23 Feb 1921
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1921
Page
1
President Wilson recommended to Congress legislation authorizing the Treasury to accept German bonds in full payment of Belgiums pre armistice debt to the United States. The total debt cited was 171,780,000 with interest from April 15, 1919.
International labor union heads and attorneys approved a tentative draft bill to legalize the right of unions to organize in all industries despite individual employer employee contracts. The bill targets the Hitchman Coal decision and will be sent to the AFL executive council for final approval.
ST AUGUSTINE Fla Feb 22. President elect Harding has a tentative cabinet lineup ready. The list includes Hughes Mellon Weeks Daugherty Hays Denby Fall Wallace Hoover Davis and others expected to serve in key posts.
Charles E. Hughes of New York, a former governor and Supreme Court justice, is identified as secretary of state and as the Republican presidential nominee in this period description.
The nerviest thief in Boston stole the police department car Rat tle s from East Dedham street station after officers McNealy and McGovern left three prisoners inside. The car, bearing a recently replaced radiator, vanished while the officers peered away, prompting a department wide eye on all similar vehicles.
A two story wooden building at Auburn and Blanche streets Cambridge caught fire yesterday afternoon. Three alarms were sounded and approximately 7000 dollars in damage occurred before flames were extinguished threatening adjacent tenement houses and other structures.
A rear first floor fire at a 50 by 80 foot building spread to the centre and roof. Fire apparatus arrived as flames advanced, prompting two alarms and then a third due to risk to nearby structures. First floor housed M. J. McNiff carriage and blacksmith shop. second floor Birch Painting & Advertising Co. Next door W A Stuart Milk Co stable, four horses moved to safety as hay was dumped outside. Andrew Fitzgerald, aiding horses, fell from the stable second story onto hay, suffering only minor injuries.
Captain W F Lewis air mail service pilot on the Reno to Salt Lake leg attempting a rapid delivery record between San Francisco and New York was killed when his plane crashed during takeoff at Elko Nevada. He had been in the air mail service about two months after serving in the American forces in the war.
Berlin wireless reports through Swiss sources say Montenegro has declared a holy war on Serbia. Two Serbian regiments seized Cetinje and the situation is described as grave.
A fire at the Richard T. Green Company shipbuilders two story wooden office building at 210 Marginal Street Chelsea caused more than 3000 in damage. The blaze started from an unknown cause and while not controlled had consumed the rear end housing plan and chart rooms and several private offices.
In Washington on February 22, supporters of liquor enforcement won a key House vote. After a bitter late debate during a holiday session, they directed conferees on the deficiency bill to provide 1.4 million dollars to curb liquor traffic from now until July 1, the top figure discussed.
Before the vote, charges flew thick as Chairman Good of the appropriations committee declared enforcement agents openly are implicated. The terse remarks pointed to tension over spending and oversight in a heated legislative session.
Washington February twenty second The Senate celebrated Washingtons Birthday with an impromptu feast served by Ashurst Democrat Arizona who handed around packages of Western crown figs and dates He opened with a speech as pages circulated the fruit The Senate voted an extra 10000 for fig and date plant investigations raising the total from 51000 to 61000 and none paused in their meal
Following the funeral of Minnie B. French, a 21 year old Malden woman killed last Saturday and under police and grand jury review, her father Albert H. D. French married Alice Marie Garrigan of Malden on December 27, she had worked for him as a book keeper.
Mrs Garrigan, mother of the 19 year old bride, says the couple wed in Bedford with a ceremony performed by the town clerk. The couple then lived at the Washington Chambers in Malden. French had previously denied the marriage when questioned by a reporter.
Eight killed and 25 injured when two Bridgeport Shelton line trolley cars collided head on near Highbridge Shelton. Rescue attempts to push victims through a window described in dispatches as the tragedy unfolds with hospital victims and ongoing recoveries.
Forecast covers Boston area and New England with rain and warmer conditions on Wednesday. Thursday brings fair skies but much colder air with fresh winds from the southeast and south shifting to the west.
President Wilson told a delegation from the Woodrow Wilson Club of Harvard University at the White House that he will push his efforts to the limit to support world peace. The Harvard visitors were received in Washington on February 22.
A note describes six Harvard undergraduates who joined him in his study along with Mrs. Wilson. The scene highlights a formal visit and scholarly company in a quiet, intimate setting.
Continued on page 7 fourth column the old farmer predicts unsettled weather and a mite warmer with no chance of a little rain today or tonight.
Yesterday's temperature report shows readings at 3 pm 30, 6 pm 23, and the day average 81.2. The data lists times with observed values and a concluding average temperature for the day.
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