W. Deland born 1867 and the American steamer Carib sunk by a mine in the North Sea in 1915. It notes one year since President Wilson's ship anchored in Boston Harbor and a Philadelphia resolution by Cardinal Gibbons urging self determination for Ireland, passed unanimously at an Irish race convention.
Fair weather dominates southern New England on Monday and Tuesday with little temperature change. Northern New England remains fair with a slight warming Tuesday, while general rains press the mid Atlantic and snow grips northern areas. Winds are gentle northeast to east along the coast from Sandy Hook to Hatteras.
The outlook suggests unsettled weather today with no significant shift in temperatures. Expect variable cloud cover and possible light showers, but overall mild conditions prevailing through the day.
The report lists yesterday's average temperature as 81 and compares to 16 for the same period last year. The data appears from Thompson's Spa records and includes messy OCR artifacts.
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